With these options you can control the use of social groups.
Settings > Options > Social Group Options Social Group Name Maximum Length
Enter the maximum number of characters allowed in social group names. Names longer than this limit will be rejected.
Social Group Message Moderation
When enabled, all new group messages are placed into moderation. This can also be enabled in usergroup permissions.
Enable Social Group Messages
If you select this options, members of each group will be able to post messages in the group. Users who are not part of the group will still be able to read the messages.
Allow Groups Owners to Force New Group Messages into Moderation Queue
This option allows a group owner (with the Manage Own Social Groups' Content Permission) to set the group so that all Group Messages are automatically sent to the moderation queue.
Enable Social Group Pictures
If this option is selected, any users with albums will be able to add pictures from an album to groups they belong to.
Allow Join-to-View Groups
When set, this allows the creator of a group the option to only show contents (messages, pictures) of the group to members of that group (or Administrators and Moderators).
Allowed BB Code Tags in Social Group Messages
This setting allows you to enable and disable the use of various BB codes in group messages.
Allow Owners to Delete Social Group if Empty
This option will allow any group owner to delete a Social Group if they are the only member of that group (even if they lack the "Can Delete Own Social Groups" permission)
Use the Settings > Options > User Picture Options setting group to manage the settings for the avatars and profile pictures.
Note:
This is the section for the global switch, use the usergroup permissions to setup the permissions on a usergroup basis.
z Avatars Enabled
Use this option to enable/disable the overall use of avatars.
Avatars are small images chosen by the user and displayed under usernames in thread display and user info pages.
You can enable/disable avatars on a per-usergroup level by disabling their ability to use any avatar categories under Avatars > Avatar Manager. You can enable/disable custom avatars in Usergroups >
Usergroup Manager.
Set this option to 'no' to turn it off.
z Avatar Display Width
How many columns of avatars do you wish to display of pre-defined avatars in the User Control Panel to the user when selecting a pre-defined avatar?
Example: 5
z Avatars Per-Page
How many avatars do you want to display per-page on the 'Edit Avatar' page within the profile editor, broken into columns by the Avatar Display Width setting above?
Example: 10
z Profile Pictures Enabled
Use this option to enable/disable the overall use of profile pictures.
Profile pictures are small images (although usually larger than avatars) that users can upload to their profile pages. You can set this per-usergroup with the Can Upload Profile Pictures setting in Usergroup Manager.
Set this option to 'no' to turn it off.
When you are done, click the [Save] button to apply the changes.
Note:
Social Group Options
Back to TopUser Picture Options
Back to TopTo manage your pre-defined avatars, or to control the storage of avatars, go to theAvatars section.
User Reputation Options
Back to TopThis section contains many settings that dictate how users of your forum are able to affect each other's reputation score.
z Enable User Reputation system
This is the global switch for the reputation system. If you disable this, users will not be able to rate each other nor will their scores be visible.
z Default Reputation
This is the reputation score that new users will start out with.
z Number of Reputation Levels to Display
When a user enters their User CP, they will see a list of their most recent reputation ratings. This affects how many of the latest ratings to display.
z Administrator's Reputation Power
If you wish to have administrator's wield a certain reputation power independent of their calculated score, enter it here. Otherwise, set this to 0 and they will use the same calculations as everyone else.
z Register Date Factor
The number of reputation points that a user is able to give or take is dependant on several factors, with the length they have been registered as one of them. A user's power is first initialized at 1 and then this factor and the factors that follow are used to increase it. For example if you set this to 365, every 365 days that the user has been a member of your forum, they would gain one point. So if they have been a member for five years, they would gain 5 points of power for a total of 6.
z Post Count Factor
The amount of posts that a user has can also affect their reputation power. Set this to number of posts that you want to award one point for. For example, set this to 50 and for a user with 500 posts, they would gain 10 points of power.
z Reputation Point Factor
The users current reputation score can also affect their reputation power. Set this to 100 and a user with a reputation of 1000 would gain 10 points of reputation power. If you set any of the power factors to 0, that will effectively remove that factor from having an effect on the user's reputation power.
z Minimum Post Count
If the reputation system is enabled, anyone will be able to rate a post but only users with a post count above the level you set here will be able to actually give points or take points from another user.
z Minimum Reputation Count
As with the post count above, a user must have a reputation above this level to be able to give or take points from another user's score.
z Daily Reputation Clicks Limit
This sets how many unique members that a forum user will be able to rate in any 24 hour period.
Administrators can rate as many people as they wish.
z Reputation User Spread
This setting dictates how many unique members that a user must rate before they are able to rate the same member twice. The goal of this setting is to stop a member from either artificially bumping or dropping a user by repeatedly rating their posts.
User Notes Options
Back to TopUsers with permission to read / write usernotes are now able to go to a profile of a member and leave usernotes about this person. This feature is intended to allow staff members to discuss members and keep the information organized rather then having a variety of threads in a staff forum.
