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[Tommy]

In response to the overwhelming amount of Guest that have decided to post replies to topics that are extremely old, I have had to disable their ability to reply to topics.

So for now on, guest users (non-members) are not able to reply to any thread/post.

These guest have 2 solutions:

1) Sign up as a member (free) & reply to the thread.
2) Create a new thread.

I have decided to allow guest to create new threads as this has not really been a problem yet. However I will be monitoring this closer now with the new non-guest post configuration set in place.

I encourage guest to sign up (for free) and then pitch in their words of wisdom.

[zoid]

ok good plan

guests can post new topics? agh!

[Tommy]

Indeed they can.

The biggest problem seemed to be them coming to the site through search engines, and the link going to a post that is 8 months old then replying to it.

Also, by allowing them to make threads I don't have to make a "Guest Forum" incase anyone can't login etc.

[zoid]

hmm i bet it was all that shit drawback said.

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by zoid

hmm i bet it was all that s*** drawback said.

lol nah. When guest get sent to a forum thread, its because what is within that thread. It has very, very little to do with any other threads.

[zoid]

umm, yeah

i still wonder how many hits came through to drawback saying all of that crazy shit.

[WarklanTD]

Good call, I noticed a few peoples have been posting old crap as of late.. :wink:

[zoid]

yepperz! :wink:

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by zoid

umm, yeah

i still wonder how many hits came through to drawback saying all of that crazy s***.

Very little. None that are even that noticable.

What gets all the porn visitors are when there are stories that involve the word "sex" or things similar and there are multiple stories like that on one page... thus the sexual content repeating more than once.

[zoid]

umm ok.