Tag Archives: Forums

bb-NoSpamUser

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 – 6:58:49 pm

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 the code.
The logic is simple: When somebody goes to the registration page — either the [...]

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Automated Forum Moderation

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 – 10:28:10 am

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, but it still happens.  Sometimes it’s allowed in a certain forum (like the sandbox on my [...]

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Forum Netiquette

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 – 3:00:37 pm

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 cooking class and try to start a discussion on the topic — the forum “building” [...]

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Post Count

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008 – 12:02:22 pm

It’s not how much you post, it’s what you post. There’s no automated method in existence that can measure that. Think hard:

Is this worth it for the forums?
Will it help others?
Am I doing this just for the post count?

If you still think you should post it, go through a simple checklist in your [...]

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Two new writers, a contest, and LlamaMail

Friday, November 30th, 2007 – 4:49:50 pm

Ok, so there are two new writers on The Daily Llama, BloggerGirl667 and Dance698548.  You can see that “Dance” has already had some activity on the forums, “BloggerGirl” is (so far) nowhere to be found.

Another new thing since the blog moving to the new server is LlamaMail.  It’s an email system, powered by Google.  It can only be used by a selected few, those with staff positions on LlamaSlayers.

You can set up your llamamail in a special configuration that I use by using some simple instructions.

One more thing: The contest. If you think that you’re an artist or just someone who wants to get their name on the front page of a website for designing it

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