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If you don't have these social media crawlers as "bots" in your bot list, then they are treated as guest.

Try https://github.com/RMcGirr83/phpBB-3.1-stopforumspam

Extension will query the stop forum spam database on registration and posting (for guests only) and deny the post and or registration to go through if found.

The "no soup for you" sounds familiar. It is stopforumspam modification, right? pretty sure it checks for spammy type emails and username from stopforumspam.com spam listing(database?) and the 'admin' part of your email or username could be setting it off.

It sounds like Varnish caching, (caching done on server side to speed up webpages) I know siteground has that feature, maybe that's what it is. can't harm, just bit annoying if you are wanting to see immediate results when editing files.

Well these types of features never get finished anyway. Never seen an xyz_Social addon get validated, they sit in the BETA forum and die. Probably more trouble than it's worth for anyone to code it on their free time.


*edit: apart from simple friendslist and social buttons

Congratulations on getting this validated!

I mean adsense ads. In AdSense policies, is not permitted to place AdSense ads on certain pages. That is why, to block adsense ads on certain pages, categories or forums, I need to add my robot.txt codes. Ok now your question makes a little more sense. You should just follow the policy of AdSense, ...

Yes

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ads from websites do not show up in search result pages anyway. pretty sure they get ignored by search engine bots

Not totally necessary but sure, you can add it. keep in mind only the 'good' bots obey robots.txt

If by "sections" you mean category/forums, you can change robots forum permissions to not access. Probably easier to do it that way.

http://swapvn.net/photo/ads/smalllogo.jpg The image URL is somehow pointing to a webpage and not an actual image, that is probably why it is not showing up.

The code your using for front page is throwing up an error, did you ever try to remove it like mentioned already a few posts up and test browse the site see if mobile still gets a blank page? SQL ERROR [ mysqli ] Unknown column 'topic_approved' in 'where clause' [1054] An SQL error occurred while fe...

What he is using is an extension, they don't do forks of phpbb 3.1.

Anyway, it is not in a stable version so not a good idea to be using it on live board anyway.

Custom error pages with .htaccess is not possible with 3.1

Probably the extension Raul posted would be your best bet

Take a look at daroPL_AntiSpam it changed captcha field based on board cookie + current time or something to that effect so that it was always unique. I always liked their idea, never had spam trouble using it. :edit, I should point out I didn't use it for long either. ran into other anti bot soluti...

Those are spammer bots cloaking the google user agent. Google, bing yahoo and other social bots are always whitelisted.