Guests and Lurkers: LET'S HEAR IT FROM YOU!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:37 pm

Guest posting is turned off in a few bases due to the outrageous level of spamming this website has seen.

Someone really needs to explain to me why phpBB can't have a variable for "posting.php" and then reference that variable appropriately. I guess I just don't "get it."

But until I make that change myself or get a good answer, or switch forum software, I've turned off guest posting. "Please Forgive Me" -- Bryan Adams

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:59 am

When will you apologize for leaving this thread sticky long past its useful sticky life?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:55 am

PLEASE unsticky this.

Please.

"Please." - Phillip Seymour Hoffman, _Magnolia_

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:01 pm

I don't think that they've really been properly apologized to yet. There may still be some new people who really haven't had time to digest the whole, "I can't post here as Winston R. Fagrocks." I'd just like to make it clear that as soon as phpBB.com lets you put in a custom word for "posting.php" (which would completely eliminate the fucking spam program HOW HAVE THEY NOT DONE THIS YET?????) then the anonymous posting is coming back!

Or, until you are able to convert their database to BBBB.

Whichever comes first.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:10 pm

Cannot "posting.php" be changed in the code? With a text editor?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:41 pm

Yeah, but then I have to change it every single time I upgrade phpBB (which sucks).

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:47 pm

phpBB sucks. Not me having to do that. Wanted to clarify that.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:51 pm

Do you upgrade much?

How much time does a global search/replace take, versus not letting us post as guests?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:22 pm

Okay okay god in Heaven, I'll look into it.

I am also trying to get a co-sysop. Having another set of eyes to kill spam would be helpful.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 9:47 pm

Everyone but you likes and has fun with the spam.

We enjoy making witty quips and rejoinders.

You squelch our creativity.

So really, the spam is not much unlike any other new poster here.

Why don't you apologize to the spammers a few times, and then we'll all truly be home.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:47 pm

No.

The reason why spammers hit us so hard is because for whatever reason our Google rating is high. So if we link to them their Google rating gets higher. Fuck that.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:57 pm

I made a change that will hopefully stop spammers from registering accounts. If it works I will be implementing it to "posting.php".

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:04 pm

Any chance of deleting the bogus spam accounts? It's cool to look like we have 200 registered users and all, but it's so far from truth that it pains me.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 6:25 pm

Which ones are there that you think are still spammy?

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 7:57 pm

Oh, I dunno, about 150 of them.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:02 pm

Single-use spammer accounts vs. Single-use gimmick accounts

FIGHT

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:20 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I made a change that will hopefully stop spammers from registering accounts. If it works I will be implementing it to "posting.php".

Well, that went over like a led zeppelin. Hahah, phpBB... great job. Only thing I can think of is that the template I use has different settings. I'll give that a shot, but if it doesn't work I am switching software. This remains a fucking joke.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:33 pm

Someone should go use the search function to dig back into the past and see how long ago it's been since RobB first said he was going to change the board software.

Not me, but someone.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:07 pm

I said it, Lysander, because I've always hated this software.

I just turned off guest posting everywhere. The assholes had been sending fucking XXX messages out and that's going to get the site marked as "adult" on the various Big Brother programs out there. Fuck this shit.

I went to download all the files for phpBB last night, but my crappy FTP program fucking crashes if you try to download directories with directories in them. Jesus Christ.

I will be seriously investigating a forum software switch after April 1st. I was going to think about Invision, but I hear that people aren't stoked with that software, either. You can all yukk it up if I go with this, the worst available option, in the meantime.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 6:37 pm

Is VBullaton just something that happens to other people?