Jason
I wanted to bring something to everyone's attention.
Someone just began selling a cheesy report encouraging people to spam AD directory bio pages with links. Basically, here is what he is telling people to do:
1. Create tons and tons of pen names and submit one article per pen name. By submitting one article, there will be a link to the pen name bio page.
2. Fill in all bio URL fields w/ links to internal pages of the site they're trying to generate links to.
3. Link spam the bio block with tons of links to other internal pages.
Since this will most likely be abused very shortly, I've gone ahead and simply removed the URL fields and the bio field from both the pen name bio form and from the public bio display template on ArticleDashboard.com. Most authors don't use this feature anyway.
If you would like to do the same, here's what you'll need to do:
1. Edit publicprofile.tpl => remove the following:
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<tr>
<td width="90%">{F_BIO}</td>
</tr>
{URLLIST}
<tr>
<td width="90%"><b>Personal URL :</b> <a href="{F_URLP}">{F_URLP}</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="90%"><b>Blog URL :</b> <a href="{F_URLB}">{F_URLB}</a></td>
</tr>
2. Edit profiledis.tpl => remove the following:
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<tr>
<td width="20%">URL 1:</td>
<td width="80%">
<input type="text" name="f_url1" size="35" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0" value="{F_URL1}"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20%">URL 2:</td>
<td width="80%">
<input type="text" name="f_url2" size="35" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0" value="{F_URL2}"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20%">URL 3:</td>
<td width="80%">
<input type="text" name="f_url3" size="35" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0" value="{F_URL3}"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20%">Personal URL:</td>
<td width="80%">
<input type="text" name="f_urlp" size="35" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0" value="{F_URLP}"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20%">Blog URL:</td>
<td width="80%">
<input type="text" name="f_urlb" size="35" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0" value="{F_URLB}"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="20%">Bio:</td>
<td width="80%">
<textarea rows="19" name="f_bio" cols="60" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0" onKeyDown="textCounter(this.form.f_bio,this.form.avachars_bio,{PROFILEMAX});" onKeyUp="textCounter(this.form.f_bio,this.form.avachars_bio,{PROFILEMAX});">{F_BIO}</textarea>
<br>
<input readonly type="text" name="avachars_bio" size="3" maxlength="4" value="{PROFILEMAX}" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 11px; color: #333333; border: 1px solid #C0C0C0"> Characters left
</td>
</tr>
Have a great weekend,
Jason
I put this at the top of the profiledis.tpl and updated the template help section on article garden.
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<p class="attention" style="border: dashed 1px #030; width:500px; padding: 5px"><b>Note:</b><br />
This function has been suspended as an automatic feature. The spammers have discovered this wonderful opportunity to build link backs
and ruined the ease of use for this ammenity at ArticleCrash. <br /><br />
If you'd like to create a public profile, please use our <a href="contacts.php">Contact Form</a>
and mail us your details. We will place the information manually for you. Please include
your main site, personal site, blog site, and the personal bio you would like listed.<br /><br />
Sorry for the inconvenience!<br />
Thanks!</p>
I didn't find it necessary to take it out of the publicprofile.tpl for this reason.
Cheers!
