Also -- once a user is deleted, that e-mail address can be used to register again. And that user name.
I'm not sure how old he is, but I heard him use the word 'newfangled' one time, so he's gotta be pretty far gone.
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§ ita § - Jan 02, 2003 9:33:26 pm PST #2575 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jon B. - Jan 02, 2003 9:34:16 pm PST #2576 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
ita's right again. I think. I should just go to bed.
Aims - Jan 02, 2003 9:35:10 pm PST #2577 of 10000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Jon will be in his bunk.
John H - Jan 02, 2003 9:36:58 pm PST #2578 of 10000
OK, so when someone's de-activated by an admin, while they're logged into the board, and posting, what happens? What happened when mieskie came up with another username and posted? Did his session stay open?
DXMachina - Jan 02, 2003 9:45:28 pm PST #2579 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
You do to FUCKERS!!!!! exactly what I did to FUCKERS!!!!! -- deactivate it.
Deletion risks breaking referential integrity. There are two ways around that -- moving all posts from a deleted user to "DELETED USER" (which I don't like), or not allowing deletion of posters who've actually posted. Which is fine, but who but us admins knows about the deactivated never-posted users?
We could change that particular user name so that it's mocking us from the user list. The User ID is the key, not the name. We've already changed names a couple of times for people who have requested it (Rob and askye, that I remember).
§ ita § - Jan 02, 2003 10:23:36 pm PST #2580 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yes, but a) change it to what and b) that frees the name up for reuse.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 02, 2003 11:40:16 pm PST #2581 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Look what happens when some idiot forgets to close an t a tag.
Noumenon - Jan 03, 2003 12:05:41 am PST #2582 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
I'm reproducing Laura's post from Bureaucracy because categorizing the threads is on the request list, and this is a good starting point. I think "Literary" belongs under "Specific Natter," though, and "Specific Natter" needs a new name.
We seem to have 31 active threads at the moment. I really don't have a problem with movie and music threads in theory as I just subscribe and unsub as time allows. In the order they appear on the home page this is how I categorize the threads. It is getting a little confusing for me and I have to think it is worse for anyone new. Maybe some kind of organization? (What are the chances the format will be good first try?)
General - Natter
Spike's Bitches 2: These Bitches Got Some Funding
Natter 6: We're wearing the cheese RIGHT NOW!!
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
Specific Natter
LotR - The Two Towers: "Dude, Where's my Precious?"
Buffistechnology
Sang Sacre 1: It's a Blood, Blood, Blood, Blood World
Goodbye and Good Riddance 2002: A Very Buffista Holiday Thread
Buffista Corp
F2F Planning
Show threads
Buffy 2: Hey, I've Died Twice
Firefly 2: You Can't Take the Sky From Me.
Atlantic Canadian Monday Madness
Farscape 1: Fetch the Comfy Chair
The Jossverse in Other Media
Buffy and Angel SPOILERS
The Quotable Firefly: Oh, my God, I am a hack...
Due South: Mountie Fetishists Anon!
The Quotable Buffy: She said that? When?
Angel 1: SpongeVamp Leatherpants
Smallville 1: Clex!
Spoilage Lite: Angel
Spoilage Lite: Buffy
Previously 1: The Who Whating How With Huh?
The Quotable Angel: Can I say it? I wanna say it.
Firefly Spoilers
Fiction and Literary
Literary Buffistas: Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
Bitchy Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
The Great Write Way
PPO
Spike's Bitches Anthology Project
Noumenon - Jan 03, 2003 3:24:01 am PST #2583 of 10000
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
ita, thank you for stripping the taglines out of the Search results. That was a smart way to make it work.
Monique - Jan 03, 2003 6:28:37 am PST #2584 of 10000
Gonna have to second the request for categorization of threads, if possible (don't want to be all demand-y if it can't be done). I've been registered for awhile, but now that I'm *ahem* between jobs, I'm spending a lot more time here. You're all very entertaining, but sometimes it can take a while to find the threads I'm interested in on the front page.