Launching RLSLOG forum: first details
There have always been a few seemingly unstoppable issues here at rlslog. One is spammers. Nobody likes to skip through 10 meters worth of comments to find that one link they’re looking for. The other problem we’ve had is people who can’t behave like mature and polite individuals. I have to admit I’ve lost it from time to time due to the mere frustration of having to deal with some of these people, and for that I apologize to the rest of you.
So far there have been a few general ideas as to what we could implement to solve this problem:
- Require registrations to comment
- Include division and multiplication in the spam protection
- Banning all IP’s that spam and write off-topic/racist/obscenities etc.
- Create a RLSLOG forum
The first solution has come up several times but never really stuck. If we were to require registrations from everyone to comment we would surely loose comments from many of you who don’t spam, and provide useful information and opinions. Many people just pop in every once in a while and write a line or two and wouldn’t bother registering, therefore this is not ideal.
The second solution wouldn’t really work long term (people would just buy calculators). The third idea has been implemented to various degrees. We have banned some of the major swear words and warned readers that certain things will lead to a permanent ban. Its not hard to get around the swear word ban first of all. Second of all, manually banning IP’s is not something we really have time for, and even if we did, people would still just use some workaround.
The last solution is to create a forum. When I suggested this the other day to Lee, we discussed it for a while and agreed that the following would be ideal: A rlslog forum which is independent from the rlslog site and leaving the current comment system intact. This way, a rlslog community can be built and more serious visitors can enjoy a spamless community. Martin agreed when I proposed we try this out. There’s nothing we can lose – if the whole forum project doesn’t succeed, we can close it at any time.
Martin: There are few technical details I would like to point out before launching this thing. I would be happy to have the forum on a separate domain and server, which would ensure it’s online when our site goes unexpectedly down and vice versa. This will give us another level of flexibility and method of communication with our readers. I was also thinking that we have 200 thousand readers every day, and there must be someone with a webhosting account or company. So, we would like to kindly ask you, if there’s someone who would be able to provide a hosting for this forum, to contact me at my mai.
We prefer offshore location (US laws suck) and that’s basically all. Just a classic hosting with PHP and MySQL able to run Invision Power Board will do the trick, the bandwith or free space will be on a standard level. There won’t be anything illegal at the forum either, just a filesharing talk, so you don’t have to worry about legal issues. As I said, if there’s someone with Reseller account or a stable, working hosting firm willing to provide the space for us, we would be happy to hear from you as soon as possible. Thanks.
Edit: we got enough offers already, thanks everyone who emailed us.
Comments(138)
yay
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nice.. it’s about time.
GO RLSLOG!
Nice, more discussing.
Now we finally can give our own input to the website, to make it even more fun to read!
Would be a nice place to chat about releases and whatnot, so I’d register!
Now, just for the host…
lol @ people would buy calculators. people at rlslog dont buy stuff! plus start -> run -> calc
i think a forum is a great idea, but it needs to be properly moderated so you’d need a team to take care of them otherwise the forum would be worse than the comments form
Wondered when this was going to happen. Good on you guys
bloody hate all these stupid spammers.
Great news!
good idea for forum
Great idea
This is a great idea, looking forward to it!
Check out [code]http://www.simplemachines.org/[/code] for an alternative free BBS, i’m not advertising for it, am just impressed, one of my daily messageboards changed from VBB to the simplemachines one, it’s extremely fast, and looks good too, php mysql same as invision…
Good luck with it and keep us updated
Steely
Shotty on Moderator position! It seems I’m on the website every hour or so anyways…
great news it will be a success atb rlslog
You got to be kidding me! With all these ridiculous ads and trojans on this site, your telling me you can’t afford a simple board? BTW I can make you a free forum if you want.
Yeah !to keep unit all the real fans so we will support file sharing forever.
Would probably be a better idea with registration. Like u have to reg and it takes maybe 3-4days before you can post comment. In that way it sucks mayor too get banned, tho it takes atleast several days before u can start spamming again.
Seems like NFOrce.nl already got the kind of forum u want, but of course you want your own.
Wouldnt think so little as 1/10 of the 200k would visit the forum, but would still be a big forum.
Woo! go RLSLOG. if you do get a forum up – i know i would register on it.
~BW
And as Uzzi says, it seems alittle poor not being able to handle a forum yourself. With 200k unique visitors each day, there should be some money over after the server-costs.
Brilliant idea gentlemen!
