Private Settings?

I was wondering if its possible to make the board private to the public? Requiring people to register and log in before accessing our boards? I post rare pics, videos, sigs etc and i'd rather not have lurkers look through our convos and steal my stuff. For example, someone stole my ARIA award video i posted a few months back and posted it on Youtube...no credit of course. And when i'm usually online its me as a registered user and 4-5 guests.

I think if we make people sign up before accessing the forum, at least we'll get more members and this may encourage them to post.

It's all possible (I've run boards before) but we just need the admin back.

I'm really starting to worry about him.

Glad you brought this up cos I'm often on with 'guests' (one is probably Chris lol) and think they should join up if they want to keep coming on and looking at pictures etc. Some forums allow guests to look at say a small section of the board but not the entire thing!

We should probably all pm him or something, he surely gets an email when he receives a pm? I agree though, he hasn't been on since New Year I think? Nobody else has control to do anything and we might get trolls lol!!!

Hope you're ok Thom!

i agree and its strange the admin hasnt been on in a while

Yeah I've noticed there are quite a few lurkers on these forums. I hope the Admin is alright too. I agree that this forums is also vulnerable to trolls and stuff like that if he's not around. Hope he comes back soon so he can take on board our suggestions!

^ Great idea, let's all PM him. At least then maybe we might get his attention. I hope he's ok, i mean, why else would he just leave?

Ok I've just sent him one, hopefully he'll get an email if his settings are correct.

I PM'd him too.

I'll PM him now. And I've always been amazed at the fact that the highest number of people online on these forums at one time is 61?! I wonder how that happened haha!

^There was an error in the system. I hope we don't get spammed with porno or something (eww my innocent eyes!!). We'll wait until the end of this month, if he's not back by then, we might have to do something ourselves.

sugarpuff wrote:Glad you brought this up cos I'm often on with 'guests' (one is probably Chris lol) and think they should join up if they want to keep coming on and looking at pictures etc. Some forums allow guests to look at say a small section of the board but not the entire thing!

Actually, don't be suprised if he's more then a guest now.

Ooohhhh (jumps up and down in excitement!)

I hope Thom comes on now that we've pestered him then lol!

Definitely give him to the end of the month.

If not maybe we'll have to make a new Chris forum.

Don't get me wrong, i love this place, but without an admin or anyone in power, anything can happen.

I've run popular forums in the past so I can help with anything. I've got my favourite forum providers as well and am pretty good at editing skins for them.

Yeah forums are so vulnerable without Admin or mods. Hopefully he'll come back soon if not then we do have to figure out a plan B.

Take it nobody's heard anything from him then?? I'm a bit worried now I must admit, I thought he'd be straight on after receiving our messages if he's got them.

I've set up basic forums before (although they've never lasted lol) and I'm also a mod on another fan site so I'd be happy to help if we do have to resort to a new one. Obviously I'd rather stay here though.