The GD: n***s, trolls, and misbehaviour, revised.

[Ash Takashi]

Ok
so you've stopped them from posting in the GD
:/
wouldn't they just move to another forum

[Tensaibishonen]

LoZDestroyer

Tensaibishonen

It's a magnet. Depolarize the magnet, and the s**t just flies all over the place. Would the other forums eventually recover? sure, over time. But for a long while we would all be covered in s**t.

Speaking in terms of physics, depolarizing a magnet would merely drop the attracted garbage. There's no spring action with magnets losing magnetic power.

Either way, the fact that we would recover is the important part. We'd recover, and GD would be free of the porn and gore.

Not if the other forums are also magnets (less powerful ones.) neutral I'm thinking of this as a universe.

We don't see eye to eye. It would just be spread out, and I don't agree that the recovery is the most important part. In the past, all forums recovered except one. The idea that the trolls would eventually get tired and go away is a fallacy. There is a rollover involved.

One can't know right now anyway what's going to happen. I tend to assume that one forum would get ******** up enough that the trolls would be satisfied and stay there (my guess is the GCD since last time they were super special target number two) but who knows really.

[Atreides Zero]

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

I'm no expert on the website's design, but I am pretty sure that it was derived from a generic forum script, like many of what we see on other free forums. It becomes a bit difficult to alter one section of the script when it accesses a class, as I'm sure the way this is structured. When posting an image, the tags are lines of code that access this script directly, called BBCode. I'm afraid deleting a function of the programming is nearly impossible to do without rearranging the entire language. Since Gaia did not invent this language, it is unlikely they will be able to alter it.

As someone getting their college degree in Computer Science I'm pretty sure it's not as hard as re-writing the language.

in fact I'm pretty sure it's a lot simpler. They already know how to segment sections of the site so user accounts can't access them without having first gone through certain tutorials or first buying certain things.

Similar concept applies here.

That's all in the "user" area of the skeleton though. The main body still has the IMG tag to access the html directly. Anything inside [] in the post box is accessed from a class deeply rooted in the code itself. However, things like smilies, are an added "user" class.

Text parsing. There I just solved everything that you bitched about.

A users post still passes through several systems when it's added into the system, if it's in the GD, or going to the GD simply strip out the IMG tags on submit or load. They strip out img tags on load now. It's no where near as hard a solution as you're trying to make it out to be.

[Atreides Zero]

Ash Takashi

Ok
so you've stopped them from posting in the GD
:/
wouldn't they just move to another forum

Yes, I also addressed that in the first post. Other forums are better moderated by users, which in turns means it gets dealt with quicker. Meaning it's less like to settle in and become an infestation.

[Atreides Zero]

The GDs Blaziken v2

OP is a f*****t.

No dude, leave my GD alone.

Sorry, I still own the rights of the GD as bestowed upon me by Zahir, the last great King of the GD.

Inheritor of the kingdom from the Queen Miyuki, creator of the knights of the GD.


Don't lay ownership to something I clearly once did as well, I can out BS you.

[Awesome McGee]

Sieffre

What about only allowed whitelisted images? I remember Photobucket and the like being pretty quick to remove offensive/pornographic images.

If images do wind up being disabled, this would be the safest bet.

Some threads in there have legit discussion going on, and adding pictures to OP usually gets more people to post in a thread.

And if I remember correctly there was a time when there was a limit to the number of pictures that could be put in one post. Or I could just be pulling things out of the air. But anyway, a reasonable limit on the number of pics in a post could do its part to discourage a good number of picspammers.

[Tensaibishonen]

Atreides Zero

Ash Takashi

Ok
so you've stopped them from posting in the GD
:/
wouldn't they just move to another forum

Yes, I also addressed that in the first post. Other forums are better moderated by users, which in turns means it gets dealt with quicker. Meaning it's less like to settle in and become an infestation.

You're kidding right? Before GD turned into a rotting cesspool the same could have been said of them.

[JesterXIII v2]

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

I'm no expert on the website's design, but I am pretty sure that it was derived from a generic forum script, like many of what we see on other free forums. It becomes a bit difficult to alter one section of the script when it accesses a class, as I'm sure the way this is structured. When posting an image, the tags are lines of code that access this script directly, called BBCode. I'm afraid deleting a function of the programming is nearly impossible to do without rearranging the entire language. Since Gaia did not invent this language, it is unlikely they will be able to alter it.

As someone getting their college degree in Computer Science I'm pretty sure it's not as hard as re-writing the language.

in fact I'm pretty sure it's a lot simpler. They already know how to segment sections of the site so user accounts can't access them without having first gone through certain tutorials or first buying certain things.

Similar concept applies here.

That's all in the "user" area of the skeleton though. The main body still has the IMG tag to access the html directly. Anything inside [] in the post box is accessed from a class deeply rooted in the code itself. However, things like smilies, are an added "user" class.

Text parsing. There I just solved everything that you bitched about.

A users post still passes through several systems when it's added into the system, if it's in the GD, or going to the GD simply strip out the IMG tags on submit or load. They strip out img tags on load now. It's no where near as hard a solution as you're trying to make it out to be.

I'm sorry, but I can't trust gaia with the notion of text parsing. Even if they used it once that would give them more power than anything. All of our words may be translated into whatever they wish. If gaia ever used it to alter a user's intended posts other than *'s for the filter they have now, I'm afraid that I personally cannot partake in posting on this site at all.

