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Post by Kami on Sept 29, 2024 6:33:18 GMT -8
Forum URL: (private) Hi, For the past few weeks, I have been having a serious issue with a banned member. They were banned because they broke all of my forum's rules along with some of the rules in ProBoards' community guidelines and the TOS. However, this former member continues to make new accounts with different IPs and emails. Once we find them, we ban the former member because they are breaking our rules. If their account stays around long enough (ex:. a few hours), they become argumentative and toxic with our current members. Last week, they sent me a PM (which I have a screenshot and link of) and told me that I "really do deserve to be dead" along with another member's name mentioned in the private message. If you would like the link to the PM or a screenshot, I can provide it. Is there anything I can do to stop this person from continuously registering on my forum and making my community feel unsafe? Thanks ahead of time. Honestly, not really. ProBoards may be able to help out a little more (a PB admin will respond during business hours — 9am to 5pm pacific — tomorrow) but I make no promises on their behalf. But, unfortunately, even if they do help, we (the collective internet) are limited by technology. All online access is determined by IP addresses, and unfortunately we do not have any tool to use that can prevent people from changing their IP address, and IP address is the highest level of ban that can be initiated across the board without resorting to a hardware ban (which would require something to be installed by the user; possible with .exe applications, but not so much with web-based applications). PB does offer some additional tools to try and help mitigate: 1. You can turn on Restricted Registrations. Doing so would allow you to manually approve or deny any new registrations; you could check the email & IP of any new member and then make your best guess to see if this new registrant is another sock puppet for the harasser. 2. You can change the forum setting so the contents of all boards & ability to reply are for members and staff only so no guests can see or post content. 3. A more nuclear option similar to the above would be to turn on Guests Must Log In to force all guests to register an account to see any content whatsoever. People often use 1 with 2 or 3 in these situations. If PB were able to assist in this case, to levelset expectations, they'd basically only be able to IP ban from the service. They'd run into the same issue if the user changed their IP to circumvent the ban, unfortunately. Sorry it's not better news. If you are worried about your personal safety due to threats, the only thing we can suggest in that regard is to reach out to a legal professional and/or law enforcement for your options.  |
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Post by Kami on Sept 27, 2024 18:47:52 GMT -8
This isn't possible on ProBoards. HTML can be very helpful when customising ProBoards, but the HTML still needs to function within the limitations of the software. This doesn't mean that it isn't ever possible, just that it isn't possible with ProBoards specifically because of how it was designed.
No one is lying to you to hurt your feelings or make you feel stupid, it just isn't something that you can do with ProBoards software.
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Post by Kami on Sept 26, 2024 19:59:21 GMT -8
Forum URL: thestampforum.boards.net/After more than a decade of being a Moderator and subsequently the Admin, I just experienced a member deleting several threads that she had created but that others had added to with informative content. I can understand being able to delete your own posts but it seems there is something fundamentally wrong with being able to delete the posts of others in the process. How can I prevent members from being able to delete a thread that they created after other members have posted on it? The only 100% surefire way to prevent this is to lock a thread. Of course, that will prevent any further use from those without the moderator ability to post in locked threads. You can use the disable edit/delete after a certain period of time plugin (linked below), but note that by PB developer guidelines this must have a window of opportunity for deletion before the plugin can take effect in any given post, and also all plugins can be bypassed by either disabling javascript in the browser OR by using mobile version to access the forum. www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/318 |
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Post by Kami on Sept 26, 2024 13:34:07 GMT -8
Is global footers now called "forum wrapper" ? No, there are still headers / footers. Admin > Structure > Headers and Footers |
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Post by Kami on Sept 26, 2024 13:29:23 GMT -8
This is a repeat of similar requests, as at support.proboards.com/thread/582399/modifying-email-notification-template. I am a new proboard user and I agree with others that it would be nice to have a template for the format of email notifications. I also prefer a less flashly, more consise look. But regardless, having some control of the look of the emails is at least as important as tuning the look of one's website itself.
It took me about 15 eamils for me to realize the email contained a link to the post I as being notified about. The way the email is displayed using my email client, it is almost impossible to tell the differences between regular text and the text for a link. Please consider adding this capability.
