Forum Guests are now allowed to post... Why?

[twolvesfan]

Forum URL: texxas5asports.proboards.com/thread/7988/alice-calallen?page=2

The above is a sample.  But as a Global Moderator for this Forum we are seeing that Guests are posting and they shouldn't be able to post unless they formally log-on and register as an official user. Can you assist us in making sure our settings for the forum are correct.  This has been happening since this past Summer and it is now getting worse as we as Moderators are unable to moderate (give them timeouts, ban them, etc.) when they get out-of-hand and post inappropriate things.

[Retread]

Oct 20, 2020 16:35:06 GMT -8 twolvesfan said:

Forum URL: texxas5asports.proboards.com/thread/7988/alice-calallen?page=2

The above is a sample.  But as a Global Moderator for this Forum we are seeing that Guests are posting and they shouldn't be able to post unless they formally log-on and register as an official user. Can you assist us in making sure our settings for the forum are correct.  This has been happening since this past Summer and it is now getting worse as we as Moderators are unable to moderate (give them timeouts, ban them, etc.) when they get out-of-hand and post inappropriate things.

Hi twolvesfan

If assistance is needed from the ProBoards Admins for this, I'm not certain a request from a Global Moderator of the forum will be enough. In any case, they'll be online tomorrow. Their office hours can be found here: link


The reason guests can post is because three of the boards on that forum have their permissions set such that Everyone can View, Access, Create Threads, Reply to Threads, and Create Polls.

Those boards are:
6A Football
4A Football
and
3A - 2A Football

While having those boards open to guest posting might be intentional, it does appear more likely that was a mistake.

user/1, user/4 and user/7 on that forum all appear to be members of the Administrator group so any of them would be able to access the Categories and Boards section of the Admin panel and make the necessary changes to the Permissions for those three boards. (set the permission to Create Threads, Reply to Threads, and Create Polls to Members & Staff

However, it would appear that only user/4 (gpjohn) has posted recently. You might PM all three of those users on your forum to alert them to the situation.

[twolvesfan]

Hello Retread,

That makes total sense as those pages were created just last year but usage has increased on those boards. I'll reach out to GPJohn and see if he can make this happen or ask him if he can give me access to admin rights as none of the original owners are around that much! Thanks again for all your assistance...  Cheers Sir!!

[twolvesfan]

Oct 20, 2020 19:46:08 GMT -8 twolvesfan said:

Hello Retread,

That makes total sense as those pages were created just last year but usage has increased on those boards. I'll reach out to GPJohn and see if he can make this happen or ask him if he can give me access to admin rights as none of the original owners are around that much! Thanks again for all your assistance...  Cheers Sir!!

Hi all,
Sorry for the delay in responding, but I got the issue fixed... Thanks for your assistance Retread... You Da'Man!

Ok, so now I have admin privileges... Rut Rho     Be careful what you ask for  LOL 
So much responsibility but I don't know how to do anything! 

I guess I'll start by looking over some previous posts and any tutorials offered... Thanks for your support!!

Thanks & Best Regards,
Steve... aka: TWolvesFan 

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