Hi Everyone,
This is the Evil Overlord version of bythelee
mwah-ha-haaaa.
Peter Stock has given me the admin powers needed to start dealing with the spam mountain.
But I'm a little wary of attempting to rub out some of the bigger spammers (one has 23,000+ posts waiting in the queue) at times when we're trying to use the forum (like the upcoming competition end and results posting) so I'll stick to smaller things for now, and start a forum backup (if I can find it) in the meantime.
The Admin Control Panel is a really scary place, where it's very easy to click the wrong button and break everything forever.
I
hope nothing bad is going to happen, but if the forum does have hiccups, please do keep trying to connect. If I do break it, I'll contact Peter Thoman immediately about fixing it. I'll also email Peter Stock to post something on the Armadillorun.com website, and (assuming I get the backup done) will contact Andrew about his offer to host a new forum as a last resort.
At least from here, there is a visible light at the end of the tunnel.
DecMod has also been given moderator powers, although quite frankly the chalk-and-cheese nature of what's possible, means that moderators are really only useful for approving new user posts now.