I’m afraid this forum would be hard to moderate. But if the staff can handle that,…could be a great forum
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I’d be there…
Great. Hopefully this’ll seperate the trolls and trash-talkers who never have anything interesting nor informative to say away from the release comments.
what a wonderful idea!
You will recieve an Email from me soon.
I have ALOT of ideas for this site.
All based around a forum.
Now what is wrong with Obscenity’s if they are used in moderation, I could see someone saying that BS to a news topic or something like that, but if they are just f-this and that and going off or being annoying I can understand but is that’s not the type of users you want here anyway right? (immature punk kids)
Looking forward to registering soon.
~iX~
Please note that creating a msg board and solving the spamming problem in daily RLSLOG posts are two completely different issues. The former will do nothing for the latter, so I’ve no idea why it’s even presented that way. Spamming idiots will always plague this place as long as there’s no registration system and anonymous comments are enabled.
Just my €0.02.
I can give you an account on a 250gb b/w month with a couple of mysql servers for free if you want. The only problem is it has no DNS (or it does, but by a separate company and i don’t want to give it out) that is shared by my flatmate’s WoW guild so uses very little traffic itself. E-mail me on the e-mail filled in this comment if you want
“And as Uzzi says, it seems alittle poor not being able to handle a forum yourself. With 200k unique visitors each day, there should be some money over after the server-costs.”
Just keep the good work with the blog, forums nowadays are everywhere, what is unique about releaselog is the easy friendlly blog way of being.
I will register but not check it every day as I do and in time i will just visit my other forums, the ones that have the same info and realeses as you have but are not a blog.
Anyhow I am just wondering
A while ago not to many people visited the site like myself and found that it was was informative and had alot to offer and still does, like you have stated sometimes we tend to comment when the mood takes us or we feel that the topic reflects something that has provoked us to think aloud (which it has many a time, be it racist off topic, angry or just opinionated)…. My point being is that a forum is the way ahead Martin and always has been, ive asked this b4 but never had a responce, (i know ur busy but hey who isnt), its taken a while but im glad to see that considering the amount of traffic you have attracted over the comming year has not caused you or your hard working team to be clouded by the hype… A forum would be greatly appreciated by alot of people who feel the need to SHOUT once in a while ..
Regds caLm
Great idea, DO IT !
i have no big plans with the forum, i wont probably visit it too often either, but why not to try it. seeing the moans of you about the price – of course we are prepared to pay for its hosting, but it would be a shame to not ask if we have such a readership…
also in the side checks of what news you like to see is not bad idea i think. for example i dont like to see cams, only r5/dvd/hd…
also i dont think ip banning is make any good… if the program can detect and just remove the “bad” comments..
Spam protection: Sum of 1 + 2 ?
this is hard, i’m not good on math
hi guys ,i think i read correct you guys want a hosting where we can host a forum and talk about links
, am i right ?
if yes then i have a solution , my friend is already running a warez forum from 7-9 months with more than 1000+ members , i will ask him where he is hosting his site
he is offline now , i sent him a offline message , he will answer when he came online.
add my this mail id in ur msn or yahoo , we can talk on yahoo/msn
forum is great idea
If your gona use a php forum type software and you want it to be secure vBulletin is what you want to use ,IPB looks nice but its so full of holes its like swiss cheese
You folks should use vanilla. http://getvanilla.com/
J.
Well, glad to see you won’t be changing the comment system from the way it is. While some spam is still getting through, and off topic comments are being made, they are easy enough to wade through, and generally informative and, at the least, entertaining.
Most off-topic comments I’ve seen are good information, just the posters have no where else to leave them. This forum idea might help with that.
As for spam/abusive language, I don’t know what all has already been done, but in my view, it seems to be under control. Keep up the good work.
I agree steve. vBulletin over IPB any day.
I would think a couple of mods with itchy fingers on the delete button would work as well as the forums to register for. Most of the spammers and obnoxious racists, et al, are just looking to get their post up for everyone to see and if you can delete them as fast as they post them it would go a long way to stopping the abuse. When their posts disappear real quick they may go away. Of course you will still have the persistent ones but that is where a good hitman comes into play. I am not sure if that is feasible but just an idea.
I personally think forums is a bad idea. I enjoy reading the article comments more.
You should maybe consider keeping the current configuration (sep server a gr8 idea tho) just make it Digg.com style(where users can self moderate with + or – tabs to bury crap comments.)
Maybe still also keep it non-register but with IP flood control- But include a VIP type(even a paid ULTRAVIP special access) option with all features(avatars) and no limitations = less spam and rudeness in fear of losing account privileges and post count? I dunno.
