http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371 Just another bbPress community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 22:18:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.vg247.com/forum/search.php http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15281 Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:10:17 +0000 Anders 15281@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Not sure if Akismet works with bbPress, but it would definitely solve the spam problems on the blog. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15280 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:59:36 +0000 frostquake 15280@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>LOL...Last Night I just stayed on all night deleting everything that kept coming up, deleted around 30 Spams, maybe a little more. They got tired of putting it up and it only being there for a few minutes, after that it really slowed down.</p> <p>Maybe they see the forum has Mods and will give up..One can hope! </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15279 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:39:51 +0000 Ireland Michael 15279@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Akismet would solve this problem in a heartbeat. </p> <p>If the system supports it. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15278 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:32:13 +0000 Callum 15278@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>^^ haha I lol'd.</p> <p>You talkin' to me? are you talking to ME ?!</p> <p>*deletes thread* </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15273 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:55:13 +0000 freedoms_stain 15273@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>cool, spam better watch its ass. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15271 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:59:12 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15271@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>freedom - You've been bumped. Log out and log back in again. You should be able to delete threads. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15270 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:55:07 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15270@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>freedom - No worries. I'll bump you up.</p> <p>Mathare - That's it, yeah. Drop me a line. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15268 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:31:46 +0000 mathare92 15268@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Is it <a href="mailto:partick@vg247.com">partick@vg247.com</a>? I could help out. I'm on the site every day and usually during the late hours when all those car adverts come flooding in. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15267 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:15:58 +0000 freedoms_stain 15267@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I did :)</p> <p>But I'm in the UK :( </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15266 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:09:47 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15266@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Yeah, agreed. I'll take a look at the people who mailed later on. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15265 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:55:59 +0000 freedoms_stain 15265@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I think you need to mod some peeps in the Aussie time zone, when I'm up late there's always quite a bit of spam. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15264 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:41:32 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15264@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I bumped up you and frostquake. A few more people mailed me as well, so I'll promote a couple of others soon. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15262 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:32:52 +0000 Blerk 15262@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Looking good here!</p> <p>The spammers seem to have given up today, too - I've only deleted one so far. Unless someone else is doing them all? :-D </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15259 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 14:18:24 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15259@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Captcha's been switched off. Let me know if you're still getting asked for it. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15256 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:26:29 +0000 dirigiblebill 15256@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Technology. Sorting the men from the boys since 5,000 BC. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15255 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:15:54 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15255@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Nah, no hacks. It was a power failure, apparently. Yesterday was &quot;fun&quot;. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15254 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:13:30 +0000 onlineatron 15254@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Good to hear!</p> <p>I'm all for getting rid of spam, just not in a way that penalises genuine users.</p> <p>Hope the site is back in it's usual, spiffy, shape soon :) </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15253 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:09:02 +0000 dirigiblebill 15253@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Sorry to hear about the tech woes, Pat. Is foul play suspected? </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15252 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:08:40 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15252@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Cheers. I'll tell Mark. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15251 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:02:56 +0000 Blerk 15251@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Just on the comments threads - it's not asking for them in the forum! :-D</p> <p>On the plus side, IP address reporting now seems to be working for me in the forum. Previously I was seeing 127.0.0.1 for everyone. :-) </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15250 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:57:05 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15250@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>Are you being asked to fill in Captcha boxes on the comments threads on the news stories, or just in the forum? </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15249 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:53:32 +0000 Patrick Garratt 15249@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>We had a major tech issue on Saturday night. The entire version of the site we were running live was erased. To cut a long story short, we're running a version of the site that wasn't actually supposed to go live. Captcha was installed on this box as a test, but was never supposed to be implemented across the comments threads. It'll be removed as soon as we can work out how to do it without breaking everything. </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15247 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:49:56 +0000 Blerk 15247@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I have to agree - it's horrible. I think it's far more likely to kill interest than the spam, even.</p> <p>I usually read with the images switched off too ('cos I'm at work and that), and it's now impossible to post in that mode because I can't see the words to type. :-(</p> <p>Shouldn't the Captcha thing be just used for signing up for an account rather than for every post? </p> http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=2371#post-15246 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:27:15 +0000 onlineatron 15246@http://www.vg247.com/forum/ <p>I understand the need for a Captcha system on VG247, hopefully it will cull the spam, but is it a permanent or temporary solution?</p> <p>Having to type two, rather complicated, words in each time I wish to comment is an incredible hassle. I don't know any other site that employ this method on a per comment basis, yet they seem to deal with spam fine.</p> <p>What gives? </p>