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Kornel Kisielewicz

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« on: May 07, 2006, 20:54 »

I upgraded miniBB to the latest version. I tried to do that without breaking any enhancements that were installed. It didn't work for the Poll system, but that's not such a big issue, for the Poll system was bad anyway ;-). As for the other features I don't know wether it succeded so if you find any bugs, please post them in this topic.

As for the recent spam attacks there is a solution -- although a drastical one: dissalow unregistered posting and enable e-mail confirmation when registering. During the lifetime of the forums there weren't many unregistered posters, and those that were didn't stay long/advance the community for too long (with the eception of Derek Yu -- but he registered now). So I don't know how uncomfortable it will be to force people to register -- please state your opinion.

Note also that if it would be implemented this system would stop spam COMPLETELY.
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« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2006, 21:41 »

I don't think its a problem, most people who want to state something in a forum are used to tossing their email up for registration and all that.  Personally, I was surprised when this one didn't.
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« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2006, 21:42 »

dammit...

that was me.  I suppose this will elminate posts like the above since you'll have to sign in to post
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« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2006, 21:52 »

I always register for a forum when i'm going to hang around anyway. And i have no qualms about giving up my email. Spam on my mail can be filtered easily enough, but on a forum it is a lot more annoying.

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« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2006, 22:00 »

Another thing that you may want to check is that (in the previous forum versions at least) even unregistered posters can post in announcements.
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« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2006, 02:26 »

I am ok with registering and comprobation... after all we are a community
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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2006, 13:21 »

It raises 'access denied' message when I try to quote. (yes, I am logged in).

edit. testing edit function

(offtopic) I'm transcended to hrack (a local  slang for the pink monster called daemon)
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2006, 21:54 »

I have noticed that the quote button does not work.
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