[BlueCheri]

Many thanx for useful suggestion.

G!

Originally Posted by setishock

I got your PM several days ago. And I've been snowed under at my place try to chase down a sot that's running a scrapper program on my gallery. I really have my knickers in a twist right now so if I offend you sorry about that. Ok so let's get started.
Behind the scenes:
I looked just a couple of minutes ago and you have 79 of those Baidu bots walking all over your forum. You do know they burn up your bandwidth? Once they get settled in they will stay there eating bandwidth until you put your foot in their tails and boot them out the door. If you're running cpanel go in to the IP blocker and enter Baidu then save it. Any critter with Baidu in the user agent string will not be able to get in your forum let alone "see" it. Ain't 404 errors wonderful?
In the public eye:
Dump the chatbox. People would rather post in that than the forums. If it's open to the public for posting it will become a spamming nightmare. Make it members only after posting X amount of posts in a given period if you're gonna keep it.
And what's up with the bloat in the What's Going On box? Do you really need all that? You're just wasting cpu time that could be best used elsewhere.
And the top 10 stats, who cares? It's a waste.
Sidebar:
The top block the text is too small. making it bold would help.
The next block down to me personally is a bit of a waste. If you keep it bold the text to make it easier to read.
Overall:
That sort of site is not my forte'. Anything goes has a tendency to go cold and on down the drain. I haven't seen too many that lasted very long. Good luck with it though.