New users Permission in 3.1?

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New users Permission in 3.1?

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Howdy folks,
I'ts been some time since I've trolled around area51, I see phpBB 3.1 is coming along quite nicely. I just want to ask a quick question, does phpBB 3.1 feature a new permission for users/groups that would disallow users from posting external links and images? This would be useful for antispam features on a board to set for the Newly Registered Users group. I believe a while back this was discussed but I'm not sure if it was an RFC or if it was accepted/rejected or just simple something mentioned but that's it.
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Re: New users Permission in 3.1?

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There was this discussion which sort of went south:
https://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopi ... 08&t=44917
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Re: New users Permission in 3.1?

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There's already a permission to disallow posting IMG BBCodes, I believe. It doesn't distinguish between internal and external links, but how often does a general user need to link to an image on the board?

And, yes, there absolutely should be a way to prevent posting links.

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Re: New users Permission in 3.1?

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Well the idea would be between internal and external links that there is no harm in linking to other topics on a website, whereas spammers want to link to outside sources. I posted the "idea" on phpBB ideas https://www.phpbb.com/ideas/idea.php?id=991, I would post an RFC specific to it, but in the mean time I want to catch up on other RFCs since it's been a while since I've been here.
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