[Scummvm-devel] AGI forums

[Arnaud Boutonné]

Eugene, do you have an idea of the number of registered users on Mega-Tokyo?
If the number is low, then the increase will not be so problematic, I
guess...

Max, if it may help, I volonteer to help you and Eugene for the manual
administration work you're doing.

Best regards,
Arnaud



On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:

>
> Am 09.11.2010 um 11:51 schrieb Eugene Sandulenko:
>
> > Hi team,
> >
> > I would like to host AGI forums on our forums. I.e. now ScummVM became
> > /the/ AGI interpreter, and AGI community naturally gathers around it.
> > Another reason is that current AGI forums went down over again, and I
> > was contacted by their guys with inquiry about such hosting.
> >
> > Any objections?
>
> No fundamental ones, though there is one thing I want to say about our
> forums in general: We are still stuck with phpBB 2, mostly due to the theme.
> This version has not received any security fixes for quite some time now and
> is not being developed anymore.
>
> Besides the obvious security problem, spam control is pretty limited in
> phpBB 3. We currently have a bit over 10,000 registered users; I estimate
> that a big percentage of these are spammers (often used for only 1-2 spam
> messages, than not abandonded), or inactive accounts that never posted.
>
> It's far too easy for spammers to register on the board, and difficult to
> consistently flag & ban spammers (it can be done, but e.g. Eugene and me
> apparently did it differently for some time).
>
> Our moderator team is doing an outstanding and amazing job on keeping the
> forum spam free, I must. Really impressive, thanks folks!
> But I wonder if we could make their life a bit easier with more advanced
> spam fighting tools? Of course, no tool (at this time) can really help with
> *human* spammers. But, say, something which replaces the "Deleted topics"
> subforum hack would be cool. Currently, when a mod has detected a spam
> message, they need to split the thread it is in, moving the spam messages to
> the "deleted topics" forum; later admins have to wade through there and ban
> spammers; which is done usually only on repeated offenders, simply because
> it is quite some work).
> I'd like to see a simple "mark this message as junk" button which mods can
> use on a message, presto. And which would properly keep the context of the
> alleged spam message, just in case we need to review the "is spam" decision.
> And then a feature which allows listing all spam messages, and their
> authors, quickly finding other messages by the same author (so one can check
> whether they are spam, too). And then a button for mods or admins to mark a
> users as "spammer", which would automatically take care of banning the user
> and would also automatically flag them as "banned due to spamming" (right
> now we manually move these users into a spammer user group we created just
> for this).
>
>
> OK, long rant short message: I really would like to move to a better forum
> software. Maybe phpBB 3 plus addons can do that (this would make for the
> easiest upgrade path, too). If our forums grow even more, this will become
> ever more important. The only blocker is the theme. Let's search for
> volunteers -- or, heck, let's put out a bounty and pay somebody to do it!
>
>
>
> Bye,
> Max
>
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