How to remove all spammy profile bio?
By Ysabel on Friday, 16 May 2014
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Hello,

Today my client did some backlink search and they found out that there are alot of users who are putting bad links in their profile.
I am aware that sometime ago the option allow profile bio was enabled once i discovered it, i immidiatey disabled it. But there are alot of users ablt to add their links during that period.

Do you know an easy way to run a query that will empty everyones biography in easydiscuss? Its a lot of manual work if I need to check one by one. See attached sample.

Thank you
Hello Ysabel,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Actually you can disable the Signature option from your backend > Easydiscuss > Setting > layout > general > enable signature - NO

But by default the user profile description no option can control from backend, but you can download my attachment file replace in this file
JoomlaFolder\components\com_easydiscuss\themes\simplistic\profile.php

And see how it goes? Please advise.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 23 May 2014 13:30
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Hello Ysabel,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Hmm, I didn't see any attachment file here, am i missing something here?

Yes, you can run this query in your database, remember follow your table prefix
UPDATE `jos_discuss_users` set `description` = '';


hope this help.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 16 May 2014 23:11
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Thank you Arlex.

it work well.

I am not sure of this..

For instance last year, i allowed user to enter their profile bio & signature. Obviously this feature was abused by some of the users and spammer took advantage and added all their ad links.

So we turn it off 2 months ago... but there were 20K users was able to update their profiles and the links where crawled by google....

But any new users cannot access the signature and to add bio in their profiles because it is disabled... even the old ones.

However, the profile of the user still viewable by public with the spammy links they added previously.

My suggestion: if the option has been disabled, why not disable the view as well (profile description). If it is empty then it is good, nothing to show, but if the user profile has a data it still show even the option is disabled.
Ysabel
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Friday, 23 May 2014 03:54
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