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Offline Roger Kettle

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Site difficulties.
« on: November 24, 2009, 11:43:33 AM »
I was speaking to Andrew today and he tells me that he---and others---are having problems accessing this site. It would appear that the site itself is difficult to get into and, once in, it's not easy to reply to posts. I explained that the set-up had been altered to combat the flood of pornographic spam we were attracting. Would it be possible for the mods to stick a "how to access" thread in the forum somewhere to help the lurkers get involved? From what Andrew understands, quite a few people have given up trying.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 11:49:23 AM »
I just clicked on the "Register an Account" link on the forum's first page, and it came up "Page not found".

Mince set this up, so I can't do anything myself. I hope he reads this.

I'll try and email him.
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Offline Mince

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 12:19:30 PM »
Registration should work now. Ask everyone to use the registration tab.
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Tom

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 12:23:01 PM »
Where's the front page gone... the portal, is it? It's not there!
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Offline Mince

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 02:41:24 PM »
We had a fight and the portal lost.
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robbie62

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2009, 08:05:27 PM »
a flood of pornographic spam and we stopped it ! did i miss a vote ?
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #6 on: November 25, 2009, 05:02:44 PM »
Andrew hasn't been able to get on here for 10 years you can't blame Mince for that.  ;D
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #7 on: November 25, 2009, 05:14:05 PM »
He's been trying, but Roger's been giving the instructions.
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Vulture

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #8 on: November 25, 2009, 08:06:10 PM »
Quote from: The Peepmaster on November 25, 2009, 05:14:05 PM
He's been trying, but Roger's been giving the instructions.

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #9 on: November 25, 2009, 08:19:04 PM »
Oh, ha ha.
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Offline Mince

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2009, 12:07:46 AM »
It's a miracle!
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2009, 09:30:04 AM »
I see we've already attracted a dodgy post in the Horace section. I'm much too timid to look.
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2009, 09:41:41 AM »
Quote from: Mince on November 26, 2009, 12:07:46 AM
It's a mackerel!

What - that I can alter people's posts?
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2009, 09:43:09 AM »
Quote from: Roger Kettle on November 26, 2009, 09:30:04 AM
I see we've already attracted a dodgy post in the Horace section. I'm much too timid to look.

I looked - it's gone. Sorry to anyone who saw it and didn't want to, and to anyone who might have wanted to but didn't.

I suspect we may be in for the old problem of unwanted guests on a regular basis. I'd rather not shut the door again, but I do think we need to do something to regulate who joins this site. Those that were having problems recently - didn't they get the option to apply for approval?
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Offline Mince

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Re: Site difficulties.
« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2009, 09:50:52 AM »
I will soon upgrade this site to 2.0, which should give us other options.

An option for the moment is to allow new members only to post in one hidden forum in which they introduce themselves. If they do so nicely, they are allowed to post in the other forums. How does that sound?
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