We're adding things constantly. A major driver behind these bulletproofing tools is a new client that we picked up. They have about 300 CONCURRENT users and a member list of tens of thousands. They deal with megatrolls, the likes of which this forum can only dream. We've been building tools to handle these kinds of people.
Comprehensive banning: - IP bans (both preventative and punitive) - Username / Email bans (preventative and punitive)
Automated SPAM control: - Hooking into Wordpress.org's Akismet system - A machine-learning heuristics algorithm will catch the rest
Completely re-written Social Authentication - Solves the problem of people bypassing normal registration controls using Facebook, Twitter, etc
Infractions / Jail - Allow people to receive warnings - Infraction points are deducted with each warning, allowing automatic banning for repeat offenders - Jailing allows moderators to relegate rule breakers to a kind of limbo land where their avatar is removed and they get extremely strict throttling (amount of posts per minute is heavily restricted)
we need new people here. yeah there might be a lot of annoying people that will join, but i look at it this way. on the original forums, after the first mayhem fest, all of the vets were acting the same way we do now. we didnt want any "noobs" joining the forum.
now...how many of us joined after the first mayhem? its safe to say at least half or close to it. imagine if the original forums just cut off registration. half of us wouldnt even be here.
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When Mike first started Vanilla, here is what the control panel looked like
http://i.imgur.com/XFarE.png
Now, it looks like this
http://i.imgur.com/eetYX.png
We're adding things constantly. A major driver behind these bulletproofing tools is a new client that we picked up. They have about 300 CONCURRENT users and a member list of tens of thousands. They deal with megatrolls, the likes of which this forum can only dream. We've been building tools to handle these kinds of people.
winningmetal 1
themayhemforums 1
mayhemuprising 2
Comprehensive banning:
- IP bans (both preventative and punitive)
- Username / Email bans (preventative and punitive)
Automated SPAM control:
- Hooking into Wordpress.org's Akismet system
- A machine-learning heuristics algorithm will catch the rest
Completely re-written Social Authentication
- Solves the problem of people bypassing normal registration controls using Facebook, Twitter, etc
Infractions / Jail
- Allow people to receive warnings
- Infraction points are deducted with each warning, allowing automatic banning for repeat offenders
- Jailing allows moderators to relegate rule breakers to a kind of limbo land where their avatar is removed and they get extremely strict throttling (amount of posts per minute is heavily restricted)
Don't think it will be a big deal though
now...how many of us joined after the first mayhem? its safe to say at least half or close to it. imagine if the original forums just cut off registration. half of us wouldnt even be here.