Spam related - tag cloud

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Well... after the switch from vb3 with custom registration path to vb5 with standard registration path I am dealing with massive spam. Ok, noticed the antispam settings akismet and stopforumspam.
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I would use something like this in the templates:

<vb:if condition="$user['usergroupid']== 5">
{vb:phrase your_custom_phrase}
<vb:else />
{vb:phrase

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Well, I didn't notice the double negation

The option is decribed by "This group is NOT a banned group" so it obviously has to be set to NO in this case. This is somewhat unfortunate....

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I am using vb562pl1.

Besides the standard forum use I am connecting my app to vb via API. I can send emails using standard email settings set in the Email Options section. This is fine for...

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I am running vb562pl1 .

I have a standard user group for users that did not confirm their email address or whose email address became inactive during the time being fully registered members....

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Hi, recently upgraded from 368 to 562 and cannot find the per-user forum permissions.

When I find a user via admincp - the useredit form has the option to list current user's permissions...

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I have come up with something like this:
RewriteRule ^forum/(.*)\.php(.*) $1.php$2 [R=301,NC,L]

which is not elegant, but working....

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Thanks for the tips. Will try that.

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The forum move and upgrade process went fine this time, I still have the avatar problem.

I would also like to know how to handle old vb3 redirects to new forum in this case:

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I'd like to get back to the avatars question - they reside in /core/customavatars

what should be the avatarurl and avatarpath settings?
avatarurl = customavatars
avatarpath =...

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Thanks, did not stumble on that bug report earlier. I think in my situation the thing was an out of RAM related issue - there was the 7gb test upgrade residing in second database, which i removed and...

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Hi Wayne, I am so glad I found it.

After those test upgrades and table deletes the two INNODB files holding the log and other data got somehow corrupted.
Since I had no other INNODB...

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The weird thing is that although the tables are not showing in phpmyadmin and are not seen by the upgrade script I am finding files associated with those tables in the mysql data folder /var/lib/mysq...

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After trying numerous retries, the upgrader has problems with creating new tables. Actually none of those as from upgrade step 2 (starting point is vb 3.6.8) get created.
Default storage type is...

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Ok, no need to answer that one, something got messed up in the db cache data after reimporting the backup sql file and starting again after an other upgrade error.

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I will get back to this, thanks.

Now I thought I have the upgrade process trained quite well and wanted to update my live site (turned off to visitors of course). Unfortunately I am getting...

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Thanks Mark B.

I am not, by no means, asking the VB staff for doing my work for me, just would like know how to use an element of the purchased product. I am trying to answer most of my vb-api-related...

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Any suggestions with this one, please?...

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It is not a problem for me to get my thread moved into a more apropriate category if there is one.

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Thanks, shka. Unfortunately I cannot get this accomplished.
Do I have any chance to get an answer from the vbulletin dev team maybe?...