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Sober · Post by **Sober** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:08 am

Lock the forum. Should be able to do it from the admin panel. Should be read-only, as well.

That's what I had to do at PFP:

http://www.prefloppoker.com/Forum/phpBB2/index.php

Side question: Is there any way to delete a large amount of members at a time? There are ~1500 registered members at the PFP forum, all but 5 of which are porn spam.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:13 am

If you know SQL, it's easy. If you don't, it's not.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:52 pm

So ... I just lock each of the forums? Or is there a "lock forum" button which just locks the whole thing?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:16 pm

From the admin screen, go to general admin:config:disable board

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:22 pm

I tried that, but it makes the entire forum unviewable. So there's no way to leave it there, but disable new members for the time being?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:59 pm

If you just want to disable registration there's a setting for that in the same 'general configuration' panel.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:19 pm

Do I change "Enable account activation" to "none"? Or is it a different button? I can't seem to find the thing you speak of (I suck A LOT at computers - I can't even believe how bad I am at them).

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:48 pm

Set it to "admin."

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 9:57 pm

fluffy wrote:If you know SQL, it's easy. If you don't, it's not.

Sequalahoozit? Squalchamacalit?

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:17 pm

fluffy wrote:Set it to "admin."

It's been set to admin for months now ... they can't post, but they still register and clutter up everything. Maybe I will just shut down the forum for now.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:45 pm

Oh, there's various mods out there which will make it so that inactive accounts won't show up in the userlist. One such mod is on here, for example. I don't know of any way to completely disable registrations though, at least not in a stock installation.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:30 pm

Would you be able to point me towards (or instruct me on how to setup) one such mod?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:19 pm

You could try checking phpBB.com. I used to have phpBB mods somewhere on my site but I guess in one of my many redesigns it got lost. Sorry.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:30 pm

After a couple hours of work, I've installed EasyMOD and Anti-Spam ACP on radnoise. I'll see how well it works in the next few days.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:26 pm

Well, I'm happy to say I haven't gotten any spam members since I installed the mods. Thanks for your suggestions ... now maybe it won't be such a pain to run my forum.