Sorry my apologies. You are right. I was confusing Pebble with JForum. The 
problem was with JForum, not Pebble.


> On Nov 10, 2014, at 11:49 AM, pieroxy <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I'm following you... Pebble is a blogging software, not a forum 
> software. Random users from the internet can leave a comment to an entry 
> (even putting their home page in it) but they cannot create an account.
> 
> I was also using a forum soft back in the days (jforum) and was having this 
> problem. With Pebble, there is no such thing as a profile page for other 
> users than the editors. Or I'm missing something ;-)
> 
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:56 PM, David Ferrero <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I enabled comment moderation so that wasn't my problem. The problem was that 
> spam bots would create new users programmatically, someone they were able to 
> succeed with the CAPTCHA module, and they could create new users easily. The 
> user's profile is where the spam bots would insert a URL to a web page they 
> wanted other forum users to visit....or to skew Google's search engine 
> results, by having more links to your website, Google ranks your website more 
> popular and thus your website ends up on page one or two of a user's 
> search...   I could not figure out how to prevent the spambots from creating 
> new users, even when my forum software would send an email they would have to 
> clink to activate their membership.   If I could have moderated that, at 
> least I could delete requests that had links in the user profile...
> 
> 
>> On Nov 9, 2014, at 2:53 PM, pieroxy <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I am lucky I guess that I have few users and I can moderate comments one by 
>> one, so I've never run into these issues. Once moderated once on one device, 
>> the user can then post again without me worrying about approving his/her 
>> comments. Works fine for me so far.
>> 
>> As to spamming, one way could be to only moderate comments with links in 
>> them. I don't know if there is a pluggin for that, but it's surely very easy 
>> to make one. 
>> 
>> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:01 PM, David Ferrero <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I ran pebble for several years but even with captcha enabled for 
>> registration it seems boys could create new users and they could post spam 
>> links in their profile. Was there ever a way to make it more secure?
>> 
>> > On Nov 9, 2014, at 1:54 PM, pieroxy <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm back into updating Pebble for my own needs. I already submitted a pull 
>> > request with a few cleanup I had in my local repo for about a couple of 
>> > years. I also plan a few things:
>> >
>> > 1. Implementing a bit of OpenGraph for Facebook shares and likes
>> > 2. Probably implementing other rich tagging such as microformats2 or 
>> > Schema.org <http://schema.org/>, I've not yet decided
>> > 3. Implementing "share/like" buttons for most social networks
>> >
>> > Note that I've already implemented most of this stuff on my own blog 
>> > instance in the hacky way, so I'll just be pushing back stuff.
>> >
>> > For #3 if you have an implementation preference I'm all ears.
>> >
>> > I hope you have time to review/accept pull requests
>> >
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