Tag Archives: Forums

bbCash

Posted on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 by Ben L.

It’s been over a year since I wrote my first post about bbPress. It surprises me that I hadn’t released bbPress Cash (now known as bbCash) for such a long time. A quick disclaimer: The “money” that is used in … Continue reading →

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bbPress Moderation Suite 0.1-alpha5 — I’m ba-aack

Posted on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by Ben L.

From the bbPress Plugin Browser: Mod Log Keeps track of important moderator actions. So far, it logs the following actions: Plugins Activation Deactivation Forums Deletion Users Bozo (on, off) Deletion Posts Status change (delete, spam, undelete, unspam) Editing (by other … Continue reading →

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bb-NoSpamUser

Posted on Thursday, November 6th, 2008 by Ben L.

bb-NoSpamUser is ready!  It’s a very simple plugin, with less code than the WordPress version.  Unfortunately for all of the non-up-to-date hosts out there, it requires PHP5, but if somebody could port it to PHP4, I’d be glad to include … Continue reading →

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Automated Forum Moderation

Posted on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 by Ben L.

I was thinking today: there are a lot of kinds of human-generated spam that can be blocked by an automated script.  (The bot-generated spam is almost always blocked by Akismet.) Double posting — Most forums have a rule against this, … Continue reading →

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Forum Netiquette

Posted on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 by Ben L.

Forums are like giant online buildings full of people who want do discuss similar topics — you wouldn’t join a forum about cooking and post a topic about how rabbits don’t wear shoes, just like you wouldn’t go to a … Continue reading →

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