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I've been wondering.
There are pros and cons to allowing people to upload:
Pro:
Not everybody has a webhost, so you can just upload your file, without worrying about hotlinking.
Con:
Spammers could come and crash/fill up my server with junk.
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how are you going to monitor the uploading?
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Something to add to your cons (main reason why rpg-dev.net doesn't allow uploads as well):
Bandwidth usage
If you do decide to allow uploads I think it will require some dedication on your part to check any new uploads to see if they're junk or anything and to keep the whole thing clean. A great helping tool with this is to create a logging system for your site. For example... on rpg-dev.net pretty much
everything is logged. From the username, IP address, time/date, and the action performed be it adding a project, editing a project, deleting a project, trying to view an invalid project, trying to access the site administration, invalid parameters being passed to a script, etc. Why would this help you? Well you could (at a bare minimum) log when a user adds/edits/deletes an upload. This way when you do your daily (:lol
monitoring of your user uploads you know exactly what has been added/modifed making finding the junk uploads easier.
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They would upload, and then it would appear on the Downloads page. Every once in a while I'd go and look through the downloads, make sure no junk is there.
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or you could have a password for the upload so only "trusted"
persons could upload...
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"Trusted" people? I suppose...But what stops someone who I think I trust from accidentaly spilling the password?
Although it's a good suggestion, red_marvin. Thanks.
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If you have a forum or something you might perhaps make it
"members only"
And of course:
trusted people would not share the password
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Depending how many people you get registering, after a few posts in your forum, you could manually decide who is trusted. Or, PhpBB 2.0 has a "Karma" level mod. This would be excellent for deciding who should be trusted, ie if their karma is above X%, then they are permitted to upload. If their karma is below X%, then their access to upload is restricted.
Just an idea, anyway...
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Dark: It's a good suggestion, but one problem: The forum is a non-registering one. It's not for chatting - it's for announcments/small questions/comments.
Although I think I might have solved the problem: I'm going to allow "User Files", which people submit the URLs to their files, and they get put in a seperate section from the files that I add. That way I can just say something like...
"Here are the files that our users submitted. I can't guarantee they all work or anything, and I take *ablsolutely* no responsibility for anything that you download here. The files are not hosted at The Geekery, so to download the files, please right-click on the links, and choose "Save as" or "Save Target As", depending on your browser."
Sound good?
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Sounds ok, but make it filter f.ex. htm(l) files so "bad" people
won't start linking to p0rn sites or such...
...or filter the whole url and search for special words...
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