I love this place, so ty guys.
‘/ (perhaps even can get some extra php scripts for the suggestions i made/ i’ll search some sites i guess.)
http://www.spacecheese.net
I don’t know why anyone would pay for a forum, there are tons of free forums out there. See http://invisionfree.com/ for example, they are highly used.
Why not apply the reporting system in which readers report comments as spam? (eg auto-deleting a comment if it gets reported by more than x readers who just hit one button). That would be a lot easier…
Division and multiplication. bots could NEVER figure those out, that is some serious hardcore NASA math
ok i am so confused…
but i agree to have registeration, forum and ban llamas
- n00b (rlslog addict)
I think the forum is a great idea…
Maybe if a sucess then after a while the users who contribute the most to it can moderate for rlslog so it can still run smooth whilst still giving time to the editors to post here
The ease of posting here is a plus but if there is a forum people can discuss things in deapth without spamming (Thinking of Assassins Creed)
The problem with registering is that you loose the anonymous feeling as you have to put details online.
It would be a shame not to ask members? Is it me or are we the ones who click on the ads. No disrespect I love this site, but I just lost a lot of respect for this site as a Professional web site, being that you would leave it up to your supporting members to take care of the dirty work.
Yeah the forum bit etc is all good, but leave this as it is
@42 and Others
you obviously dont get how this spam protection is supposed to work. Its not for Humans. OBVIOUSLY. 10 + 7 is easy for Humans. But bots that arent programmed to look for, and answer “Sum of 10 + 7″ its actually quite difficult.
Most bots would be made to search for sites that have no Spam protection at all, or CAPTCHA (sic). So for a bot to post spam on this website they would have to be Coded to be able to calulate and add the answer to the field before posting. (While piss easy to code, no one is going to code it for just ONE site)
Spam protection with simple sums works. Or even ‘Whats the 21st letter of the alphabet’ easy human questions.
People that Post spam (and that are ACTUAL people) would have to be manually removed doesnt matter what protection you put up. And really, there isnt much of it..
I think you should keep it as it is.
I would miss the comments.
If you just had the releases without the comments,you would turn into any other site.
Its the humour,witty comments,that makes your site so special.
What kind of requirements would you guys be needing?
Basically, are you guys stuck on IPB and how many users per day would you expect?
I only have a reseller account (not a full server), so I’m wondering how much resources you’ll need.
I think some of you might be losing the point here.
A main focus is to reduce off-topic comments and pointless posts on these pages, so you don’t have to scroll through 200 comments to find some yastorage links, and a clarification the file is in sync, for example.
If you start requiring registration, waiting periods for posting, or anything not super-convenient, then it will have 0 effect on the posts you are trying to prevent here. Unfortunately, I don’t think having a forum will effect these posts regardless, but would welcome a forum anyway.
Oh, I totally agree it needs to be moderated. Pick someone without a napoleon complex to have a finger on the red button.
Better still, pick some of the site’s favorite posters (non-staff or admin), since you’ve had the opportunity to guage their patience and intellect throughout the history of their posts… your readers would love that. 
(<— no, not trying to get a position… I’m too darn busy! 
)
I appreciate you guys being proactive in improving the site and our experience though. Keep up the good work. RLSlog really has replaced google as my most visited site each day! amazing.
If spamming dissapeared, Rlslog would be perfect
Dear Martin and Staff,
Please be sure to reserve a section of the new board where people can fight as much as they want without being moderated. The only way you can make a scene board fun is if you also allow people to have full scale board wars as well so they can air out their aggressions and provide epic lulz for all to see.
Sincerely,
A Rlslog Reader.
hey… I like @41’s idea.
We should try that before you go through the time and hassle of setting up a forum, etc. 
Great news RSLlog! Cant wait to sign up and start using this “service” properly, and in a orderly fashion. Without the idiots spamming and ‘Annon’ comments usually stating point that have no meaning. If that sounds normal? haha. anyways, where do I sign up!!!???
Should be interesting. I’m not sure I want to comment in the forums too much b/c I feel like the more simple comments could just be done here, but the forum is a good thing to try out.
Spammers have pointless lives and just want to bring disrepute to great sites such as Rlslog etc, who actually take the time to bring you all this courtesy service… We will bring the HEAVY MECHA on all your machines. Remember the number zero is your friend not your enemy.
Great news, I’d register for sure.
Changing the set up will ruin rlslog…
It would be kind of like this below- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPeHk4WMWpY
I hope this forum has a friendly structure. Easy to search, easy to find, and maybe some capabilities to add COLORS, etc, signatures in replies, etc.
