Where’s the forum gone?
What’s happened is that one particular poster (whose identity we don’t know) got abusive, so we did everything we could to ban him from posting.
However, because we were using an old script we had limited banning options. To cut a long story short this person then turned to using automated blog posting tools, using ever changing ip addresses and proxy servers to deluge the forum with sex spam posts.
We couldn’t stop it, and couldn’t keep up with deleting the posts so we had to lock the board (it also crashed a few times before we did that).
Anyway the forum will be coming back again soon, on a different url. I’m moving it away from my ozemedia.com site because after 6 or 7 years of posts it’s simply grown too big to keep growing on that particular webhost.
The forum will be at http://www.affiliatetalkforum.com/ but it might take a week or two to set it up.
Step number one is to decide which software to use to power it. I’m leaning towards vbulletin from http://www.vbulletin.com/ but if anyone has any better suggestions I’d love to hear them. There’s a good round up/reviews of forum scripts here http://www.sitepoint.com/article/forum-script-round-up
