Im not sure if anyone has noticed but we have been getting lots of spam posts and registrations. Michael and I are deleting anywhere between 3 and 10 new users and posts a day.

From an administrative standpoint it is getting rather annoying. If we skip one or 2 days we are almost guaranteed to coming back to several posts for xxx and drug sites

What I would like to do is upgrade to a new forum. I am looking at using vBulletin. It is the same forum jeepsunlimited and virtualjeepclub use

There are 2 problems with this though. The first issue is cost. To purchase vbulletin it is $160 for a permanent license. The second issue is we may lose our posts. I think I can migrate our posts over but Im not %100 sure


First question is, should we upgrade?

Second question is, how to pay for it. Would anyone be willing to kick in 5 or 10 dollars to help pay for the new forum?

Can you have this site require Mod approval for membership and posting approval like others do?

AZLugz wrote:Can you have this site require Mod approval for membership and posting approval like others do?

Yep thats how we are doing it now. I tried installing several more security features that are suppose to weed out the bots and spam posts but they dont seem too effective

Im thinking long term though. Whith the forums increasing in size and more members joining it would be extremely admin intensive to validate each user manually. Plus, some users are put off on the fact that they have to wait to have their account manually created and never bother posting.

put me down for $20 this is a great web site.

I just renewed the domain today for another 2 years and am kinda limited on funds. If you come up short let me know and I will see what I can scratch together.

let me know too. I'm willing to throw in some cash.

Spshlj wrote:I just renewed the domain today for another 2 years and am kinda limited on funds. If you come up short let me know and I will see what I can scratch together.

change the contact info on it. It says it is registered to the house on 49th ave

also who did you register with? godaddy?

yes, I registered with godaddy and I changed the address to mine.

Yep, will pitch in some bucks. Gotta keep this thing going!!!

I'll pitch in and our cal and sticker sales will take care of the rest.

I'll have some $$$ this sunday.

Thanks everyone. Ill start the upgrade process today. If you have paypal you can send funds to breweris@hotmail.com and those will go towards the license purchase

Paypal sent from Kreation Krawlers to help keep a great site on line

thanks everyone. Upgrade is mostly complete. Ill still be changing a few features but the board should be stable

this is great I'm having fun looking and playing. GREAT JOB!!!!!

I will bring money on Sunday

Sooooo happy!

Bear with us

I just want to say thank you to Mike and Chris for doing such a great job on the website and its security. Also a big thank you to everyone that dropped in a few coins to help us with our security problem.