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Serack:
If it were to be stickied, I'd probably add a few things to it like, "Why can't search be more like X?"

wizard nelson:
Wouldn't hurt to add a few things that keep coming up. Query... That I know may not receive an actual answer or you might just not personally have the answer. Looking over your list of Mods I gotta wonder... Who holds the blackstaff?  :o
*i could ballpark a few theories but if your just not saying  :-X

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--- Quote from: Alexmenpabs on October 24, 2016, 12:29:04 PM ---Just a comment, but wouldnt it be better to have the forum software automatically allow people to post upon registration rather then waiting for Tom or some other mod/admin to approve?  If someone were to cause problems, ban them after the fact....

To me, waiting such a long time after registration to post something would most likely cause me to go somewhere else to have my questions answered; especially if I really needed some help...

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There have been several waves of automated Spammer accounts that get made just to post a single russian ad or some such, and the boards can get buried in the fraudulent posts real quick.  It's just easier to just require a one-time nod of approval rather than have to ban them AND clean all the crap posts out. 

Wizardofnelson:
Did they change the forum procedure to need a mod to sing off on all new threads before they appear to the public or am I just a 'suspicious profile'?

Serack:

--- Quote from: Wizardofnelson on November 07, 2016, 09:05:23 PM ---Did they change the forum procedure to need a mod to sing off on all new threads before they appear to the public or am I just a 'suspicious profile'?

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As noqueixis stated, when you start a new topic, the browser window you start it in will hang up, but the post new topic will go up on the boards, which is a bug of the SMF code used by the forums.

However, if your new topic has a link in it, it /will/ require a mod to approve it.  This helps prevent exposing our forum members to bots with malicious links.

I've posted a work-around for this issue, but I don't keep it in this topic to add a layer of insulation between it and the botters.  I'll dig it up and PM you with it.

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