Is there any way to make Bureaucracy a members only thread on the read-only level.

As I understand it, anyone can read our board and I think that's great. It gives unregistered users a chance to scope out the place. However, when disciplinary action has been taken against a member, and then that member is acting up in other Buffista fora (and threatening Buffistas on his/her website), it makes it uncomfortable to lodge a complaint, knowing that the person is able to read them.

It's not that I care if such a person knows what I think. It's that I am afraid such a person might be unstable.

That pic's been there for over a year, but thank you

I don't know how I missed that when I went over the last gallery update. What was the occasion for the outfit? Theremin concert? Foamies awards show?

It's just an outfit I put together for one of the bands I play with. Just me being goofy. I wore it to the F2F last year as well. t /natter

ita, I've been meaning to mention this for a while. And the recent discussion of what a registered/logged in user can do versus what a visitor can do/see reminded me.

Are you still under the impression that one must be registered and logged in to use the search function? Because if so, it's not true. Or it wasn't for me.

If I put the search URL in then I was able to search, even if I was not logged in at the time.

This may be because I had previously been logged in, on that PC. But I often wasn't shown as logged in when I was using the search function. (I, predictably, use IE. The one at home is 6.0)

I'm not trying to throw more trouble your way, and I realise this isn't even a problem whilst search isn't active, but I've been reading the MARCIE discussion, and the talk about locking bureaucracy, and so I thought I'd bring it to your attention.

Julie, the search function was deactivated after the first server crash because we felt it was too taxing on the server.

Julie, the search function was deactivated after the first server crash because we felt it was too taxing on the server.

Yep, DX, I know it's not working now. But I used to read statements such as "you have to be logged in to search", and that just wasn't true (for me.)

So now when I see discussion that says "oh, but you have to be logged in to do 'X'", I worry that won't be true either. Particuarly if you a) weren't aware of whatever bug was allowing me to continue to search in the visitor mode, and b) if the same code is used for 'X'. (Such as recent discussion on making Bureaucracy only readable for those logged in.)

AFAIK, there was no code in the search function to limit it to logged in users. It's easy to stick in that feature. For instance, log out and try to go to [link] -- it should take you to the front page instead.

Julie, I need to read more carefully next time, because I totally misunderstood. I thought you were worried that you couldn't search now. My bad.

You're right that search was supposed to be available only to registered users, just as user profiles are only available to registered users, so you should've been logged in to be able to use it. I didn't realize that part hadn't been coded.

Is this the place we propose new thread titles or the other one?

I can never remember.

Angel is almost done.

How about

Angel III: Big Damn Evil

AFAIK, there was no code in the search function to limit it to logged in users.

I'm glad to hear that Jon, no code means no bug!

I guess I either misunderstood, or someone else did, when they were saying that search was only available to registered users.

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Oh and whilst I was composing, DX came along and explained. Thanks.