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New Mod / Admin Welcome - SORT : S - R - V - R
Here you can welcome new moderators and admins. Here is where we can suggest new moderators to be added to the team.


From Admin... - SORT : S - R - V - R
Just so we can inform you when changes are made


Moderating How To's And Tutorials - SORT : S - R - V - R
Fill it up with info for new moderators.


Spam And Moderated Posts - SORT : S - R - V - R
Put posts to be deleted here, move posts that are not approved here so we don't have to hunt for them. It's a place to keep proof if we ever need it.


Forum Maintenance - SORT : S - R - V - R


Group Projects - SORT : S - R - V - R
Any project where we need to split the workload.


Staff Chat - SORT : S - R - V - R
And as per request, a forum for the Staff to chat without post count


TOPICS

Uhm Credits?

Uhm I've been noticing that in a week my credits dropped from over 100 to 45. Can someone explain to me what happened? Because to my knowledge, I didn't delete my own posts, and I hardly think anyone here would go about deleting my posts - unless someone is not telling me. Which is ok - but then let another admin know. My idea is : someone found the method *cough* to deduct credits. just to check ... after making the PREVIOUS post my count dropped to 44.08..

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Important Things To Take Care Of As A Staff

I thank Dooga for putting up this Good Guide for the staff. If you people have not read it, you can read it here. [url="http://www.trap17.com/forums/moderator-rules-and-info-t8869.html"]http://www.trap17.com/forums/moderator-rul...info-t8869.html[/url] This post is mainly points out some additional important things behind our real mission. I assume all the members here know that, Free Hosting Review sites do not contribute much of the traffic here. The only reason we have been able to come all

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Warning System

The Warning thing we have right now is good, but I think it should be kinda like the reputation thing, where you can see which post (or profile) the reputation point was made from. This would let us not make redundant warnings on the same thing, or show that a post has not been warned. The way it is now only shows the time, but if someone made multiple bad posts with the similar reason to be warned, we don't know which one was warned. If this additional information cannot be added, I think w

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An Apology To The Group

Hey guys. Just wanted to apologise to you all for the way that I acted on IRC yesterday. Here is a full reason for what got my anger so high yesterday: [list=1] [*]The bots are annoying. [*]MSE, please lay off the Masskicks and bans [*]MSE, please don't always have to have the last word, we are all friends here [*]MSE, I am glad that you registered the channel, but relenquish some control to the rest of the mods. [*]MSE, please as I did yesterday, if you ever have a problem with something

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Knock Knock :)

Yohhooooooooooo guys Am BACKKK !!! Phewww finally... feel like am reborn again. Been out in the wilderness for too long. Right after my long and intense trip home I came back to thailand and immediately was off on a month and half survey to the remotest corners of thailand - including some places where a telephone is unheard of (literally).. forget about internet. We're going to handle another project on remote monitoring of produce & inventory of every agricultural station

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List Of Spammers To Be Banned

Should I suspend all their accounts before I post their names here? I see that one of them is still online now and suspended his posting rights... Here's the list: [b]Zapelomen cialviagra XCracker Grenuychik AdvertBob billbob7242 VovTortki[/b] I will delete all their postings...all in this [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=ST&f=16&t=13856&st=0"]topic[/url] too. Makes it easier to track them (one person?) down and kill him quickly

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Having More Than One Account

I read all the rules and terms of service here at Astahost and don't see it being mentioned. So, is it ok for a member to register twice here or is that double dipping? That is, if they can even keep up with two accounts....

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The Famous Edit Post

I noticed that it's been reinstated as privilege. Now today I had this sad blink (uhm am using weird words to not cuss) posting crap basically. Not only that but he had removed the content from many of his posts replacing it with absolute crap, and since some were topic starters I had to remove the topics. Is there any way to allow members the edit posts button but restrict it? Or maybe make it an extra when they have x posts??

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Staff IM Contact Details

Hey guys got a bit of a suggestion here, Sometimes Its important for the mods and admins to chat to each other in real time..we are the moment use the forum built in PM system for most of that contact. I suggest that if we use an IM such as Skype, MSN, etc that we leave the details in here so we can chat faster and more effective and also..bringing us together a bit more as a team I use Skype and my username is:Sounds Of The Suburbs And Gtalk:Soundsofthesuburbs@gmail.com Hope you think its a

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Competition?

