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HELP NEEDED ASAP ABOUT CHAT FORUM RUNNING

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dew1911:
Hmmm I would love to help but for the fact that it's PHPbb which I have little expieriance with, if it was an IPB board I'd be brilliant for help, I know them like the back of my hand (Sad I know)

muddyjames:
I am glad I am doing the right thing to try and turn the posting to reg only but when ever I do it and I have tried a number of times now I keep getting the message

Could not update auth table

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 1054 Unknown column 'auth_cal' in 'field list'

UPDATE phpbb_forums SET auth_view = 0, auth_read = 0, auth_post = 1, auth_reply = 0, auth_edit = 1, auth_delete = 1, auth_cal = 0, auth_sticky = 3, auth_announce = 3, auth_vote = 1, auth_pollcreate = 1 WHERE forum_id = 2

Line : 156
File : admin_forumauth.php

petergalileo:
James, give me a shout on YIM username is seagullparts.

smog:
On my site which is extensive, we have a chat room it's a digichat thing and has loads of options to prevent the kind of problems you encounter.  

It costs money but to have but the control is greater and the service is brilliant they even compensate if it goes down for periods of time.

If you have the ability to ban their IP try banning some but not all of the numbers, whilst this may affect lots of users it is usefull for a short term solution in the mean time you could put further measures into place.

example banning 129.365.872.89 just take out the last two sets of numbers so it then on the ban list looks as such 129.365. incidently this works for all site's with abilities to ban just be careful not to ban a whole damn country (i done it) people get all kinds of upset with you if you do.

Not sure any of this has helped but if you need further info contact me.

thermidorthelobster:

--- Quote from: "petergalileo" ---even if you remove the facility for guests to post you will still get it from spammers who register first !
--- End quote ---

Like mud-club I run my phpBB so an admin has to approve all new users.  In my experience, virtually all the hookey users have .ru email addresses, so it's very easy to filter them out at registration.  I don't have any legitimate Russian users, afaik!

I also modded my board so users have to input who referred them to the board before they can register, which makes it easier to sort the wheat from the chaff.

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