good pointA_O_C wrote:yes, but only when that one line becomes 2 or 3 or 4 . anyway, i think the developers should really consider it. thats all im saying. as for removing it, i dont, so im good.Techie-Micheal wrote:Ah ha! So you do care
good pointA_O_C wrote:yes, but only when that one line becomes 2 or 3 or 4 . anyway, i think the developers should really consider it. thats all im saying. as for removing it, i dont, so im good.Techie-Micheal wrote:Ah ha! So you do care
My reply was not aimed at you.Drugs wrote:I didn't direct that statement directly towards you, was just a general thing. Sorry for not clarifying it.
it was aimed at meHighway of Life wrote:My reply was not aimed at you.Drugs wrote:I didn't direct that statement directly towards you, was just a general thing. Sorry for not clarifying it.
i do not think it has become hostile at allBrainy wrote:Just to jump in, I am starting to see the tension rising post by post.
While this topic does have discussion value (just look at the number of pages!), it will be locked should it become hostile. I hope it does not.
Gaiaonline is powered by phpbb ?!Emufarmers wrote:I can think of several different reasons:I would maintain that it is still improper to remove the copyright, even in the cases listed above, but those reasons probably cover most of what's out there.
- People don't want it to appear as though they're using free software, because they're trying to run a business site
- People don't want to appear as though they're using phpBB, because they've set up a whole site around the forums and/or significantly modified them (think Gaia Online)
- People think it will reduce the amount of spam they get (there are better methods)
- People think it will protect them from hacking (keeping one's version up-to-date is far more effective)
- People are greedy, and don't want to give away a free backlink on every page
Without trying to go too far off topic...that's amazing. The biggest board I've ever seen is a warez board with aout 7 million posts and 600,000 members. I looked at that bigboards site...holy jesus...those are some HUGE boards.drathbun wrote:Gaiaonline certainly started with phpBB2. The owner / founder / whatever for that site (lanzer) is the one that started the "Tweaks for large forums" topic in the phpBB2 Discussion forum.
At this point, the code they're running probably does not have much of the original left. But some of the ideas lanzer put forth in the "tweaks" topic made it into phpBB3, so you could say that phpBB3 is based on Gaiaonline instead.
Wow!! Iv never seen something like that.Drugs wrote:The biggest board I've ever seen is a warez board with aout 7 million posts and 600,000 members.
That actually does not work and the reasoning is flawed.yenerich wrote:The main reason is trying to avoid spammers that find the forums using the copyright as the google search.