XenForo Spam in Website, Occupation and About user fields - how do we combat it?

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Stuart Wright

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Are the Website, Occupation and About user fields scanned for spam? Feels like an obvious question. No, they are not.
People are registering with AVForums to put spam in the website field and then never visiting again.
These fields seem to be hard coded and don't have permissions.
At this point, I want to remove the website field completely from the forums. It's just inviting spam.
Have I completely missed any tools to manage these fields?
If not, I'll add a suggestion to manage them.

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