We've taken it OFFLINE for now, as some users (or visitors) can't manage to use it in an adult manner.

It WILL stay offline until a sollution to the problem has been reached.

If some people can´t have manner, they need to be punished, but why all ( the largest group), that don´t make any problem be punish,?

When the abusers are using proxies and have different IP's every time, it would be nearly impossible to nail the guilty once, and would just ressult in innosent ppl getting locked out..

Shoutbox is a privilige, not a right..

It didn't work, so we removed it.

It's a shame that this had to happen.
A few people have ruined it for the majority.

When those few users so heavily abuses the function, there is not much of an option realy.

Thats a shame.If I found out who was doing it I would come straight to the staff of the site.If you have the user IP address evertime it is displayed check out who it is and where the live using programs you can get to find out for you.

http://mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php/f/1287

What about this one, it has permission options so that guests can't post, and members can only post with their login names etc.

How it looks, I have no idea...

That's what they have at lemon64 (C64 site). Works fine.

If it does, then we should use it here also. Who knows. It might do wonders...

We are intending to return the shoutbox in due course but for now (and for now is is weeks if not a few months) it will remain off line.