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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 18 2011, 09:19 PM (425 Views) | |
| ArmyWife2007 | Jun 18 2011, 09:19 PM Post #1 |
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I recently created a board with Zetaboards today and it's a forum that is strictly for Army Wives. When I created the forum I changed all the settings to where Guests can NOT view my board or any of the forums, topics, member lists, etc....you have to be a registered member. So far today 4 different IP Addresses have been coming on to my board and 2 "guests" were able to view one forum that is set to where only registered members can view the forum....as are all the forums. Is there some way to pervent this from happening? How are these people, possibly spammers, getting access to these features when they aren't registered members? I have never had this problem before. Thank you in advance! Edited by ArmyWife2007, Jun 18 2011, 09:35 PM.
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| Orpheus. | Jun 19 2011, 04:44 AM Post #2 |
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It looks that now, nobody can't see nothing, no even the main page, of your board, I tried to follow your board link, to see if I can see something, but I recived this message: "Board does not exist. Make sure you did not mis-type the URL." |
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| Shiarrael | Jun 19 2011, 11:04 AM Post #3 |
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If someone follows a link without logging in, then they will appear on the online users list to be looking at that section of the board, but all they are really seeing is the "you don't have permission to view" error message.
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| ArmyWife2007 | Jun 19 2011, 07:29 PM Post #4 |
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I get that guests will only see the error message, but this is something completely different, they can actually view the forums I have set to only registered users and these guests are not registered users. I changed the name of the board and I have my board turned OFF where no one can view anything but the offline message, yet 2 guests are viewing one particular forum right now. I am looking at my board right now and see in this one forum that there are 2 viewers viewing the forum. My board URL is http://s4.zetaboards.com/ArmyWivesUnited/index Now I have 3 viewers viewing this forum and my board is OFFLINE. When I log off I see the offline message, but how can these "people" view this forum when the board is offline???? Edited by ArmyWife2007, Jun 19 2011, 07:32 PM.
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| Amphibian | Jun 21 2011, 08:36 PM Post #5 |
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If you use an IP Address tracker and put the IP Addresses of the guests into it, you may find they are actually advertising bots, not real people. |
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