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October 26, 2003

User Banning

We've implemented a rough version of a "user banning" feature. This feature allows you to prevent specific Tabulas users or IP addresses from accessing your Tabulas; this does not prevent them from seeing entries posted to your friend's "friends page." This will simply block them from accessing all content at your journal URL.

You can find the banning feature underneath the "Preferences" tab in your control panel.

Please note that anyone CAN spoof their IP address via their browser settings; this feature should only really be used to block non-computer savvy people from visiting your journal. This is NOT a "foolproof" solution!

Paid/beta members also have the option of using IP wildcards; you can input the IP address as (for example): 152.23.203.*; this will ban everyone that share that IP block 152.23.203.

This is a feature under more development. Please let us know how you like it and we might expand it in the future.

Posted by tabulas on October 26, 2003 at 07:36 PM in Misc Features | 26 Comments

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rai_shirushi

Comment posted on November 30th, 2003 at 08:25 AM

How can i get to avoid a person who's posting nonsense at my tagboard? I wanted to ban him but i can't 'cause the IP address shown in the tagboard moderation has a wildcard, which is... can be only used in a paid feature. Anyways, try going to my Tabulas to see what i mean. Read my tagboard, read below it. A person's pretending to be me by using my nick (but not logged in) and floods posts at my tagboard.

Can you do something with it? I have his IP address at my tabulas. I pinned a topic for it.

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Dieb

Comment posted on November 8th, 2003 at 04:39 PM

whatever problems there are with tabulas, i am sure this superb administrator can fix it. i am still in awe at this free journalling site!

tabulas.com rocks!

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spaceinthewho

Comment posted on November 7th, 2003 at 05:55 PM

the problem i mentioned about the escape chars is still happening (slash quote turns into slash slash slash quote upon subsequent save)

perhaps if you didn't insert ANY slashes it would make more sense? i'm not sure why i see the point of trying to turn the quote into an escape sequence if there is a (break) in the entry

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Comment posted on November 7th, 2003 at 07:20 PM

oh the problem was within the actual [break=problem's right here]

ok i got that fixed.

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roy

Comment posted on November 7th, 2003 at 07:14 PM

where is this specifically happening again? any time you have quotes within a [break=custom]text[/break] sequence? i haven't been able to duplicate this problem if so.

the escape quotes are there because otherwise someone can execute SQL injections. they're just (for some reason) not being removed...

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Comment posted on November 7th, 2003 at 04:48 AM

hi, i was wondering when tokki project will have more features, such as a profile and layout options. thanks! great job on tabulas so far.

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mindlessmee

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 07:50 PM

Sorry to bug you again, but how to we set a stylesheet on shared ones too?

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Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 11:30 PM

You can't really set stylesheets on shared journals yet.

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mindlessmee

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 07:31 PM

*raises hand* Ah! Question! On shared journals, how do we post entries?

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Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 11:30 PM

Hit the checkboxes for each shared journal under the advanced entry addition mode.

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tenaciousDan

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 02:54 PM

How do you upload a animated graphic for your gallery/entry/usericon?

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Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 04:34 PM

the same way you upload any other image.

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tenaciousDan

Comment posted on November 7th, 2003 at 07:25 PM

Yeah, but I only know how to by saving the picture I see, and I don't know how to save an animated one. How?

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Comment posted on November 7th, 2003 at 07:49 PM

animated gifs are the exact same as static gifs. they are treated exactly the same.

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tenaciousDan

Comment posted on November 8th, 2003 at 01:01 PM

Well then I am really confused. How do you save an animated gif? whenever I do, it just stays in position 1 if i try to do anythng to it

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dodozhang21

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 11:55 AM

nevermind, it already works in b2.

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dodozhang21

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 11:38 AM

hi, i wonder what database is tabulas using? if you use mysql, how did you allow chinese language? i wish to hack b2 to allow that.. how do i do that? do you know where i can find a tutorial about it? thanks

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Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 11:31 PM

Just make sure that the input form is set with the proper ISO settings; your browser will convert what you type into the proper unicode if you set the iso code properly.

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Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 10:47 AM

i've created an open shared journal, but i've made a mistake - i want him to be closed - i'm not finding where to change that! can you help me? thanks!

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pei

Comment posted on November 6th, 2003 at 06:59 AM

Just wondering, are you allowing members under the age of 13 to register and use tabulas? Regarding COPPA rules and such. : I've noticed a few, thought I'd bring it to your attention.

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MindControlMonky

Comment posted on November 5th, 2003 at 06:42 PM

ah okay...thanks.

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MindControlMonky

Comment posted on November 5th, 2003 at 04:41 PM

Tabulas:
I can't seem to change my tabulas' color sheets. I deleted both of my previous ones, but its not registering these changes. When I look to see, it shows them both deleted, but yet its still applied to my site and it won't let me create a new one. How do I fix this?

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Comment posted on November 5th, 2003 at 05:36 PM

Are you using a custom template? Stylesheets do not work for custom templates; only preset ones.

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tenaciousDan

Comment posted on October 29th, 2003 at 04:41 PM

i use the profile thing that gives a log of who accesses my journal thru my profile, but when some people who access it the s/n does not show up... is that something that can be banned? and how do you get a users IP address

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 03:57 PM

it's easy to change ip adds.. and there may be a chance for others to be included just because they have simillar ip add right? hm why don't you try user banning? just a suggestion ;-)

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Comment posted on October 28th, 2003 at 04:27 PM

You didn't read the post very carefully :)

There *is* user banning.

And depending on your ISP, your IP wont' be banned because it's "similar."

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