As a Firefox Campus Rep, I get a box of Firefox goodies to use while promoting Firefox on the USC campus. A few days ago, I received a box for this year. It contains a book called Firefox for Dummies, by Blake Ross. I have to be honest. I’ve always been a little hesitant to…Continue Reading…
Is there any way to mass-edit these three fields for all forums? Default View Age (Default date cut-off for thread display) Default Sort Field Default Sort Order I’m manually going through and applying literally the exact same settings to every forum. I feel like I’m back in the stone ages when all things had to…Continue Reading…
When you edit the first post of a topic in vBulletin, it doesn’t update the topic title, even if you update counters in the Maintenance section. One of the first posts I found on the subject was Bug with editing title. The info in this thread is wrong for the latest version of vBulletin 3….Continue Reading…
I’ve been struck by the stupidity of the spam I’m seeing. I see tons and tons of spam everyday, from comments on my blog, to posts on Google Community, to your typical email spam. The spam that’s hitting forums today includes plenty of your typical trashy, obvious spam. But buried deeply I find lots of…Continue Reading…
I just upgraded Google Community vBulletin. I thought they had better ways to fight spam, but not so: they use image verification, no matter how complex it is. The more weird-looking the images get, the harder it is for real humans to read them. Sometimes, computers can even read images (using OCR) better than humans…Continue Reading…
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