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wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:06 pm
by testing
How interesting....looks like guests can post in this forum without being a member.... !!
hehehehehehhe I wonder what mischief I can get up to ?
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(only joking folks - but I hadn't realised that this section of the forum was "open"....have to fix that methinks !!)
regards
Tim
Re: wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:23 pm
by Woodles
Quick, ban this poster and any other accounts he may have here!
Re: wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:35 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Hi Mark
Are you sure 'bout that? It might mean you would have to forego any Choccy hobnobs
regards
Tim
Re: wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 4:39 pm
by UBT - Timbo
testing wrote:How interesting....looks like guests can post in this forum without being a member.... !!
hehehehehehhe I wonder what mischief I can get up to ?
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(only joking folks - but I hadn't realised that this section of the forum was "open"....have to fix that methinks !!)
regards
Tim
OK - I've now seen where the "issue" was and I've changed the permissions for this section.
However, it does beg the question as to whether it might make sense to have an "open" section for guests to ask general questions about BOINC or about UBT even?
At least that way the forum might appear to be a bit more "open" to newbies. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
regards
Tim
Re: wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 8:31 pm
by Woodles
UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi Mark
Are you sure 'bout that? It might mean you would have to forego any Choccy hobnobs
regards
Tim
Hi Tim,
Oh well in that case, have as many accounts as possible
With regards to the other point, it may be worth having a guest area, depends whether the guests would outnumber the spammers?
Mark
Re: wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 9:25 pm
by UBT - Timbo
Woodles wrote:Hi Tim,
Oh well in that case, have as many accounts as possible
Hi Mark
OK - I've got two at present...so maybe I'll add a few more "just in case"
With regards to the other point, it may be worth having a guest area, depends whether the guests would outnumber the spammers?
Mark
I think it's a good idea...I'd just have to keep an eye on it and keep fingers crossed that it's not going to generate a massive workload to keep on top of
As it is, any guest poster would need to answer a specific question, before their post would be "accepted"...and given that the questions are random, (from a small set I've compiled) so it's probable that there wouldn't be much spam....a few humans might offer an answer...but they would need to know a little bit about BOINC to get past it !!
I'll set one up and then we can see how it goes.
regards and thanks for your input
Tim
Re: wow
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2016 11:03 pm
by Woodles
UBT - Timbo wrote:Hi Mark,
With regards to the other point, it may be worth having a guest area, depends whether the guests would outnumber the spammers?
Mark
I think it's a good idea...I'd just have to keep an eye on it and keep fingers crossed that it's not going to generate a massive workload to keep on top of
As it is, any guest poster would need to answer a specific question, before their post would be "accepted"...and given that the questions are random, (from a small set I've compiled) so it's probable that there wouldn't be much spam....a few humans might offer an answer...but they would need to know a little bit about BOINC to get past it !!
I'll set one up and then we can see how it goes.
regards and thanks for your input
Tim
Hi Tim,
The other thought I'd come up with was a plain text message at the top of the forum stating a guest account and password to use to prevent robotic posts but if there's some test to pass before posting then that's a better option.
No problems.
Mark