Questions and Answers (Q&A)

[HeadInAnotherGalaxy]

Why waz the ability tae change yer zcreen name removed?

[The Lady Shael]

To reduce confusion, mostly. It's hard to keep track of who's who if people are free to change their usernames at any time.

If you really want/need to change your screen name, just send me a PM.

[Wot Wot!]

So what happened with the "banned from the forum" issue.  Something about anti-spam?  Fancy keeping a hare from a bit of chat and nip and tuck, wot!  Bally well threw me for a loop!

[The Lady Shael]

Sorry again. >.< There's a lot of anti-spam measures we are trying to put in place and unfortunately some innocent members (two mods included) got caught in them too. Definitely will be more careful next time.

[DanielofRedwall]

Wait? What actually happened?

[Matthias720]

While working to prevent more spam on the forum, Lady S accidentally banned a few members with the same email providers as some of the spambots. She quickly realized what happened and fixed it.

Or at least, that's how I understand it happened.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

Some of the spambots' hostnames were the same as some members, effectively banning them along with the offending accounts.

[Tiria Wildlough]

Ooh, bad. Anyway...!

[Coobreedan]

Let's make a feast for DanielOfRedwall! He didn't eat for 40 hours the other day so he must be pretty hungry!

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

If you want to honor the guy, feel free to go and make something informal in Cavern Hole/The Cellars.

[Coobreedan]

Okay. *Heads over to The Cellars*

[Tiria Wildlough]

I was just thinking, why don't we have a registration question for when people sign up? I mean, like a Redwall-related question, to stop spambot. I don't really know much about spambots, but that's just my little idea.

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

That's possible with SMF 2.0, which we don't run off of. A mod can work that with our current version, but both can not be implemented by forum administrators, only server administrators.

[Dotti]

Hi, this is a really minor issue, but do you think someone could add a comma or a colon or something on the bar that says "Redwall Discussion (Beware Spoilers)"  so it doesn't look like we're telling a group of people who tend to mess things up they'd better watch themselves on our forum? Thanks!   

[Taggerung_of_Redwall]

I don't see your point. Why would different punctuation make it different? At present, the implied meaning is "be on your guard for spoilers". How is that telling people they mess things up?