A couple of questions

[joyce]

I had to remove my saybox today because of a guest posting some rude comments. He has done this in the past and I have banned his IP but he keeps coming back so for now I decided to remove my saybox.

My question is how can I put it back for only my members to see and post in. I do not want it on my homepage. I only want it to be viewable when my members log into my forum. Is that possible.

I am not good with codes so please explain in simple terms.

My 2nd question is since January the undecided smilie/icon has not been available on my saybox. Do you know why that is happening. It just shows red x

Thank you for your help

[Renegade]

What type of forum do you use?

[joyce]

I have a proboards forum.

[Renegade]

That makes it easy then
First of all you need this script in your global header:

<script>
if (pb_username == 'Guest') {
document.write('<style>#shoutbox {display: none;}</style>');
}
</script>


Put your SayBox code in here, just like it would notrmally be put on yuor forum, then copy the whole thing and put that in either the header or footer of your board just like normal. It will now just be visible to members

Code:<div id="shoutbox"> SAYBOX CODE </div>

A realyl dedicated spammer will still be able to find a way around that by accessing the shoutbox directly, rather than through yourforum, but there are a few other thingsd you can do to make it difficult fgor him. First of all you could take a look at the namelocking options in the admin panel - these are designed for extra ProBoards interatrion and lock the name users post with to their forum username or dispaly name. That can also be used to prevent guests fromp osting (geus on the forum will always have the duspaly name of "guest"). There is also an "access password" feature, which request a password for anyone posting a mesage; the password is the same for everyone, but as long as your spammer doesn't know it, there's no possible way for him to post. Finally, if you have a paid account, or would consider upgrading to ne, the word filter is much more effective, and will automcatically refuse and posts made containing censored words, and ban the user who psoted them without you ever having to do anything

[joyce]

Thank you. I was hoping there was a code somewhere that could be used.

It is exactly what I was needing.