My suggestions

**harmor** · 11-05-2006, 06:26 AM

My suggestions

*Remove the 10 post rule for posting links.
*I uploaded a hack here and it said I needed 10 posts to download it.
*I like seeing the last post info on the forum home so change the forums so I can see who posted last.

That's all I can think of at the moment

**Code Monkey** · 11-05-2006, 06:46 AM

If Brandon removed the 10 post rule then we would be spending our days removing spam again like it was before. That is there for a reason. This is a discussion forum and discussion isn't considered a bad requirment.

As for the other, that's up to Brandon.

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-05-2006, 08:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by harmor

*I like seeing the last post info on the forum home so change the forums so I can see who posted last.

What do you mean by this ?
thanks for the suggestions, as Code Monkey said, the 10 post rule is to help with spam.

**ohiosweetheart** · 11-05-2006, 09:42 PM

Someone else posted something tonight on Talk vB about removing the 10 post rule.... same person, different username ?

**Brandon Sheley** · 11-05-2006, 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ohiosweetheart

Someone else posted something tonight on Talk vB about removing the 10 post rule.... same person, different username ?

not sure :1rolleyes:

I know what he means by the other suggestion..
the forums that are arranged with the subforums hack, you don't see the last post.
I'm sure I could get them to show with the present layout. Maybe I can get Code Monkey to help me out. :2embarrassed:

**harmor** · 11-06-2006, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ohiosweetheart

Someone else posted something tonight on Talk vB about removing the 10 post rule.... same person, different username ?

I always use the username "harmor" or "harmor19" or "harmor20".

Foulish · 01-22-2007, 03:27 PM

some of the rules are a bit useless, i suppose it could have some use to hreview it

**Brandon Sheley** · 01-22-2007, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Foulish

some of the rules are a bit useless, i suppose it could have some use to hreview it

what rules are you talking about ?

**eric** · 01-22-2007, 10:33 PM

guess alll the limitations preventing hiom to see links, parts of the forum. They want all and give nothing

**Greek76** · 01-23-2007, 11:21 AM

The rules are good that is how you keep order in the forum. Do you know how much spam was coming through here in the starts? The ten post before linking rule is good Im thinking about doing the same thing.

**tenshix** · 01-28-2007, 06:09 AM

The 10 post thing is nice. Helps keep people here.
I wouldn't remove it if i was Brandon

**Brandon Sheley** · 01-28-2007, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by tenshix

The 10 post thing is nice. Helps keep people here.
I wouldn't remove it if i was Brandon

thank you

not many agree, but honestly, I didn't enable it to get more post, or to keep ppl here.. I did it to help with spam.

**Code Monkey** · 02-26-2007, 01:55 PM

Keep the 10 post rule.

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-26-2007, 07:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Code Monkey

Keep the 10 post rule.

wow

you made a post :biglaugh:

**Xplorer4x4** · 02-27-2007, 06:30 AM

Must say it is very annoying but there are ways around it like vb.org instead of www.vb.org. What about changing it to 5 posts? And out of curiosity what kind of spam. I have been on message boards for years but never have seen these so called "spam attacks" for myself.

**eric** · 02-27-2007, 06:37 AM

you don't see them publicly but I just killed about 5 and saw already a few more... here we use several systems interlaced to detect and set them moderate and then a spam buzzer to kill all in one go and ban the account. It is just putting hurdles, one isn't enough anymore these days.. reason Brandon has several

**Xplorer4x4** · 02-27-2007, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by eric

you don't see them publicly but I just killed about 5 and saw already a few more... here we use several systems interlaced to detect and set them moderate and then a spam buzzer to kill all in one go and ban the account. It is just putting hurdles, one isn't enough anymore these days.. reason Brandon has several

So....what exactly do they do then? :confused:

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-27-2007, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Xplorer4x4

So....what exactly do they do then? :confused:

the spam hacks ?

they help prevent spam from going public

If we didn't have any spam prevention hacks, there would be 5-10 new threads a day of spam.

**Caddyman** · 02-27-2007, 07:45 AM

my suggestion:

get a thanks buttons for the new skin :P

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-27-2007, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Caddyman

my suggestion:

get a thanks buttons for the new skin :P

.. there is a link still

I'll try and set 30 mins away this afternoon and clean up that style

02-27-2007, 09:26 AM

I think that rule should be removed so we are able to download stuff easy without being spamming the forum with useless topics.

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-27-2007, 10:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Humbe

I think that rule should be removed so we are able to download stuff easy without being spamming the forum with useless topics.

No.. it doesn't matter How many post you have.. Only vBulletin Owners can download anything from This site !

**Xplorer4x4** · 02-27-2007, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

the spam hacks ?

they help prevent spam from going public

If we didn't have any spam prevention hacks, there would be 5-10 new threads a day of spam.

No not the hacks, the spam attacks. Just bots posting links or what?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brandon

No.. it doesn't matter How many post you have.. Only vBulletin Owners can download anything from This site !

But on attachments it only says you need 10 posts so it is kind of confusing.

**Brandon Sheley** · 02-27-2007, 07:55 PM

ya, it really doesn't come up much..

The vBulletin owners are pretty quick to get activated, those who complain most usually end up running waraz or something.

( I'm not implying that your running waraz, just saying with the site history, those seem to be the ones whining about that message )

I might change it to just the usergroup permission error.

and about your spam question, usually someone will manually sign up, and then once the user is activated, they'll add them to a program and once they get 100 or 1000 forums setup they'll run the spam script and post on all of those sites.

-Bs

-Bs