?? What have I done ??

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I hope I dont live to regret this, but I have removed ALL bans.

I will be reinstalling a warning system/point system and will not hesitate to put the spammers back into the banned member user group.

If you do happen to find yourself banned I have added a neat little system that will...

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).

2. A chance they will get the "server busy" message (50% by default).

3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).

4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).

5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).

6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).

7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.
...... but still cannot post.




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don't you think that is a little over done? why dont you just have a page that has something like this:
http://350south.com/great/testfiles/banned.html

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overboard...against a spammer? Is that the same as too much money?

D

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i suppose you are correct! but why not just block them all together?

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There is a method to the madness, long time forum owners will probably understand.

Dave