The MTF Points system is installed on the site right now, for testing purposes…

The MTF Points system is based on a logic of commercial purchases on a website, it’s not a game or a system to gain credits by posting on this site… You will not be able to use these points if you purchase any yet, but in the near future, it will become the main mean to purchase products and support here.

There will be a complete description of the engine soon, and a list of all the possible usages you can have with it… But lets say that right now, people can purchase points with it, and when needed, claim a refund, which will be sent to their paypal account *(because i do not have anything else than paypal right now). This refund is managed by moderation, the system manager (admin or super-mod) have the access to approve a refund or not. You can imagine that it’s more complicated that way, but for a company, it is more efficient to have a direct access to that kind of transaction, and it’s the best way to control what we have in hands.

There is already such kind of system on sitepoint.com or 99designs.com where they have a payment process based on points that you purchase via paypal to pay for an Ads or open a Project. Now you will be able to own such system, and it is designed to fit any kind of community, of any size!

You will be informed of the developments of this engine in the next days…

IF I posted this in the wrong section Im sorry I dont see where else it would go?

Hi I run a couple forums BUT the one in question is my PC help forum. I would like to maybe have on my sidebar a section that shows the latest X threats. I understand this may be a project and am willing to donate more here or pay for this. From what I learned from the admin here my skin doesnt actually use hooks but the sidebar stuff is hardcoded in but it would I suppose be the equivalent to a hook. My site is Freetechs.
(sorry for advertising) its my new forum. anyway the reason I gave the address is so you can see the sidebar stuff as thats where I would like to add it. You may have seen what I mean on some known security forums/sites.

Any help would be a appreciated 🙂

Blame Shelley… she told me I had no choice but to come here and annoy everyone….. *waves*

is anyone here a member of vbteam? can you get them to load? i cant, what happened

Ok, i read a lot of things regarding vB 4.0, and from what i see, they are trying to add more places where it is possible to construct a good Ads system… So, what with the Discreet Sponsors system?

nothing actually is changed. i was asked today if my system becomes obsolete for vb 4.0 … actually yes, i will have to rewrite my engine to work with the new codes, but this is not before december, when the system will be stronger… vB in beta mode can take months.

but i think i will wait until the first beta comes on the market before releasing the new engine myself… not because i want to leach, but because i do not want to be leached… that was done in the past, and as IB is planning a lot of sponsoring/ads on their new core, i think i will not give them the opportunity to copy my engine… 🙂

call me cheap, but hey, i remember some codes that were stolen!

If you are not a coder, if you are not developing tools that need a checkbox in the vBulletin Settings, you do not need this…

For the coders, use this file, insert the two plugins in it in your product file, and configure your options like on the screenshot! it is not working if you do not add the code to your products, remember!

that is THAT simple…

this is a longtime missing feature in the admincp… because some people think it is useless… yeah. some!

I have posted a question for this addon 2 days ago and no response? Can anyone help please? I hope Im not being too pushy I just am stuck with this and cant figure out what Im missing.

thanks

https://unpapapro.com/vbe-complimentaries/web-crawlers-bundle/4826/sayfa4.html

Ok, well now that the releases engine is in testing, what MTF addon should i be working on now? we definitely need a support engine and i will do that i am just wondering what you think the next best addon to make would be.

I thought I’d pop in and say hello whilst I have a little look around.

you know i played with ico-content long time ago, and as it was a crap, i decided to code a new version…

but that’s not enough for me, as it would not bring a lot of paying clients. so i got the solution, a lot time ago, and i think it’s time we do it. instead of the autonomous ico-content that grab content from yahoo.answers.com, we will become content providers.

It is instant, even if the server get shut down it’s not a problem because the job we do is to give instant access to our database for a snap of time, and the rest is done on the client side.

explanation:

as we have the content, instead that the client connect to yahoo, they connect to us. if they pay for 30 posts, they connect once, our grabber on their vBulletin grab the 30 posts structured properly with users info etc, and that’s it. takes 5 seconds. the feed is in php, it integrate directly into vBulletin, and it requires site authentication, so it is impossible to have leechers. we use the same technique as used by yahoo.

you can see it here: Yahoo! Answers – YDN

the « TRY IT NOW » part of the page, where you can choose the action then the output… the PHP version is a serialized dB insert… the only thing you need on your side is the same structure for your dB… How Magnificient.

So, what to do:

1- create an automated process that will grab actually completely everything coming from answers.yahoo.com. the content is grabbed completely, with questions, answers. the users are grabbed too, with their avatar etc… they have their userid, so we will be able to change some details afterward (because UserNick sometimes suck, are emails etc).

2- each entry is a post, no matter what they are called, so each post will have its keywords based on the content and the title, not only the title. we do not keep the filtering on yahoo’s structure, because it is not robot, it is based on human evaluation, which is really falsed by a lot of things *(the « sex » keyword really mean nothing in « house demolition, but you see it often)… so the structure of the threads/posts will change once it is inserted in the database.

3- the client select the number of new threads based on keywords x, select if they want to generate random posting « live » on their site or have « old posts » generated, which would be based on the original content dateline, making the client forum having older content than before maybe. showing a different way of things, you can choose to have an old existing forum or a complete new one with new users.

4- the client pay for a grab-key, and when authenticated, a product file is sent to the client that will grab exactly what he want. the process is instant, and if the client choose the « old posts » technique, the posts are posted on the forum at the same time. if it is the « live » version, it takes time to post the threads and answers freely, randomly based on the trafic of the client site.

…on our side, we store each thread/post ID of that client, so if they come back, we do not send the same content again. we do it on our side, because if they decide to delete everything on their forum, we are not responsible for the loss…. 🙂 and if they want to retrieve the same content again, we can!

i’m just talking about yahoo’s service here because i did not check elsewhere yet, but once yahoo is tested, we can add more of these content providers. yahoo is free, it’s on our side.

the system is really easy to deal with. grabbing content like rss/xml is quite simple, we just need a master database, but i can do right now for testing…

if you think the MTF can offer something to provide content, just tell.. 🙂