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How Spammers are Using Your vBulletin Forum

July 18, 2008

Right before the 4th of July Holiday I was doing some regular maintenance on one of my forums and discover that spammers are finding a new little way of spamming your forums without even posting a post or sending private messages. So what are they doing? Well since the new vBulletin 3.7 came out with [...]

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Managing Online Forums: A Must Read!

July 3, 2008

If you have been following my blog you know that a couple of weeks ago Patrick O’Keefe contacted me via Twitter to see if I would be interested in reviewing his book; Managing Online Forums, I said of course without even hesitating. I used to listen to Patrick’s podcast that he used to do a [...]

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Is vBulletin 3.7 Recaptcha verification flawed?

June 17, 2008

After upgrading to vBulletin 3.7.1 almost within 15 minutes I had 3 new sign-ups, all from .cn21.com names. So I could tell they were going to be spammers, so I banned them and their ip addresses. I thought that would be the end of it. Well almost an 1 hour later I got 6 more [...]

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Upgrades and curling up to a good book

June 11, 2008

Yesterday turned out to be busier then I thought. I decide to take part of the day off and spend sometime away for the computer. Although the weather sucked, it was 55 degrees out side and it’s June, something is definitely wrong around here. But it was nice o just get away. So after spending [...]

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Good News and Bad News from vBulletin

April 29, 2008

First the good news: vBulletin 3.7.0 ‘Gold’ has been released, finally! There are tons on new features and improvements from 3.6. You can read more about it here vBulletin 3.7. Announcement Now for the bad news, although I still think for the price vBulletin is the best forum software out there and considering that it’s [...]

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New forum admin Q&A video coming soon

April 14, 2008

I am going to be testing out a new video segment in the next couple of weeks where I will take a couple of questions from some of the forum administrator forums and answer them via a quick little video segment. I am going to try and do this on a weekly basis. I am [...]

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