I was browing through forum posts and I came accross a few recently about other free hosting companies.... I checked it out and found this : [url="http://www.forums.t-rh.net/index.php?showtopic=74"][color="red"]Fixed link[/color] Competition[/url] They offer very similar hosting as we do...But then they offer a lot mroe upgrades then us. When I come accross free hosting ads for other sites should I delete the post...Or if the whole thread talks about it delete the whole thread...Or give them

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This Is For Us Only

This is to help us out while managing the board. Sometimes it's easier to give each other a heads up here than with PM or email. We can post questions, or issues or concerns we have here. This can be a good tool for us to manage the board. Please add to this post what we need to add here for this to be the best forum / hosting experience we can have and give. Nils

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Approving Hacking Challenges

As qwijibow suggested, due to the number of hacking tutorials and the frequency with which they are being posted, as well as in light of the fact that everyone seems to be making them (or copying them from elsewhere), I think it may be time to start approving them like is done with the tutorials. If everyone thinks this is a good idea, but no one wants to because it is too much of a hassle, I volunteer to take on this duty if everyone agrees to help out when I can't because I go away or som

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Something's Bugging Me

First things first, I'm not looking to bully any member of this forum, I try to do things as honest as possible, but I happened to look at our dear friend soleimanian's posts today and it kind of saddens me to see that most of his posts are either. - oneliners - some-weird-half-kinda-tutorialthingys-that-noone-asks-for. I'm especially not comfortable with the last one, it's seems to me that he either copies them somewhere from the web (not that i managed to find proof), or he k

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Spam Attack?

Hey guys, The level of spam is getting really out of hand. Is the CAPTCHA failing? I think we should implement reCAPTCHA in our forums since apparently those work a lot better and maybe add a simple math quiz so that we can make sure that it's a human and not a bot registering. Like, the problem is that we got a lot more spammers than usual. I have suspended like 8 people for the past week or so. xboxrulz

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Need Suggestions From The Staff - Again!

Well, I've cleaned out the remaining inactive moderators. Every staff member that has served here has done a great job but eventually, their lives either get too busy to hang out here as much as they used to or they just lose interest. And usually even active staff member tend to do less moderating after a while which is my situation. The job is a lot of work sometimes! For example, reviewing a tutorial:[list=1] [*]How is the tutorial: Bad, Good, Great, Too Good (probably copied) [*]

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New Avatar!

[img]http://www.t101.uni.cc/stuff/albums/images/asta%20ban.png[/img] Dont you think it will go nice for spammers?

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Self Promotion Allowed?

For user Ajay Shivaa, all of the posts made by this user has a link back to his/her website. I see that it's in the Internet and Websites section, but is this really necessary to "spam" the board like that? Originally, I thought I had warned this user weeks back but I see he has a 0% warning now. I would warn him, but by the amount of self promoting links he posted, I might as well ban the account

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L337

l337...not l337_pedestrian...is inactive but somehow a main mod....I suggest you delete him from the moderating team...Considering he has no posts at all...Just a suggestion though.... If somebody could fill me in to why he is even on the team that would be nice to Thnx - Spacewaste

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Allowing Users To Modify There Own Posts ?

Ive noticed there are sometimes PM's from users asking mods to modify there posts for them. a while back, one user made several requests in as many days. should we not allow users to modify there own posts ??? just a surgestion.

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Organization

I'm not sure, but I think that astahost, who used to be very organized... is starting to resemble Trap17 (not that it's very bad)... I mean not because there's spam or queued posts or anything, but it's the descriptions of the forum... they seem a bit unattractive when they are not unified... like the fonts are bold and theres links etc. I'm not sure if I'm right, but I think it wouldn't make a difference if the bold words and colors were just converted back... I mean

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Some New Forum Features?

Has anyone noticed that now when we read a topic, we only see the first post and a tree linking to all the posts in that topic? Then, when we would have to click on that post to read it, but we can only read them one at a time? Or is that only a feature for dial-up users? It's really annoying and I wish to change that setting. Also, try going to your control panel and change your profile. Scroll down to the bottom and you will see a section called Hosting Token2, right below the Cpanel User

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Opaque

You told me once to - if all posts by a member should be re;oved to tell you - well now is the time [url="http://www.astahost.com/free-web-hosting-ishimaru-riku-t8681.html"]http://www.astahost.com/free-web-hosting-i...riku-t8681.html[/url] that guy - 30 one liners and applied twice

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I Disagree With A Recent Accepted Tutorial

link to tutorial. [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=7453&st=0&#entry48708"]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopi...t=0&#entry48708[/url] In my opinion, this tutorial surgests bad practice, disregarding filetype extensions, and delibratly performing poor directory organisation to hide files. I also believe that this is obsolite, as a correct use windows multi-user multi-login and passwords should protect your own files from other users much better. Also, there are

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Odd Jump In Credits.

