CoffeeCake Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Is there a way to block the viewing of banned spammer member profiles? We've found a common spamming technique is to register an account and fill out the about me field. Realizing we could go edit the profile, making them not visible would be a nice option. Is there a way to achieve this out of the box? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 17 minutes ago, Paul E. said: Is there a way to achieve this out of the box? Made a quick plugin: Block Banned Profiles.xml The only issue here is that the system treats regular banned and spammer banned in the say way (at least I couldn't identify a difference quickly) so it will block all banned profiles. sudo and CoffeeCake 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeCake Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 Adriano, Thanks for putting that together. I'm wondering what the best way to handle approaching these sorts of users is long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sudo Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 19 hours ago, Adriano Faria said: Made a quick plugin: Block Banned Profiles.xml The only issue here is that the system treats regular banned and spammer banned in the say way (at least I couldn't identify a difference quickly) so it will block all banned profiles. Thanks for that! Does this send a 403 header or 404? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 403. sudo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balazsp Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 @Adriano Faria I too thank you for this plugin... 🙂 Is there a way to exclude the admin group from this block so they can still see the profile? TIA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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