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Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 4
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, November 27, 2005 - 09:23 am: | 
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This Forum runs on Discusware V4 and a standard Tables4 skin is applied. There were a couple of reasons for chosing this style, not the least of which were that ShopBotters are familiar with this style, and that I have personally used this software for a long time on other fora. It will be much easier for me to "train" moderators in this format.
Costs? I have stuck this Forum onto one of my existing websites where I have a lot of spare capacity. If the costs become significant, the plan is to allow some advertising in place of those pics at the top now. (I would be curious to hear from potential advertisers)
Pictures? The picture size limit has been set to 400x400 pixel and 100kB file size. The moderators are expected to help place pictures if someone has some difficulty. My idea is to have a rather picture intensive site.
User Profiles: The profiles are hidden from well-behaved crawlers like Yahoo & Google. Info posted on your profile will not be found via Yahoo and Google. At the bottom of the profile is a Private Message facility - there is no need to show your mail address here.
This Forum also has "E-mail Notification" enabled. By editing your profile you can chose to keep an eye on certain threads, or to receive a mail when someone posts in a thread after you. Will investigate replies by e-mail if enough interest |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 154
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 11:07 am: |
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Unfortunately, an open forum does attract spamming machines from time to time. Below you can see what greeted me this morning. Therefore, this forum has mostly been restricted to registered posters. The "test area" is still public.
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Mike John
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Username: Mikejohn
Post Number: 13
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, July 08, 2006 - 12:50 pm: |
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Gerald
He likes this Forum much more than the Shopbot Forum.
Only a couple of posts there!!
Unless they have already been deleted, which I doubt, seeing the time.
Any idea from whence they came?
..........Mike |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 167
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 07:08 am: |
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Another spamming engine (www.threadbomb.com) hit the last open thread last night. All threads now need registration before posting. |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 1136
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 10:20 pm: |
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Registered member number 1000 is Markku of Vantaa,Finland who joined an hour ago. |
Paco
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Username: Paco
Post Number: 14
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 - 02:18 am: |
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'nough to say that you did (and continue to do) a very good job with this forum! |
J.R. Hatcher
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Username: Jr_hatcher
Post Number: 5
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 05:06 am: |
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Gerald, I have always wanted to click on the thumbnails at the top of the pages and go to a larger view. Is there any way to incorporate this feature into your site, or have these pictures on another page, so they could be enlarged? |
Gerald_D
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Username: Gerald_d
Post Number: 1273
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 - 06:13 am: |
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J.R., on Feb 20 there was a discussion on that over here. |
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