I was having some problems resolving the host name both yesterday, and on the weekend while trying to post, but both times the glitch was temporary, about five - ten minutes or so. (Also not on my end: Ping of my network card, the local gateway, another (external) IP and finally, a different hostname, all came back okay.)

Re: The back button gives you a blank screen problem: Switch to Nutscrape.

Yelena

Revising the posts that were lost, two were probably bad, one was clearly inflammatory, and the other three became much shorter and better (I believe) when I rewrote them.

In short, the board is better off without them. Weird.

José

There are some serious problems with the UBB Search for older material.

For example a search for Author: Fashionpolice
returns only 186 matches, despite the fact that I have 479 posts (and counting)

It appears that the results only show the last 200 posts (minus any deleted posts)

Anything that can be done about this? Or do we just need to live with it?

I find I do retain what I've written if I hit 'Back' with Netscape, but not if I'm using IE. It's probably a config thing, but out of interest, what browsers are you guys using? I'm one of the remaining Netscape stalwarts, mainly out of refusal to let M$ win, but also because I do like it better. I recognise that could be because I know it better...

Bravus

I use this: www.avantbrowser.com

Judging by the rather inflamatory responses to recent / recurring posts in 'Random Thoughts' about trying to contact Mr. G etc, could it be time for a FAQ with answers to common questions like these?

Just a thought. I'm not sure what all else could go in it but that could be a start.

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blog

Heard word from the webmaster that there is no way of changing the 200 post limit on author search results. However InfoPop is planning on implementing a date range search function in their next version of the UI.

It looks like the blog settings have been changed so that the blog entry page now shows 1 day rather than 1 post.

Thanks.

An issue that's come up in the 'Never-Ending Story Errata' thread (OK, it was me who raised it!) was the one hour editing limit. It causes hassles for the story thread, but I also have problems if I don't spot a typo until the following morning - it continues to bug me, but I can't fix it!

I imagine the restriction is used because in more rambunctious forums people might edit their posts in ways that mess up others' followups, but I doubt that'd be a problem here: any chance of removing the one hour limit, and just allowing people to edit their posts at their discretion?

Bravus

Hmm. I would have to vote the other way Bravus. Although the people around here are generally polite and borderline sane, unlimited editing is just so easy to abuse that I think it should be left the way it is. The one-hour limit also tends to encourage people to think a bit more about what they are going to write, I think.

As for typos and other mistakes, well, if they are important you can post a correction. If they are not important enough for that then we can all live with it I think. (The-supreme-being-of-your-choice knows I make enough mistakes.)

On the story thread, well, perfection is impossible anyway, but we can correct and modify to our heart's content on the errata thread.

Just my two yen.

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You have to give up.

ch ch ch ch changes...

Thanks Admin!

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Shifting on the richter scale...

no probs...

Two words:

Metro Dynamics

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"I'm villifying you for God's sake--pay attention!" Henry II, Lion in Winter

Aren't you turning a nuisance into a problem? Giving him credit may be worse, when he returns again.

José

can we kick Metro off the board - he is a nasty and boring little troll, who does nothing for the life of this community, and to be honest, I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.
He insults new visitors, talks bollocks, and is just a pointless waste of bandwidth.
Sure, he will log in under a new name, but screw him.
Who's with me?

they have the internet on computers now?

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Originally posted by chatsubo:
can we kick Metro off the board - he is a nasty and boring little troll, who does nothing for the life of this community, and to be honest, I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.
He insults new visitors, talks bollocks, and is just a pointless waste of bandwidth.
Sure, he will log in under a new name, but screw him.
Who's with me?

they have the internet on computers now?

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Im with you Chatsubo.

I'm with you.
I guess we already have several of his aliases on the board, so that wouldn't bother him anyway.
But I would really like to see MD be kicked out of here, just for the fun of it
[even with his brand new respectability]
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ArkanGL

I'm afraid I'm with JRE on this. Trying to kick him off the board seems entirely out of proportion. I don't find him any more than a mild irritant. I think all this talk of banning him is just going to fuel his persecution complex (or give him ammunition for pretending to feel persecuted... I really can't decide if he seriously feels that way).

Rather than banning him, an alternative solution would be to allow users to have 'ignore' lists or some such as part of their profile. Posts by users on the list would just show up blank. I wonder how hard that would be to implement... not that I really like that solution either.

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You have to give up.

quote:

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Originally posted by colin:
Rather than banning him, an alternative solution would be to allow users to have 'ignore' lists or some such as part of their profile. Posts by users on the list would just show up blank. I wonder how hard that would be to implement... not that I really like that solution either.

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I thought we had ignore list abilities, but they
weren't there when I went to look. Perhaps they
disappeared with our ability to go into stealth
mode.

Hey, let's set up a WGB black list. Then anyone we don't like will have to think twice before posting something that might piss someone else off. That'll make things much nicer around here, right?

Sorry gang, I'm strongly against banning people, having "ignore" lists or any other type of censorship, except where someone's using the board for activities such as stalking, making threats against another person or similarly antisocial/illegal behaviour.

MetroD has irritated me as much as he has everyone else, but as resident trolls go we could do much worse. (And FWIW, many of his posts are v.interesting - all of which adds to the overall frustration and annoyance level, I concede.)

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Originally posted by Gromit:
Hey, let's set up a WGB black list.

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You bet. Then we can link it with other UBB
systems to create a universal kill file. Piss us
off and you will all but cease to exist on
the 'net. This list should be overseen by a secret
group of people, so nobody knows who to complain
to. It would help if these people are prone to
random whimsical actions.

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Sorry gang, I'm strongly against banning people, having "ignore" lists or any other type of censorship, except where someone's using the board for activities such as stalking, making threats against another person or similarly antisocial/illegal behaviour.

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I don't like having banning people and that, but
I don't really feel that ignore lists are at the
same level of censorship. It's your personal
decision to ban someone and it affects nobody
else. OTOH, In all my time on usenet and the rest
of the 'net, I've only killfiled something like
two people and both of those is because they were
spam flooders, something that would get someone
kicked off this forum (for better or worse). I
have my own selective ignore file and equally
subjective decision making process as to what
thread I'm going to read.