Hiyah guys, Not been around too much posting wise but have been sorting out hosting requests and tuts, as a consequence my credits have been dropping down. About a month ago I had around 60+credits, not done too much posting so its been decresing, last week I checked I was on around 26, I have made a few posts but not many. Today I am checking out all the hosting requests that are sitting around and I now notice my credits are on 6! The only thing I can think of is that someone has deleted s

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Some Clarifcation Please

Hey guys, Can I ask who altered [url="http://www.astahost.com/ajayshivaa-m20134.html"]http://www.astahost.com/ajayshivaa-m20134.html[/url] warning level up to 20%? And for what reason? A couple of days ago he asked me to remove a post via a pm. “Sir, I request you to delete a topic > Free Web Hosting > Computers & Tech > Software > Freeware > Advanced Windowscare Pro For Free (today Only!) because i made a mistake while posting . i.e., I cannot change the topic tit

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Moderation Of Member Signature

Okay, just to let you know, I am removing JimBeans Signiture, because for it, he is using this.... [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/TomsDad/Astahost/Jim.png[/img] I have left him a message in his signiture, and I hope that he learns from it... Just wanted to give you a heads up...

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Not Mod Any More?

Hey, I was just checking my last post here, and I noticed that I am not listed as a mod anymore, just member, was I removed for something that I had done? Was if for that dang spamming incident that I described earlier? If so I will quit comming to the staff forum, or if it was a foul up in the update of the site, then just please let me know....... -William

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Improper Warning

At the Top of the main page is the welcome to astahost message which includes this line:[quote]PS : All Gamers and Gaming Freaks, Computer noobs / beginners, IE Users etc. Please go to Trap17.com[/quote] While I agre this kind of warning is necessary to help prevent astahost from being swarmed, I feel that the IE Users portion is inappropriate. Although Firefox is a better brwser than IE, I feel it is unfair to discriminate against people because of their browser. Also, I still use IE, as som

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Servers Compromised?

I believe recent hacks have taken place here, but I can't tell who has been affected. I know I was but to know how they got in is a different story. A noticable difference is permission settings, I know for starters we don't need execute permissions on our text files, yet this seems to be the case, a lot of files that don't need execute have it. Some of my configuration files were given write access and were Injected to make users who visited my site download a Windows dll file.

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Member Registration Suggestion

Problem: I've noticed that there's quite a few people who sign up with Astahost, make 10 short posts and then request hosting. Of course they are denied and have unnecessarily wasted their time and our time. For some reason, they didn't have what it takes to click the link to the rules and thoroughly read the rules to find out if Astahost is the place for them. Suggestion: I propose that upon initial registration with us, an automatic email or PM (or both) be sent to the new member

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Was I Too Hard On Pc Astray ?

PC Astray selectivle coppied and pasted a google announcement. [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=ST&f=29&t=5022&st=0#entry33089"]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=ST&f...st=0#entry33089[/url] the post was not in quote marks, so removed the hosting credits he gained for that post, and put a notice for other moerators. He then gave me negative reputation for moderating his post. was i nit-picking too much in moderating that post ???

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Mask Changes

hi, have members always been able to edit their own posts? or is this new? if it's old, I'm going insane, if not, great job admins! and can members close their own topics? or is this a junior mod permission? thanks, IF.

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New Hosting Closed Until We Get Server Fixed

We are not approving any new hosting until we have the server fixed. This means users who are waiting for hosting or upgrdes will have to wait until this is straightened up. Tell users to be patient and that we are working on it. Nils

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So Long And Thanks For All The Fish!

Hey guys sad news and good news! Sad news first, I am going to have to give my hosting here and my moderator position. Tbh I really have not had the time to put into the site like I used too. The good news, I have just got a paid hosting here at computing host and in the next week I wil transfer all my sites over to the paid hosting. Well all I can say is THANK YOU GUYS!! I really could not have got to where I am now without this hosting, these people and this place. I really lear

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Bbcodes

szupie, create a spam post, inside bb codes. add it to the end of a another post. put it inside bb codes and see if you get any credits, then delete it and see if the credits was deducted. What I mean is don't create a new topic, just a post on another topic. Nils

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I'm Gone For The Weekend

I'm not going to be much online this weekend. Maybe a little this evening. I'm working a boatshow and there will be no internet connection there See you all Sunday night or Monday morning. Nils

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Approving Our Own Tutorials

The whole point of forcing moderators to approve tutorials is to a) make sure they aren't copied. make sure they apply. c) make sure they are good. As moderators, are we allowed to approve our own tutorials or would it be better to let another mod approve them. Also, can moderators award extra credits for good tutorials (and if so how), or just admins. ~Viz

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Need Suggestion Regarding Action On Member

