Hidden Links - SPAMMERS!!

[Sockratease]

Here's a post I found at SMF. I thought it might interest some of you...

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=134079.0

Where's a good Viking when ya need one?

EDIT:

Quick Fix - Use the Censored Word List to change "SPAM LINKpt" to  "FORBIDDEN TAG" and this will reveal all!

SPAM LINKpt]MOO!![/size]

[Nahee_Enterprises]

Interesting article.  Thanks for the notice.

[matera]

It works - and I just did a fix. Cute, huh? Tested in my own forum first.

[heneganj]

would you like to fix mine? 

I think that if the SEO preachers are to be believed in that H1 tags are important, then smaller font paragraphs would therefore be ignored by the search engines.

[matera]

True, headers count more for content, but links have their own status. A spambot would harvest an e-address regardless of visibility, and a lot of links anywhere any how will supposedly boost rating of the linked site - unless they are in a "link farm" - so the spammers will try any trick.

Note the amusing busted code in Sockratease's post lol

[Sockratease]

would you like to fix mine? 

I can, but it's so easy I'm sure an existing moderator with access to your Censored Word list can do it.

just set the "word"


SPAM LINK


to be a forbiden word.  Change it to "FORBIDDEN TAG" if you wish to be tactful...

Or you could be like me and some of the people in this thread;


http://www.smfarcade.net/index.php/topic,1995.0.html


We are a little more ...   obnoxious?

That's where I first stole the information from!  But my solution is original!!

I posted it there and some folks used it for fun.

Fun is, after all, why we are all here in the first place!