[dsboyce8624]

There is a cron file somewhere, not sure if it's here or vBa that will prune shouts for you. Search for shoutbox and you'll find it, that's how I did.

I want to relate some info I found, the hard way. With newer versions of MySQL the queries for the install of this hack fail. I have attached a file to correct this. If you already ran the install and got to the failure, which says something like "Invalid Default Value '0'," you should comment out the first two queries before running it again. The settings and phrases will not give you problems. Replace the existing file in /install/hacks/shoutbox/14 or something similar.

This only solves the one problem, and I don't purport to know how to fix any others. But I did miss this info somewhere around post 500 in this ridiculously long thread. And I agree, most of these posts wouldn't be here if the people who wrote this fixed it and or it's instructions.

Hope it helps.