This is because Deena is sneaky, yes. I'll post in Press about it. Apologies to anyone who didn't get to take advantage who wanted to.
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Deena - Dec 30, 2003 5:21:00 pm PST #6458 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
§ ita § - Dec 30, 2003 7:01:11 pm PST #6459 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
User filter is on the list of code mods, but we haven't finished settling in here yet -- stuff like mailing lists, etc have to be installed.
Once that's done -- code.
We also need a re-listing of people willing to code.
Vortex - Dec 31, 2003 5:52:04 am PST #6460 of 10000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I think in the past there have been strong privacy objections to this very notion. Which is why Deena has created a private opt-in collection of contact emails and phone numbers and gift-preferences.
I'm with DX on this one. I thought about that before I posted, and I figured that if you could choose not to reveal your address in your profile, you wouldn't be in the database. plus, you wouldn't have to reinvent the wheel.
amych - Dec 31, 2003 5:56:40 am PST #6461 of 10000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I thought about that before I posted, and I figured that if you could choose not to reveal your address in your profile, you wouldn't be in the database.
This. And anyway, not being able to find someone is an artefact of the search feature being shut off when we were having server troubles. If we can get search back (which I assume we'd want to test as we get up to speed here), we're golden.
(iirc, those privacy objections were to giving people access to rl names, addresses, phone numbers, and the like -- nobody ever objected to giving out the information that's already in our profiles.)
All of which doesn't mean that a more refined search shouldn't be somewhere on the feature list, but that's a different thing and would take a bit of thinking about features.
Fred Pete - Dec 31, 2003 6:17:29 am PST #6462 of 10000
Ann, that's a ferret.
iirc, those privacy objections were to giving people access to rl names, addresses, phone numbers, and the like -- nobody ever objected to giving out the information that's already in our profiles.
This is a good line to me. If it's in the profile, we can already access it by clicking on the name. And with a general search function, we could access the profile anyway.
Beyond that, I'd object to anything that goes further than Deena's opt-in project.
Steph L. - Dec 31, 2003 7:59:56 am PST #6463 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
In the links page, under "Core Buffista Links," nothing is listed. Is that on purpose?
signed,
bored at work and wanting to hit the BRQG
Cass - Dec 31, 2003 8:05:46 am PST #6464 of 10000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Teppy, Buff Dive away.
Steph L. - Dec 31, 2003 8:06:24 am PST #6465 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Danke.
DXMachina - Dec 31, 2003 8:08:09 am PST #6466 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
In the links page, under "Core Buffista Links," nothing is listed. Is that on purpose?
Huh. I'm pretty sure there used to be links there.
Steph L. - Dec 31, 2003 8:10:16 am PST #6467 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
There were -- that's my point. Now they're on walkabout.