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Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 06 2008,23:58    Between spammers trying to get links on the board and people thinking that the way to win arguments is to reshape the Infinitely Plastic Past, newly registered users get set up with membership in the "Probationers" group. Probationers can PM and respond to existing topics in AtBC. They cannot start new topics and they cannot edit their comments. Up until this week, the restriction on topic creation did a great job of reducing spam on the board. Adding the edit button is a matter of changing a user's group membership. I have to do that personally, and it's about ten clicks worth of menu navigation plus entering the username to search on. We tend to do that if someone has been posting for a while, seems not likely to abuse the privileges, and asks for it. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Jkrebs Posts: 590 Joined: Sep. 2004 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 07 2008,06:52    Thanks for the explanation about the edit button.

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,13:35    Anybody else feel that when using a computer in a public place, where someone walking by may glance over at your screen and see, in huge letters, ANTIEVOLUTION, perhaps there's a good chance the glancer would form exactly the wrong impression about you?

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,13:44    Hmmm. Do you have a suggestion for a change in header graphic? -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

carlsonjok Posts: 3326 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,13:47    Quote (stevestory @ Oct. 08 2008,13:35) Anybody else feel that when using a computer in a public place, where someone walking by may glance over at your screen and see, in huge letters, ANTIEVOLUTION, perhaps there's a good chance the glancer would form exactly the wrong impression about you? Yes and, having done so recently in several airports, I have been curious what kind of conversations might result because of it and the reaction I might get by proclaiming myself a Darwinist. Alas, no one has brought the subject up. -------------- It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it.  We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,13:48    What? You expect someone griping to have a constructive suggestion? You haven't been on the intertubs much have you?

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,14:07    how about this?

Ftk Posts: 2239 Joined: Mar. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,21:50    Screw you, Steve.  How would you like it if some loon was fucking with you *constantly*?  Why act respectable when I'm dealing with stalker that is *anything* but respectful???  I'm not kidding around.  I'm *seriously* pissed about this. I can't believe you locked my thread because I'm upset with Blipey's insanity.  I'm at my wits end with that jerk. -------------- "Evolution is a creationism and just as illogical [as] the other pantheistic creation myths"  -forastero

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 08 2008,22:18    The thread is reopened now. Everyone act like adults please.

Louis Posts: 6436 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,08:41    Ignoring FTK's latest hysteria and mental meltdown for the moment, our friendly local abiogenesis thread spammer is back. Unfortunately he or she has posted the same pictures as last time, and whilst they were fascinating, repetition is less than fulsomely desirable. If someone with power could remove the spam, or at least replace it with something novel, I would be intensely grateful. Not grateful enough to perform the acts depicted in the spam you understand, just generally well disposed. Cheers Louis -------------- Bye.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,09:00    The spammer likes to promote ###########.net. Or link to ###########.net. Edited by Wesley R. Elsberry on Oct. 09 2008,09:01 -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Louis Posts: 6436 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,09:04    Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Oct. 09 2008,15:00) The spammer likes to promote ###########.net. <a href="###########.net" target="_blank">Or link to ###########.net</a>. {doffs cap} Thankee kindly, sir. Louis -------------- Bye.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,09:19    Unfortunately, I doubt that will inconvenience Mr. Spammer unduly. We'll just need to look out for his next approach. He'll need a different domain to promote than ###########.net, though. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Louis Posts: 6436 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,09:35    Something somewhere is awry. I tried to reply to the above post and got told I had posted too many images. This came as something of a surprise as I had posted no images. Louis -------------- Bye.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,09:46    No, that's a little puzzle for Mr. Spammer to work out. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Louis Posts: 6436 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,10:02    Quote (Wesley R. Elsberry @ Oct. 09 2008,15:46) No, that's a little puzzle for Mr. Spammer to work out. Ahhhhhhhh wink wink, nudge nudge, say no more.* Louis * Pathetic attempt to pretend that the subtleties of computer science are not utterly opaque to me. -------------- Bye.

dnmlthr Posts: 565 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 09 2008,16:10    Penile dysfunction drug spammer in the telic thoughts thread ETA: Two fake-quoting spammers within a day or two, must be a new bot around. -------------- Guess what? I don't give a flying f*ck how "science works" - Ftk

dnmlthr Posts: 565 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 11 2008,11:59    More spam Should I stop linking to the spam here, or is it a good idea? -------------- Guess what? I don't give a flying f*ck how "science works" - Ftk

