Rob Wood (Admin)

@elax – Everything we do comes with a 100% lifetime refund guarantee already. 🙂

Funnily enough, our overall refund rate is about 1/3 of industry standard. 🙂 🙂

@reyers – Yeah, new blood is an issue that worries me too. But I am actually 90% confident that I would be able to get fewer, but higher-participating new members with a few tweaks.

@tobiepsg – I am pretty sure asking for some $ will stop manual spam right in its tracks. Plus hiding forums posts from Google means there will be no motivation for most spammers (who are wanting a backlink for seo purposes). More below…

Thanks @beaky – you certainly bring some of the magic to the crew too.

@petrnowak – I am going to investigate the invitation thing a little more. Good idea.

Nice one @laurag – I also noticed this one during the week and thought it was great.

Fantastic timing.

I am not sure what is happening with the bw conversion here @reneep – how did you do it?

I am not sure I would do anything about the haze, but the crop on the bottom seems a little tight.

Very solid @vanpraag!

Yeah, this one has been sorted by @livingsta

Where do you have that installed, @3pco?

We have it installed too, but we actually get a lot of manual spam. A person actually does it rather than a bot.

Haha, thank Frank – yeah, he loves that jacket.

A few more thoughts.

Closing the forum actually makes it more useable for current members. For example, at the moment you can only send one personal message per hour. That is to stop spammers abusing the message system. But that has a negative affect on real users too.

Also, we have multiple plugins for spam at the moment. If I remove them, the…[Read more]