Posted by Kerry Gibbons on November 02, 2005 at 09:16:08:
In Reply to: MSM Message Boards ( message for Kerry) posted by Grant on November 02, 2005 at 09:07:43:
I have thought somewhat about changing the message board, but every time I think I want to do it, then I think about the mountain of good information already posted here and wonder what to do about that.
The web site is still being "attacked" daily by spammers who are now not able to post at all because of my automatic filtering and a few other changes I made, but they still are taking bandwidth and destroying my site stats by polluting it with their URL's.
I know a more modern board would solve a lot of problems, if only I could figure out how to save the existing information in a useful format. I will think some more about that now that the main web site has been redesigned and I am almost done with what I need to finish that up.
: Hi Kerry,
: Ive been frequenting your boards for quite some time now and love the msm product. I just wanted to make a suggestion to help improve your site, and one thing I noticed was that a better message board software would help grow a base of tighter knit members - this would also help encourage people to come back instead of posting just 1 question, only to be never heard from again.
: I guess its the fact that people can keep their usernames, and that they have their own individual identities on their boards.
: Some great forum software could be found at:
: http://www.vbulletin.com/ (an example of this would be: http://forums.clubrsx.com/)
: or
: http://www.invisionboard.com/
: or
: http://www.phpbb.com/
: Im not affiliated with these forum software companies in anyway, I just thought I would give an honest suggestion to help this site grow bigger - and have comraderie betweeen msm users grow.
: Right now, using the search function on your site, is very tough - as in, the search function duplicates, or triplicates things. The posting options and chance for discussion is limited at best. Its even possible for anyone to impersonate you by just typing "Kerry Gibbons" in the username. Obviously, since you moderate the posts right now, you wouldnt have this problem, but I think you understand what Im trying to get at.
:
: I know that you recently had problems with people posting advertisements ( I come to your boards 3 - 4 x a day), and I really think this would be a solution to you having to moderate every post.
: I dont really mind if you dont approve this post to go on the general msm-msm board, but I just wanted to bring it to your attention and maybe hopefully msm-msm.com will consider a new message baord software.
: thanks for your time!
: Grant