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IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

Shadow0 posted:

Huh, they added a new "user history" button.

that means they made you IK (or Mod, but you're an IK).

According to your profile In LP. Happened to me too once, people will message you about changing thread titles now.

IGgy IGsen fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Oct 13, 2022

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hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

lol that he got buttons without realizing

# ? Oct 13, 2022 19:27

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

lol that he got buttons without realizing

I didn't realize either when it happened to me. Noticed the user history button, someone told me that's a thing only mods see. No one told me until several hours after I started panicking in a discord about someone somehow making me a mod. Thankfully it was just IK-ship. I think they do that on purpose.

E: by they I specifically mean Sally.

# ? Oct 13, 2022 19:29

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

think of all the extra buttons jeffrey must have

probably looks like internet explorer with every toolbar installed when he's logged in

# ? Oct 13, 2022 19:30

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

He just has one button and it deletes the forums

Better hope it's not Tuesday :ohdear:

# ? Oct 13, 2022 19:32

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

Rarity posted:

He just has one button and it deletes the forums

Better hope it's not Tuesday

don't worry

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Taking a break from more serious questions to answer this prompt with a story.

A few weeks before nu-FYAD was ultimately closed, I was reading forums code. I had just started learning the codebase, being pretty new at the time. I found the "delete forum" button in the admin panel, and went to check out the code to see what it did. I was pretty aghast at what I found - it was incredibly destructive. It not only permanently and irrecoverably deleted the forum itself, it went through every non-archived thread ever made in that forum, and deleted them, along with every post in each of those threads. As far as I could tell, it had not been used in years, as even LF and old BYOB and Helldump were not deleted in this way. I hastily removed this code and replaced it with a message that printed "We do not burn the Library of Alexandria and we do not delete forums." I figured I was being paranoid and it wouldn't come to that, but I did it anyway. Forums can be closed and hidden without being deleted and that ought to be enough for anyone.

Of course, just a few weeks later, lowtax calls me on the phone to say "I'm deleting FYAD". I'm upset to say the least. We get off the phone and fifteen minutes later he calls me back and says "it's not letting me delete fyad, the button doesn't work". I hastily explained, "uhh, try closing it." He was willing to delete 5+ years of posts just like that, without a second thought. I'd love to say it was only my clever and just-in-time code changes that prevented this fate, but I can't quite. If that feature still had worked, well, at least he didn't think to scroll down the page past Vichy FYAD - it might have been good for something. My actions did save a few good fyad threads that had been moved to Vichy FYAD

I hope this communicates what I think about the idea of "deleting forums". I don't really see it as on the table. It was dumb that people were calling for that with FYAD, and it's dumb when people call for it with CSPAM/D&D/GBS/TFR/whatever else. You expressed the harm it causes better than I ever could and I endorse your platform here as my own.

# ? Oct 13, 2022 19:36

Saalkin: Jun 29, 2008

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

lol that he got buttons without realizing

I had buttons once

# ? Oct 13, 2022 19:38

Sally: Jan 9, 2007; Don't post Small Dash!

Shadow0 posted:

Huh, they added a new "user history" button.

congrats OP you now have IK buttons in LP!

# ? Oct 13, 2022 20:30

KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Bad Purchase posted:

think of all the extra buttons jeffrey must have

probably looks like internet explorer with every toolbar installed when he's logged in

Oh man, the thread tag thread in QCS took me back to webring days.

Grats on the buttons traveler.

# ? Oct 13, 2022 20:41

Ass-penny: Jan 18, 2008

Thread continues to deliver!

# ? Oct 13, 2022 20:43

teen phone cutie: Jun 18, 2012; last year i rewrote something awful from scratch because i hate myself

OP just chain probe yourself until saturday so you get out of having to do an mmo thread

# ? Oct 13, 2022 20:52

sigher: Apr 22, 2008; My guiding Moonlight...

The self probe was :discourse:

# ? Oct 13, 2022 21:51

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

The one reason I am jealous of posters with buttons

# ? Oct 13, 2022 21:55

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

sigher posted:

The self probe was

Eh, it'll only be good if...

teen phone cutie posted:

OP just chain probe yourself

# ? Oct 13, 2022 23:05

tmm3k: Jul 19, 2006

The FYAD probes were expected, but this latest development was a nice surprise. Keep it coming OP.

# ? Oct 14, 2022 05:01

Blow: Feb 10, 2004

quote:

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:
Taking a break from more serious questions to answer this prompt with a story.

A few weeks before nu-FYAD was ultimately closed, I was reading forums code. I had just started learning the codebase, being pretty new at the time. I found the "delete forum" button in the admin panel, and went to check out the code to see what it did. I was pretty aghast at what I found - it was incredibly destructive. It not only permanently and irrecoverably deleted the forum itself, it went through every non-archived thread ever made in that forum, and deleted them, along with every post in each of those threads. As far as I could tell, it had not been used in years, as even LF and old BYOB and Helldump were not deleted in this way. I hastily removed this code and replaced it with a message that printed "We do not burn the Library of Alexandria and we do not delete forums." I figured I was being paranoid and it wouldn't come to that, but I did it anyway. Forums can be closed and hidden without being deleted and that ought to be enough for anyone.

