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Ok gang, I just spent about 45 minutes removing 7 pages of "new posts" by ourt new friend.

Most were moved to the "garbage can" so you guys and gals wouldn't be bothered with having to sift through 7 pages of news and advertisements to get to the meat and potatoes of the forum.

I left the threads that were more Corvette related in place.

Rich is aware of the issue and since I'm not in the "computer loop" (they don't let me play with computers:NoNo:, I break things:rofl1:!), I'll leave the decisions to him and his computer peeps:thumbsup:

Although the "bot" has it's own section (florida news, automotive news, etc.) it still clutters up (IMO) the "new posts" screen so badly that a new person or even an existing member, trying to find the new posts of the day or continuing post of a previous day, will have to scan several pages to find them.

Again, these posts were not deleted and may return at Rich's descretion.

Hope this makes todays reading and posting a little less bothersome.

If you want the news sections back, just say the word?

Gordon

Thanks Bro.

Well heck, I set up those news feeds. But I'm not married to them if no one likes the idea. The whole idea was to add some related content of interest to the site via some external sources.

I know I just don't have time to read the newspapers or watch the news on TV, so some mechanism that would filter the news items and give me a short synopsis of newsworthy events seemed to be just the ticket.

But maybe not everyone feels that way about it.

So let me know...........

The idea is great:thumbsup: I hardly ever read the newspaper and don't have time to watch TV. If i don't get it off the internet or radio, I don't get it at all.

I found a lot of that news to be very interesting and left some of it in place when I moved the rest to the canh.

I think the news sections are fine, but this automated "bot" is jamming the place up with 100's of news articles at a time:eek:New and old members are going to have to sift through pages and pages of "news" just to get to the meat and potatoes of the site:( A real inconvenience IMO.

Is there any way of controlling that "bot" so it a member would have to specifically look in that section to see the news instead of having it jammed down thier throats?

Obviously we can post our own links to florida news and happenings like the other sites and as we grow, I'm sure more and more will.

Is there some way of reaching a happy medium with this?

Possibly. I've set those forums so that posts there are not included in the index, so they will not clog up the RECENT POSTS function (theoretically, anyway). That function is about the only impact I can think of that might be bothersome. Otherwise, no one really needs to look into those forums unless they are interested in viewing the content.

Well I don't know if that indexing exclusion worked or not. The latest run MIGHT have taken place before I made the change in the forum settings.

I'll just have to keep an eye on it.

Oh, one other thing. I can LIMIT these RSS feed posts in a number of ways. Limit the number of them brought in at one time, and also limit the frequency of checking for updates. I think the max is every 12 hours. So I may be able to fine tune it a bit as I get a better feel for what it is actually doing.

Yeah, they did, but I'm going to leave them alone. Kinda like the border security problem. The new fence is up. Let's see if they get through again. :rofl1:

Well, obviously the "New Posts" function does not work on indexing and keywords and most apparently work on a simple "Date Posted" scheme. The latest posts from the RSS feed are showing up in the New Posts listing.

I may have to see if I can get my programmer to customize the forum setup screen to exclude any RSS forums I set up from being picked up that way.

Didn't think it would be THAT simple to fix... :banghead:

"Houston, We Have A Problem"

IMO, I like it the way it was before...

Noticed, not too many posts from the regulars...