is there a possibility to get this hack working also with the articles in dem CMS of vb4 suite - this would be great ;)

This would be even better if it can be on a per-forum basis. Allowing guests to view entire threads in some sections, and say in a questions&help section, they can only read the first post (question) and must register for the rest of the posts(solutions).

Already installed + nominated, and if the above was implemented i'd wish i could do it again.

Check out the options. You can exclude specific forums.

I was referring to the implementation of giorgino's suggestion, unless you're implying that such an implementation would make use of the same list of excluded forums.

Showing only the first post would be a different mod. I'm sure someone will come up with this, hopefully with a forum exclude list.

I believe this MOD is causing problems with Google's spider. I logged into Webmaster Tools and noticed I had 14,000 'Not followed' errors within my /forum section of the website. Just about all of them said 'Redirect URL too long'

More information on this error here:
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=35156


I think this is due to the plugin tracking via sessions. right?

The plugin tracks via cookies or ip address depending on your settings. It also checks the user agent to try and avoid spiders. If Google or another engine wishes to spoof and use cookies there's little more I can do.

Google has generally been ok with this approach on sites provided that people can see the content at times. For example, many news sites show Google the full article and paid members. This isn't 'tricking' google as the content is really there for people, you just have to be logged in.

As I say in the main thread, I do NOT suggest setting this to 1 or 0 views.

This looks very good Ted, I will be installing on my Xampp side tomorrow then up live it I do everything right the first time ;)

Alright, so it sounds like this plug-in is NOT the issue then. This error is referring to session urls or something else that would cause the URL to be very long. Does not seem to be related to cookies or other tracking methods your plug-in uses.

hmm... maybe vbseo then. Ill check over there.

EDIT:

Working now :)