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#1 Getting On The Forum

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Welcome!
Over the years we have had problems with spam bots. For almost two years we have been using a Question and Answer challenge and so far this has been very successful at preventing spam bots. A few spammer accounts have been created (manually?) so we have added another layer of security to lock our private member areas to human-approved authentication.

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Once registered, you will be able to see our private team areas but will not be able to read the contents. To request access, go to your "User Control Panel" and click on the "Usergroups" tab. Then select the "TSBT Active Members" or "TSBT Friends" group, as appropriate, and request to join. A forum admin will approve your request in due course.


If you have issues joining then either post on the open guest forum or use the contact us form hereand an email will be sent to me. - Alez

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#2 Re: Getting On The Forum.

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Janos' improvements worked! :wav:

moremega joined (the question was much easier than a captcha)
admin mega got an email and activated the account and that was it.
and no spam accounts! :wav:
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#3 Re: Getting On The Forum.

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:thumbleft: nice one guys :)
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#4 Re: Getting On The Forum.

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moremega wrote:moremega joined
That's all we need, More Mega!! :lol: :D
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#5 Re: Getting On The Forum.

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That's all we need, More Mega!! :lol: :D
There must be some pesticide available for the problem. :P
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#6 Re: Getting On The Forum.

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Buster Gunn wrote:
That's all we need, More Mega!! :lol: :D
There must be some pesticide available for the problem. :P
If you eat enough chili and garlic they tend to keep their distance... strangely enough, this also seems to apply to most vertebrates as well! :D
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Hi Guys no speak for a long time.

Re picked up your site from Mega posting on CPDN so thought I'd pop over and see how you are doing. All online forums seem to have slowed in the last few years since the BBC (no friend of mine) finished their involvement a general decline has set in coupled with the financial downturn which started to hit people directly diverting their minds elsewhere.

Good fortune to all.
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#8 Re: Getting On The Forum

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There has been a general decline...but hopefully things are picking up here. Logpile, don't be a stranger, good to see a new post :)
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#9 Re: Getting On The Forum

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All of a sudden there are certain threads I can't get into. eg. the no stinkin' badges thread.
Says I don't have the privs.

There are a couple more, but most seem accessible
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#10 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Buster Gunn wrote:All of a sudden there are certain threads I can't get into. eg. the no stinkin' badges thread.
Says I don't have the privs.
Not just you Buster, I can't get in either :(
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#11 Re: Getting On The Forum

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That's a new sub-forum that I think Alez may have been setting up earlier, but posted he had limited bandwidth and perhaps didn't get it finished.
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#12 Re: Getting On The Forum

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It should be fixed now.
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#13 Re: Getting On The Forum

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... or maybe not. Rather interesting bug, should you like that sort of thing. :)
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#14 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Looks like a config issue on the server. Maybe a permissions/group issue on the file/file path - or perhaps a newly installed module on the server. Not something I can fix. We will need a support ticket to the server admins... over to you Willie.

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Module not accessible

BACKTRACE

FILE: (not given by php)
LINE: (not given by php)
CALL: msg_handler()

FILE: [ROOT]/includes/functions_module.php
LINE: 439
CALL: trigger_error()

FILE: [ROOT]/adm/index.php
LINE: 74
CALL: p_master->load_active()
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#15 Re: Getting On The Forum

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I would like to blame Alez (he being the current whipping boy, aka points leader) but it is definitely down to a server config issue.
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#16 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Much strangeness. Even creating a new forum with various levels of permissions (including full open) results in errors. It has to be down to server config settings - which I don't have the admin tools to see.
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#17 Re: Getting On The Forum

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After deleting the lot and starting clean it could be working. Please report any errors.

I suspect it was down to an incomplete transaction which caused a duplicate ID for the new forum.
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#18 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Can the sub-forum name be changed from "Shameless badges bragging thread" (because that's the name of a thread in that sub-forum) to what was originally being used, was it "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
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#19 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Ah yes, thanks. It is renamed.
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#20 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Janos wrote:I would like to blame Alez (he being the current whipping boy, aka points leader) but it is definitely down to a server config issue.
Hmmm ... I've had to piggy back a vsat to an IP in the states just to refute these slanderous accusations. I can get into both new forums I set up ( seems I have permission ) so don't see what all the fuss is about :P . Have gone in and changed and re-saved the permissions. Could someone else try and get into either badges or the milestone forum and let me know if it works now ?
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#21 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Janos had it working. You just broke it.
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#22 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Are you sure ? Can you check again ?
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#23 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Alez wrote:
Janos wrote:I would like to blame Alez (he being the current whipping boy, aka points leader) but it is definitely down to a server config issue.
Hmmm ... I've had to piggy back a vsat to an IP in the states just to refute these slanderous accusations. I can get into both new forums I set up ( seems I have permission ) so don't see what all the fuss is about :P . Have gone in and changed and re-saved the permissions. Could someone else try and get into either badges or the milestone forum and let me know if it works now ?
Now that's the kind of dedication I like to see in the team, no idea what you've done but sounds good!
I've just managed to post in the bragging thread, so looks good to me.
Any idea when you're going to get home Alez?
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#24 Re: Getting On The Forum

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So I haven't broken it .... Mr Scole , yeah of little faith. Seems when I set up the forums and lost the connection it locked the permissions of the forum to me only, so I guess when I logged in again it reset Janos's hard work and reverted it to my permissions again. All should be good now I hope. If not then let me know and I will stay out of Admin whilst Janos sorts out my mess, again .... sorry dude.
No idea on return. Few more weeks at least.
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#25 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Few more weeks!?
You'll have an amazing tan by the time you get home 8)
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#26 Re: Getting On The Forum

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scole250 wrote:Janos had it working. You just broke it.
:bounce:
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#27 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Alez wrote:So I haven't broken it .... Mr Scole , yeah of little faith. Seems when I set up the forums and lost the connection it locked the permissions of the forum to me only, so I guess when I logged in again it reset Janos's hard work and reverted it to my permissions again. All should be good now I hope. If not then let me know and I will stay out of Admin whilst Janos sorts out my mess, again .... sorry dude.
No idea on return. Few more weeks at least.
It got sorted out. I guess we'll give you credit. :P

Where in the world is Alez this time?
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#28 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Instructions updated (post 1).

We have added two new groups: TSBT Members and TSBT Friends and have locked down the private areas of the forum to these groups.
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#29 Re: Getting On The Forum

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Ma friend. Ah'm human ann' much alive. :bounce:
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#30 Re: Getting On The Forum

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OZ1DWF, Laird o' th' wee White Hoose, glad to have you aboard!
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Scole250; Tanks fer yer reply.
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