Key Post New users must wait one hour between posts and cannot put links in posts

Brendan Burgess

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Spammers flood askaboutmoney with posts with links

To prevent that we have some limits on new users

1) They must wait an hour between posts.
2) They cannot put links in posts

These restrictions are lifted, when you become an established poster.

An established poster must have at least 10 messages and be registered for 30 days.

1) If you have 20 posts in 10 days, you are still a new user.
2) If you have 3 posts in 20 years, you are still a new user.

There are some other anti-spam restrictions on new users e.g. you can't send private messages, although you can receive them, and reply to messages.
 
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There is a workaround to the links issue

To link to
Code:
 www.irishtimes.com/
for example, just put in something like

www irish times dot com

Users will understand that and we won't have a bad link.

If you are promoting your own website and you put in a broken link like this to get around the anti-spam measures, your post will be deleted and you will be banned.

Brendan
 
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And they cannot use the thumbs up button either.
Sorry, I didn't realise that when I posted this...
 
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