Sorry my fault..

[itsid]

Hi,
I'm used to vbulletin, but not really used to a fixed layout.
So unfortunately my images are too wide for this layout

Would you mind to me to suggest two vb-hacks that will improve this sites behaviour?
First (because it is the reason for me postign suggestions)

ncode image resizer:
http://www.ncode.nl/vbulletinplugins/
This one adds a small javascript to the header which scales the images down if they are large enough to break the layout
(as my images are obviously)

VB StopForumSpam:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=176481
It reduced spam on my forums almost to zero (one spammer every two month can break it)
It checks username, IP and email against a global db of known spammers at registration and if spammer is found it prevents registration.
As far as I know you've had problems with spammers ...so here's a working solution to reduce that (simple set and forget plugin)

that should do it for now..

'sid

 

[fowler]

honestly i was lost at v bulletin

but out of interest the anti spam thing isnt going to be one of these things that blokes all common email
gmail hotmal yahoo and so on

 

[Doc Sprocket]

honestly i was lost at v bulletin

but out of interest the anti spam thing isnt going to be one of these things that blokes all common email
gmail hotmal yahoo and so on

No- I know what he's saying. When a "user" tries to register, the system will compare the user's IP address, specific email address (ie spammer@spam.com) and specific userid (ie SpamMan) and compare those values to a database of known offenders.

I could see that being VERY effective. I often do the same thing, but manually, when I suspect a new registrant to be a spammer. It has allowed me to drop the hammer on many, MANY spammers before they have even had a chance to post, and I haven't been wrong yet.

There are other things that fit into various criteria to indicate spammers, but I don't know if there's plugins for that. I do NOT have access to the forum code, so anything like that has to go thru our administrator, Robert.

 

[fowler]

i get it has access to a black list of types

but on many off road forums it iv been refused entry on the premise that my gmail account is spamming everyone
or is this a more advanced version that works properly

sounds like a good idea anyways

if iv got it wrong again does the first suggestion automatically resize stupidly big images?
that definitely sounds like a good idea
especially for those with slow internet

 

[itsid]

No specific emails are being blocked, not complete domains (that can be done more easily within vb settings itself)
To see if your email account got blacklisted by accident (mistyped) see stopforumspam(dot)com;
that's the website providing the db that will be searched for an entry.
If so, there should be a form to ask for help

In the last two month that hack prevented 30,000++ spammers to enter my forum.
(more than 700,000 in total)
And that's pretty much all of those drug leather herbal and replica guys.


And no fowler,
it does NOT resize the image per se, it only adds a width and height info so that the image is being displayed in smaller size by your browser, it will still have it's original bytesize.
(That'd be another hack... )
The image will pop up (or grow) to full size once clicked without being reloaded.

'sid

 

[RobertD]

Hi,
I'm used to vbulletin, but not really used to a fixed layout.
So unfortunately my images are too wide for this layout

Would you mind to me to suggest two vb-hacks that will improve this sites behaviour?
'sid

Thanks itsid!

I'll check those out now.

 

[itsid]

You're very welcome.

'sid