Everything looks good from here... Yes. Yes, this is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... 'This Land.' I think we should call it 'your grave!' Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Ha ha HA! Mine is an evil laugh! Now die! Oh, no, God! Oh, dear God in heaven!

Wash ,'Serenity'


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DXMachina - May 02, 2003 7:37:19 pm PDT #3962 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

You know what? When you have posts with duplicate post numbers, you can't do a direct link to the second post. Makes sense, but I'd never thought about it until just now when I tried to do it.


Cindy - May 05, 2003 8:36:42 am PDT #3963 of 10000
Nobody

I know we have other priorities right now, I'm just restating a request of which I was suddenly reminded, before I forget it again. Please forgive me if this was answered and I missed it.

Is there any way to restrict the ability to read the Bureaucracy thread to members only?


Jon B. - May 05, 2003 8:43:43 am PDT #3964 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

If we were to do that, we would probably do it by adding a boolean field to every thread that determined whether that thread would be readable by non-members. I don't think it's too difficult to code.

Why would we want to do this?


DXMachina - May 05, 2003 8:47:54 am PDT #3965 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

To keep certain conversations members only. I don't think it's that restrictive. If you want to read bureaucracy, then register as a member of the board.

Wait, we might have people dumping their memberships.


Am-Chau Yarkona - May 05, 2003 8:59:23 am PDT #3966 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Cindy, added to the requests list. And I think it's probably a good idea.


msbelle - May 05, 2003 9:02:04 am PDT #3967 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Dude, as long as we don't make reading Bureaublahblah mandatory for members. cause, ya know, mutiny.


DXMachina - May 05, 2003 9:05:14 am PDT #3968 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Before we set the request in stone, I think we'll need to discuss in BUreaucracy, and probably vote on it, because it's more of a policy decision than a technical one. I don't think it should be all that hard to code, because we already do something similar with the user profiles. The question is whether the community thinks it's a good idea. I do happen to think it's a good idea, so I'll work up some sort of proposal, and post it in Bureacracy.


DXMachina - May 05, 2003 9:07:00 am PDT #3969 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Dude, as long as we don't make reading Bureaublahblah mandatory for members. cause, ya know, mutiny.

And maybe a counter proposal to make Bureaucracy our home page. :)


msbelle - May 05, 2003 9:07:59 am PDT #3970 of 10000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

snerk. I kinda wanted to make a proposal that limited Bureaublahblah to 50 posts a day, just to prove that a proposal could get defeated (cause I'd kinda love that rule).


Jessica - May 05, 2003 9:12:41 am PDT #3971 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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