ok.... reality check.
If the power's to be seriously want this board to contribute to the diesel bike building world... you MUST take the next step!. Pic uploading and storage.
off site pic hosting is a waste of time when you consider archiving. Good threads... especially technical ones.... with pics and drawings to support the discussion end up being worthless to someone who comes down the pike. This is cause 99.5% of the time the pics and drawings have been deleted, moved, or dropped by hosting service after 6 months to a year. If not sooner.
Talking from experience here. Been active on technical boards for a long long time. Read many great threads turned worthless cause pics replaced with [x]. Moderate, co-admin a few tech boards too
annnn alternative that would possibly work is the admin of this site setting up a a few free pic hosting pages on these alternative sites and have users email all pics to him/her for posting or hand out the password to everyone (dangerous). That way admin keeps all pics organized and ensures nothing disapears. Would be a real PITA though and create delay's in getting pics up.
Odds are though it wont work. I'm sure you would run out of free space fast. That and these free pic hosting sites only last a few years. Remember Yahoo and MSN use to do it but limited it so much that using it for image viewing inside bulletin boards no longer is an option.
Again would be a huge PITA for the admin too.
Pic posting and Archives
Moderators: Dan J, Diesel Dave, Crazymanneil, Stuart
-
Stuart
- Site Admin
- Posts: 2221
- Joined: Fri Dec 01, 2006 9:08 pm
- Location: Horsham West Sussex, England
- Contact:
As it happens talks are underway to upgrade the forum and perhaps share the load a little. Not sure how it will pan out and if it will include picture hosting. I don't mind see adverts on the forum if it helps pay for the storage space. Personally I think imageshack has done a pretty good job of keeping images viewable. Anything seriously informative would get posted to the main site on a bike build page. I treat forums as if they will crash tomorrow because a lot of them do. I've amazed myself that I've kept it going this well for this long to be honest. All down to help from the Mods keeping the spammers at bay. It's been hell behind the scenes at times - something that not all members realise.
But point taken. If I were technical capable and had the time I would have tried it by now but I'm not really a computer whizz.
Well see how it goes anyway. Thanks for your input there
But point taken. If I were technical capable and had the time I would have tried it by now but I'm not really a computer whizz.
Well see how it goes anyway. Thanks for your input there
Stuart. M1030M1, Honda NC700S, Grom!, Toyota Corolla 1.4 Turbo Diesel. Favouring MPG over MPH.
-
coachgeo
- I luv the smell of Diesel...
- Posts: 2002
- Joined: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:00 am
- Location: USA Ohio, Above Cincinnati, Close to Dayton
Here you on Anti-Spam battles!!!! Been there done that.
Easiest solution have found on spam battle is rusitc and Im sure there has got to be a better way... but it works- ZERO spam now...... (did this with Phpbb; same engine as this site) Here's how to set up the site for this method:
1. allow no guest to post.
2. admin set disallowed user names to **** which means no one can register.
3. add a forum on how to register that list your email address
for example:
Coded email address is to keep bots from finding your address and emailing you spam.
Some sites go as far as disallowing email addresses in their post (set the "@" as a dissalowed text). This means spam bots won't be attracted to your website foraging for email addresses. Users are encouraged to type addresses as I did above. They can put their email address in their user info though to be contacted thru the website for PM notifications and/or mail. These two should be defaulted registration settings.
Downfall is it might slow your new member registration a bit. Window shopper types wont take the time to email you and who knows.... you might turn a window shopper into an active member. It's a game of odds
All the admin has to do to register someone is:
. for a temporary moment erase the **** out of the disallowed user name list.
. Register the new member as if you were that person.
. Select a password for them
. put the **** back in the disallowed user name list.
. Email new member their user name and password.
Done.
Easiest solution have found on spam battle is rusitc and Im sure there has got to be a better way... but it works- ZERO spam now...... (did this with Phpbb; same engine as this site) Here's how to set up the site for this method:
1. allow no guest to post.
2. admin set disallowed user names to **** which means no one can register.
3. add a forum on how to register that list your email address
for example:
this will drop your spam to ZERO. Spam bots are not intelligent enough to email you asking to register.Forum name- REGISTER HERE
Forum contents:
Thanks for stopping in. Your participation is WELCOMED. To register just email me with a prefered user name. Will register you and send you your username and password. Watch your junkmail box cause our reply to you might go there.
NOTE- Will NOT keep a record of your password. You may change settings, including password via the [PROFILE] button if you wish. That button's at top of most all pages.
Send registration request to my email (remove all caps and replace with appropriate internet syntax)
DbikeRegisterhere AT yahoo DOT com
Coded email address is to keep bots from finding your address and emailing you spam.
Some sites go as far as disallowing email addresses in their post (set the "@" as a dissalowed text). This means spam bots won't be attracted to your website foraging for email addresses. Users are encouraged to type addresses as I did above. They can put their email address in their user info though to be contacted thru the website for PM notifications and/or mail. These two should be defaulted registration settings.
Downfall is it might slow your new member registration a bit. Window shopper types wont take the time to email you and who knows.... you might turn a window shopper into an active member. It's a game of odds
All the admin has to do to register someone is:
. for a temporary moment erase the **** out of the disallowed user name list.
. Register the new member as if you were that person.
. Select a password for them
. put the **** back in the disallowed user name list.
. Email new member their user name and password.
Done.