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Hoxxy

New Member
Please turn off post counts in trash and member intos forums as today I had to remove 178 posts where Nite-Hax thought he would cheat and gain post count saying hello to nearly everyone in the intros forum...

I know this is a very rare thing to happen but I have noticed other members (though probably just being nice to new members) also semi spamming to gain post count.

Over time I think this will confuse new members that think "oh I can trust this person as they have a high post count" when infact half the other members post count is simply "welcome to the forum" posts.

While I have your attention:
Can we please make vBTEAM private if only for a 1 year or something, I have found recently the only new members we're getting seem to be leechers, idiots and people that haven't even got a clue how to run/code a basic website let alone a simple CMS like vBulletin, (or even know how or where to post a thread for that matter) tbh I am getting sick of replying with the same old answers or spending time searching for the anwser I have posted in the past just because they can't be bothered to use the search themselves. (dont worry I'm not going nowhere)

I believe this would help us to weed these members out, allow our members base to become more knowledgable and structured and make vBTEAM a much stronger place.

I think other staff members (and even normal members that actually contribute) would agree with my views on this as they have said so in the past, I trully believe in the long run this can only be a good thing for longevity of vBTEAM.

.V0id, I know your views on this subject are vBTEAM will be open and will always be open to everyone, but seriously as mentioned above I trully believe this will only help vBTEAM to become a much stonger forum so please this time take a moment to actually think about doing this.

Quick Edit:
Origianlly posted in admin only forum but moved to Staff section for there views.
Quick Edit 2:
(posted after KrazyFires post)
Also bringing back ip logging would be an Idea as Nite-Hax has simply signed up again under a new name SJx16,
http://www.vbteam.info/general-discussion/18543-banned-6-months.html#post83584

the point of banning members is so they can't access the site but with out ip logging they can simply do as Nite-Hax has done and no one is any the wiser :(

I know we use GYSN custom vB but surely one of the GYSN staff could re-impliment this for us.
 

SpeedRazors

New Member
lol... hoxxy say honestly in the beginning you were also a member that posted alot of hello welcome messages :) :) :) we all do/did.

Making vbteam a private forum is also one of my favorites, make it just like grinderz only invited members can join the forum now more than 70% of the forum is full of members that only leech and don't produce posts, also you can give them a warning to post and help out otherwise we will remove all 0 posters of the forum, you don't need them in my opinion (my thoughts ;) )
 

Hoxxy

New Member
lol... hoxxy say honestly in the beginning you were also a member that posted alot of hello welcome messages.......we all do/did.

Yeah but not 178 posts in 1 season...lol
 

KrazyFire

New Member
lool 178 in a season plus i hate when everything is getting amercianized :p season bah mhm well a spamming warning was given and he continued then ban should of been justfied. and just delete less than 10 posters they ruin everything :p i can sit down in uni 1 day and ban them all if u want i get 4 hours between classes 3 times a week for 4 days why couldnt they just make me come 3 days in uni and keep my break 1 or 2 atleast :p sorry for offtopic xD
 

.v0id

New Member
We can:
** Disable post count in forums like trash, intros, etc.
** Remove zero-posters (but warn them a week before doing so)

About 'closing forum from public', I really don't like this idea. This is the best thing about these forums - people can discuss, download, leech, ask for free, anyone can. I know people are stupid... really stupid sometimes. Disallowing registration for everyone will not make it better. There is only 0.004% of all people on vBTEAM that actually care about these forums. So if we'll close the forums, there will be other forums, just like ours.

So I'm definitely against closing forums.


// And about IP logging, I will speak with cor3y and ask for database modification list.
 
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