What's happened to our forum ?

[Richard Negus]

I feel I'm as guilty as anyone - but what happened to discussion on the site ? Doesn't anyone want to talk about anything, post a picture or two of their bike, a 'where's this?' photo, or suggest an informal meet ?\rIs it perhaps something to do with the appalling number of p*rn sites that invade every week ? Is it possible to filter these out before they're on the Memberlist ? Try looking at www.ybw.com (my other hobby) or at www.vvoc.com (nerdy lot, but useful tech info there) for very lively sites. Even exile-rotorsport, which appears to run the same hosting, doesn't suffer the same intrusions - is it just a press of the appropriate key ?\rI do understand and appreciate the effort put in by Graham and David in setting up the site - so c'mon rotaristas, use it or lose it ! \rMoan over.\rR.

[kanonkopdrinker]

I am also at a loss as to why the ROC is being targetted by (largely Russian) porn sites, cheap cigarttes and viagara sellers; between us, Graham and I must delete an average of 5 or 6 A DAY!!! ... but as to the apathy, I guess it reflects society? For example, you had 10 viewings so far to your comments Richard, but no-one felt the need to reply. \r\rI have no idea why - nor really what to do about it. Are we a club of voyeurs?\r\rReading the same few regular contributors can be tedious - but if the other 40 or so refuse to offer anything? .... any ideas anyone?

[Joe]

My reason for not adding anything to this forum is simply that I don't have a P.C. I have access to a shared computer at work and do look at the site quite frequently but I never seem to find the time to reply. My grammar, spelling and punctuation are very poor so I need to find time to sit down and think what I'm going to reply so that it maked sence.\r\rCheers, Joe.

[mullins]

We get the same spammers registering on Exile. I've just been removing them as soon as they join. It's painful and i'm sure there are better solutions out there - just need to find the time to search phpbb.com for an answer. I think there is a programme called ACPI anti-spam that works well with phpbb. I'll get round to looking into it one day :lol:\r\rOn saying that you can use the ban control to block certain e-mail addresses. If you get lots of Russian stuff block -

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*@*.ru

\r- this will block anyone joining with a Russian e-mail addy. I have about 10 different commonly used ones banned on Exile. It saves a bit of work! :D