[VBUsers]

1) Points per Character - I'm sure this has already been brought up, but if you give points per character in a post, users can just post a large amount of characters (copy and paste), post, and then edit it out before anyone sees.

i think this should be taken out. if you give even 1 point per character you will have literally hundreds of thousands of points for loyal members or staff.

by post is great if you do it by character that is just to much in my opinion but hey some people want to do it that way.

2) Points per Thread View - Some users of my forum (not even a day after I put up the eStore), have created scripts to simply view a thread repeatedly, thus not only increasing their points rapidly, but also creating a DDoS attack to the server (since they also shared the script with their friends)

this should be corrected imediatelty and those members should be IP banned.

3) untested.. Points for Birthday - I have yet to test this, but if you set your birthday to the *next* day, and then when that day comes, you change the birthday again to the *next* day, so free points everyday

im going to test this as well.

4) Points for Registration/Referral - of course if somebody is so inclined they could create a lot of accounts using a person as the referrer and mass up points this way.

Ban these members. the AE detector will help. i have caugth several members doing this and rules on my forum are no 2 usernames.