Need Zone Leader elections

lexaal · Post by **lexaal** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:32 pm

bump.

I think SEO is the among the smaller problems since we got good people working on it.

but the other problems need a solution.

Bard · Post by **Bard** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:22 pm

Spunkmeyer wrote:QUOTE (Spunkmeyer @ Sep 27 2012, 06:05 PM) It's just sad to see us sabotaging ourselves for historical reasons that should no longer apply.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /forums/

There's a very good reason for that.

We're on an older version of IPB.

The last time we opened that up for a very short period of time we got a TON of bots in here.

We can't upgrade to the newer version of IPB because it doesn't have the ability for group leaders (read SL's) to manage their own group's membership.
Forum Admin only.

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:08 pm

I have no opinion on this matter.

Post by **pkk** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:40 pm

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Oct 2 2012, 12:22 AM) The last time we opened that up for a very short period of time we got a TON of bots in here.

That's a lie:
Bots and rogue search engines ignore robots.txt.

You only stop them by CAPTCHA/blocking IPs/blacklists.

All I can tell you, it works:
https://www.google.de/search?q=site:german-borg.de/smf

Bard wrote:QUOTE (Bard @ Oct 2 2012, 12:22 AM) We can't upgrade to the newer version of IPB because it doesn't have the ability for group leaders (read SL's) to manage their own group's membership.
Forum Admin only.

There are already addons, which have that feature:
http://community.invisionpower.com/files/f...-social-groups/

If you're using proprietary forum software, you will often end up with no large modding community. Other software already include the "group admin" feature by default.

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:44 pm

I have no opinion on this matter.

Post by **aem** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:48 am

Yes, spam bots will ignore robots.txt. But if the forums are not indexed they are not likely to know about the forums, so we will rarely be targeted.

But yeah, not very difficult to keep most bots out.

Shizoku · Post by **Shizoku** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 5:18 am

But without bots how will I find out new ways of getting huge?

TheCorsair · Post by **TheCorsair** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:25 pm

We need new leadership!

The present imposter government, which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people, must be replaced by a government recognized by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants, and held accountable to their representatives

as quoted in The Bolsheviks Come to Power : The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (2004) by Alexander Rabinowitch, p. 252

Mastametz · Post by **Mastametz** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:18 pm

I have no opinion on this matter.

qqmwoarplox · Post by **qqmwoarplox** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:55 pm

shut up masta your not getting any power
you clearly just want to kill this game