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Have to agree with Charles. Many if most are now using wide screen monitors, and a fixed width page looks crappy as hell.
#2102282 Fixed width layout
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on 14 April 2011 - 11:44 PM
#1831035 Introducing Spam Monitoring Service
Posted
on 22 July 2009 - 04:07 PM
We are pleased to announce our new Spam Monitoring Service
Our new Spam Monitoring Service will assist with the ever-growing problem of spam account registrations on communities across the web. This service will use a central database, hosted by IPS, to track those that may try to register an account on your IP.Board-powered community and stop them from registering.
How it Works
Each time a user tries to register, your IP.Board will contact the service and report the IP address and email address attempting to register. The service will scan a list of known spammers and give the account a score of 1 - 4. There are various options you can configure to control what behavior happens based on the score such as banning the account, letting it through normally, or queuing it for approval.
By harnessing the power of the many thousands of IP.Board communities, the service can "learn" over time what accounts are spammers. For example, a real human could never register on 5 IP.Board communities in just one minute so the service would see that account as a probable spam account.
The service will also monitor the "mark as spam" feature now included in IP.Board. This means that, as you and your moderators manually mark an account as a spammer, the information is reported back to the service to help stop those accounts on your community and other IP.Board communities as well!
Through these methods we are creating a service that learns from the collective data gathered from all IP.Board communities who choose to participate in the Spam Monitoring Service.
Privacy
IPS will collect various registration information to track and catch spam accounts. Information that is not from a spammer is only kept temporarily (to detect trends so we can catch spam accounts) then deleted. The only information permanently kept is for those known to be spammers. The service is completely optional and no IP.Board is required to participate.
Activating the Service
The Spam Monitoring Service will be available in IP.Board 3.0.2 and is already being tested here on the IPS company forums. Once you have IP.Board 3.0.2, simply login to the IPS client area and activate a special key used for the service and put that key on your IP.Board AdminCP.
Pricing
To further our continuing efforts to not only enhance the products we offer but also the services around those products: this service will be offered at no additional charge to those with an active support and service license for IP.Board and for IPS hosting customers!
Our new Spam Monitoring Service will assist with the ever-growing problem of spam account registrations on communities across the web. This service will use a central database, hosted by IPS, to track those that may try to register an account on your IP.Board-powered community and stop them from registering.
How it Works
Each time a user tries to register, your IP.Board will contact the service and report the IP address and email address attempting to register. The service will scan a list of known spammers and give the account a score of 1 - 4. There are various options you can configure to control what behavior happens based on the score such as banning the account, letting it through normally, or queuing it for approval.
By harnessing the power of the many thousands of IP.Board communities, the service can "learn" over time what accounts are spammers. For example, a real human could never register on 5 IP.Board communities in just one minute so the service would see that account as a probable spam account.
The service will also monitor the "mark as spam" feature now included in IP.Board. This means that, as you and your moderators manually mark an account as a spammer, the information is reported back to the service to help stop those accounts on your community and other IP.Board communities as well!
Through these methods we are creating a service that learns from the collective data gathered from all IP.Board communities who choose to participate in the Spam Monitoring Service.
Privacy
IPS will collect various registration information to track and catch spam accounts. Information that is not from a spammer is only kept temporarily (to detect trends so we can catch spam accounts) then deleted. The only information permanently kept is for those known to be spammers. The service is completely optional and no IP.Board is required to participate.
Activating the Service
The Spam Monitoring Service will be available in IP.Board 3.0.2 and is already being tested here on the IPS company forums. Once you have IP.Board 3.0.2, simply login to the IPS client area and activate a special key used for the service and put that key on your IP.Board AdminCP.
Pricing
To further our continuing efforts to not only enhance the products we offer but also the services around those products: this service will be offered at no additional charge to those with an active support and service license for IP.Board and for IPS hosting customers!
#1825805 Why has giving positive feedback been restricted?
Posted
on 13 July 2009 - 06:55 PM
Luke, on 13 July 2009 - 06:37 PM, said:
Ok now... seriously why do people (may be just you) keep using the spoiler tag for almost every post they make? If you saw a movie that someone has not seen and didn't want to spoil certain details, that's what it's for. Otherwise the use over-use of the spoiler tag on this forum is getting irritating.
#1828272 How about a smiley/avatar contest?
Posted
on 18 July 2009 - 02:26 AM
What if it's not discovered until after the contest has been over for a couple of years? If the original author can prove ownership, then even if IPS were to remove all traces of it from their software, the damage would already have been done.
Don't get me wrong, I want a few new or updated smiley faces too, as another topic of mine will show. But in there is where the mention of copyright/etc was brought up.
Don't get me wrong, I want a few new or updated smiley faces too, as another topic of mine will show. But in there is where the mention of copyright/etc was brought up.
#1828268 How about a smiley/avatar contest?
Posted
on 18 July 2009 - 02:13 AM
The problem is that someone could come across a really nice one that they haven't seen anywhere else and/or know for a fact that it's painfully rare and submit it, claiming that it's their own design.
#1822702 Documentation?
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on 08 July 2009 - 02:17 PM
The bulk of the IPB3 documentation is now delivered inline in the ACP - click the 'Get Help With This Page' button on any page to load it We'll be adding to what's available over time.
We'll be adding to what's available over time.
#1822716 Documentation?
Posted
on 08 July 2009 - 02:27 PM
Ballet, on 08 July 2009 - 02:25 PM, said:
Thank you Andy.
I am considering to renew the support so that I can access the resources website.
Btw, what is peer-to-peer tech. support?
Is that mean active customers supporting active customers?
I am considering to renew the support so that I can access the resources website.
Btw, what is peer-to-peer tech. support?
Is that mean active customers supporting active customers?
Yes the peer-to-peer tech. support is active customers supporting active customers
#1822701 Documentation?
Posted
on 08 July 2009 - 02:15 PM
Documentation hasn't been released yet and is still being worked on from the last I read. You may find the resources website useful until then or ask in the Peer-to-Peer Technical Support forum
#1800794 Reputation system
Posted
on 10 May 2009 - 12:36 PM
Rigo, on 10 May 2009 - 12:23 PM, said:
I cant see the the (-) buttons at this forums - disabled for members !? 
We have disabled negative reputation on this board. There is a setting which allows you to enable both positive and negative, or enable only one of the two.
