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General Forums => News items => OESF Announcements => Topic started by: dz on August 30, 2008, 06:37:12 pm

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: dz on August 30, 2008, 06:37:12 pm

It seems that things have been running very smooth lately.  Some spam, but it's been nailed pretty well thanks to our admin/mod team.

The question I'm posing to you guys is is there anything that you want added or changed?  I'm going to be upgrading us to the latest version of IPB soon, but I'm pretty sure it's just bugfixes and not features or anything.

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: sdjf on August 31, 2008, 01:23:25 am

One thing is not something to add, but to fix.  "Go to the top of the page" requires javascript and doesn't work in text browsers.  It's easy enough to code in plain html. But may not be so easy to do with IPB.

Since I use links and lynx on my Z's, I'm sure I'm not the only one finding links that don't work because of javascript, it's the one that sticks in my mind.

sdjf

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: sdjf on October 06, 2008, 12:02:34 am

Spam is not getting nailed quickly.  Where did the validation go?  It's failing now.

I just reported spam that has been up about 23 hours, not a good sign.  And someone ran through tonight posting at least 6 or 8 spam within minutes of joining.

Where did review of newbies disappear to?

sdjf

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: Capn_Fish on October 06, 2008, 07:38:55 am

I agree. Something needs to be done about the spam.

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: jfv on October 06, 2008, 09:08:15 am

I just reported a couple of posts last night and there is more spam this morning. I don't think the moderators will be able to cope if they need to delete everything manually.

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: Meyer on October 06, 2008, 10:33:34 am

Pornographic image spam storm from esontinia.

Can we disable online registration?

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: InSearchOf on October 06, 2008, 11:38:52 am

I just changed the forum back to Admin Validation for now... we will look at updating IP.Board and to determine if there are any upgrades to validation

Thanks

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: Meyer on October 06, 2008, 11:55:44 am

Thanks. We can rest a little easier.

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: sdjf on October 07, 2008, 03:24:36 am

Quote from: InSearchOf

I just changed the forum back to Admin Validation for now... we will look at updating IP.Board and to determine if there are any upgrades to validation

Thanks

What happened to the Validation forum you were moderating?  That was working quite well, and disappeared for some reason.  Was that on purpose or oversight with the upgrade?

sdjf

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: InSearchOf on October 07, 2008, 12:12:16 pm

We implemented CAPTA to hopefully slow down the spam... but that only worked for a while...

Late

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: tux on October 14, 2008, 04:00:05 am

Quote from: InSearchOf

We implemented CAPTA to hopefully slow down the spam... but that only worked for a while...

Late

 I've just deleted a spam post in the Can't create new pages thread. The user was immokyAdorddand the ip was 194.165.42.35.  

Title: How're Things Running? Do We Need To Add Anything?
Post by: dz on October 24, 2008, 11:51:12 am

Quote from: sdjf

Quote from: InSearchOf

I just changed the forum back to Admin Validation for now... we will look at updating IP.Board and to determine if there are any upgrades to validation

Thanks

What happened to the Validation forum you were moderating?  That was working quite well, and disappeared for some reason.  Was that on purpose or oversight with the upgrade?

sdjf

The problem is it wasn't working well.  We might not have had much spam, but it requires a lot of people and time to verify and validate accounts.