We found this was very ineffective at Stack. Urls are very easy to change and spammers rarely stick with one for long.
Not opposed to it, but unlikely to help much, if at all.
For common urls you just don’t like or don’t ever want posted , those are more stable and can work. Like if you decide you dislike sports so much you don’t ever want a link from ESPN.com posted, ever. Or the craptacular w3schools.
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For common urls you just don’t like or don’t ever want posted , those are more stable and can work. [/quote]
Yes please. Particularly so we can block adf.ly links. Those are annoying as all get out.
It’s true enough that both everchanging IPs and URLs get used.
Maybe a better approach would be “keywords” which depending on the forum would be different.
eg. “louis vuitton” would work for a tech forum but not a handbag forum.