what in the world?

[jon7777]

i was just adjusting the forums and it's categories and this popped out of nowhere? anyone know the problem?
there's thread fields with nothing in them, just some gibberish on the far right.

[ranz]

Looks like a character set issue. Possible spam post?

[jon7777]

Originally Posted by ranz

Looks like a character set issue. Possible spam post?

Forgive me for my ignorance, but what's a character set issue?
also, how can it be a spam post if i'm the only member on that board?

[ranz]

I don't know anything about your board - so only offering some ideas of where to look for the problem. The character set issue is only a possibility (one to consider checking).

Character set issues I've seen before cause this (similar) - usually shared hosting providers don't setup their servers properly to allow for UTF-8 character sets. There are some settings in vBulletin Admin that you can tweak for this - check out the vBulletin Options.

Have you been playing around with your templates?

If it's a new installation - perhaps you could verify that it's installed correctly.

Just some ideas.

[jon7777]

Originally Posted by ranz

I don't know anything about your board - so only offering some ideas of where to look for the problem. The character set issue is only a possibility (one to consider checking).

Character set issues I've seen before cause this (similar) - usually shared hosting providers don't setup their servers properly to allow for UTF-8 character sets. There are some settings in vBulletin Admin that you can tweak for this - check out the vBulletin Options.

Have you been playing around with your templates?

If it's a new installation - perhaps you could verify that it's installed correctly.

Just some ideas.

yes i know that you know nothing of my board, and i appreciate your help, i'm currently looking over the options

i found the problem, i recently installed AIN mod which has to do with adsense and apparently that was causing the problem