Of course, just a few weeks later, lowtax calls me on the phone to say "I'm deleting FYAD". I'm upset to say the least. We get off the phone and fifteen minutes later he calls me back and says "it's not letting me delete fyad, the button doesn't work". I hastily explained, "uhh, try closing it." He was willing to delete 5+ years of posts just like that, without a second thought. I'd love to say it was only my clever and just-in-time code changes that prevented this fate, but I can't quite. If that feature still had worked, well, at least he didn't think to scroll down the page past Vichy FYAD - it might have been good for something. My actions did save a few good fyad threads that had been moved to Vichy FYAD

I hope this communicates what I think about the idea of "deleting forums". I don't really see it as on the table. It was dumb that people were calling for that with FYAD, and it's dumb when people call for it with CSPAM/D&D/GBS/TFR/whatever else. You expressed the harm it causes better than I ever could and I endorse your platform here as my own.

Wow. Turns out the internet is serious.

This is a great thread. Mods popping outta nowhere. OP probed then modded. Bit of a rollercoaster.

# ? Oct 14, 2022 05:49

nullEntityRNG: Jun 23, 2010; Mostly pseudo-random.

At the end shadow becomes a full admin and all future mods must follow in his posting path, setting the trend for years to come.

Truly magnificent

# ? Oct 14, 2022 08:50

Tarquinn: Jul 3, 2007; I know I�ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you
my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal.; Hell Gem

I specifically asked you not to get mugged, op. :mad:

# ? Oct 14, 2022 12:45

precision: May 7, 2006; by VideoGames

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

lol that he got buttons without realizing

i was an IK for almost a year without realizing it once

# ? Oct 14, 2022 14:02

Shadow0: Jun 16, 2008; If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be confessed that there is something good in eccentricity.; Grimey Drawer

New thread is up! 🧙‍♂️ Your favorite feature they added to your MMO

Shadow0 fucked around with this message at 12:50 on Oct 15, 2022

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sebmojo: Oct 23, 2010; Legit Cyberpunk

Could you link your threads when you announce them?

# ? Oct 14, 2022 15:19

The Bananana: May 21, 2008; This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.

sebmojo posted:

Could you link your threads when you announce them?

And/or link then in the OP, on the date schedule list?

# ? Oct 14, 2022 16:09

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

The Bananana posted:

And/or link then in the OP, on the date schedule list?

They are, you just have to scroll way to the right because of how the code formatting works. Announcement links would be nice, though, just to avoid so much jumping around in the thread.

# ? Oct 14, 2022 16:20

The Bananana: May 21, 2008; This is a metaphor, a Christian allegory. The fact that I have to explain to you that Jesus is the Warthog, and the Banana is drepanocytosis is just embarrassing for you.

Lol, I'm stupid

# ? Oct 14, 2022 16:43

BigBadSteve: Apr 29, 2009

Shadow0 posted:

I tried too hard to imitate them without making something I didn't want to have attached to this thread. It's not my style of comedy. It happens.
I don't think it's so easy you can just say "just be funny". FYAD has a specific style. And they're very clever and funny in their own way. But the funniest GBS or BYOB thread in the world might get gassed there.

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

# ? Oct 15, 2022 03:30

Literally A Person: Jan 1, 1970; Smugworth Wuz Here

Steve? You okay, man?

# ? Oct 15, 2022 03:40

IGgy IGsen: Apr 11, 2013; "If I lose I will set myself on fire."

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

Tell me more about this like it's a computer virus that you can get by simply looking at a hyperlink.

# ? Oct 15, 2022 03:52

symbolic: Nov 2, 2014

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJzWEYeUT6U

# ? Oct 15, 2022 03:55

Peachfart: Jan 21, 2017

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

lmao

# ? Oct 15, 2022 04:28

Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

Why is only one side of your face droopy, Steve?

# ? Oct 15, 2022 04:41

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

Peachfart posted:

lmao

# ? Oct 15, 2022 04:58

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

# ? Oct 15, 2022 05:01

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

if i'm ever banned, just know it was because a team of my posting enemies from another forum were meticulously reading and cataloguing thousands of my posts, assembling in a dossier every scrap that could be construed in some way as problematic, ready to deploy at a moment's notice should a vulnerability emerge.

# ? Oct 15, 2022 05:08

hot cocoa on the couch: Dec 8, 2009

our team needs to find a way to stack qcs. i've been told the enemy team has been able to place many operatives in qcs. how can we unlock this technology?

# ? Oct 15, 2022 05:10

Spoggerific: May 28, 2009

BigBadSteve posted:

Pro-tip (pity you didn't heed my previous one): The given ban reason and perhaps some of their typical BS protestations in response to this post may all be safely ignored. FYAD literally hates practically every GBS regular who isn't already a FYADer. If you post there again, ever, you can almost certainly wave byebye to your account. They'd either find some manipulative way to ban it (and they've stacked QCS with their own so it wouldn't be worth appealing), or they'd chain probe it forever.

why can't we goldmine individual posts

# ? Oct 15, 2022 05:38