Links page cheats

[Steve Machol]

http://AAA/ would result in a 404
if you sort your site on URL.

I meant using 'AAA' in the site description to bring it near the top. The point is that blocking non-alphanumeric characters doesn't keep people from doing something to put their site near the top of the list.

[qxh]

That makes it to hard to find what you are looking for.

I don't see how

They still have the categories (i.e. http://www.vbulletin.com/links.php?catid=14) but those displayed links are randomly ordered on each page load (effectively removing the problems with 'cheating' users).

[Wayne Luke]

They still have the categories (i.e. http://www.vbulletin.com/links.php?catid=14) but those displayed links are randomly ordered on each page load (effectively removing the problems with 'cheating' users).

And if you are looking for a specific forum because you know you saw it there before and lost the URL? What happens then? Hit reload 50 times until it randomly shows on the page?

[qxh]

And if you are looking for a specific forum because you know you saw it there before and lost the URL? What happens then? Hit reload 50 times until it randomly shows on the page?

Include a search tool where you can search using the forum name, forum address, or forum description perhaps? Nevertheless there could (maybe) be a feature where you can save the current randomized layout as a cookie (unique id) then the layout can be selected the the database? I dunno.

[Floris]

I meant using 'AAA' in the site description to bring it near the top. The point is that blocking non-alphanumeric characters doesn't keep people from doing something to put their site near the top of the list.

Not an issue if you sort on the URL rather then the description.

[url] [title]
[description]

[Steve Machol]

Not an issue if you sort on the URL rather then the description.

[url] [title]
[description]

That's probably the best way to do this.

[qxh]

Not an issue if you sort on the URL rather then the description.

[url] [title]
[description]

Although, as you said, if wildcarded dns is activated they could put http://aaa.domain.com/forums.