Cheers!!!!
Plz answer me Martin/ReeGed, does that also mean u ppl are planning to discard the commenting feature for good?
@Johney666:
From the article:
“A rlslog forum which is independent from the rlslog site and leaving the current comment system intact”
Why use IPB when you can use vB? And we’re all waiting new vB 3.7 soon. Its nice chance to try it)
To Stop Spam Use: http://recaptcha.net/
It get’s ‘em everytime… + as an added bonus you help out a good cause (Digitizing Books).
I think a forum is an amazing idea. Plus, it would give users a chance to report about scene rls’s, since sometimes rlslog gets a teensy bit behind.
Like the forum idea a lot here. The best this would be 2 go for registration on the forum. I wouldn’t hesitate to sign up if/when i have something 2 say.
Great idea. More pertinent comments as well as more comments available.
don’t know if anybody posted this, but there are a LOTS of people with dynamic IP addresses, at least in my country. banning ip’s wouldn’t mean a thing, cause they just can unlog and log again. however, it CAN prohibit normal people, who got spammer/racsist/whatever IP by mistake from posting
I think the bigger picture here isnt exactly the spams and all the other stuff. I think a forum would make us more like a website community where we would could sign up with our own unique usernames and we dont have to type in a name on here when is so easily for someone to change his name on here and pretend thats u. Plus theres alot of people on here that have been visiting that website for a long time but u cant tell whos who because nobody pays attention to the name u got on here, that way we would get more recognition. I dont think a forum would stop all the spamming and racism but it would help us to get to know each other a bit better.
i have emailed you from my company mail.
Also, not sure if your using Wordpress here, if so, i do believe there is a modification available for invision power board which intergrates wordpress and the forum, so your articles are automaticly created as topics within the forums.
not really looked into how intergrated the modification is but there is one available.
Maan, thats a great idea!
I hope it will get rid of those spammers onsforall.
Thanks for that great update
i really like the idea of a forum, but i hope it doesnt fail miserably — just a note to the staff, please think this thing out fully before launching it
and by the way ReeGed its spelt “lose” not “loose”
two different words
i dont think forum would be nice. there are currently so many forum about file sharing especially on movies. so if there will be a forum, it should have advanced properties, like imdb integration… anyway i hope it will be great:)
Great Idea guys
I like the idea, how about adding shortcuts to the sections of the forums in connection to the topics. That way we dont go nuts looking for the proper location. I am sure once the forums goes up, I will be packed with posts of all subjects. And as much use good headers could be, the good stuff could be lost in the mix of so many other messages. Just a thought. Reeged keep up the great work, I am a loyal fan. Actually addicted
(Check the sites every hour, except from Midnight to 7am 
Yeah!Great idea!It was about time anyway, sick of these spammers..
any idea about the name?rlsforum?u should make a pool about it
cheers!hope u get hosting!!
Sweet idea, I pretty much visit RLSLOG every few hours. And I would love a forum.
I have multiple sites i never use and the bandwidth is plentiful. I would be willing to host the forum. 2500 GB Monthly Transfer in bandwidth. I have been looking for a reason to use it now I can if allowed. So contact me if interested
Um. I guess it is out of the question, but… moderator??. Lots of work and blame and abuse, accusations of censorship, but maybe?
I hate to say it, but you’re going to fck up a good thing….
Great idea… overdue!
Forum or not, registration is something that should have been added long ago. Most people who have something important to say won’t mind registering since they know their words won’t get lost in a lot of spam. And the rest, do we need them? Registering doesn’t mean less privacy than now, only that people won’t be able to impersonate others.
If you add a forum parallel with this comment system, it would be nice if a topic is created for each release with a link to that topic from the release info. That way we who want a moderated place to discuss a release can find it easy and the ones who want to spam can keep using the comments.
Man a forum is a really bad idea imo… I think keeping it that way is the best.
But i have another idea to remove spammers. How about using the system youtube uses with the thumbs up and thumbs down thing for each comments. And lets say, if a comment has 5 thumbs down, then it get hidden.
How about that?
Let’s hope an admin will read this eventhough its the 83rd comment
“Banning all IP’s that spam and write off-topic/racist/obscenities etc.”
Lets just hope the admin remembers that rule.
Now there are two ways to create $$….
