I knew that and also that you deleted yourself.
Now if your post count is not 'manually configured' then im quite certain that you'll lose a massive amount of posts.
General Forum shutdown
- Thread starter Niall
- Start date
Now if your post count is not 'manually configured' then im quite certain that you'll lose a massive amount of posts.
What the feck 
Oh dear...
This is not looking good
This will drive down posting traffic by quite substantially, I know I don't post much in the manchester United forum, probably football forum and entertainment, but general does provide it's comic relieve from time to time.
Are you sure about this Niall? is there no better alternatives? If some moron posted inappropriate in the football forum does it means we'll have to chop it as well? There's a lot of heavy stuff banter going on in there as well, although there's also more crapload shit in er bag thread, but it's been a part of the caf for quite a while.
This is not looking good
This will drive down posting traffic by quite substantially, I know I don't post much in the manchester United forum, probably football forum and entertainment, but general does provide it's comic relieve from time to time.
Are you sure about this Niall? is there no better alternatives? If some moron posted inappropriate in the football forum does it means we'll have to chop it as well? There's a lot of heavy stuff banter going on in there as well, although there's also more crapload shit in er bag thread, but it's been a part of the caf for quite a while.
As far as I know, Niall's announcement was refering to threads from the past. For everything else, there's a new general forum:
https://www.redcafe.net/f64/
I just found out about er... de bunker.. after i posted that..
Can someone please change the Jump To button to include the Bunker, I'm losing a second of valuable Redcafe time when I click on General.
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How much money would it take from subs (say 2000) to tell google to feck off?
This is sad, I loved the general even though I didn't post that much, such a shame.
*Edit I just had a look at the Bunker, its just like the general was!
*Edit I just had a look at the Bunker, its just like the general was!
Whats this talk of a hidden forum then?
There should be no talk of a hidden forum.
I'm interested in knowing the answer to this.
Id also like to know this.
Right, I'm pissed now and pretty pissed off. What the feck do Google think they are at? Are they suddenly the morality police? Bunch of Yanky corporate wankers!
So much for doing "Don't do evil"?
The Bunker? Sounds Hitlerish.
The Bunker? Sounds Hitlerish.
Is it possible to clean up the 10k thread and save it? Don't want to lose that one.
Isn't there a way to prove you're 18 or older to be able to view the forum. Wouldn't that help one bit towards their rules?
Isn't there a way to prove you're 18 or older to be able to view the forum. Wouldn't that help one bit towards their rules?
I dunno if people are joking about Google, but it's hardly their fault if the general is breaking AdSense's terms and conditions!
Afraid not. They're not on a crusade to clean up the internet, or to make it child friendly (well, not in this case anyway), they just have an agreement with the businesses that advertise through them that they won't show their ads on pages with porn, and that agreement is reflected in the terms and conditions agreed to by sites like RedCafe that sign up for the scheme.
They're not threatening to delete the site from the Google search engine or anything, they're just saying that if there's gonna be porn on the site then they won't allow AdSense to be shown on it.
Someone mentioned "The Corner Pub" which IMO is a good shoutSuggestions for a name of a temporary general forum replacement?
Keep up, we have The Bunker! Keeps a sort of military theme going.
I'll give you my tuppence worth (
) on this Niall since I've a lot of experience with vB and Adsense.First of all, Google will serve ads on any page you install adsense regardless of the content. It will show relevant content to the page for those pages that are cached on Google servers. If Google cannot see the content then it will not deliver a relevant ad. It also will not know whether you are breaking the T&C or not.
Google cannot scan a webpage of a private forum because there will be authorization required in order to access it. It also cannot give you a type of code for you to insert that can scan a webpage and read its content because this would be in violation of Data Protection and Privacy laws. Things that are private, should remain so for a reason. There's a file called robots.txt which you should have already placed in your root webserver which tells Google robots where to scan the site in order to cache it. If you don't allow them to enter the General then they cannot cache the webpage and learn of the content. By making it private on the other hand secures it even more from possible checks from Google employees. However Googles T&C's may not allow you to place ads on private forums. (I doubt they complained about the Newbie forums).
There is also the other option that Weaste mentioned in which you can determine certain pages where ads will be disabled. This is the safest and cleanest way of doing it and ensures that you don't break the T&C's. There's plenty options in the adsense CP.
However I still am in favour of a private sub-forum, even if you would use the option of disabling ads on some pages. A sub-forum where only mainstanders would have access to which could be used to WUM the press and post the usual tripe that isn't allowed on the public part of the site.
Can I have my skylines of other cities thread back?
Keep us updated as regards Adsense , Niall . As far as I know it's difficult to get back the service if disabled for terms violation. 
I'm not very familiar with adsense, but can't we restrict google's access to the general/bunker with robots.txt or simliar?
I know this isn't the biggest issue we have right now but is there any chance the General Forum link in the quick links can be changed to the the bunker?
Any chance of a response to this from the powers that be? (i.e. Niall)I'll give you my tuppence worth (
First of all, Google will serve ads on any page you install adsense regardless of the content. It will show relevant content to the page for those pages that are cached on Google servers. If Google cannot see the content then it will not deliver a relevant ad. It also will not know whether you are breaking the T&C or not.
Google cannot scan a webpage of a private forum because there will be authorization required in order to access it. It also cannot give you a type of code for you to insert that can scan a webpage and read its content because this would be in violation of Data Protection and Privacy laws. Things that are private, should remain so for a reason. There's a file called robots.txt which you should have already placed in your root webserver which tells Google robots where to scan the site in order to cache it. If you don't allow them to enter the General then they cannot cache the webpage and learn of the content. By making it private on the other hand secures it even more from possible checks from Google employees. However Googles T&C's may not allow you to place ads on private forums. (I doubt they complained about the Newbie forums).
There is also the other option that Weaste mentioned in which you can determine certain pages where ads will be disabled. This is the safest and cleanest way of doing it and ensures that you don't break the T&C's. There's plenty options in the adsense CP.
However I still am in favour of a private sub-forum, even if you would use the option of disabling ads on some pages. A sub-forum where only mainstanders would have access to which could be used to WUM the press and post the usual tripe that isn't allowed on the public part of the site.
can we request certain threads to be moved to the bunker?
p.s as someone who types in f8 to get to the general this is a heart-breaker, it will take me months to remember the new number.
If you actually bothered to have a look in the bunker......
I never look at sticky threads, you little rat.If you actually bothered to have a look in the bunker......
So how come the Bunker is now the General again, this is confusing
Its called the general forum, as opposed to general chat.
Aha that's what's different about it, I knew it wasn't called that before. Been wondering that all day.
Is that a picture of you reading my post?
It was the expression I had after reading it
but...but why?
Why did your face turn that colour?
Where is your nose man?? Where is your nose?
Why did your face turn that colour?
Where is your nose man?? Where is your nose?
lol
Is that you laughing or somebody drowning?
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