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ezman604:
This will be almost like one of my Ramblings posts, that I've not made in a while. First, a little background on one of the issues I want to discuss.
GTA Forums thankfully continues to grow. We receive 10-20 new member applications daily. About 6 months ago we started getting more and more spammer attempts to gain access to the forum. We went from 10-20 to more like 90-100 daily. How do we know they were spammers? Well, your admin team has for several years manually verified every member applications. That in itself can be a chore for us, but well worth it. When we started seeing the onslaught of spammers, we had to ask two of our moderators to step up to help us admins out. I can't give enough thanks to vigilandy (Andy) and Booger (Jesse) for stepping up to the task. They really didn't know what they were volunteering for. LOL
But let me tell you folks, doing this day in and day out can and will burn a person out. These guys, as well as Rocker1 (David) and amb5500c (Richard), have hung in there and continued to do the job that HAD to be done. I had hoped the spammers would eventually get the message that they were not welcome and we were not going to give up to let them in. But they kept on trying.
So, I asked our programmer to come up with something to give us a little relief. For the last two days he has been examining and working on coding changes to the registration process. We have to make sure we don't stifle the GOOD members but to be able to identify and turn away the bad ones. As of a couple of hours ago we have a new registration process in place and I can see an IMMEDIATE change for the good!!! WHEW.....
Since he was in the system and working already, we talked about another item many of you requested. And that is a "like" tab for posts. So, he is working on implementing that even as I type. We listen to you guys & gals and do what we can to improve the forum and keep it secure as well as fun. He is VERY good to us as far as charges. I did want to pass along to you that two days of coding and work only cost us $240 from the GTA treasury. Your donations once again go toward maintaining and improving our forum. Keep the ideas for improvement flowing. As we grow we want to stay current and improve wherever we can afford to.
:)
Thanks to all for the donations and the ideas to keep GTA Forums the BEST on the internet!!!!
"A Cut Above The Rest"
And as always....
SAFE & Happy Shooting!!!!
Dave
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lefteyeshot:
Thanks, guys.
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--- Quote from: ezman604 on August 31, 2017, 04:13:20 PM --- We listen to you guys & gals
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Sooo, where is that dang 'like' button at? ;)
This post deserves a bunch of 'em!!
Great job!! Thanks!!
JoeV:
Noticed the MY LIKES 0 add on today. I personally will use that in lieu of adding a post that just repeats what others may have said in a positive light about a particular post. Should alleviate a bunch of repetitive posts. I use this a lot on other forums I'm on. Thanks for the added feature, and all that you and the mods/admins do to keep this forum spammer free.
anti-squirrel:
--- Quote from: JoeV on August 31, 2017, 07:17:08 PM ---Noticed the MY LIKES 0 add on today. I personally will use that in lieu of adding a post that just repeats what others may have said in a positive light about a particular post. Should alleviate a bunch of repetitive posts. I use this a lot on other forums I'm on. Thanks for the added feature, and all that you and the mods/admins do to keep this forum spammer free.
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LOL, where's the dang Like button! Guess I gotta just +1 it!
On a serious note- Dave, thank you (and thank the other Mods/Admins) for doing a bang-up job keeping this one of the best little cubbyholes on the !int@rw3bs.
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