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 >> > >> > -- >> > -- pieroxy >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pebble-user mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > <mailto:[email protected]> >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user >> > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Pebble-user mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- pieroxy >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Pebble-user mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Pebble-user mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user> > > > > > -- > -- pieroxy > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Pebble-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pebble-user
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