Thank you. This is not possible, sorry. Emails are sent out by the system and we cannot impact them. These request are for the layout templates in your admin panel that govern the structure of your forum's HTML, nothing else. Unfortunately, development on v5 and future v6 have been halted indefinitely; this ask was included for v6 but we don't know when dev will resume. |
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Post by Kami on Sept 24, 2024 18:13:03 GMT -8
I don't allow advertising on mine either. I did for a while but I personally saw very little benefit from it so I mainly stick with affiliates & word of mouth.
It's strictly a clicks thing. Posting links to your forum on a legit site increases the trust search engines place on it to not be spam or scam, and mistakenly people believe that volume will net them more members due to higher SEO -- but higher SEO is still not a substitute for content.
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Post by Kami on Sept 21, 2024 11:11:39 GMT -8
I had initially tried to do something like this: {foreach $[user.custom_field]}
{if $[user.custom_field.name] == "House Points"}
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<td class="field">House Points:</td>
<td class="value">{if $[user.custom_field.value] < 1}0{else}$[user.custom_field.value]{/if}</td>
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{/if}
{/foreach}
Which, obviously didn't work. I even tried an alpha numeric field with == "' or == " " So, yeah, I'm stuck lol Yeah that's not what I said to do, sorry for any confusion. You cannot use conditionals that require the field to exist first as you have it here (you have it set to IF this appears THEN do something; it must exist before the conditional is checked). You have to do it backward. So, like this: Field Name: <span {if $[user.custom_field.name] == "NAME"}style="display:none;"{/if}>Default Text</span> {if $[user.custom_field.name] == "NAME"}$[user.custom_field.value]{/if} "Default Text" appears as hard coded text. If the field is filled with a value, the field appears and can be referenced, which will trigger the css to appear, hiding the hard coded text and displaying the field value by itself. Do NOT put it in the foreach loop. |
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Post by Kami on Sept 21, 2024 7:49:11 GMT -8
Is there a way to set a default value for a custom field so that if the user or staff member doesn't out anything in it, it displays something by default? Nope. Custom fields do not even appear (no data for the field including the name) if there is no value in the profile. The best way I've found to fake this effect is to hard code the field in the templates including the field name. Then I have a span with my default value, and a class OR an inline css wrapped in a conditional statement calling out the custom field name, and saying if there is a value in the field to display the class. Then set the css for the class or inline to display:none; I don't remember the specific syntax and I'm on my phone but if you can't figure it out from this description I can help on Monday when I'm back at my desk :) |
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Post by Kami on Sept 2, 2024 18:22:52 GMT -8
Thanks, Kami! Yes, I know I can't click on the CSS and have the Preview highlighted. I WISH I could.  I learned most of my website creation on Dreamweaver, but it's been since '13 that I've used any, so I'm quite rusty on CSS, sorry. So, to answer your questions... Hmmm, to my knowledge, I HAVE whitelisted my adblocker. I'll have to check which of my security apps could be blocking that ad. I don't use the common browsers or search engines that most do. 1. Not sure what you mean by exporting my "template" theme, and my "copy". Am I able to put the .pbt files here? 2. I had a friend who is better at this than I give some help. So, we have fixed some things, and it is now working pretty much as I have intended. Guess I should go back an revisit CSS! I'm retired, and when I quit building websites, I decided I was going to actually QUIT. Maintaining my forum, though, means I should actually know what I'm doing! LOL Any way, thanks for your response! I DO appreciate it. I'm just impatient, so asked/bothered a friend... 1. You can upload the .pbt files here as attachments to a post, yes. You'll need to use the full reply not the quick reply, but there should be an attachment button. To understand why the "copy" theme is changing beyond the values you alter when you modify the duplicated "template" theme, I need to see them both. 2. If you intend on making many modifications to your forum's appearance then yes, I would recommend revisiting CSS. Much has changed even in the last handful of years, and the longer it's been since you stopped, the more there is to catch up on. For what it's worth, I never use the visual editor for my own themes, I always work in the style sheet directly (especially since I often change the HTML structure of the forum as a whole). and of course, I understand the impatience. Once upon a time, I was a graphic designer; but I got so impatient waiting for someone to come along to code my designs I ended up teaching myself 🤪 |
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Post by Kami on Sept 2, 2024 18:16:39 GMT -8