Hi guys, This soleimanianamuman is turning going wild. Take a look at this post - [url="http://www.astahost.com/how-retouch-pictures-t6060.html"]http://www.astahost.com/how-retouch-pictures-t6060.html[/url] - exact double post in a span of couple of days. Now his Warning Bar is 100% full - and he doesn't seem to be bothered with it. He still pours forth all the shit he can will full enthusiasm... 1. I feel sorry for him - coz he isn't a native english speaker and from the content/lang

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New And Upcoming Spammers

So far today ive warned two members, both for different types of spam. rhodesian.dragon first of all, as he posts some pretty useless posts and just usually makes very little contribution and quotes others a lot. Ive sent him a PM with the warning explaining why. And the second is prosorcerer for making very short posts. Why are the spammers getting more force, theres more every day. Can you help me keep an eye on these guys?

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Tutorial Quality

[url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=3045&view=findpost&p=19523"]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopi...indpost&p=19523[/url] Does this qualify as a tutorial? It looks kinda not useful to me or anyone around here and it doesn't seem like he put some effort in it. But since it's visible this means that someone approved it doesn't it? Btw. is that thing with tutorials_wont_be_visible_untill_approved thingy still around?

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New Addition To Astahost Staff :-)

Hello, Velma has been appointed as a moderator at Astahost. She is a support tech for XistoSupport.com and has good knowledge of the web hosting operations in Xisto. I believe her position at AstaHost will help us solve member queries faster. I request other staff members to guide and assist her with staff operations. I am sorry for taking this decision without any discussion with other staff members. Being a tech at xistosupport, I hope things will be processed faster. This is just another s

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Problem Member

Check his [url="http://www.astahost.com/request-free-host-t4215.html"]second hosting request[/url]. I set it to invisible, because it's the same as the one he already posted. He also again copied posts, for which I warned him, but his level was already 100%, so it only shows up as note (in the warning level pop up) His [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=2118&view=findpost&p=13204"]RSS Post[/url] is a direct copy from [url="http://www.webreference.com/authoring/languag

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I Have Two Questions

I ask my question here, so nobody knows that a guy from the staff (myself) is sometimes probably stupid. My first question : it seems that there is a big difference between the "myEarnings" I see for my account in front of my posts, and the "Account Credit Balance" I see in the ComputingHost (Xisto) Client area. Is this normal ? My second question is : am I still sleeping, or is there a hidden menu somewhere for asking for new items like more databases or more disk space ?

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The Recent Explosion Of Spam

[url="http://www.astahost.com/myspace-audio-t6970.html"]http://www.astahost.com/myspace-audio-t6970.html[/url] Ok, at some point we apparently ended up being listed as a free vid and music host by some dude on MySpace, while it brings us several (too many actually) new members, usually they spam and just wanna get hosting for music files, which is against the TOS. If you get more questions about music hosting, PLEASE JUST WARN AND PM "THe question you posed about music hosting has been a

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Post Ipb V2.1.4 Upgrade Cleanup

I thought we should have a running list of little errors on the website so that OpaQue can address them as he gets time. This will prevent us from flooding him with emails about issues.[list=1] [*][s]Need Site Logo[/s] Temporary one uploaded. [*]Need Fav Icon - Trap17 favicon works in the address bar but not the browser tab. Probably used an image instead of an icon file. - Should use favicon.ico - Favicon works on the Trap17 site index but in the forums, the IPB icon is display sometimes. N

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Nominations Needed!

We could use some nominations for new moderators. Our staff is too small for the number of problems we have to deal with. I understand that some mods are able to spend more time here than others. This isn't the real problem. The problem is the number of mods. We currently have for mods and we need at least two more in my opinion. Give me your nominations and I'll see what OpaQue thinks! vujsa

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Groups

hey, I was wondering if this group could be allowed to see the invisible posts, because then I (I'm the only one in the group) would see what is considered spam etc. And also, it would help if I could see the reported posts, because then I can see what the mods do when they see spam etc. reported. thanks, IF.

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Can We Put Out A New Rule?

Yet again today I think ive banned about 6 ppl from posting porn links and general spam from the forums and had to remove many posts. I am starting to notice like someone else mentioned before..its all on topics with "NEW" in the title..is there anyway we can put out an announcement to stop users from using the word NEW in the topic title? This would help us all out till we can get a better security system on our sign ups.. I really think this will help us! Marky;)

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What Should Be Done Here?

Take a look at this user's posts -> richie I gave him a warning and 15 days without posting rights, only to find a bunch more of his crappy posts (continuous copying/pasting of his own replies to spike up the credits). I see that this user is a hosted member now, but I'm thinking of giving him the boot at this stage...

