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Old 07-09-2008, 12:34 PM
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To the FreeAdvice forum community:

Thanks for your postings. As you can see, we’re making some changes on these forums. We apologize for not letting you know before and value your input going forward.

We’ll be experimenting with changes in 3 areas:

1. Usability
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• Look soon for changes to help improve readability, layout and more.
• It would be great to get your ideas about what you currently like and where you would like the usability to improve. We are open for suggestions.

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Old 07-09-2008, 12:40 PM
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Here's something I asked Mary about in the past...

For the forum spammers, is there a way that you can increase the time we can report posts from every minute to sooner? Often times, they post faster than we can report them.
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Old 07-09-2008, 06:03 PM
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Get this to stop the spamming

[url]http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828[/url]

I have used it on many vb boards and works great! Free too!
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:21 PM
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For the forum spammers, is there a way that you can increase the time we can report posts from every minute to sooner? Often times, they post faster than we can report them.
I not aware of a switch to allow users to report more frequently (without opening the door to more frequent spam). We are looking into the patch that Tallrat suggested to reduce spam. That should help reduce the number of automated spammers.
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:25 PM
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I not aware of a switch to allow users to report more frequently (without opening the door to more frequent spam). We are looking into the patch that Tallrat suggested to reduce spam. That should help reduce the number of automated spammers.
It's not the reporting time. Rather, the forum won't let someone send an "email" more often than every 60 seconds...that's the item you'd need to adjust.

Also, since you're reading this, on replies/posts, etc., can you make the "automatically parse URL's" button default to OFF. This will make replies much cleaner (IMO)
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:43 PM
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I not aware of a switch to allow users to report more frequently (without opening the door to more frequent spam). We are looking into the patch that Tallrat suggested to reduce spam. That should help reduce the number of automated spammers.
If you guys ever need help, Just pm. I've installed many mods and hacks for vbulletin and have done a lot of set up's.
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:59 PM
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Here's something I asked Mary about in the past...

For the forum spammers, is there a way that you can increase the time we can report posts from every minute to sooner? Often times, they post faster than we can report them.
Seconded!!! And thanks for bringing it up, CC. Once I read the part about making suggestions I speed read the rest of it so I could hurry up and post that very thing.

And just my two cents about the ads, I don't mind them. I know that "free" sites are only free to the users. Having to wait an extra second to click away an ad is no big deal if it pays the bills.
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Old 07-09-2008, 08:14 PM
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We can reduce the Email Flood Check to 30 seconds, but we can't go less than that because it opens the door to spammers abusing the email functions of the board.

The change has been made, but if you're still having an issue, please let us know.

Regarding the parse URL issue. We're getting ready to do several site updates. Including a new version of VBulletin. I'd like to wait until that update is complete before adding this code - just in case the new version handles that function differently.
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Old 07-09-2008, 08:16 PM
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The change has been made, but if you're still having an issue, please let us know.
Thanks for doing that. 30 seconds is fine.
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Old 07-09-2008, 08:34 PM
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Since you're open to suggestions:

1) In the Probate section/Personal Representative, please change the Guardian of a Minor to Guardian of a Minor's Estate.

2) Please return the hyperlink.
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Old 07-09-2008, 08:39 PM
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The change has been made, but if you're still having an issue, please let us know.
Thanks! I think 30 seconds will do us just fine.
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Old 07-10-2008, 01:56 PM
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is there a way to make an easy mobile friendly version? I view other msg boards on my blackberry but this one is more difficult.

crackberry . com uses the same looking board you do and they have a blackberry application that takes me directly to their board, its awesome but i have no idea how much work something like that would be.

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Old 07-10-2008, 06:00 PM
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>> is there a way to make an easy mobile friendly version? I view other msg boards on my blackberry but this one is more difficult.

Please try this link:
[url]http://forum.freeadvice.com/archive/index.php[/url]

and let us know what you think.
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Old 07-10-2008, 06:14 PM
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>> 1) In the Probate section/Personal Representative, please change the Guardian of a Minor to Guardian of a Minor's Estate.

This has been updated. Thanks for your input.
[url]http://forum.freeadvice.com/forumdisplay.php?f=114[/url]

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Old 07-10-2008, 06:42 PM
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I just want to say Thank You to the FreeAdvice Team for their hard work making this site more user friendly!!

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