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Andy Frances	Cross forum history causing big problems		Lead	[-]
Posts: 26 22-Apr-08 11:15 PM	Hi all, I've been with Ezboard/Yuku for around eight years now. I'm afraid something has been introduced to Yuku that could well see me moving elsewhere if there's no solution. We have a popular site that over time has seen a couple of spin offs started by disgruntled ex-members of our site. One of these sites is designed virtually solely to abuse and criticise our site. Because the spin off is a Yuku site, it is now very easy to find either within a users post history (if they visit both sites) or by username (eg auser.spinoffsite). Because the content on the spin off site is totally inappropriate I'm starting to get lots of complaints from my genuine users who keep stumbling across the other site by mistake. Is there anything I can do to make my site more insular? If not, I'm going to have to go down the vbulletin route I'm afraid. Thanks in advance, Andy
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exstreamuser		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 861 23-Apr-08 1:58 AM	Make the board MBA. MBA forums. Ban certain usernames. Block certain usernames from viewing your board. Sad to say but in my experience, the problem will not go away if you move. With both boards on yuku, you would at least have better oportunity to report any infringements of the TOU to yuku legal by submitting a ticket. http://helpdesk.yuku.com/index.php
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Chris W962		#2	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 4408 23-Apr-08 5:51 AM Kudos Lady of the night	Sad to say but in my experience, the problem will not go away if you move. With both boards on yuku, you would at least have better oportunity to report any infringements of the TOU to yuku legal by submitting a ticket. Good point. Andy, I'm going to move your post to as different forum, as it is not a bug.
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Andy Frances		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 26 23-Apr-08 10:03 AM	I guess my gripe is, why should another board become popular as a result of my/our sucess? My site is top of the Google search rankings on a number of search criteria though because my boards are on Yuku, my members are able to stray onto other boards as a result of the post history in user profiles. Surely this wouldn't happy if I was using vbulletin? Regards, Andy F
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Silver Dollar		#4	[url]	[-]
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 623 23-Apr-08 1:36 PM Yuku Moderator	Andy, since you were at ezboard for years, you must know that ezboard users have the option to display their recent posts in their Public Profile for anyone to view and follow. Only posts made at MBA boards or in private forums don't display. That can be disabled in your members' profiles at Yuku, just as it can at ezboard. So, unless you required your ezboard members to turn off recent posts, they've been dragging links to your board around behind them for many years. I really don't think it's fair to blame Yuku for any recent escalation in the problem you described. You can go elsewhere, but unless, as has already been suggested, you're prepared to take security measures to keep out unwanted visitors, including search engine web crawlers, you'll have people sharing links, copying posts, borrowing images and designs, etc., no matter where you go. Just my opinion, for whatever it's worth.
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Andy Frances		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 26 24-Apr-08 3:01 PM	Thanks for the reply Silver, I must admit that I'd never noticed the links to other boards before when we were Ezboard, though that's probably because the other boards hadn't become as popular as they are now.... It'll be a dark day for me if I do have to move my forums as I could certainly do without the hassle and on the whole have been happy with Ezboard/Yuku. Is there any chance we could have some features that enable gold/paying boards to 'opt out' of the whole inter-community thing that Yuku seems to be all about these days? If they're totally honest, most forum providers (meaning people like me) aren't going to want their visitors heading off to other boards so the issue won't be going away. My ideal scenario would be to have my boards on the Yuku system/infrastructure though for the Yuku aspect of this to be totally (or 99%) transparent, I'd pay more for this as I'm sure many others would! Regards, Andy www.barbel.co.uk
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