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Should We Enforece Signatures Of A Particular Size

Hi all, Take a look at this post: [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=1482&view=findpost&p=8376"]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopi...findpost&p=8376[/url] This guys post is a one-liner but the signature image size is over 10 times the size of his post.. lol.. Do you guys think we should enforce signature images to be within a particular height x width ? Most of the ones around Whatpulse size are pretty ok and load fast enough - but ths image alone is 11K (320x240

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Faq Needs Updating

First of all, what I found that needs updating. M^E, in the answer to question "Is there any other way of viewing my present Hosting Credits count?", you mentioned IRC. But you left out the webpage that Rebecca pulls from to get this number. I use this page to get the number of days my site will be up and post it on the main page of my site. Side Note about the previous addition to the faq. You may want to disable this method of access, I think it lets you view the credits of any

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Multi - Moderation

While denying some hosting request, I noticed an option that I am sure wasn't there before - "Multi-Moderation" (bottom of the hosting request topic page). I can see that it has "Deny", "Approve Plan 1" and "Approve Plan 2", but I don't know how each of these functions. Actually, I'm only interested in "Deny", as it is not up to me to approve requests I guess it just locks and moves the topic, but I wanted to be sure.

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Asta Ads

I'm really liking the credit transfer idea. I haven't had a chance to use it yet but it is a great idea. Along the lines of gaining credits as a reward for helping, I was thinking AstaHost could benefit from other credit awarding systems. We already get credits for posting and we get more credits for posting tutorials. Now we also might get even more credits for helping our fellow members with their problems. I was thinking about awarding credits on a Pay Per Click basis. Set up As

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Be Careful Deleting Whole Threads

Yesterday I had slightly above 0 credits. Today I am at negative 4. Now, as I see it, there are two possibilities: 1) Something wrong with the credit script 2) Somebody deleted a whole thread with some of my posts in it. The second situation is more likely, and was the case for a lot of credit disappearances a while ago. I am not too concerned about the credit loss, because it is small and I should be able to make it up easily (especially since this post helps) but just wanted to remind ever

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I'm Back Finally :)

Hi guys, Am back from my little trip to afterworld - almost. All these weeks without a decent network and net connection I came very close to a taste of utter hell. It's a miracle that I survived through this phase. Moving my office took far longer than I expected - and then we'd to do all the electrical+network wiring ourselves - coz none of the stupid technicians in thailand can ever get it right even if you chalk it out in the tinniest detail.. Then was the problem with the phone c

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Swamped!

At the beginning of the summer there was a dramatic change in my work schedule. It has continued to get more difficult to adjust to as the weeks have progressed. Basically, right now I am working 10 hour overnight shifts four days a week and trying to catch up on sleep my days off. My schedule varies from week to week no it is very difficult to adjust to the changes. On top of that, I have many family activities that I have been busy with which has completely kept me from visiting AstaHost.

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Fixed The Links Directory

Hi guys, Finally got time to fix that link directory. Still needs some more work, as in, it still isn't good at keeping you logged in. Some problem with lost session cookies. On the other hand, that offending automated mail about you being added to the 4ppl.com dating directory won't happen anymore - fixed that issue. It took me a while to figure out - I was searching like crazy in all the php files, whereas clever dicks had stored the content of the acceptance and approval mails in

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Credit System 2 Or 3?

Ummm... guys, why do I have both versions 2 and 3. I see 2 is still active, what's up with that? I thought we officially moved to 3? If I drain out on 2 would I lose my hosting? Many thanks, xboxrulz

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Birthday Module Isn't Working Properly

Well, it is my birthday today but IPB didn't post that up in the front page. I did enter my DOB in my profile. xboxrulz

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Is This An Appropriate Username?

Our newest member (as of my writing this) is [url="http://www.astahost.com/homosaregayy-m5791.html"]homosaregayy[/url]. I was wondering if this nick is appropriate, if it isn't what do we about it and future cases of inappropriate nicks, and where do we draw the line on appropriate usernames. Also, I have recently seen a lot of advertising in signatures and the like for competition web hosting. did we ever come to a consensus on what to do in situations where people advertise competition?

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A Couple Of Good Ideas?

Hey guys, A few weeks ago a new member posted a topic that was basically copied from someones tech blog, the author tracked it down and he posted that it was his and wanted the post removed etc etc. I was the first mod on the case so I went to his site got his contact details and emailed him that I had tracked the post back to him and was it him that had posted here to complain.It was him and he was very happy that I had done this and that I promised to remove the post and ban the user.THe user

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Ouch !

