TracyIsland

you're right. I don't know what I'm talking about. I hope you can find a resolution.

Our community was hit with a huge number of spam registrations in March. See the Tsunami topic. Some of the registrations got through while most were in a pending status (we use aMember for our current 3.3.4 board - register externally and then SSO). Whether the registration got through or sat in the pending status (awaiting email validation), we had to evaluate the domain name of each registration. If it was xx@buildingsupplies.com, we banned that domain because we want our community to have personal email addresses. But many of the registrations had domain extensions like me.com, gmail.com, outlook.com, hotmail.com, aol.com with real names attached. We couldn't ban those domains so we checked the registration to see if the username and the first name and last name were all the same. If yes, then we deleted the registration. All this to say it was an eye opener to see just how many real personal email accounts had been obtained on the dark web. Maybe start compiling a list of the email addresses from accounts that you are deleting, and perhaps see if they compare to the IPS banned list? Also, notate the date of registration? These suggestions are along the lines of what the IPS staff is suggesting, that these bad apples snuck in months ago. One thing we do that helps to verify a registration is include a few additional registration fields: Country, State, City ... so we look at that information in the real registration or the pending registration and if the fields don't agree, that's a first flag, and if needed, we check the IP address of the origin and if that IP address location doesn't agree with the Country, that's another red flag. If these spammers have the login access to the actual email accounts which I think is what Jim M is inferring in the quote, then there doesn't seem to be anything you can do other than to ban that specific email address.

In this morning's Wall Street Journal there is an article about the damage incurred by the cyberattack to United Health Group. Certainly, this is a US issue but cyberattacks can happen to everyone. What can we do, as both self-hosted licensees and what can Invision Community do for cloud customers to protect our databases? I realize Invision Community cannot be responsible for the safety and security of self-hosted licensees but perhaps the staff might offer a list of 'you should be doing' settings' or best practices. Has anyone been the receiver of a cyberattack? What hapapened? How did you recover? Were you forced to pay up?

I checked two of the clubs we created on the dev site, as opposed to those migrated from Social Groups. I see no signs of enabling an RSS feed. I clicked on the 'Manage Group' button and all I see is this: What am I missing?

Thanks for the information. I checked our Clubs page and then clicked on an individual Club and scrolled down to see if the RSS block was visible. It isn't. Then I had the idea that I should log in and perhaps then I could see the RSS feed. Nope. I checked the ACP and went to Community - Clubs - Settings and found no setting for enabling or disable an RSS feed. Should I be looking elsewhere?

On the devsite, I tried creating an RSS Feed under System - Content Discover - RSS Feeds. In the new RSS Feed create section, under Content, there is a list to enable but nothing for Clubs. Is there a way to add Clubs to that Content list? Maybe that's too broad but Club topics, club events, and new club images? Thanks for any explanation of how to expand RSS Feed. On our live site, we use RSS feeds to send updates through Dlvr.it to our social media profiles.

The help guide doesn't indicate how long each of the items in the Our Picks remains on display. Is it related to when the tasks run? Is the per item promotion time dependent? Thanks.

Follow up - all tasks show as never run. I ran the task for promote and sure enough, the our picks populated. I would guess that the developer disabled the tasks so that the members weren't notified with any testing.

I don't know if they are. It is a test site so we don't have any registrations and I only login as the super admin and then as a couple of test members.

As I continue to use the development site to test 4.7 features, I started to learn about Our Picks. Yes, I know, I am so late to the party, everyone has left but ... if anyone can enlighten me on how to make the content appear. Steps so far: 1. In the ACP, went to System -> Site Promotion -> Social Media Promotion -> Our Picks tab: confirm switch is showing green/enable and saved. 2. In the same promotion section, clicked on Auto Schedule. Added to auto schedule times and selected Los Angeles as the scheduled timezone and saved. 3. In the gallery, clicked on an image, and clicked on an album and clicked re-promote (after the original promotion did nothing and I deleted it in the moderated Managed Promoted Items section). 4. After clicking on re-promote, I used the drop down of schedule next batch to ensure it says schedule now, and then clicked Promote. 5. Waiting ... nothing, nothing, nothing. How long do I have to wait? 6. Clearly I am very confused. 7. Checked Menu Manager to ensure Our Picks is added. It is. It shows in the second row navigation for Home. Click on it. Nothing Nothing Nothing. 8. I am even more confused.

Ah, I see. Found it. Thank you!

Okay, well if the guide is accurate, why can't I see the feature in events or gallery images or pages databases? Specifically, where would I find the application of add message to a calendar event? Where would I find the application of add message to a gallery image? Does my dev site installation need this extension to see this feature? In other words, is it only found, by default, in the forums and an administrator has to add this metadata thing separately? Thanks!

I stumbled upon the staff notes feature while searching for announcements. Looking at the help guide, the explanation does say "when moderating content..." Would it be more accurate to say "when moderating forums or topics...?" I tried adding staff notes with other content, on pages, on events, and no luck. Just trying to understand. Thanks.

@Jim M Thanks for the explanation. I will also conclude that the user in an open system that tags a topic with yellow and orange does not mean that those tags will appear in the Closed System. I thought they would. Instead, you are saying that the administrator must define all tags, including say yellow and orange - they don't carry over.

Wait, you and Marc aren't the same person? So in an open system, any tags that are added to any type of content, those tags aren't added to a master list of tags? In other words, those tags are just identified only with whatever content at the moment? Is this like two separate systems? But let's say I have tags added in pages, gallery, commerce, and posts, all with the tag Vienna. Shouldn't the search find those tags? I am just not clear on the concept. From my perspective, there is a big tag bucket. Every time someone adds a tag to a piece of content, that tag is added to the bucket. If you close the system, I would think I would see the entire list of tags in the bucket, and I could add to that list or delete from that list.