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 11 2008,12:21    the best thing to do is use the 'report this post to a moderator' button.

dnmlthr Posts: 565 Joined: Mar. 2008 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 11 2008,14:22    Point taken. I had succeeded in completely missing that link all this time(!) -------------- Guess what? I don't give a flying f*ck how "science works" - Ftk

Reciprocating Bill Posts: 4265 Joined: Oct. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 11 2008,14:38    Quote (dnmlthr @ Oct. 11 2008,15:22) Point taken. I had succeeded in completely missing that link all this time(!) Insert "missing link" joke here. As this is a transitional forum. I'll get my coat. -------------- Myth: Something that never was true, and always will be. "The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you." - David Foster Wallace "Here’s a clue. Snarky banalities are not a substitute for saying something intelligent. Write that down." - Barry Arrington

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 14 2008,23:16    WTF is wrong with Firefox 3. It won't stop chewing on my hard drive. It's irritating as hell. I can even close out all tabs, and sit there, and the hard drive just churns, and churns, and churns. It's relentless. When FF3 first came out, I tried it, and after and hour of listening to my harddrive I went back to 2. I hoped that misbehavior would be fixed by now. Apparently not. Back to Version 2 again.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,08:23    I added a CAPTCHA field to the registration form here, so hopefully that will slow down the spammers a bit. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,08:36    Since the FF3 debacle, I'm having all kinds of weirdo problems. Now the buttons an inch above this field don't work. Neither clicking on them with the mouse nor the keyboard shortcuts do anything. If I manually type out the tags they still work though.

Albatrossity2 Posts: 2780 Joined: Mar. 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,08:42    Quote (stevestory @ Oct. 20 2008,08:36) Since the FF3 debacle, I'm having all kinds of weirdo problems. Now the buttons an inch above this field don't work. Neither clicking on them with the mouse nor the keyboard shortcuts do anything. If I manually type out the tags they still work though. The buttons don't work for me in FF3, but they had previously worked in FF3, so I am not sure it is a Firefox problem. Good thing I am used to typing HTML tags; I never used the buttons much anyway :-) -------------- Flesh of the sky, child of the sky, the mind Has been obligated from the beginning To create an ordered universe As the only possible proof of its own inheritance.                         - Pattiann Rogers

carlsonjok Posts: 3326 Joined: May 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,08:56    Quote (stevestory @ Oct. 20 2008,08:36) Since the FF3 debacle, I'm having all kinds of weirdo problems. Now the buttons an inch above this field don't work. Neither clicking on them with the mouse nor the keyboard shortcuts do anything. If I manually type out the tags they still work though. I can't get them to work in either Firefox 3 or IE6 -------------- It's natural to be curious about our world, but the scientific method is just one theory about how to best understand it.  We live in a democracy, which means we should treat every theory equally. - Steven Colbert, I Am America (and So Can You!)

stevestory Posts: 13407 Joined: Oct. 2005 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,09:16    Huh. I guess it's not just me.

Wesley R. Elsberry Posts: 4991 Joined: May 2002 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,09:34    The buttons are dependent upon Javascript. However, I know that I just did some editing recently when checking the "Comic Sans" font situation that involved using the buttons, and they worked for me then. They aren't now. So I have to think about what changes I've made recently in the code base and whether any of that might be a cause for why all the Javascript fails to work now. -------------- "You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker

Erasmus, FCD Posts: 6349 Joined: June 2007 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,09:54    i thought i had perpetuated unforgivable transgressions, and maybe i have, but i also had the same problem with quotes, links and images.  still a problem.  fortunately i know the codes too. -------------- You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles

Arden Chatfield Posts: 6657 Joined: Jan. 2006 (Permalink) Posted: Oct. 20 2008,20:07    Quote (carlsonjok @ Oct. 20 2008,06:56) Quote (stevestory @ Oct. 20 2008,08:36) Since the FF3 debacle, I'm having all kinds of weirdo problems. Now the buttons an inch above this field don't work. Neither clicking on them with the mouse nor the keyboard shortcuts do anything. If I manually type out the tags they still work though. I can't get them to work in either Firefox 3 or IE6 Likewise. *None* of the formatting buttons work for me, in either IE or Safari. But I can type out the formatting manually. I first noticed this 2 days ago. I think we should fix them in such a way that they work for everyone except Louis. -------------- "Rich is just mad because he thought all titties had fur on them until last week when a shorn transvestite ruined his childhood dreams by jumping out of a spider man cake and man boobing him in the face lips." - Erasmus

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