The upgraded forums seem to be doing a good job at keeping bots away!

[Twilight Wolf]

Thank you, Gamefreak. If it weren't for you, we would never have gotten rid of these spambots/non-active users.

We should celebrate!

[Gamefreak]

I wouldn't have gotten rid of most of them if weren't for your help Twilight Wolf.

And yes, the Chatboard has been reverted to its old rules.

[Twilight Wolf]

Well, I'm happy to have been able to help out!

Also, is it just me, or do the forums load a bit faster now?

[Gamefreak]

Could be.  I'm sure I freed up a whole load of bandwith over the past few days.

[Twilight Wolf]

I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. Deleting nearly around 14,000 bots and non-active members will probably be great for the forum's health.

[MasterKeyX]

It seems to be moving faster. But sometimes, for me at least, the banner at the top makes Firefox laggy.

But great job, Gamefreak!  :D

[kamakaziplumber]

I wish I could help with that 8) But I can't see how to filter people with slow connections into seeing the normal banner instead of the Flash one. Best thing you can do, if it's really bad, is to shut off Flash.

[Keaton]

Sexy change to the banner, good idea.

[kamakaziplumber]

Yeah, Rabies was having problems with his browser. So, this is the best way to fix the problem. Also, now the site won't slow for anyone at all... at least, because of the banner... unless they press play.

[darkphantomime]

Aww, man. No one wants to press play again and again and again... especially to see an otherwise awesome banner :\

Rabies should just have flash turned off anyway and leave it at that. Flash has no business being on when you're on a dialup connection anyway.

[Twilight Wolf]

I asked him about it, and from what I've heard, he can't, even if he wanted to.

[kamakaziplumber]

Yeah, we tried. Apparently he can't... not without downloading the official uninstaller, at least. :-\ This is really the only solution... I mean, I suppose I could reverse it and have Rabies just hit pause when he needs to...

[Twilight Wolf]

Can you change it to where you can turn the animation off completely? Until you decide to turn it back on, that is. If that's possible, that might work best, because if you reversed it, you'd have to turn it off every time you went to a different spot on the forums.

[kamakaziplumber]

Not within the Flash. Even if I could turn off the animation, it would still start again every time he moved...

[darkphantomime]

This guy obviously uses the craptastic internet explorer or (god forbid) AOL browser.

Read my lips rabies: You're internet is going to suck no matter what happens, but you might as well move on to the fastest browser out there: Firefox 3. and IDGRA about your dial-up excuses. No way should we have to sacrifice what's neat and usable by 99% of the populace because of your craptastic internet connection.

Put it back up KP, I believe Rabies mentioned something about visiting the site less and less somewhere around here.