And the geek post:
John, we'd get the one closest to the end. I'll need to putz around with the array functions, but I feel best with that.
Marco: Do we look reasonable to you? Mal: Well. Looks can be deceiving. Jayne: Not as deceiving as a low down dirty... deceiver.
'Out Of Gas'
Buffistas Building a Better Board
Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - Sep 23, 2002 11:56:59 pm PDT #368 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
John H - Sep 23, 2002 11:58:04 pm PDT #369 of 10000
I guess the other half of this question is how do you ban people? And what happens when they try to circumvent the board and come back?
Noumenon - Sep 24, 2002 1:55:10 am PDT #370 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
how do you ban people?
With guillotines!
And what happens when they try to circumvent the board and come back?
You feed them braaaaains and they go away.
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2002 6:26:44 am PDT #371 of 10000
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Here's something that might be helpful:
I'm not sure how it's implemented, but it looks like it could be CPU intensive, with lots of subprocess forks.
Nutty - Sep 24, 2002 9:07:57 am PDT #372 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Hello, peeps. I'm an ignorant soul, and I was futzing around with a pretend unix shell code in Buffistechnology. I was trying to do something with backslashes (and t tags , because I am a moron that way) and both backslashes and tags were stripped from the post. Tags I understand, but random backslashes? Are these forbidden characters for some reason?
To wit:
/////
//////
//////
What shows up? [edit: the above should look like mountains, or cross-stitches!]
DavidS - Sep 24, 2002 9:51:46 am PDT #373 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Plasmo, brings up a good point. We circled around the banning process and came to a general consensus of warning, suspension, banning, but we didn't nail it down and make it specific. Which we should probably go ahead and do.
We also need to formalize who would decide that a warning was warranted (maybe a quick huddle of the admins?). Do we want more than one warning before suspension? If so, how many? At what point would the disciplinary process become public. I got a sense that people felt that warnings would be private, but that a suspension would be publically noted.
Would banning be something brought before the whole community for a vote, or automatic after somebody came back from a suspension and earned another warning. Would the ban be forever or for a year?
It might help to keep this discussion focused on just the protocol we want to use.
Typo Boy - Sep 24, 2002 10:02:18 am PDT #374 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not to nitpick - but shouldn't we move this to Bureucracy?
Well Ok, that is to nitpick...
P.M. Marc - Sep 24, 2002 10:02:50 am PDT #375 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Moved to B.
Jesse - Sep 24, 2002 12:57:56 pm PDT #376 of 10000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a little tiny technical question: Is the thread width different in different threads? Because I notice sometimes the MARK thing wraps under my name, and sometimes it doesn't.
Not an issue, just wondering if it's my imagination, or a quirk, or a feature, or what.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2002 1:02:51 pm PDT #377 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It'll also depend on the width of the time and the post numbers.