[Mark.B]

Originally Posted by AyeCapn

how do I uninstall this mod from 3.7.2? I am going to rely on the vB tag system. I get SQL errors after running the uninstall:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.1:

Invalid SQL:

                       SELECT COUNT(*) count FROM reuzoints_tag zoints_tag
                       LEFT JOIN reuthread thread ON(zoints_tag.threadid = thread.threadid)
                       WHERE zoints_tag.tag = 'holders'
                               AND thread.forumid IN(26,2,59,42,1,3,67,9,10,23,8,64,15,12,4,16,11,41,40,71,43,44,45,46,47,74,48,70,72,14,13,75,66,68,76,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,17,57,18,20,22);

MySQL Error   : Table 'blah_blah.reuzoints_tag' doesn't exist
Error Number  : 1146
Request Date  : Wednesday, June 25th 2008 @ 03:08:04 PM
Error Date    : Wednesday, June 25th 2008 @ 03:08:04 PM
Script        : http://www.myforum.org/forum/tags/index.php?tag=/holders/
Referrer      :
IP Address    : 74.6.22.120
Username      : Unregistered
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

If those messages are coming by email, as opposed to you yourself seeing them when browsing the forums, then what's probably happening is that people are finding links to your site in Zoints tag format on Google, but when they click them, they generate a database error as you've uninstalled the modification.

I have been thinking about this issue for if I ever moved to the built in tags, and I reckon the only way to solve this without having dead links in search engines would be to keep Zoints Tags installed but edit the templates/plugins so that the tag boxes etc don't show up. That way all new tags would be done via the vB system, but any old Zoints tags links in Google etc would still work.

After a time Google should start indexing the new tag links and then you'd be able to fully uninstall.

Possibly an alternative might be some kind of mod rewrite but it'd be messy, if it was even possible.