I don't know if you have noticed this, but I see a lot of porn material these days. Either in old posts, or directly in new topics. Fortunately the report system works fine. But I still have to have a look at the new topics every day to find the stupid guys starting new topics with pharm or porn contents.

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The Astahost Rules...

Hi guys, I had a set of standard replies and warnign messages saved in my Opera but after a rebuild I forgot to save them so I started to make new ones. Below is the standard "Plag" message I would send out form now on. [color="#0000ff"]Hi, I am one of the team of moderators that look after the Astahost forums. We check out the posts on the forum as they come in and also heavly check out new members posts on the forum. Astahost has a lot of rules about copying information from oth

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Will Be Quiet

I thought I'd let you all know, I may be quiet for a few days, I hope it won't come to that, but still I wanted to let you know. At the moment I have bronchitis again (had one about 2,5 wks ago) with of course serious issues breathing, coughing and then puking and of course fever. I have been on antibiotics for over 21 days in about 2 to 3 months. So I am going to the doctors tomorrow and he can forget about me taking antibiotics (I react very badly to them, to the extent of getting sic

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Can You Guys See The Irony?

This is a topic picking on a topic that was deemed "Flame Bait" why isn't this flamebait?: [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=3086&hl="]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=3086&hl=[/url] This post was deemed flamebait! why was it flamebait? can you tell the difference: [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=2262&hl="]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=2262&hl=[/url] I think it shows a lot of maturity that the post in the firs

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Rewards System

Hi guys, After lengthy discussions on this OpaQue and myself have come to a conclusion that we should try and install some sort of Credit Transfer/Rewards system - with which members (with more than 30 credits in store) can announce a certain amount of credits as reward for helping him out in some technical problem. He'll be able to allot any amounts of credits he has in excess of thrity credits - no maximum limit fixed yet. The purpose of this system is to encourage other members to com

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Anyone Got My Favourite Software ?

Guys - I need to get hold of a copy of Plagiarism Tester. At one time I was happily distributing it around - but I have lost my copy. Anyone has backups ?? I wiped it out from that download location too. I've been hunting madly everywhere.. but cannot get my hands on it. The old version - or better yet, anyone's got a newer one ?

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Finally Velma Is Back

Howdy, First of all I am extremely sorry for suddenly vanishing from the forums *hides face* but I got so freakishly busy at ComputingHost that it got very difficult for me to moderate both trap and asta.. But now that ComputingHost is under control I can finally focus on the forums again. :XD: If any mods were elected and have never heard of me.. I work for Xisto and am usually online ready to help. On a serious note, I want to know if there are major things that need to be done for the forum

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Rep System Broken?

Okay, here is what confused me... [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v213/TomsDad/rep.png[/img] Now, am I so bad at math that I didn't realize that -1 + -1 = 2, or is my rep thing wrong???

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When (if Ever) Will Programming Contests Forum Be

Hey guys, ive noticed the porgramming challenge forum has been closed for quite some time. is it likely to be opened anytime ? and what type of programming challenges are likely to be submitted there ?

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Opinion About This

arcaniss seems to be asking for a hosting. I don't really thinks he deserve's it yet because he has just posted 2 copied articles within a few minutes. what do you guys think about this? It also seems this is happening a lot these days.

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Forum Bug ?

When viewing someone's reputation, click there name link (the one that usually brings up profile information) it causes the following error. [quote]mySQL query error: SELECT title FROM astahost_topics WHERE tid = mySQL error: You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1 mySQL error code: Date: Thursday 26th of May 2005 11:05:43 PM[/quote] just posting incase this bug is no

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Somthing Funny To Share With Just You Guys :)

I wasnt sure exactly if this would be suitable for the main user viewable forum, but too funny to not share. so ive posted it here. im 99.999% certain that this is not offensive at all, but im not going to risk it. ANYWAYS.... In a local night club, a ai left the WC, somthing caught my eye... Beeing the computer nerd i am, i just HAD to take a photo (no one else was in the room) The makers of the condom machine had stolen the FreeBSD logo ! and were selling it to sell condoms and other

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Look At This One

Vagodeoz, is complaining about the same issue in multiole treads, doen tot go back and read the answer to his first question on why there is no invision board in cPanel. [url="http://www.astahost.com/Vagodeoz-m2979.html"]Vagodeoz[/url] Nils

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Asta Radio!

[u][b]Asta-Radio![/b][/u] What do ya think We could have a radio station for Astahost, what we do is use shoutcast to stream a low birate radio station, maybe 32kbps then its small enough for dialup and good enough quality for Broadband. It wont be illegal as we arent letting users download the music, its just listening in and all the technology for its free. The staff and some "good" members could have there own shows, in which they can either play music or just yak. It would

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Forum Time: Why Is It Off?

