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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.


Jon B. - Dec 26, 2002 9:11:39 pm PST #2343 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Jon -- you have copies of your code, right?

Yes. Just give me a warning once you roll back.