Not showing any form of Human Verification ... help!

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It was that last setting. Can't believe that would be turned off ... and it's completely buried. Not happy, but at least it's fixed, thanks.

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Hi, spammers can signup for our site without any form of human verification required: http://bostoneurounit.org/

I can't figure out why ... I've turned on and configured reCAPTCHA but it...

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http://www.bostoneurounit.org.php5-1...Forum-software!

See this post..... that sucks. If there's a lightbox, why isn't there a smaller version of the...

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Nevermind. I just realized you have to publish the entire thing. haha

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http://www.bostoneurounit.org.php5-1...etestlink.com/
... We're changing webhosts and upgrading to VB4.

For some reason, that main page isn't visible without logging-in. I can't...

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I'm trying to start a new website in 2009 where the users won't need any sort of "username" but just signup with an email.

This creates a problem for vBulletin where, first off,...

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Good call. registration moderation is the way I'll go....

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Well I already banned his account, but he just creates more.

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This asshole keeps coming on my forums and posting links to my competitor sites, only when I'm not there. He's doing it through various proxy servers. Is there anything anybody can suggest doing about...

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So should I use a previous version of MySQL instead?

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The only MySQL errors I ever receive are from URLs like this:
Script: http://swdf.smashsworld.com/faq.php?...l&titlesonly=0

And it always...

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Thanks.

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My vB is on the one Windows box I've got, and I have no idea how to fine-tune things since it didn't come with a my-large.cnf or anything.

vB is the only thing that's really hammering MySQL...

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I'm not 100% sure on vBulletin's compatibility with Japanese characters... is there anything I have to setup?

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Yes, it is.

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My server's timezone is EST... so is the default registration timezone. Daylight Savings is set to Automatic.

Guest/not logged in users are set to -4 GMT... but logged in/registered users...

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Basically I'd just want to dump all of the news into a forum as threads, and create an account for each of our registered users. What would you suggest as a solution?

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pmachine *does* have a forum built in, but I don't use it because, quite-frankly, it's a piece of crap and that's why I want to move everything to vB. Everything is stored in MySQL, so the information...

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I've got a small news site running off pmachine right now and I want to import all of the articles to a forum and the registered users to vBulletin. Anyone got an importer or is this going to be a huge...