The Settings > Options > User Notes Options setting group allows you to set up the parsing for a usernote. You can turn on or off the use of BB Code, Smilies, [IMG] tags and usage of HTML.
Note:
The ability to use usernotes, read them, read your own, allow others to reply or manage them is a usergroup setting. Do not forget to walk through each usergroup to set the use and permissions of usernotes correctly.
Basically the usernotes are plain-text entries that hold comments from other (staff) members. Turn on these options to allow markup of text and insertion of smilies / images or even HTML
z Allow vB Code in User Notes
If you want to markup the text with BOLD or ITALIC or other common vBulletin BB Code tags, set this option to Yes.
z Allow Smilies in User Notes
If you want a smilie like :) parsed to an image, set this option to Yes.
z Allow [IMG] Code in User Notes
If you want to allow insertion of images into the usernotes, set this option to Yes.
z Allow HTML in User Notes
If you even want to allow HTML to be used, set this option to Yes.
Warning! If you allow HTML to be inserted, you are open for risks of abuse - it is strongly not recommended.
Settingss > Options > User Listing Options
This section of the Admin Control Panel allows you to set options for the Member List including:
z Members List Enabled
This allows users to view all users who belong to those usergroups that have "Viewable on Memberlist"
enabled (See Usergroups & Permissions).
z Minimum Posts
You can define a minimum post count that a user must reach before they are displayed on the memberlist.
z Member List Field Options
Allows you to select which User Profile fields are viewable on the memberlist.
z Members Per Page
The number of records per page that will be shown by default in the members list before the results are split over multiple pages.
z Allow Advanced Searches
Allow the use of the advanced search tool for the Member List. If turned off, members will only be able to search by username.
Settings > Options > User Banning Options
This section of the Admin Control Panel allows you to set the Banning Options for your forum along with IP bans.
z Enable Banning Options
Banning allows you to stop certain IP addresses and email addresses from registering and posting to the forum.
z Banned IP Addresses
Use this option to prevent certain IP addresses from accessing any part of your board.
If you enter a complete IP address (242.21.11.7), only that IP will be banned.
If you enter a partial IP (243.21.11. or 243.21.11), any IPs that begin with the partial IP will be banned. For example, banning 243.21.11 will prevent 243.21.11.7 from accessing your board.
However, 243.21.115.7 would still be able to access your board.
You may also use an '*' as a wildcard for increased flexibility. For example, if you enter 243.21.11*, many IPs will be banned including: 243.21.11.7, 243.21.115.7, 243.21.119.225.
Warning:
Use this option with caution. Entering an incorrect IP can result in banning yourself or other genuine users from your forums.
z Banned Email Addresses
Email address ban lists: You may ban any email addresses from registering and posting. Type in the complete email address ([email protected]), or use a partial email address (as in @example.com).
Note that partial email addresses are matched from the end of the address unless you enable 'Aggressive Email Banning' below. Therefore if you ban @example.com you will ban
[email protected], but if you ban @example that user will not be banned. If you enable 'Aggressive Email Banning', [email protected] would be banned by @example.
If the email address of a user attempting to register or change their email address matches any of the addresses you specify here will see a no-permission error. For example, if you have banned 'example.com' then a user attempting to use '[email protected]' will be rejected.
z Aggressive Email Banning
If this option is enabled, when checking for banned emails, incomplete addresses are matched anywhere in the email address, not just the end.
For example, if this option is enabled 'yahoo' will block any email address with 'yahoo' in it. If this option is disabled, no emails will be banned unless the ban was changed to 'yahoo.com'.
z Allow User to Keep Banned Email Addresses
If you ban an email address and a user already uses that address, a problem will occur. Using this option, you can specify whether the user will have to enter a new email address in their profile when they next modify their email address, or whether the user can just keep the email address which you have banned.
z Tachy Goes to Coventry
This option allows you to effectively add a user or users to every member's 'Ignore List'. However, users in this list can still see their own posts and threads...
Enter a list of userid numbers, separated by spaces (for example: 4 12 68 102).
Note:
If you change this option, you need to rebuild thread and then forum information in Maintenance >
Update Counters.
vBulletin Options > vBulletin Options > BB Code Settings z Enabled Built-in BB Code Tags
This setting allows you to enable and disable various built-in BB code tags in vBulletin. The BB Codes that can be enabled or disabled here are:
Basic BB Code (Bold, Italic, Underline) Color BB Code
Disabling a BB code tag will prevent it from working anywhere on the forum, including signatures, private messages, user notes etc.
User Listing Options
Back to TopUser Banning Options
Back to TopBBCode Options
Back to Topz Maximum [CODE] Lines
When a user posts a block of [CODE], [PHP] or [HTML] in one of their messages, the system will place it in a box, which expands to contain their message.