I've finally gotten around to trying this plugin and I have one question. Regarding post counts, is it possible to quarantine only those guests that have less than 5 (or whatever number)posts? I do not want my registered members affected by post counts, just guests. Specifically, I'm confused by the Examples statement at the bottom of the Quarantine Rules page of the plugin which says: If you want to affect guests in a board: leave members array blank, and set post count to 0No. There's a fundamental misunderstanding here as to what this plugin impacts, I think. Guests do not have post counts. They cannot, simply because they are guests. All data about an individual user are tied to account. No account, no data, and that includes the number of posts. IP addresses are not unique; they can be altered, and they can be shared, depending on the ISP and various other tools like VPNs. You cannot have both a quarantine based on post count as well as guest posting. That is why you must set the post count minimum to zero: guests do not have a recorded post count. |
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Post by Kami on Sept 1, 2024 10:29:27 GMT -8
I am not seeing the plugin installed; can you double check the plugin settings to see if it allows guests to upload? I'm absolutely sure you can post and add images there, the security isn't activated. Hit the Reply button at the top right hand corner, then when in reply you can see the image uploader button.   Sorry, to be clear: I know where it should go but it looks like this is not possible for guests; yes I can post, but I cannot use the image uploader. This might be intentional on the part of the plugin, but it would be good to, as I mentioned, check the plugin settings in admin > plugins > manage plugins. There should be a little thing next to the name of the plugin that shows who is allowed to read the plugin, like so:  If that says "everyone", then this is not a plugin that can be used by guests. You'll need to wait for a PB admin to check it out later (though it should be noted that this plugin was removed from the PB plugin library due to security concerns, so they may not be inclined to troubleshoot an unsupported, third-party plugin). |
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Post by Kami on Sept 1, 2024 8:53:19 GMT -8
Is there a way to add an easy image loader to my forum like drop box? Many of my members are older and have a hard time adding photos to a host and then using the link to upload a picture? Just for clarity, Dropbox isn't an image host, it's a file storage service. I know this may seem like splitting hairs, but Dropbox isn't meant to be used as a way to post pictures, just store them. You can link to them, but Dropbox has a bandwidth cap on all accounts so if the image(s) are viewed too many times, including by bots or guests, the images will cease displaying after a certain time. There is a cloudinary plugin, here - www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/1857But I'm not entirely certain if this will serve your needs for simplicity as the setup instructions are pretty lengthy: support.proboards.com/thread/642470/cloudinary-file-upload? |
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Post by Kami on Sept 1, 2024 8:46:00 GMT -8
I am not seeing the plugin installed; can you double check the plugin settings to see if it allows guests to upload? |
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Post by Kami on Sept 1, 2024 8:08:13 GMT -8
If it is that plugin, one of the forums I use still has it. I just tried it out and it works just fine. I noticed others have uploaded recently and there's been no mention of having problems. Other forums not having an issue is not inherently indicative of the plugin being OK — sometimes issues are localised to certain geographical locations, and sometimes to certain traffic locations (eg: from a particular forum). Kami, yes it is the plugin. Dante, forum members in Spain, Japan, and Norway could load pictures today. Myself (in Germany) and my 2nd in command (in the UK) still can't load pictures. I'm not seeing the plugin on the forum, but it might only be loading on a posting page -- do you have a guest-friendly board? |
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Post by Kami on Sept 1, 2024 6:19:44 GMT -8
The space below the nav bar and the header should be displaying an ad. If you don't see one, please be sure that proboards.com (and its other subdomains: freeforums.net and boards.net) have been whitelisted in your adblocker.
You cannot click on an element and have the live preview be highlighted. That would be a change required on PB's end (we cannot make any changes to the functionality of the admin panel, for security reasons — in the past changes used to affect the admin panel as well, which would often lock people out of their admin panel if they made a mistake in editing their coding / theme). Unfortunately, PB has suspended new feature development indefinitely so what you see is what you get in this case.
As far as anything else, it's hard to diagnose a broad swathe of problems without seeing the theme(s) in action. From what you're describing, it sounds like user error when initially creating the base theme — I frequently duplicate themes to use as a base for my next one, and don't encounter these issues — but without knowing what changes were made to create the template + without seeing the results there is no way to tell for certain.
Could you do two things?
1. can you export your "template" them and your "copy" and attach them to your next post so we can see what changes were made?
2. can you describe ONE change you made, step by step, with your intended outcome and the actual outcome? And I do mean step by step and not a summary — even "obvious" steps like "go to admin panel".
PS the thing below the header that says home, etc is the nav bar. The thing by the newsfeed is the nav *tree*.
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