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Link limits for trust level 0 users interferes with asking good questions

Tgr

Continuing the discussion from Unrecognized parameters in create Account:

Yeah that’s kind of annoying. I think it’s meant as an antispam measure in Discourse, we could try disabling it and see if there are any actual spammers held back by it. Once we disable password authentication and rely on remote logins, generic spambots probably won’t be able to login anyway.

qgil

In the admin interface, I don’t see how to increase the number of links that TL-0 users can post. Maybe someone else finds how?

2 links in one post is not bad. I mean not as bad as to hardcode a different limit. As an example, the question of that user in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188088 has two links. :wink:

I recently posted my first message as a TL-0 user in another forum. I used http://etc.etc to share my third URL.

Tgr

newuser max links in the Settings / Posting menu.

qgil

Ah, good. I was looking at Trust Levels. I have increased it to 5.

samwilson

I’ve just added github.com, wikimedia.org, and the other projects’ domains to the white listed spam host domains setting (“A list of domains excluded from spam host testing. New users will never be restricted from creating posts with links to these domains.”).

We could probably add other domains to the list.

It automatically whitelists subdomains (probably? can we test?).

Thanks to @reedy for pointing out the problem with linking to Phabricator.