Posts with "*************"?

[rbn]

They are links which were posted on a now banned host.
If you provide a link to the specific post you're referring to, someone may be able to ID which host it was and you can manually copy/edit the link and go there.

[Justshare]

Most of ******** links are now dead filehosts like Luckyshare and similar hosts. Staff can see what ******** originally was, but in case of 1st pages in Allison's pics thread it is Luckyshare ( dead host ).

Your best bet is PMing original poster to ask for mirror, or contributing little to forum community with helpful and interesting posts and then try in request thread.

[koffieboon]

thre is already a special thread for this!

http://skylink-cdma.ru/t832270-po...-quotquot.html

Edit: Threads Merged.

Hi, i was wondering why is there sometimes asterisks in file's links ?

ex. http://********.com/j5u836hujc

Is the host down or ban ? Do I need an higher accreditation ?

Thanks !

[vimla]

There are so many threads about this, so why not just one pinned so ppl don't ask the this question over and and over again.

But in a quick answer it's long ago dead filehosts, so let's say rapidgator went out of business or got banned all those rg links would be replaced by asterisks

[Gwynd]

It has been "Stickied" (vBulletin don't call it "pinned"), on the "Forum Help" home page since July 2016 here:
http://skylink-cdma.ru/t832270-po...-quotquot.html

As: " Posts with "*************"? "



I'll merge these posts with the existing thread once I know vrodhosbn has seen it, he/she went offline immediately after asking the question.

Ok thanks, i didn't notice the sticky thread :S

[Namcot]

So when a host is banned, how are the links changed to all the ******?

Does Vbulletin does it? Is there a setting in the admin control panel for Vbulletin?

Because that's sure a lot of links to find and change if they are done one by one at a time manually?

[Gwynd]

Originally Posted by Namcot

So when a host is banned, how are the links changed to all the ******?

Does Vbulletin does it? Is there a setting in the admin control panel for Vbulletin?

Because that's sure a lot of links to find and change if they are done one by one at a time manually?

An Admin has to set vBulletin's censor options...so that each letter of the dead hosts name is changed to *.

We do not have the option to change it to something more useful like "this file is deader than a dodo" because it doesn't replace the dead filehost's name with a new name it replaces each letter of the censored word with "*".
I think, but I'd have to check, that "*" is the only character it will allow you to use when censoring.

Oh, actually according to the manual, we may have a choice of which single character it is:

Character to Replace Censored Words - This character will be used to replace censored words. For example, if you have censored the word 'dog' and you set the censor character here to an asterisk (*) then any occurrences of 'dog' in messages will appear as '***'.

There's a way to set it so that it would recognise "dog", but not words containing "dog"; useful when spammers come and post their dodgy site links as well.