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A fellow RB admin likes to say that it takes less time to exile an account than it does to create one. Not only do I agree with that and echo that sentiment, but allowing only one board account per email address makes it apply even more to your board. 
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5/30/2009, 11:30 am
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Yes I agree.
I always have my account and I add one in my husband's name so I can see what the board looks like without the admin being available. He doesn't have much to say except comment on pictures and so on anyway. I do more than enough talking for the two of us.
But yes, I will try to enforce that and I like the idea of real names used there, it's also a way to check for spammers.
That is actually an old website John had for years and then shut down because people signed up only to advertise porn and he didn't have time to check on them, so when he did he had to spend hours deleting all the spam.
I'm around most of the time, thus I'll be able to keep an eye on it.
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With John's experience with spammers, it's funny that your kids still say you're paranoid about them. I say you're vigilant, and it's good to be vigilant.
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6/1/2009, 7:43 pm
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I know what you mean but it's a matter of trusting that it won't happen but having the checks in place in case it does.
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I had a lot of spam attempts* at the blog, so eventually started requiring registration. I plan on trying image verification for non-registered comments eventually, but haven't been able to get around to that yet.
*While I have filters in place that requires moderation before questionable posts will go through, one night I got dozens of attempts within minutes before having to remove the form temporarily to stop the spam attack.
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I haven't had much traffic at Freethinkers yet. But it's early days.
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OMG! 
Speaking of traffic, check this out. 
Not even 10 hours after I made that post and submitted it to digg, my digg link is #1 out of 1,790,000 results for "flexible width sidebar layout" without the quotes. Hopefully this will get me a lot of diggs, and a lot of direct traffic.
"equal height sidebar" (again, no quotes) puts my digg link at #7, but only out of 291,000 results.
My photo gallery tutorial is at #6 out of 2,110,000 for "css photo gallery" (again, without the quotes), which has been steadily on the first page for at least a few weeks now.
MO, you might want to use Wordpress for Freethinkers, because Google picks it up right quick, and incorporate digg and stumbleupon into your site.  Search rankings are a different issue, but I can give you some pointers.
Truth be told, I didn't expect to have two of my posts on the first page out of more than a million results each for any search terms, due to my subject matter. When people are writing about web development, they usually know about search engine optimization, which makes for some tough competition.
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I'll look into that. Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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Kewl site.
I'd like to have a web site and then link it to Look Again on ProBoards. Do you think that is possible. I'd also like to learn how to do this on my own.  Really I would. No, honestly. But I'll need help.
So that means I'm going to really have to read everything you have on your site. I may contact you for some help and see what your fees are to get me up and running and see if it's a doable project for me money wise. 
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