Lately there has been a few threads here on the tip it forums that asked the reader to click on the link below which would supposedly lead them to a runescape website. Unfortunately this site was disguised and really was a scam site which steals your password. These are dangerous the the poster is looking to snatch some fool and get their account.

 

 

 

Tip it forum users dont want tip it to turn this forum into this certain scam community. The moderators have done a terrific job lately after the attacks happening a few months back. To stop this moderators have simply banned these accounts and even ip banned them. But i dont think this will permanently stop the problem so i have come up with a sort of interesting idea.

 

 

 

Idea: To post a hyperlink to a specific link you must have a requirement of x post counts. What this does is that it stops from scammers from making an account with 1 post count and simply trying to scam people. If they have let's say 100 post count + it would show that they r a somewhat trusted forum user that means no harm. Now figuring out how many post counts would allow u to have such a privilege would need to be discussed a bit by the staff members. But i think that a method like this could definitely stop the recent attacks that TIF has been getting.

 

 

 

Post your comments, good or bad i dont care. i think this will help the community personally. write your reactions.

:oops: i am embarrassed. i was excited when coming up with the idea and then realized that i came short. mods u can lock this now. but keep in mind that this may be the solution. sure only a few attacks have been out but they will increase without a doubt. i think it would be best to stop this now.

 

 

 

and yet another idea popped into my head :idea: :idea: :idea:

 

 

 

Instead of permanently disallowing them from putting a url hyperlink on their post it should be fair that their hyperlink must be the exact address of the hyperlink rather then a disguised one.

 

 

 

just think about it. a few of the members already were scammed like this and its not fun when u get scammed on a fansite that u feel safe with. stop the problem before it grows. ;)

Naww. Let the account scamming go on.

 

 

 

How about no hotlinks? or is that a rule already?

 

I for one, look at the adress bar.

Couldnt we get an admin to do something amazing with the forum censor code so a URL's link is censored too.

 

 

 

Which brings me to another weakness in the censor which needs to be solved.

 

 

 

Actaully, nvm. I'll pm an admin.

Idk if this would work. One of the things that draws users to fansite forums such as this one is the ability to post links etc, if they cannot do that they might as well use the rsof. :cry:

Couldnt we get an admin to do something amazing with the forum censor code so a URL's link is censored too.

 

 

 

Which brings me to another weakness in the censor which needs to be solved.

 

 

 

Actaully, nvm. I'll pm an admin.

 

 

 

this seems like a great idea. :thumbsup:

Couldnt we get an admin to do something amazing with the forum censor code so a URL's link is censored too.

 

 

 

Which brings me to another weakness in the censor which needs to be solved.

 

 

 

Actaully, nvm. I'll pm an admin.

 

 

 

this seems like a great idea. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Actually, from what she's told me about the censor, i highly doubt it's possible to change it...

Or when 'runescape' is in the link name, Tip.It checks or verifys that the link is an actual, or official runescape link.

 

 

 

As every official page on Jagex's site have either runescape or Jagex in them, so it wouldn't be too hard to verify that it is a true or false site. I think it's even possible with Javascript, with a few simple if statements...right? I don't know what you'd have to check for, but it would have to be there on every page, and not be linked to another page that the scam sites could link to. Perhaps setting something up with Jagex might work if the issue becomes a huge deal.

 

 

 

This would only work if Runescape or Jagex was present in the URL. Then the code checks if it's an official or a scam site.

 

 

 

For sites that aren't scam sites, and have runescape or jagex in them, you could 'exclude' them from the censor that would block out or potentially auto-ban the user that posted the link.

Couldnt we get an admin to do something amazing with the forum censor code so a URL's link is censored too.

 

Which brings me to another weakness in the censor which needs to be solved.

 

Actaully, nvm. I'll pm an admin.

 

this seems like a great idea. :thumbsup:

 

Actually, from what she's told me about the censor, i highly doubt it's possible to change it...

 

What do you mean?

Couldnt we get an admin to do something amazing with the forum censor code so a URL's link is censored too.

 

Which brings me to another weakness in the censor which needs to be solved.

 

Actaully, nvm. I'll pm an admin.

 

this seems like a great idea. :thumbsup:

 

Actually, from what she's told me about the censor, i highly doubt it's possible to change it...

 

What do you mean?

 

Well...i'll give you the quote. The thing i asked her about was not the same thing mentioned here, but the principle still probably applies.

 

No.. we cannot "fix" that kind of evasion. As I said, we hope that our users will censor themselves for the most part. If a user is evading the censor and we catch them, then we take action.

 

 

So you see I doubt it's possible and besides, it's not like we have many of those awful links here. This one got deleted and a GLOBAL announcement was made within 12(?)hours.

Or when 'runescape' is in the link name, Tip.It checks or verifys that the link is an actual, or official runescape link.

 

 

 

As every official page on Jagex's site have either runescape or Jagex in them, so it wouldn't be too hard to verify that it is a true or false site. I think it's even possible with Javascript, with a few simple if statements...right? I don't know what you'd have to check for, but it would have to be there on every page, and not be linked to another page that the scam sites could link to. Perhaps setting something up with Jagex might work if the issue becomes a huge deal.

 

 

 

This would only work if Runescape or Jagex was present in the URL. Then the code checks if it's an official or a scam site.

 

 

 

For sites that aren't scam sites, and have runescape or jagex in them, you could 'exclude' them from the censor that would block out or potentially auto-ban the user that posted the link.

 

 

 

that true but who says theyll make it a jagex site. wat if they make a topic in the off topic...

Sorry, but I disagree with the idea of having a cap on when you can post links to other things. I doesn't seem fair that all newcomers should have to suffer, just because a handful or more of idiots decided to do this. I don't know excatly if these still go on, seeing as I have been on Holiday for the past few days, but I can assure you, that the number of new accounts that join each day would drop.

 

Even if there was a system set up so that new users could only post Tip.It/RuneScape links, what's to say they won't do something like this?

 

http://www.randomurltosite/numbers/runescape

Just a question, are we even allowed hot linking on this forum?

Well...i'll give you the quote. The thing i asked her about was not the same thing mentioned here, but the principle still probably applies.

 

No.. we cannot "fix" that kind of evasion. As I said, we hope that our users will censor themselves for the most part. If a user is evading the censor and we catch them, then we take action.

 

 

So you see I doubt it's possible and besides, it's not like we have many of those awful links here. This one got deleted and a GLOBAL announcement was made within 12(?)hours.

 

You can't link someone using censor evasion. Does a mod mind if I explain why?

Well...i'll give you the quote. The thing i asked her about was not the same thing mentioned here, but the principle still probably applies.

 

No.. we cannot "fix" that kind of evasion. As I said, we hope that our users will censor themselves for the most part. If a user is evading the censor and we catch them, then we take action.

 

 

So you see I doubt it's possible and besides, it's not like we have many of those awful links here. This one got deleted and a GLOBAL announcement was made within 12(?)hours.

 

You can't link someone using censor evasion. Does a mod mind if I explain why?

 

Actaully, I asked about something else, related to the censor but not much to do with this type of linking.

 

 

 

I'd advise you pm an admin/mod to ask a question on why it's not, but I still doubt they'll be able to fix it.