This value controls the number of lines at which the box stops adding height and inserts a scrollbar.
z Allow BB Code in Non Forum Specific Areas
Allow users to include BB code in non-forum-specific areas? (Such as [b], [i] etc.)
z Allow Smilies in Non Forum Specific Areas
Allow users to include smilies in Non Forum Specific Areas?
z Allow [IMG] Code in Non Forum Specific Areas
Allow users to include [IMG] codes in Non Forum Specific Areas?
z Allow HTML in Non Forum Specific Areas
Allow users to include raw HTML code in Non Forum Specific Areas?
Warning:
Enabling this setting is strongly not recommended.
Message Posting and Editing Options
Back to TopSettings > Options > Message Posting and Editing Options z Quick Reply
If you enable Quick Reply, a box will appear on the showthread.php page allowing users to reply to the current thread without needing to load the full newreply.php page.
When Quick Reply is enabled, you may specify whether or not users must click the Quick Reply icon in order to start typing in the Quick Reply editor.
If you choose not to require a click, the system will not know to which post a user is replying, making both the threaded and hybrid display modes nonsensical.
Note:
We strongly recommend that you set the option to require a click if you use Quick Reply and have Threaded Mode available on your forums.
z Quick Edit
By enabling Quick Edit, a click on the Edit button in a post will open an editor within that post via AJAX if the visitor's browser is compatible.
Users may use the full editor by clicking the 'Go Advanced' button in the inline editor.
z Multi-Quote Enabled
If this option is enabled, an additional button will appear on posts. A user may click as many of these buttons as they wish. Once they click a reply button, the content of each of the selected posts will be quoted and shown in the reply window.
z Multi-Quote Quote Limit
Enter a value to limit the number of quotes that can be created with Multi-Quote, once this limit is reached the user will be unable to add any more quotes.
Note:
The Quote BB code can still be entered manually, this is not a limit on the number of quotes in a post.
z Minimum Characters Per Post
If this number is set to a value greater than 0, users must enter at least that number of characters in each new post.
Note:
Setting this to 0 will not completely disable the minimum characters per post check. Users must always enter at least 1 character.
z Maximum Characters Per Post
Posts that contain more characters than the value specified here will be rejected with a message telling the user to shorten their post.
Set the value to 0 to disable this function.
z Maximum Characters Per Thread/Post Title
Thread and post titles will be limited to this number of characters. Please choose a value larger than 0 and less than 251.
z Ignore Words in [QUOTE] Tags For Min Chars Check
Setting this option to 'YES' will cause the system to not count words in [QUOTE] tags towards the total number of characters posted.
The primary use for this is to prevent users posting messages with enormous quotes and a single short word of their own.
z Automatically Quote Post / Thread Title
Setting this to 'Yes' will automatically fill the title field of new posts with either the thread or the parent post title, prefixed by 'Re: '.
The user may specify their own title if they want to do so.
z Maximum Images Per Post
When a new post is submitted or edited vBulletin will check the number of images and smilies in the text and reject it if the number is greater than the value specified here.
Set the value to 0 to disable this function.
z Prevent 'SHOUTING'
Prevent your users 'shouting' in their thread titles/message text by changing all-uppercase titles with at least this many characters to capitalization only on the first letters of some words.
Set the value to 0 to disable this function.
Note:
Disable this for some international forums with different character sets, as this may cause problems.
z Minimum Time Between Posts
You may prevent your users from flooding your forum with posts by activating this feature.
By enabling floodcheck, you disallow users from making another post within a given time span of their last posting. In other words, if you set a floodcheck time span of 30 seconds, a user may not post again within 30 seconds of making his last post.
Note:
Administrators and moderators are exempt from floodcheck.
Recommended: 30 seconds. Type the number of seconds only. Enter 0 to disable this function.
z Time Limit on Editing of Thread Title
Specify the time-limit (in minutes) within which the thread title may be edited by the user whom started the thread.
z Time Limit on Adding a Poll to a Thread
Specify the time-limit (in minutes) within which the thread may have a poll added to it.
z Time Limit on Editing of Posts
Time limit (in minutes) to impose on editing of messages. After this time limit only moderators will be able edit or delete the message. 1 day is 1440 minutes.
Set the value to 0 to allow users to edit their posts indefinitely.
z Time to Wait Before Starting to Display 'Last Edited by...'
Time limit (in minutes) to allow user to edit the post without the "Last edited by..." message appearing at the bottom of the edited post.
z Log IP Addresses
For security reasons, you may wish to display the IP address of the person posting a message.
z Post Edit History
Enable this option to log the previous versions of posts when they are edited.
Edits will not be logged if an 'edited by' notice is not displayed or updated. This occurs in the following situations:
1. The editing user is in a group that does not show edited by notices and no reason for editing is specified.
2. The post is edited quickly enough after being posted to trigger the Time to Wait Before Starting to Display 'Last Edited by...' option.
Note:
This will increase the amount of disk space used by vBulletin for database storage.
Settings > Options > Message Posting Interface Options
z Enable Clickable Message Formatting Controls
This global switch allows you to set the available message formatting toolbar and clickable smilies for
This global switch allows you to set the available message formatting toolbar and clickable smilies for