Forum Modification Wishlist

Why? Where do you draw that line? Don't say stuff you wouldn't want others to say because it might be overheard? Don't think things you don't want others to know because your facial expression might give you away?

Eh, sorry, what?

I'm not the one afraid what strangers might see. I don't think it's Lum's responsibility to make sure outsiders don't see us as fools is all I'm saying.

Blasphemy. As far as I can tell that's the one and only feature that doesn't seem to work right, so I'll continue to put up with it. Please don't take the theme away or anything, it's the only good one.

You didn't say BrokenForum, you said the Internet.

*In a voice dry as the Saharan Desert* It bears remembering, this. Have a care.

And as I said, why do you draw the line at Internet? That assumption is equally valid for everything. You cannot operate at that point. Stopping the line at Internet might help you lead a life, but it is entirely arbitrary.

It's a less extreme version of those sci-fi shorts where bad shit has happened and suddenly all science is bad. When something on the Internet leaks you should look at why it happened and learn from that. The "don't post shit you don't want public on the Internet" lesson is primarily coming from embarrassing Facebook stories, and it's entirely the wrong lesson to learn.

Do you not bank online? Do you not put private information in e-mails? Do you send only public information via IMs? Do you never Skype?

The Internet is global and public, information on the Internet is not. It depends entirely on the service. It's like saying all conversations are public, while ignoring the volume and location the conversation is held at.

DISLIKE.

The thing is you're putting conditionals into your statements, which is my entire point.

Asymmetric crypto's been around for a while. If I were sending emails I didn't want read or indexed by Google, I'd just encrypt them using something like Enigmail.

Just sayin'! :)

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Yeah, that background transparency issue is probably so messed up that even Elyscape couldn't fix it :(

So your information is public unless you own all the machines? So you don't mind posting your bank statements here? Of course you do, because the "it's all public!" argument is complete tosh. There's all sorts of information online you wouldn't want public, which is why it's secured behind logins, encrypted tunnels, DMZs, firewalls, etc.

Your computer is on the Internet. Do you keep no personal information on it?

I just don't get why it matters either way. The bar you're suggesting be put in place isn't exactly a high one. What's wrong with letting any random passerby know that we're drama loving assholes? Especially when an extra 30 seconds of doing an account registration will allow them to see the same thing.

Anyway, I added it to the list for the Great and Powerful Lum to consider.

Also, holy shit I need to go through and update the list. A bunch of stuff was either done or the requests are now silly (all the social forum stuff can be ignored since Lum has basically given up on it).

Sometime this week maybe.

As of this morning social forums are no longer visible to people who aren't logged in, and the watch thread alerts work now. Thank you, Lum!

But when I'm logged in, I can read all the threads including the ones from groups I haven't joined.
eta: And I can post in them too.

Is there any way to prevent an individual thread from showing up in the what's new list? I would often like to exclude specific let's plays that I'm not interested in for example, but not the entire forum.

May I have my own subforum to moderate? I think a private subforum wherein I won't post anything nor grant anyone else access would be perfect. It could be titled "I Have Nothing to Say and I am Saying It and That is Poetry As I Need It."

Maybe, click here.

When I edit a post, if the post ends with italics or strikethrough, I can't press Enter for a new line. It's easy to work around, but I just thought it would be worth mentioning here, in case there's an easy fix.

If there is some update out there for the tweet embedding, please. My abuse of it with the Iron Sheik Tweet of the Day thread has pushed it to the limit.

Is it possible to set polls as editable? I'm actually doing something of an honest Let's Play with Battle of Britain 2, but it's harder here because I can't edit the poll (to change the question and options and to reset the vote totals) like I can at Bay12.

Someone is not taking advantage of the like-farming opportunity the inflexible polling system offers.

I'm afraid your point has soared far over my head. I'm but a neophyte when it comes to like-farming—I mean, not even Elyscape likes my wargame and simulator LPs. :P

Write a post for each poll option. Tell people to vote by liking the post corresponding to the preferred option.

...whoa. That's brilliant.

I'd still like editable polls, though.

please underline the links. i can just barely distinguish the blue color from normal text. this problem will not improve as i age.

Some of the other themes default to different link colors.

I usually bold my links to make the blue colour more obvious.

fun game: find all three links i put in my post #1117!