xTreme Visual Studio .Net Forum

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xTreme .Net Talk is the evolution of Extreme Visual Basic Forum the site has been online from 1995 to 2016. Visual Basic Forum was the premier resource for the latest news and information for Visual Basic programmers. xTreme .Net Talk provides many source code examples, tutorials and guides available as well as an interactive forum to share knowledge with other programmers.

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Might Use vBulletin For One of My New Sites

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I am getting ready to open a new site. It’s been one I have been wanting to open for a while and is in a niche that is rather new. There are some established sites in the niche so the sledding will not be easy, but, since this is a somewhat newer niche there is a good chance of being successful. For this site I will use IPB. I still think IPB is the best forum software to date.

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4 Domains for Sale – ALL SOLD

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I have put 4 domains up for sale. If you are interested in purchasing them contact me.

The domains for sale are:

  • justbs.me – This would be a good domain for an off topic or general chat community.
  • microsoftforum.me – Would be a good domain for a Microsoft help community.
  • newsgroups.nu – You could use this domain for a number of things. Usenet gateway for one.
  • windowshelp.me – This domain could also be used as a Microsoft help community.

Contact me with your offer. I will sell all domains in one package or each separately.

Combating vBulletin Forum Post and PM Spam

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One of the most frustrating jobs for any vBulletin forum admin or moderator is the never ending fight to stop post and PM spam. There are spambots that specifically target vBulletin forums. vBulletin has helped by adding Akismet spam protection, captcha protection, simple question and answer or reCaptcha to help combat post spam. This was effective until the vBulletin captcha was cracked. The Q&A, in my testing also doesn’t seem, to be effective. These are the measure I’ve taken to help combat the fight against spam.

To stop the post spam I use reCaptcha.  It seems to be the most effective against spambots, but, for the low life spammers that still do things manually even reCaptcha doesn’t help. The main purpose of these spammers is to get backlinks to their sites and services. What I did was create a new usergroup called Registered Members. The new group has the same privileges as the default Registered Users group.

Read on to see how to set up the registered users group and the new registered members group permissions to help combat vBulletin forum spam.

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