Forum remodelling

[danieldoof]

ah you deserve 5 explanation points then :wink:

[e of pi]

Stop that!

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by e of pi

Stop that!

Tace!

:P

[e of pi]

Eggplant!

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Kristina

Sounds like the end of "Texas Hold'em" threads etc. (and that's not the worst) is in sight!

Yeah, you can't just say "spam threads" because that would cover 90% of Misc. :mrgreen:

The fix is slightly more of a pain than whoiam implies -- I have to adjust the settings on each forum individually -- but it's still easy enough. Your idea's good too, e; we may use that if there's more trouble.

By the way, this is nothing compared to the beating our guestbook recently took. I had to delete something like 500 robot entries.

[whoiam]

Originally Posted by Zeke

The fix is slightly more of a pain than whoiam implies -- I have to adjust the settings on each forum individually --

That doesn't make it difficult - you only have a handful of forums, after all. That just makes it repetitive.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by e of pi

Eggplant!

SEXUAL VIOLET!

[evay]

Originally Posted by Zeke

By the way, this is nothing compared to the beating our guestbook recently took. I had to delete something like 500 robot entries.

Oh wow, you too? I had over a hundred in 36 hours. It happened twice in a row; I'm just taking my guestbook down altogether.

[Zeke]

Yeah, it's time to retire ours too. I recently read a German post which linked to us with the caveat that we look "90s internet"; I don't think that's quite fair, but guestbooks are definitely 90s.

[e of pi]

I'm going to examine my idea's pros and cons and report back. I have a few things I want to check out.

Annnnnnnd....I was right. It would be possible for someone to change the account password and the email address for the "I forgot my password" thing without notification. Hmmmm. Is it possible to lock an account's information?

[Zeke]

(sigh) Okay, the spambots quickly changed their strategy to replies rather than posts, so I've had to block unregistered posting. I hope this won't be permanent. I've never liked forcing people to register to post.

[GuestAccount]

GuestAccount created. Password is "soon".

[whoiam]

Just out of curiosity, are they posting from a specific IP address or anything? If they are, then address blocking instead of disabling anonymous posting, maybe?

[Chancellor Valium]

...Also, is this anything to do with the "Mouth of Moron" affair last winter, and the threats of mildly annoying you?

[e of pi]

Who, Nikhil? I doubt it. He doesn't have enough ability.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by GuestAccount

GuestAccount created. Password is "soon".

Thanks, e. I've commandeered the account (I figure I should administer it -- hope you don't mind) and given it an appropriate avatar.

[e of pi]

No, I was expecting you to. May I suggest "Just Passing Through..." as a member title?

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by e of pi

Who, Nikhil? I doubt it. He doesn't have enough ability.

Buh? Who, what, when, where, why, how, wherefore, whence?

[e of pi]

Nevermind. I was mistaken. A few months ago one of my friends decided to bug me by posting some rather stupid stuff here. Obviously, you were thinking of somebody else.

[Chancellor Valium]

Originally Posted by e of pi

Nevermind. I was mistaken. A few months ago one of my friends decided to bug me by posting some rather stupid stuff here. Obviously, you were thinking of somebody else.

Yes, I was. It must've been shortly after I joined, IIRC...there were a coupla trolls, one called enterprise12345, and the other called itself the Mouth of Sauron, also IIRC. There was a lot of levelling of threats against Zeke, that they would troll the board, overload it, etc etc ad nauseam. The locked threads are probably floating around somewhere...