Forum How to disable "Home Page" link on users profile page (Stopping spammers)
 

Hi,

i wondered why so many people were joining my brand new forum. They are searching the http://www.vbulletin.com/links.php page and harvesting a list of sites with VB. Then they are signing up and creating a "Signature" link. No problem, i added a rel="nofollow to that link by changing the settings in VB admin.

BUT...

The "Home Page" link on the profile page STILL links to there website and does NOT have a nofollow attribute on it. Great, now my site's PageRank is flowing to a spammer. How can we be in the year 2010, and have to pay hundreds of dollars for VB, and this even be an issue? How is there not an option in VB that says "click here to nofollow EVERY external link on your forum"?

Anyway, how do i add a nofollow to this particular link? Or how do i turn it off completely? Or how do i only allow members to view other members profiles pages (therefore stopping Google's ability to see these spammers links)?