Free servers… wow….
well i agree with them all except rule 2…i sometimes comment when im tired and its a little bit of a bother to think what would be 100/6 would be
I am happy the law is being set to cut out some of the BS that goes on. Bout time RLSlog.net used it’s nuts.Good Job.
i not sure if you will get enough people going into forum unless you put a direct link on this site.And yes im guilty of spaming no topics and will stop now and use a forum if the forum has a direct link from this site no problem.
I second #41’s idea of having users moderate the comments put here. Something like a voting system where you can vote down comments and comments that get a certain amount of up votes would get stickied or somehow identified. If anyone uses digg.com you know exactly what I’m talking about with their comment system.
Personally, I feel like having a forum would make this site just like most of the other sites out there. The beauty in rlslog.net is that its simple, up to date, and accurate. All the newest releases are posted and within a couple hours there are links for the files on most of the sharing sites. The simplicity of having single posts and comments makes rlslog my own most visited homepage. Plus the community on the boards is quite hilarious and witty, and as nice as forum would be I dont think it would have the same charm as the current setup.
i will pay the cost for the new forum if martin agree contact me
okay why don’t you just filter the swear words?
i think RLSLOG needs a moderation team to go through and delete the crap. There are ppl. that visit RLSLOG 365 days/year, you need to utilize them !!
instead of opening a boring forum creating a new crew is much more ideal!
If you guys need anything designed, get at me – i’d be happy to give back to rlslog.
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Does anyone else get JS/Wonka trojan when they visit this site? mcafee deletes almost everytime i vist this site.
sounds awesome. May be just be a lot of links but I say go.
A moderation team for comments here as well for the forum wouldn’t go astray.
In anonymous environment you’ll always have spammers. You just need a team to trawl through the crap. A reporting function would help out alot.
OMG.
CAN EVERYONE READ COMMENT 62 BEFORE POSTING SAYING ITS A REALLY BAD IDEA.
thanks
~
Hi,
I subscribe to your site through RSS and I have been around for long now. I am ready to host the forum. I have mailed you the details of the server space and bandwidth and few other specs. Ping me back.
So many forums out there. I don’t remember all my passwords and nicknames, addresses. Why create another one? People love RLSlog coz it’s simple and fast. Another forum is just a bad idea.
Hi there RLSLOG staff! I was glad to read that you guys were going to set up a forum.
Myself, I have plenty on bandwith with MySQL/PHP support if you guys need it! Just email me if you’re interested in co-op
.
Cheers,
maddoxi
A forum would be nice. A secure forum would be better. Just guarantee whomever you accept hosting from are who the say they are.
the way it is right now is fine for me,it’s fast,you make your comments and that’s it,simple,the morons that make stupid,racist or abusive comments should be banned forever.
I’m in
whoever said the spam protection is for bots is on drugs… any old noob could write a script to read the Sum of ‘9 + 10′ text & calculate… unless they made it a picture… much harder to read a picture. Seems to be there solely to slow down human spammers.
I thnk comments section should integrated with forum, so registration on forum required to post comments. if someone is too lazy to register then thier comment is prolly not worth it.
this is SWEET!!!
id be heaps happy to be able to research releases through a RlsLog forum
your point about spam is proved beyond all question of a doubt by “spammer” (by the way spammer….your a f@#king IDIOT!plain and simple) and it will be awesome to be able to avoid scrolling through such crap in a forum environment
Great work Release Log
behind you 100%
Peace
oh and an idea…..
maybe it would be wise to limit the size of posts made in this coments section
i figure if there is a release that is too big to post rapidshare links here for instance it would be an encouragement to post it in the forums rather than having to make 5 posts in here …..the poster could simply post a link to the rapidshare through a forum link
easy
Peace
forums are boring, blogs = fun.
Great, More Quality Comments than Large Quantities of Junk Comments. Keep it Up
@110 (stop crying little girls) : So your a trannie?
any-who; first time, long time…..
personally I love how this blog is set up. sometime alittle slow, but hey, you/they have a life too and it’s understandable.
ultimately my question is: what can you implement in a forum (to stop the idiots) that you can’t here?
If -admin/mod/head in charge- can read my email addy, use it. I am very active in SMF; Simple Machines Forum, and the mods can’t be beat.
Open Source, however I toss in 5-10 bucks a month for beer since that is all I can afford. Have a running board now.
Lemme know, I’d love to help.
Ted
why not just use NTi Forums and turn comments off here.
Registrations would be a good idea.
I like men, and also cross-dressing. I’m in love with ReeGed, i like it how this badass-metalhead (mp3s are not for tr00 metalheads) rocks out with his c0(k out. I love to hang out with my wang out.
