Since my suggestion of logging IP addresses bothers you, I'll drop it.
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Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
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Rob - Dec 27, 2002 6:40:03 pm PST #1639 of 10001
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 6:41:39 pm PST #1640 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It bothers *me*, but I'm not the arbiter.
I vote against it, you for.
We need other voices.
Rob - Dec 27, 2002 6:45:45 pm PST #1641 of 10001
I just think if I pick apart all your arguments against, it will just irritate you. And I really don't care that much about it. So I'm changing my vote to no, making it unanimous.
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 6:46:34 pm PST #1642 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It won't irritate me if you're convincing ...
But it's your call.
Jon B. - Dec 27, 2002 6:47:21 pm PST #1643 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I don't see the point. Knowing the IP addresses doesn't prove anything either way.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 27, 2002 9:03:34 pm PST #1644 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Also-- I could be just stupid, but it seems to me that I have multiple IP addresses, that's the way my ISP does it. When I look at the hit logs for my website and the top five are all from ppp-string-of-numbers.cust.oldcity.dca.net, I'm betting they're all me, and not just five different really interested Philadelphians.
Jon B. - Dec 27, 2002 9:07:42 pm PST #1645 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Exactly right, RL. One person can have multiple IP addresses, and several people can have the same IP address. I don't see the value of adding it to the post database.
§ ita § - Dec 27, 2002 9:08:36 pm PST #1646 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Your connection type affects your IP address change frequency. You could pay extra to have a static one, but most likely it will be dynamic -- a new one every time you connect. For dialup users, this is obviously fairly frequently. For cable/DSL, it varies ... sometimes you get the same one back you had, if your off-time was short enough, and demand for new IPs was low in that interim.
Rob - Dec 27, 2002 9:14:03 pm PST #1647 of 10001
The value adding it to the post database is to save time in looking up the IP address in the HTTP logs.
I guarantee you that if we ever had to deal with a determined troublemaker, having the IP address that did the posting would be required to take action.
If it happens, ita will just have to dig the address out of the logs, which she prefers, so I say that's fine.
Consuela - Dec 27, 2002 9:15:18 pm PST #1648 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I don't see any evidence of sock-puppetry in the Firefly thread, myself. But I am kind of hopeful certain posters decide we're too boring to deal with and go away...