I know it's old news, but let's vent about spambots. More than three quarters of our 'members' are actually these annoying buggers, and a lot of them have moderately profane names. I think we should have a new registration system in effect, one that has a random security code to stop them from registering unless they know it... anyone know where to get the HTML code for one of those?
Discuss, but be warned: This is General Discussion, not Chatboard, so no spam.
*whistles casually*
*points to 10+ pages ago*
*points to topic of same name*
And no CAPTCHA in this forum software. GF tried eliminating them once, a while back... didn't work. So umm... any new ideas?
Blarg, I knew that we had another one, I'm just not a fan of necro-posting, and I couldn't find it anyhow...
but just because it isn't incorporated into the YaBB SE software doesn't mean that there isn't a hack somewhere out the for it.
LEARN2GOOGLE
EDIT: WHAT?! You were waiting for an important Russian member to join? It's awesome, I was destined to be here!
Switching forums was considered, but that would mean losing everything...
Found it on page 11 (http://desertcolossus.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=3714)
Anyway, wouldn't it be possible to mirror the whole database somewhere else and maybe have TWO forums associated with TDC?
Yeah, but what would that solve...?
No I mean, what if we have two forums associatiated with TDC: One forum that uses old software, and acts as a 'memory box', and a second forum with new software and all that stuff.
I see. Would we be switching software, though? I mean, we could use the same kind of complex shtuff that they use over at ZU, they barely have any bots there. :P
We'd have two forums, each using different software. That complex thingy is probably CAPTCHA. And I generally have no idea what I'm talking about.
I believe they're using the newest version of vBulletin, and that stuff's EXPENSIVE. But if... hmm...
Exactly HOW expensive?
Over $100 a year, but that's also for free downloads of the newest versions and access to other "cool" things. I dunno, GoldenChaos told me the exact figure, but I forgot.
Of course, I could always just get his account information from him, but that wouldn't be very 'moral' of me, would it?
TT~TT
How dare you!!
That's offensive. /~\
What, about getting account information from someone?
Tacheon's current name?
Quote from: TPZeldaFire on January 28, 2008, 11:24:36 PM
TT~TT
How dare you!!
That's offensive. /~\
That's very vague. Please clarify.
EDIT: LONE WOLF THIEF! BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!