Why not three options: Nothing at all, headers but no content, or my 'subtle' missing-post indicator, forming a link to read it if desired?
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
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John H - Dec 26, 2002 6:40:18 pm PST #2333 of 10000
amych - Dec 26, 2002 6:45:30 pm PST #2334 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
As I said, options good. But since I'm not the one doing the coding, I don't want to get demanding about "this is my personal preference so give it to me now!" either.
Michele T. - Dec 26, 2002 7:00:06 pm PST #2335 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
In all honesty, in all the time I've spent on Usenet, I never missed seeing any indication that some jerk whose posts I didn't want to see had posted!
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 7:03:01 pm PST #2336 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gah.
I just realized, that as admins, we shouldn't ENUF anyone.
However, back in the day, I appreciated knowing when I was skipping, and when I wasn't, at least so that I could work out what I had missed on purpose, and what I'd let slip by me.
billytea - Dec 26, 2002 7:04:48 pm PST #2337 of 10000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Why not three options: Nothing at all, headers but no content, or my 'subtle' missing-post indicator, forming a link to read it if desired?
I'd vote for a stripped-down header, that is, something in between. Unless it's actually easier to code for leaving the header much as is. I would like to have the name of the filtered poster appear; on TT I had more than one person filtered, and the reasons differed somewhat from person to person.
But I think name of poster and missing-post indicator (by all means subtle) would be fine. Again, depending on ease of coding.
(Finally, even with the recent shenanigans on Firefly, I don't yet feel the need to filter anyone. By all means take this into account when according weight, or lack thereof, to my personal preferences.)
DXMachina - Dec 26, 2002 7:17:58 pm PST #2338 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I just realized, that as admins, we shouldn't ENUF anyone.
Yeah, I figured that out awhile back. Actually, this is the first guy I've ever felt strongly enough about to want to filter out his posts, mostly because I was afraid that if I tried to respond, I would lose my temper and post something unfortunate. The only guy I ever ENUFed back on TT was the fellow who always posted white text on a black background. Nothing to do with his content, just the way he presented it annoyed me.
askye - Dec 26, 2002 8:50:24 pm PST #2339 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I do want some info that would show a post has been filtered and just the poster's name and the post number would be fine. Personally I never pay attention to post numbers so if posts were just missing it would take me awhile to figure out what was going on.
Betsy HP - Dec 26, 2002 9:00:18 pm PST #2340 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
I just realized, that as admins, we shouldn't ENUF anyone.
My God, that is taking one for the team. I salute you.
I really wish that there could be precisely one rule, and it would be Don't Be A Jerk.
Pity the world doesn't work that way.
Jon B. - Dec 26, 2002 9:01:28 pm PST #2341 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
I just realized, that as admins, we shouldn't ENUF anyone.
Speaking as one admin, I've never felt the need to enuf anyone on any board, but that's just my temperment. I let those losers slide right past me. I know I'm a freak and understand why others admins would be frustrated.
§ ita § - Dec 26, 2002 9:10:07 pm PST #2342 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'd never really thought about it. But I mean as a coding thing, admins should not be offered the ENUF option.
Can we prioritise the outstanding requests?
Jon -- you have copies of your code, right? I want to rollback our test site to a current version of the standard site so the changes can be evaluated in test one by one.
And I'll get back on seeing if we can host CVS at buffistas.org.