Spambots and You

Post by **bicostp** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 11:18 am

Because.

If you want to customize the forums, install the Stylish extension for Firefox and make your own user style. (Basically you write your own CSS code and it applies it for you.) www.userstyles.org has a couple, but they're down for the time being. (At least for me.)

As I said before, a lot of forum skins are ugly as poop ans squish the text into a 200 pixel wide square.

Notice you're the only one with a problem with the look of the forum?

Go find a decent looking skin that doesn't eat bandwidth and doesn't restrict forum width and we'll think about it.

Post by **Skyone** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:41 pm

bicostp wrote:Notice you're the only one with a problem with the look of the forum? Go find a decent looking skin that doesn't eat bandwidth and doesn't restrict forum width and we'll think about it.

Actually, no. All other subXXX templates would eat the same amount of bandwidth, and I can name quite a few that look better than this, with all of the restrictions you noted. And how would replacing the phpBB logo with the custom logo eat bandwidth? I'm sure everyone would like it more, though it's not a huge deal.

EDIT: Doesn't Ben have unmetered bandwidth? What's the big deal?

Post by **gannon** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:55 pm

All we're saying is that if you want to complain about the template, find/make one and show it to us, we might add it.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:14 pm

I remember a while back that there was a new skin that looked just like our current one (subSilver) but more "Milky" and with a cooler logo. Am i just dreaming?

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:29 pm

I think skyone made a second logo to replace the Phpbb one up top.

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Post by **Skyone** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:56 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:I think skyone made a second logo to replace the Phpbb one up top.

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Check back a page.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:02 pm

Yeah! Thats the one!

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EnterTheHatrix · Post by **EnterTheHatrix** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:12 am

bicostp wrote:Because.

If you want to customize the forums, install the Stylish extension for Firefox and make your own user style. (Basically you write your own CSS code and it applies it for you.) www.userstyles.org has a couple, but they're down for the time being. (At least for me.)

As I said before, a lot of forum skins are ugly as poop ans squish the text into a 200 pixel wide square.

Notice you're the only one with a problem with the look of the forum? Go find a decent looking skin that doesn't eat bandwidth and doesn't restrict forum width and we'll think about it.

First of all, what is your problem?

Second of all, I don't have a problem with the subsilver theme, I have a problem with the stock phpbb logo on the forum, which, lets face it, is horrible.. It doesn't take 2 seconds to change it, and there is one already made!

I don't know what forums you've been visiting, but I haven't seen any with their forums squeezed into a 200px box, and I wasn't implying to make this forum 200px in width either. I had no intention to make this place cause siezures with 100s of colourful graphics, just a change of the stock graphics. Where's the harm in that?
There are 100s of subSilver style themes, but in different colours that look great.

sgtpepper · Post by **sgtpepper** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:13 pm

Hey I think there's a spambot on the loose with the name "retromaster". It seems to be a new breed of spambot programmed to emulate an annoying prepubescent 12 year old

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:42 pm

And people have been naming themselves things that arn't true.

master of portables
retromaster
benheck

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cheese007 · Post by **cheese007** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:39 pm

Was the mod uninstalled or something, because I'm seeing spambots everywhere.

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:43 pm

cheese007 wrote:Was the mod uninstalled or something, because I'm seeing spambots everywhere.

No, that's an actual person spamming around. It will be taken care of soon.

Mr.Game and watch · Post by **Mr.Game and watch** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:35 am

i found a froum thats is now ruin thx to Spambots http://www.sims-site.com/forums/index.php that forum i joined was full of XXX.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am

sgtpepper wrote:Hey I think there's a spambot on the loose with the name "retromaster". It seems to be a new breed of spambot programmed to emulate an annoying prepubescent 12 year old

lol i like how all the younger members are freely critisized in here since they wouldnt even bother checking this forum o and just letting you know that since the upgrade ive seen my first spambot only now so good work and just saying i think the forum is fine how it is fancy graphics and stuff do not matter

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:52 pm

Since we haven't had any bots around here for a loooong time, I think it's safe to destickify this