• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Membership Changes

Ickie

Ickie

SOH Administrator
..... Due to changes forced upon us by hackers and spammers, we had to make changes to our membership. If you are a Member and found you cannot post anymore, please contact henry, henry@sim-outhouse.com for a free upgrade to Member + .....

Note you must make 5 posts in the forums to keep your new status! Either new threads or reply to thread.

If you can post than I already upgraded you to "member +", Note I gave "member +" many more privileges, like signatures, extra storage, more PM's, and faster downloads, enjoy.
 
Great.... Is there any thing hackers and spammers can't do?



Other than go way....
 
We now have a human checking every aspect of new registration, and a human doing the membership upgrades, This stops the bot scripts.

I was having about 100+ Suspicious process running under user ? per day,
and today I deleted 10,000 zero posters to flush out these bots, and now I am at zero Suspicious process running under user. Now the bot spammers/hackers/data miners are gone.

these bots was pushing fonny emails too to look like they came from us at 250,000 per week, I got all the rejects and was getting pissed at this.
We are now at zero rejects.

So sleep well tonight, A human is watching over you.
 
Thanks Ickie,
I am truly grateful for all the work you and the other admin members do on our behalf..
BRAVO..
God bless you all..
HouseHobbit
:applause::applause:
 
Ickie you need to get yourself down to the Harp and Thistle in S. St. Pete and have a black and tan on the membership!

Thanks for all that you do to keep us up and running!

pied
 
Thanks Ickie

I did notice that I was forced to clean out my private messages. There was a lot there I wanted to keep and I didn't have a clue how to save them. They were fine one day (not full) and the next day I had to delete them to respond to a message from OBIO. My quota dropped immensely and immediately
 
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