Show Thread Enhancements - Limit First Post View To Guest

This hack prevents guests and members not logged into your forum from seeing anything other than the first intial post in each thread. This encourages forum 'dwellers' to register on your forum, and deters them from using your server's resources. This hack is a variation of my 'Closed Thread Warning' hack. It can be used on both postbit and postbit legacy styles and uses CSS. A screenshot is shown below. Actual thread warning is animated. Enjoy ;)

xpgo · 02-26-2007, 09:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Colonel Ingus

This isn't a problem with the hack. It's a problem with the way you have your bots set up in your ACP. Allow them to crawl as a registered member

That mod shouldn't be needed in 3.6.4 so I'll assume you have an older version

I've upgraded today into 3.6.4
Where can i set the bots crawling in ACP ?

thanks for help

02-27-2007, 01:56 AM

I was talking to some higher ups at vb and they told me that you actually don't want the bots to see content as a registered member. If you do then it will hurt you because you could be banned from indexes, so just leave set as the 3.6.4 default

br3nd4n · 02-27-2007, 06:36 AM

br3nd4n clicks install

thx m8 i was searching for this but is there an option to not let see anything ? so they only see that message ? or is that to hard to do ?

but still nice work ;)

tiggyd · 03-06-2007, 04:40 AM

awesome! thank you for such a great tutorial!

03-06-2007, 04:46 AM

Glad you enjoy it tiggyd! Use it in good health

rolfw · 03-07-2007, 04:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Colonel Ingus

I was talking to some higher ups at vb and they told me that you actually don't want the bots to see content as a registered member. If you do then it will hurt you because you could be banned from indexes, so just leave set as the 3.6.4 default

So does that mean that bots will be able to see the whole thread with the standard settings?

I would like this hack, but do want to bots to see everything that a normal member can, as otherwise adwords won't work properly.

xpgo · 04-06-2007, 04:07 PM

Great HACK!

but there is a little problem... i've got 60.000 pages listed by google.. and many of them are "view single post".
With this hack, those "view single post" pages appear empty because of this hack....

any way of changing this anyway ?

04-06-2007, 05:58 PM

Got a link to your site?

BuRaCH · 04-08-2007, 04:50 PM

thanks....

Reject · 04-08-2007, 06:45 PM

well its not working with me
i guess i have a problem in step 2
there is two boxes for "Additional CSS Definitions"
which one do i have to use ? and do i have to add the code to the top or the bottom ?

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