Forum Admin Greg 0 Posted February 14, 2013 Forum Admin Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 An important upgrade is going to be made to the forums shortly. I do not have an ETA on when the upgrade will occur, but it should happen in the next 24 hours. I will give warning when the upgrade happens, but please be patient if there is some downtime. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The_Squid 69 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 Will we notice any differences? Or is it all back-end stuff? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The_Squid 69 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 ooops... never mind... I noticed the other post about the mystery URL... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cybercoma 29 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 Or is it all back-end stuff? *immature snickering* Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Forum Admin Greg 0 Posted February 14, 2013 Author Forum Admin Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 It's a minor upgrade, no major changes should be noticed to the interface. Thanks~! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sleipnir 0 Posted February 14, 2013 Report Share Posted February 14, 2013 I will give warning when the upgrade happens, but please be patient if there is some downtime. How will you give warnings? Mass mail to everyone's inbox? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Topaz 44 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Greg, if its minor, can u tell us what its for? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bcsapper 1,590 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 It's generally not allowed to give out information about minors. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sleipnir 0 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 (edited) Greg, if its minor, can u tell us what its for? It's generally not allowed to give out information about minors. hahaha Edited February 15, 2013 by Sleipnir Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Forum Admin Greg 0 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Forum Admin Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 How will you give warnings? Mass mail to everyone's inbox? I will post a notice in the forums, I will attempt to give at least one hour warning. Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jbg 43 Posted February 15, 2013 Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Will the mystery URL go away? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Forum Admin Greg 0 Posted February 15, 2013 Author Forum Admin Report Share Posted February 15, 2013 Mystery URL? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
guyser 0 Posted April 5, 2013 Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 I thought the new system was to cut down on spam , not increase it. We have a ton today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest American Woman Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Yes, the board has been getting a lot of spam again lately. I imagine as soon as the software is updated, spammers figure their way around it. Must make for a lot of work for the admin - so the work in that regard is much appreciated! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eyeball 1,319 Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 How on Earth do spammers get even the minimum level of appreciation one presumes they need to make their efforts worth the trouble let alone worth paying for? It's like someone figuring out how to make money trolling on internet forums. How do you that? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest American Woman Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 I don't think it's people as such - I think it's mostly spambots, automated computer programs that can search the web for forums. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eyeball 1,319 Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Somebody still has to write and launch the spambots. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Michael Hardner 764 Posted April 8, 2013 Report Share Posted April 8, 2013 Hi all - Greg and I exchanged some PMs and he feels that the recent SPAM problem should be fixed now. Thanks to all of you for submitting those reports. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kimmy 77 Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 How on Earth do spammers get even the minimum level of appreciation one presumes they need to make their efforts worth the trouble let alone worth paying for? It's like someone figuring out how to make money trolling on internet forums. How do you that? Some computer-savvy person wrote about this a while back. I think the gist of it was that they don't even need people to click on their links... just the fact that their links exist on the forums is valuable to them, because when the search engine webcrawlers find their links, it boosts their search engine rankings. Something like that, at least. -k Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eyeball 1,319 Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 I guess it's all good for GDP if nothing else. God bless the economy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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