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by Adam - Admin
Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:07 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: A Question of Moderation
Replies: 9
Views: 5974

I've just done about as much cleaning of the member list as I'm willing to do. We will see if the visual confirmation is enough to stop the spambots.
by Adam - Admin
Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:41 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: A Question of Moderation
Replies: 9
Views: 5974

Believe it or not, some people actually have websites. Using zero posts and a website as a filter to delete records could affect legitimate users, particularly ones who just recently registered. I will be filtering the user database, but with something a little more clear, like by website and email ...
by Adam - Admin
Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:22 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: A Question of Moderation
Replies: 9
Views: 5974

The spambots have become very prolific lately. We have been taking action to deal with the problem, such as banning certain email domains, such as those ending in ".ru". In addition, the board has just been upgraded (today) to the newest version, which adds a visual confirmation for regist...
by Adam - Admin
Tue Jan 03, 2006 12:06 am
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Issues with new forum
Replies: 6
Views: 5158

This is obviously the query that is causing problems; $sql = "SELECT t.*, u.username, u.user_id, u2.username as user2, u2.user_id as id2, p.post_time, p.post_username FROM " . TOPICS_TABLE . " t, " . USERS_TABLE . " u, " . POSTS_TABLE . " p, " . USERS_TABLE . ...
by Adam - Admin
Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: Canada / United States Tax & Accounting
Topic: Issues with new forum
Replies: 6
Views: 5158

I'm actually the one handling the technical aspects of managing the forums here. Took a little while to understand what you guys were talking about, but seems to me that effectively, what is happening is that the thread creation date is being taken as the last post date. Rather than modifying the fo...