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Clicking Links in Posts by New or Unknown Members
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Mouse
June 3, 2023 - 12:26 pm
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I would suggest not clicking links provided by new or unknown members. We do our best to identify spammers, sometimes it is questionable.

I would suggest that if a new member, one who has not introduced him or herself in their own Introduce Yourself topic, and has not actively participated elsewhere in the forum, posts links of any kind, YouTube, websites, uploads, etc, do not click them, even if it does not appear to be spam. 

If you want to answer a question posted, Google the information you can see in the post and then go from there in your reply. 

I recently did that in a post by a new member. She did not introduce herself, and has not had any participation in the forum. I googled the video being referenced and found it and then replied with what I thought might be right. I did not click her link. 

This is just a suggestion to avoid clicking a "bad" link. 

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June 5, 2023 - 11:26 am
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Can’t those in the new members group just have the permission to post links turned off?

Specifically, Under Permissions, under Creating, turn off:

Can Create links in posts

Characterize people by their actions and you will never be fooled by their words.

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June 5, 2023 - 12:31 pm
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I suggested that to Fiddlerman a while ago. He could not find any options and asked the forum providers. He was told that there is no option in this forum software for it. They said it was a good idea, but not possible right now. Still checking on it. That is not listed in permissions for in this software. After the update kinks get worked out, I am going to mention it again and see if the forum people might look into it. Until then, it is upon us to either click or not click. 

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