Why is the forum time off? It's off by over 2 hours, and it's really bugging me. Can anyone change it back to the correct time?

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Spammer Alert

There's this dude who's been constantly pasting stuff from the CPAN Perl archives - big chunks of them unscrupulously. I've weeded out all his posts and banned him. But he keeps coming back with a new nick everytime. I'll see how far he goes and then ban his IP. So far his nicks have been: [b]Jefferyssite, Jefferyssite2 & Jefferyssite3[/b] - he's either as thick as a brick or that's the image he's trying to portray. Dunno which.. but I've never seen a bigger

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I Recieved A Pm From A Grat Member Regarding

I recieved the following PM from a great new member, who wrote an excellent tutorial. Unfortunatly, dont know how to resolve this myself. [quote]If you would do me a favour, please take a look at my post [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=9048&hl="]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=9048&hl=[/url] Although 2 mods liked the howto, I have received 0 (zero) credits for it. Please could you check that out for me? Otherwise I am more than happy that I am now hosted and I

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Adjustment To The Deletion Of Threads

I think whenever we use the delete button to delete a post, it should make a record of it somewhere, along with the number of credits lost. Also, it would be nice if we could have it e-mail the person as well. This would cut down on the "I had X credits, and now I have X-Z credits but it's only been Y days", and when one of tose pops up, we could easily check and say you lost A credits for deleetion of post B, and if you don't beleive us, check your email. ~Viz P.S. on a si

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Approval Times

I'm not nagging, but [b][url="http://www.astahost.com/criteria-be-fulfilled-before-hosting-f-q-t4480.html"]THIS[/url][/b] topic is giving some wrong pointers. [quote]5. I've already qualified for hosting and have the required credits. How long will it take before my request is approved? Ans: On Weekdays, it never takes us more than 24 hours to review your application and grant you hosting. However, on weekends this might take up as long at a day and half. Kindly be patient.[/quote] I k

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Buffalohelp Acting Admin

Hello AstaHost moderators; I am BuffaloHELP currently an administrator for Trap17. I was asked to be the acting admin until OpaQue can return to AstaHost full-time. This is not a promotion. I am just helping out with account approval. Please feel free to deny any request that does not fit with the guidance of AstaHost. I understand that AstaHost requires each and every post to be professional, compare to Trap17. And I will need your guidance to show me what is and is not according to this foru

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Language Query

When I applied for hosting here, I seem to have missed the "English web site only" rule and made [url="http://www.cpserbia.net/"]my site[/url] in Serbian If this is an issue, I will remove it, but I would be very grateful if you took my word that the content is absolutely legal

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Spammed Topic!

Hey guys, dont know why but ALL day this one topic keeps getting spammed [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=ST&f=29&t=14315&st=0"]TOPIC[/url] Different ips different usernames maybe thro a proxy..not had time to really search on these guys yet im too busy tonight. Can you keep an eye on this topic? im off to bed!! Thanks!

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When Users Disturb The Peace?

windborn, a moderator from hiya-host.us complained about one of our hosted members (lloydkirk1989) which would not be good for astahost nor hiya-host. Maybe we should look into rectifying these situations, I noticed that a post he pointed out on astahost was also a thread that he started, and he felt like he was mascotting astahost, in a more realistic view, he's giving there host a bad name and our host, I surely wouldn't want all our members to go over to some other host and spread th

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Will Be Away For A Week

I am going on a vacation with my mother and sister, a week to the Belgian Coast. We're leaving tomorrow morning, to return next week friday. I will be back on friday, or saturday depending on the traffic LOL. Anyhow, I have credits enough to last me a week (will 230+ be enough?) When I am up there, I'll be DRAWING some lay-outs, and brain storm on skins. However, I am leaving the computer at home. So take care everyone, I'll miss you. PS: Everything will be disconnected LOL So

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Need To End Someones Hosting

[url="http://www.astahost.com/mahanon-m4101.html"]http://www.astahost.com/mahanon-m4101.html[/url] This member, in a [url="http://www.astahost.com/having-bit-problem-t8388.html"]thread[/url], said he has MP3 files, now when I checked the site itself (http://nexus.astahost.com) it is the same index file as standard. This person is or using astahost to illegally distrubute mp3s (running a dl site) or just plain hosting music for whatever reason. Clearly a violation of the TOS - therefore I want

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Serious Problem Here

First: read this [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=ST&f=105&t=8407&st=0#entry55372"]http://www.astahost.com/index.php?act=ST&f...st=0#entry55372[/url] I think that asta got hacked, could a admin with root rights @ asta (opaque?) check if there's something weird going on (cronjobs/php files/shell scripts etc ?)

