Steve Freides's latest activity
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We discuss EVERYTHING (off-topic) on my forum. Even politics and current events. Why? Because were not a bunch of oversensitive woke...
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I have a ChitChat thread started in Sept 2006 with 8000 replies that still active today. Another started in 2009 with 27,000 replies. I...
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I think it definitely helps. Strictly limiting a forum to a specific topic can get stale. People get bored. Off-topic sections can...
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Steve Freides replied to the thread Off-Topic Section = Good?.We do something similar on our forum already - we are a strength-and-conditioning forum and we have two training log sections, one...
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I’ve always had a General Discussion area of the website, these usually allow people to discuss off topic things and not be stuck only...
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I've had a problem with activity in this section ever since people started using a Star Army Discord chat to discuss off-topic stuff. I...
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Do you find having a dedicated off-topic section adds value to your forum? We've had requests for it and are considering it. Our forum...
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Steve Freides reacted to Ozzy47's post in the thread Understanding User State other than Valid with
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IIRC rejected is assigned when signing up if they hit the spam checks such as StopForumSpam, Project Honeypot, Tornevall -
Steve Freides reacted to Neilski's post in the thread Understanding User State other than Valid with Like.
So a user registration hit the approval queue. That would appear to mean that you've got "Reject registrations when this many warning...
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Steve Freides replied to the thread Understanding User State other than Valid.To clarify, it looks like I get both choices. This is from my approval queue, where it flagged someone as StopForumSpam matched...
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Steve Freides replied to the thread Understanding User State other than Valid.IOW, rejected before their request to join gets to my moderation queue? Right now, I get the option to approve or ban such people or so...
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I am trying to understand what a user state of Rejected means, as opposed to a user who is Banned. Background: I am poking around at...
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Steve Freides replied to the thread usernames in other languages.Thanks. Will try that now. Appreciate the help. -S-
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Steve Freides replied to the thread usernames in other languages.This would be: forum_name/community/admin.php?options/groups/usersAndRegistration/ then where it says Username Registration then...
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Add this to the username registration regex: /^[a-z0-9]+$/i . That will allow a to z and numbers. Add any additional characters as...
