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Forum URL: cybertechforums.com
Forum Name: CyberTechForums
Forum Topics: Gaming, Computing, Technology & Coding
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CyberTechForums is a Gaming, Computing, Technology & Coding comunity. Founded by me, BleepyEvans in July 2010. We have a small 500+ member forum, consisting of over 9,500 posts and almost 1500 threads.


What we offer

Coding Catergory
Our popular C and VB.net coding forums attract many users and allow them to show off their latest releases, aswell as show tutorials on how to make great applications.

Computing Catergory
Our computing section is full of tutorials and information for all operating systems, mainly how to keep your system running clean and smoothly, but we also have web developement tutorials which allow you to create fantasic looking websites.

Technology Catergory
Our technology section is where members can chat about the old and the new, the latest releases or just technology you will never forget.
Thoughout the forum we have our review sections where members and staff review products to making sure you know everything there is to know about a game, some tech etc.


Our Attractions

Points System
Our points system allows you to earn points depending on what you do on the forum, whether thats posting or just voting in a poll. These points can then be spent on real life products and services in our very own shop and more. You can also play the lottery and win even more just by simply buying a ticket!

Monthly Contests
At CyberTechForums we have monthly contests. These contests range from simple questionaires to actually creating something for the forum. Prizes range from upgrade and points to web hosting and real cash!

CTF Subscriptions
Our Professional and Specialist Status are available for just $4 a year. The CTF Professional group is a sign that you are a professional at what you do. It gives you access to hidden sections on the forum, aswell as the respect a true professional should get. Not only can you access hidden sections, you also recieve more permissons meaning your not limited to what you can and cant do on the forum.

Good:

- Nice theme, the post icons are nice and fit for purpose.
- Looks like you have some activity.

Bad:

- You have a DMCA notice attributing all images/design/code to you. Is that correct? You created the theme/post icons etc?
- You've hidden most of the forum from guests, this pisses me off. I can't even see thread/post counts. This kind of thing does not increase registrations in a good way.
- Some of your usernames have a hideous glow effect that didn't die with the rest of the 90s when it should have.
- Bit too much blue, would be nice to have a more varied palette.

Rating: 5/10. *


*If you have a DMCA notice for content you didn't create, then this rating will plummet to 0.

Do you understand you're falsely claiming the work on your website (including the icons) are created by the owner (in other words you)?

http://cybertechforums.com/images/stars/adminstar.png


http://findicons.com/icon/159775/award_s...?id=161597

Yeah, no.

Quote:All original content on http://cybertechforums.com/ is created by the website owner, including but not limited to text, design, code, images, photographs and videos are considered to be the Intellectual Property of the website owner, whether copyrighted or not, and are protected by DMCA Protection Services using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Title 17 Chapter 512 ©(3). Reproduction or re-publication of this content is prohibited without permission.

He didn't create the DMCA notice, and that find icon link you posted doesn't contain that image anywhere. Second, the glow looks very good in my opinion. No reason to remove it.

Many forums are hidden to guests because we experienced tons of leeching and no registration. After hiding some forums, we had many more members register, so in this particular case, I have to disagree.

(2011-09-27, 02:19 PM)Siege Wrote: [ -> ]He didn't create the DMCA notice.

^This. The DMCA text is default and auto generated. I don't know why you guys take a DMCA notice so serious over a single icon.

BTW, The theme is great. Good luck.

As already mentioned the DMCA is just to cover any tutorials or programs that have been created etc. The theme and logo are mine. I didnt even realise that the DMCA covers everything on the forum, so ill be looking to see if I can change that message.

As Siege mentioned, we expierenced alot of leeching when we started up and therefore we practically forced to lock the topical sections to guests. I will be finding a solution in the enxt few days.

I have been wanting to remove the glow for some time, I did like it when I first saw it but it doesnt give the same effect as it did in the past.

About the color, the forum was ment to be blue but I do know what you mean about too much blue. Ill have a word with the guys and see what they can suggest.

We just need to find a few more dedicated active members so that we can have some better highquality conversation. Thanks for your reviews, ill be looking into everything to make the forum as best as it can be.

And, forgot to mention, you have 24 links in the first post. Whereas showcase guidelines says, you can only have 2.

Remove the rest.

Sorry must have looked over that bit. Will do

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done Thanks for making me aware

(2011-09-27, 02:19 PM)Siege Wrote: [ -> ]Many forums are hidden to guests because we experienced tons of leeching and no registration.

Leeching? Isn't it just a discussion forum?

Quote:Leeching? Isn't it just a discussion forum?

I guess by leeching he meant leeching of tutorials and guides posted on his forum which is common as lime these days, newbies rip off the content.

But it also affects search engine in the meantime.