Oh what a lovely sight this place is – all men liking are welcome here, that’s why i come here
I know we get annoying rapidshare spammers which personally I hate and shouldn’t be able to post links. They should be the ones to suffer. Personally i think RLSLOG would be cutting their own throats and the community feel will be lost because everyone will be too scared to warn the next person. Just another forum where you have to log in and remember yet another password to add with the other 30 will ruin what is a great site. Plus banning people 1st time off is going a bit too far as some people here have supported this site for years and even increased it’s popularity through word of mouth. How evil the world would be if people were sacked for a first mistake. What about say a 2 week ban which would be increased if the behaviour continues. Just a suggestion.
we need more mods if forum was to happen
While it would be nice to have a forum that’s policed for the things that are posted on this site, you’re going to need 3 times the people to police it with a grand poobah to over see it all to make it work. This site seems to have enough trouble just posting something with little spelling and grammatical errors, policing the sure to be doomed forums would be a major undertaking.
I’ll give a green light for the forum idea, assuming I get them mod buttons too.
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Here you have a dutch hosting site mail me if you need translations Its supports php and mysql
And its rather cheap 5,95€ a month
Good luck!
awesome idea, and a request forum please? there is a movie i cant get a hold of anywhere
I’d like to apply as a moderater for your forum, please.
Nice
Im all for registration to comment, no moderators having to manage a forum and its the simplest idea.
Forums can be hacked, spammed aswell and i dont think their mutch better then current comments, if anything it just adds more to do..
Register to comment will be better because lazy spammers/offenders wont bother yet the site stays the same without the need to click around.
Having a registration that takes awhile and cant be automated ofcourse only increase the pleasure spammers have to endure to keep spamming after bans
i request that those spam junkies like #101 get banned by IP and user
@#53– “Dear Martin and Staff,
Please be sure to reserve a section of the new board where people can fight as much as they want without being moderated. The only way you can make a scene board fun is if you also allow people to have full scale board wars as well so they can air out their aggressions and provide epic lulz for all to see.
Sincerely,
A Rlslog Reader.”
An excellent idea! May I also suggest a Mr. X subforum to complement that section?
really good idea. haven’t wasted my time on the forums in ages. i miss that
I think a forum would be awesome. Then I’d have somewhere to spend some of my free time on the net.
I think a forum would be a great idea. However, as long as everyone can just register there, it won’t solve any problem…
YEAH about time, great idea, i’m up for it
the real reason why registering would not be an option:
every time someone comments here or clicks to read the comments you get an advert, means making money for the site. if there was registration you wouldnt have 70% of the comments.. i.e. advert income.
i know i wouldnt register and not even bother clicking the comments. why read them if i cant respond?
I’d register, You have to use IPB, it is so simplier and nice to the eye,
The IRC channel is enough. Why add a forum to the mix. Just start distracting people from what this is all about. Plus, I couldn’t stand all those Viagra ads, and when they’re desperate to advertise, the buggers can add, divide, subtract, multiply… Even do algebra :O
I like x marks the spot’s idea
Wow Forum, nice
I think all is fine like that
Also, why do you guys yous sum protection? Why can’t you use CAPTCHA??
lol, 141 comments by now.
Its a pity it has to come this far. Spamming people, big-o-lists-of-comments, I can see it isn’t working for you guys. But, I only come here to check out the latest releases which may have managed to pass by me somehow and perhaps to leave a small unforced uncalled for comment.
I think a forum will be fun for the diehards, but overall I think there is allready the Newtorrents.info forum which would be similar and do not think of it as the most valuable asset to rlslog.net. Perhaps it would be nice though, for all the people with their RS/Flyup/Yastorage/etc… links, so the comments here stay kinda clean and organized.
Neways, you have all been doing a great job maitaining the site, but problem solving can’t be done by creating a seperate forum, it just won’t get rid of fipo’s and spammers. Therefor I can’t see much changing, other than there would be a forum which would lead to maybe some more off-topic matter to talk about. Besides, who says spammers aren’t to be shown up at forums? You’ll need a whole new crew for the forum alone. So, we’ll just wait and see. Gd luck!
Count me in! =)
Is this possible for you guys?:
Each news article posted here, will automatically get a thread in that forum. F.ex this ‘Launching RLSLOG forum: first details’ would get a automatically created thread called the same.
Also, let the forum be really secured. And the comments that are posted here, goes automatically in the forum as well. Then, you can have another sub forum that can be used for us members mentioning releases you might have overseen or something. That would make the original thread and comment field a lot more easy-to-follow.