remove post requirement to post links in bans section

[Ruelel]

there's no reason for it

 

[mittens]

+1

 

[Sharkey]

It's not specific to the ban section, it's site wide. The purpose is to prevent people signing up and putting links in their profile information fields or spamming links on the forums.

 

[Pengy]

-1, bcuz Oaky

 

[Lord Scrambles]

+1, just learned about this two minutes ago. Seems kind of counter intuitive, considering many people who post ban appeals don't even have forum accounts prior to being banned.

 

[DaivdBaekr]

Is there a way to keep the post requirement but whitelist the sites commonly used for ban appeals / reports like mediafire, hlstatsx, steamcommunity, imgur, dropbox, etc.?

 

[KillerZebra]

we put this in cause of the bots and spammers that came here to spam advertisements.

 

[Ruelel]

we put this in cause of the bots and spammers that came here to spam advertisements.

I've actually seen a spam bot use a hyperlink to bypass that

 

[PsychoRealm]

-1. What Oaky said.

 

[hXcjedders]

-1

 

[ViperStriker]

+1.

Maybe we can offer a compromise like say if you're signed in on the forums using your Steam account, you can't post links at all, but if you create a forum account, there is no link restriction?

 

[Sharkey]

+1.

Maybe we can offer a compromise like say if you're signed in on the forums using your Steam account, you can't post links at all, but if you create a forum account, there is no link restriction?

The other way around would be more effective, but I don't think the addon works like that.

 

[Sexy Heisenberg]

+1

Unless there's really just that much of an issue of people spamming in the ban appeals section that I'm not aware of?

 

[Maddo]

What about removing the restriction altogether and changing it to - Must have steam profile linked to be able to post links; surely that will stop spambots and allow people to use the bans/reports section with more functionality.