KickApps

The problem: Basically, we were getting tons of scammers signing up on our Kickapps hosted community. They were immediately posting dozens of RSS feeds & links on their profiles, in order to raise their search engine rankings. Since our community doesn’t need these features enabled for members, we decided that we should just eliminate them [...]

Place in the GPT head:   <script> window.onl oad= function(){ DisableEnableLinks(true) } function DisableEnableLinks(uDSBL){ objLinks = document.getElementById(“ka_profileLinksShort”).getElementsByTagName(“a”); for(i=0;i<objLinks.length;i++){ objLinks[i].disabled = uDSBL; //link with onclick if(objLinks[i].onclick && uDSBL){ objLinks[i].onclick = new Function(“event”, “return false;” + objLinks[i].onclick.toString().getFuncBody()); } else if(uDSBL){ objLinks[i].onclick = function(){return false;} } else if(!uDSBL && objLinks[i].onclick.toString().indexOf(“function(){return false;}”) != -1){ objLinks[i].onclick = null; } else [...]

Q:   The issue we are running into is that we cannot block any “troll” IP’s becasue the login is in on our site as a token. So any time we go to block an IP it’s the IP from our site not the persons IP. Is there something we can do to be able to [...]

When you disable someone if they are logged in they can continue to post as former members – this snippet of javascript can log them out to prevent them from posting.   A good work around would be to set a JS redirect to the signout link using our Ka.Info. framework..so for example:   <script [...]