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What To Do When People Respond To A Warning?

When you warn someone, at times they reply with pretty obscene words and insult you as if you were dirt from the street. If that ever happens, to amy mod here, post here or send a pm to one of the admins and we will instantly ban that person. Best course of action is to forward that pm to us, but we take your word for it. So just let us know and we'll take care of it.

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Old Thread Re Slow Cpanel

This [url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopic=2515&hl="]thread from a month ago[/url] got a reply from a newbie member named daniwood who must've thought it was a recent thread. Was it closed and then reopened for some reason?

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Qupis

I didn't understand how will qupis users behave. Will they also have to register to Xisto ? Is there a free plan for them ? Or is qupis completely different ? Or will qupis survive to the switch to the new credit system ?

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Remove Me As Moderator...

Hi guys, due to time constraints, I can't be active in the forums anymore. It was a pleasure to be a moderator here, but I guess all things must come to an end. Please remove me as moderator. I'm still deciding if my account should just be terminated or maybe just remove the hosting member status. Kevin.

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Am Back.. Finally.. Phew :)

Hey all [], [tab][/tab]Am back - finally - after a prolonged & unexpected break. Took me close to 2 months to get a bloody net connection at my new home that too after a whole lot of begging, pleading & finally cursing and threatening the phone co. here. Anyways feels good to be back in civilization and among all of you. I see a lot of changes here 2 over the past few months and new staff members too. Here's big hello to those whom I haven't met before.. Hope to get back to my ea

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Edited The “hosted By” Button

Hi folks, I edited the “hosted by” button to this [url="http://www.caribcirc.astahost.com/images/astahost.gif"]http://www.caribcirc.astahost.com/images/astahost.gif[/url] It was done in good faith, I hope I did not mash any toes.

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Avis And Sigs.

Hey, I haven't been keeping up lately, but posting from time to time and modding, so please don't yell if I missed this...BUT: Is there something with this skin that doesn't allow us to see sigs and avis? It's allowed in my user cp. So I'm just wondering wether it's just something with the forums or something with my computer ~Sw

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Critical Security Hole

So, as some of you know, I'm working on my own PHPMyAdmin type of php script. While testing it, Reaverr stumbled upon a security hole in the MySQL server. To witness this hole, go to www.mouseisle.com/MyWebQL and use 'guest '(without the quotes of course) for both the username and password. This somehow gives an access form (not sure what the priveleges are) that allows a show database command to reveal all of the databases. It also seems to at least viewing access to the dat

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For Staff: Another Suspicious Member

[url="http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showuser=12085"]Aditya[/url] has posted 8 posts (I can only see 8 of them, but the post count says 9. Did anyone invisible-ize one of his/her posts?) in a day, and 2 of them are full-length, quality tutorials. I found the source of two of them, and pyost pointed out about the third one. However, I cannot find the source of the other two tutorials. I've PMed the member to test if they were written by him/her. It could be also be possible that this membe

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Selection

Ok. Quick moding question. Might have already been asked, but I've never seen a thread about it before...And it annoys me senceless. When moding whole sections or just certain threads, at the bottom of the back about...There is a quick list moding options, and it says to do one of the following things with the selected threads/topics. My problem is I have no idea at all how to select certain posts or threads . Info on how to would be nice...As I've needed to merge quite a few posts an

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Request For Irc Applet & Edit Button

User Dhanesh has brought to my attention that one of the reasons our irc channel is so dead so often could possibly be because of the lack of access to irc for most members. We then came up with a solution then would be easy to implement, and is probably already a plugin for these sets of boards. A built in java-irc client for all our non irc users . It'd be simple to apply, and would probably use pjirc (a very good java-irc based application). I've thought of this in the past, but ne

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Negative Credits

There seems to be a problem with new members registering and having a negative number of credits: [quote]i joined And i have negative? What the hell i juss joined and i have (-)14009.96 (Negative) credits .. hmm/[/quote]You'd better look into that... I too have negative credits [HOSTING CREDITS : (-)13939.69 (Negative)], as well as active hosting, even though it was terminated Oh, and there's this guy, too: [quote]nickjuly4 - lol, I'm just checking back here after not being here

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Free Hosting Request Form Has Been Upgraded

[color=blue][b]vujsa's free web hosting request form 3.1.4 has been installed.[/b][/color] As suggested by guy, I have modified the Free Web Hosting Application Form to include a credit check. The check compares the number of credits available to the number of credits required for the package being requested. If the Standard Package is requested but the user has less than 30 credits, they will be redirected back to the form and told to select the Starter Package instead. If the Starter P

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