Chris

I wish to make two announcements -

1) New Administrator at WAB!
I am pleased to announce the appointment of TopHatter as an Administrator here at World Affairs Board (WAB) effective immediately. The administrative duties at WAB continue to grow and with Gio and Iron Duke not being around as much at the present time we need another solid member to add to the administration team.

The entire moderation team are all doing an outstanding job at moderating the board and I don't think much is going to change with TopHatter in this new role apart from him taking on a few extra responsibilities and getting a new colour of title.

2) Upgrade to vBulletin 3.6.0
We have upgraded the vBulletin installation here at WAB to the latest 3.6.0 release which introduces several bug fixes, security updates as well as a few new features as well. E.g. AJAX posting interface, multi-quote etc.

The real benefit of the new version are on the moderation side though with the new infraction system which will allow us to handle warnings and bannings far easier and hopefully lighten the moderation load slightly. Not that we like banning people though. We hope to get this all running over the coming weeks.

I am also hoping that this new version of vBulletin will help to cut down on a lot of spammers / bots that we have had singing up recently.

As a result of this upgrade we have had to remove the "WAB Dark" skin as it is no longer compatible with this version of vBulletin. There wil no doubt be a few other things we need to work out as well.

You can view a full list of all the benefits and new features introduce by this upgrade in the official release announcement for vBulletin 3.6.0 at: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=194072

Thank you for reading!

- Chris

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gunnut

Ahhhh!!!! Nooooooo, I like the dark skin

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TopHatter

Thanks Chris, I really appreciate it.

Julie

Free cheetos for everybody now ?? !

Congrats !

Hey, I have to sign in every time even though I don't sign out when I leave. Where's my cookies?

Confed999

Me too. Getting a headache... :(

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THL

Hey I have a question Mr. Hotsy Totsy Admin Guy (directed toward TH, not you Chris )...

How come we cannot see the list of members?

Not that it is important enough for me to ask that it come back, don't really care myself except that I was looking for some entertainment here at 2:18 this morning (Two more nights then I go back to days next Friday and I will not have to search for fun at all hours of the night for approximately 5-6 weeks).

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TopHatter

Well, there are some extremely aggressive e-mail harvester spam bots out there.

And we'd prefer to keep our member's e-mail and other information secret.

Ray

Must we have to wait a decade before they are declassified?

Can't we use the Right to Information Act?

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TopHatter

Nope, because spammers don't have the Right to our Information.

Ray

Draconian!

Dollar Imperialism.

Capitalist hound!

Hey! why haven't you guys brought the American flag? How can this protest go on without the grand finale of burning the US Flag and why the hell are the rest of the demonstrators knocking off Coca Cola and Big Mac?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, you guys!!!!!!

glyn

THL

you still can see the information that each member has included in their profile buy clicking on their name in whatever random post they have posted in and then selecting "view public profile". There is just no master list that one can use to obtain everyone's information at one time.

glyn

[quote=TopHatsLiberal;270450]you still can see the information that each member has included in their profile buy clicking on their name in whatever random post they have posted in and then selecting "view public profile". There is just no master list that one can use to obtain everyone's information at one time.


[color="Blue"]Thank you, dear heart. I have been ploughing (plowing) through the members introductions listing (and noting that many have left us) but your suggestion is even better. To hear is to obey!/COLOR]

THL

*gasp* A gentleman who takes what I say and adds the word "obey" to it...I could get used to this!!!

TopHatter

Well, the member listing never gave country of origin anyway.
That information (as THL mentioned) has always - and only - been in the Member Profiles.

I agree that the member listing was a very nice thing to have, but it was also nice for spammer's to use.