Chapter 2
Global featurs
CONTENTS
This chapter discusses global functions, applying to all TGPs.
Blacklists Global: Blacklists (bottom frame)
TGB provides twelve blacklisting possibilities, which allow you to blacklist:
- Webmasters: name, email and IP.
Sample: cheater, ch@chdomain.org, 127.1.1.0
Note that this is the IP used on gallery submission. If the submiter uses a proxy server, in most cases Bush can see the webmaster's IP beyound the proxy server.
- Servers: name server, domain, IP, web directories, mail server
Sample: ns.badhost.com, baddomain.com, 127.1.1.1, http://www.gooddomain.net/baduser/, badmailserver.com
The above blacklists refers to people (webmasters) and computers (hosts). Next apply to galleries.
- Sponsors.
You may use the whole or part of URL to sponsors. Probably, as you don't want the listed galleries to have pop-up's, you will blacklist all exit sponsors you know. You may use the sponsor's domain or part of the URL which individualize a particular submiter.
Samples: exitsponsor.com, ?ID=30200
- Links. This works pretty much the same as "Sponsors" section. The difference is that here you forbid the entire link between anchors (entire code between
tags).
- Text. You may blacklist any text you don't want in a gallery. Sample: lolita, incest.
- Javascript Code. Any javascript you don't want in the gallery.
For every section, blacklisted code must be one per line.
WARNING! Do not keep blank lines in any blacklist. This is interpreted by script as "*.*", and no webmaster can submit a gallery in this situation.
Webmasters Global: Webmasters (bottom frame)
TGB provies you a wide range of information about all submiters (webmasters). You may find a particular webmaster starting from his nick-name, mail address or IP address. If you want to find all (regular) webmasters, trusted webmasters or blacklisted webmaster, you must check the correspondent check-box, leave empty the edit box and hit Find button.
If the webmaster(s) you search for exists in the database, you get a report in the middle frame, containing the mail address and the nick for those webmasters matching your query. Regular (new), trusted and blacklisted webmasters will be displayed in different colours, which you may customize.
For many information about one of the found webmasters, select the correspondent radio button and hit "Show". The script will dispaly the following informations:
- Email
- Status. It may be "new", "trusted", "lost trust" or "blacklisted". Galleries submited by trusted webmaster are listed without review. The "new" concept defines a webmaster who's not trusted or blacklisted, and never was trusted. Galleries submited by "new" webmasters are queued for review.
- Password. Bush assigns a password to every webmaster, on first submission. New webmasters may use this password for submission confirmation (in this case the script doesn't send them confirmation URL). Trusted webmasters must use their password on submission, otherwise the script will deny access.
- First submission date
- Last submission date
- Submissions amount
- Average gallery lifetime
- IP-addresses
- Used hosts
You also may choose to see part or all of following information, by checking the correspondent check-box:
- IP-control. This shows you all webmasters having the same IP(s) as the selected one. These informations hepls you to find those webmasters trying to submit more galleries than the amount you set.
- Listed galleries.
- Submissions errors.
- Resons for galleries removing.
Reviewers Global: Review (bottom frame)
In this section you add/remove reviewer accounts and read review reports. You must type a name and a password for each reviewer.
You may have an unlimited number of reviewers working in the same time.
Reports allow you to control the activity of each of your reviewers. TGB creates everyday a new review report, providing following informations: reviewer's name, URL for each visited gallery, the moment of approval/rejection. If the gallery category was changed by reviewer, you are noticed about it. Approved and rejected galleries are displayed in different colours, which you may customize.
You are allowed to delete a report after reading it.
Checkup Global: Checkup (bottom frame)
This is a great feature of Bush, which helps you keeping in your sites only clean and hi-quality galleries. TGB performs a deep check of every listed and archived gallery, and removes all suspicious galleries. After every gallery removal, all TGP's are updated, so the gallery will not be listed anymore in any of them.
TGB provides you a list of events/parameters to be checked. You must select at least one event for starting the checking process. Of course, it's up to you to decide what TGB to verify. For more details about every checked event meaning, you must consult a HTML/JavaScript guide.
TGB generates and updates a check-up report everyday. The report contains the date of gallery posting, webmaster's nick, the gallery URL and the reason for beeing deleted.
WARNING! Before setting TGB to run the check-up, you must be sure your server is enough powerful to complete this task.
Email Global: Email (bottom frame)
There are two types of emails defined in this section: emails automatically sent by script to a particular webmaster and emails you send to all / trusted / selected webmasters (mass-mail).
For automatic emails you must define templates. For that, Bush lets you use some parameters, such as webmaster (submiter) name and password.
Review
You must decide if you want to send approval/rejection emails, and if you want to use prewritten reasons for galleries rejection, or let the reviewer edit it for every gallery. Of course, if you receive a large amount of galleries every day, you probably will decide to use prewritten rejection reasons or not to send rejection emails, in order to make reviewer task easily. Bush may also automatically send approval emails.
"Submission confirmation info"
This is the email Bush automatically send to every webmaster after gallery submission, in order to confirm the submission. You must fill up this email template, and you must use the {link} and {password} parameters, in order to make the submission process work.
Bush automatically generates a password for every new webmaster. You must send this password to webmasters, using the correspondent parameter in the confirmation mail. There are two ways webmasters can confirm their submission:
- Following the url Bush sends to their mail box. This must be done at least once, at first submission.
- Using the password.
Is up to you to customize this email template. You may use the sample in the table below:
| Name: |
My Site Reviewer |
| Email: |
review@mydomain.com |
Subject: |
Gallery Submission Confirmation |
Message body: |
Hello {webmaster}!
Please confirm your submission following next url:
{link}
After your first submission, you may use this password
{password}
to confirm your submission.
Thank you!
My Site Reviewer
|
"Approved" & "Declined"
If you decided to use "approved" and/or "declined" emails, you must fill up the correspondent tempate(s). Bush lets you use a few parameters, such as webmaster's name, submission date, review date and gallery URL. Make sure you made the appropriate settings in Review section.
"Got trust"
Bush automatically give trusted status to those webmasters whose average galleries livetime is longer than the value you chose (Global -> Main -> Trusted WM). Also, you are allowed to give trusted status to any webmaster you want. When a webmaster status changes from new into trusted, Bush automatically send him "Got trust" email.
Of course, you must complete the correspondent template. You are allowed to use two variables: webmaster's password and nick name.
Notice that webmasters already know their password (it remains the same when webmasters status changes), but it may be useful for them to remaind it.
"Lost trust"
Bush also notices webmasters when they loses their trusted status. You need to complete the correspondent email template. In this case, you are allowed to use one variable - webmaster's nick name.
Edit Database Global: Edit Database (bottom frame)
In this section you are allowed to edit galleries. For every gallery you are allowed to change the number of points, the category and description, and the TGP to be listed in.
In the left-top frame, TGB shows you a list of days when galleries entered your sites. By following one of this links, in the middle frame you will see a list with all galleries which entered sites in that day. Bush also provides you tomorrow list, containing galleries approved on review or posted by trusted webmasters, which will be listed on next daily update.
For each gallery you see the following information: webmaster, gallery URL, number of points, category, description, TGP's listing the gallery. You may edit the gallery following the Edit link.
If you want a gallery not to be listed, in any of your TGP's, simply uncheck all the TGP boxes.