[Atreides Zero]

Tensaibishonen

Atreides Zero

Ash Takashi

Ok
so you've stopped them from posting in the GD
:/
wouldn't they just move to another forum

Yes, I also addressed that in the first post. Other forums are better moderated by users, which in turns means it gets dealt with quicker. Meaning it's less like to settle in and become an infestation.

You're kidding right? Before GD turned into a rotting cesspool the same could have been said of them.

As a Gder from that time, I disagree, we had always had problems with trolls and misplaced threads. We also had the worst moderation on the site, especially after our only Mod retired and the admins didn't give us a replacement for well over six months.

[Atreides Zero]

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

I'm no expert on the website's design, but I am pretty sure that it was derived from a generic forum script, like many of what we see on other free forums. It becomes a bit difficult to alter one section of the script when it accesses a class, as I'm sure the way this is structured. When posting an image, the tags are lines of code that access this script directly, called BBCode. I'm afraid deleting a function of the programming is nearly impossible to do without rearranging the entire language. Since Gaia did not invent this language, it is unlikely they will be able to alter it.

As someone getting their college degree in Computer Science I'm pretty sure it's not as hard as re-writing the language.

in fact I'm pretty sure it's a lot simpler. They already know how to segment sections of the site so user accounts can't access them without having first gone through certain tutorials or first buying certain things.

Similar concept applies here.

That's all in the "user" area of the skeleton though. The main body still has the IMG tag to access the html directly. Anything inside [] in the post box is accessed from a class deeply rooted in the code itself. However, things like smilies, are an added "user" class.

Text parsing. There I just solved everything that you bitched about.

A users post still passes through several systems when it's added into the system, if it's in the GD, or going to the GD simply strip out the IMG tags on submit or load. They strip out img tags on load now. It's no where near as hard a solution as you're trying to make it out to be.

I'm sorry, but I can't trust gaia with the notion of text parsing. Even if they used it once that would give them more power than anything. All of our words may be translated into whatever they wish. If gaia ever used it to alter a user's intended posts other than *'s for the filter they have now, I'm afraid that I personally cannot partake in posting on this site at all.

They already use it to disable image tags not on the white list and if you have choosen to not see images at all.

And the ability to turn words into *'s is the same power as being able to force the word "the" into the word "cocks". all forums have these features built in, or easily built into the system by the owners.

[Tensaibishonen]

Atreides Zero

Tensaibishonen

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Ash Takashi

Ok
so you've stopped them from posting in the GD
:/
wouldn't they just move to another forum

Yes, I also addressed that in the first post. Other forums are better moderated by users, which in turns means it gets dealt with quicker. Meaning it's less like to settle in and become an infestation.

You're kidding right? Before GD turned into a rotting cesspool the same could have been said of them.

As a Gder from that time, I disagree, we had always had problems with trolls and misplaced threads. We also had the worst moderation on the site, especially after our only Mod retired and the admins didn't give us a replacement for well over six months.

Conceded. There are a lot of forums and subforums with that problem right now though. I'd rather not see the s**t fly just because we're not sure where it would land or how thoroughly it would stick.

[JesterXIII v2]

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

I'm no expert on the website's design, but I am pretty sure that it was derived from a generic forum script, like many of what we see on other free forums. It becomes a bit difficult to alter one section of the script when it accesses a class, as I'm sure the way this is structured. When posting an image, the tags are lines of code that access this script directly, called BBCode. I'm afraid deleting a function of the programming is nearly impossible to do without rearranging the entire language. Since Gaia did not invent this language, it is unlikely they will be able to alter it.

As someone getting their college degree in Computer Science I'm pretty sure it's not as hard as re-writing the language.

in fact I'm pretty sure it's a lot simpler. They already know how to segment sections of the site so user accounts can't access them without having first gone through certain tutorials or first buying certain things.

Similar concept applies here.

That's all in the "user" area of the skeleton though. The main body still has the IMG tag to access the html directly. Anything inside [] in the post box is accessed from a class deeply rooted in the code itself. However, things like smilies, are an added "user" class.

Text parsing. There I just solved everything that you bitched about.

A users post still passes through several systems when it's added into the system, if it's in the GD, or going to the GD simply strip out the IMG tags on submit or load. They strip out img tags on load now. It's no where near as hard a solution as you're trying to make it out to be.

I'm sorry, but I can't trust gaia with the notion of text parsing. Even if they used it once that would give them more power than anything. All of our words may be translated into whatever they wish. If gaia ever used it to alter a user's intended posts other than *'s for the filter they have now, I'm afraid that I personally cannot partake in posting on this site at all.

They already use it to disable image tags not on the white list and if you have choosen to not see images at all.

And the ability to turn words into *'s is the same power as being able to force the word "the" into the word "cocks". all forums have these features built in, or easily built into the system by the owners.

And where is this whitelist, if I may ask?

[Atreides Zero]

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

Atreides Zero

JesterXIII v2

That's all in the "user" area of the skeleton though. The main body still has the IMG tag to access the html directly. Anything inside [] in the post box is accessed from a class deeply rooted in the code itself. However, things like smilies, are an added "user" class.

Text parsing. There I just solved everything that you bitched about.

A users post still passes through several systems when it's added into the system, if it's in the GD, or going to the GD simply strip out the IMG tags on submit or load. They strip out img tags on load now. It's no where near as hard a solution as you're trying to make it out to be.

I'm sorry, but I can't trust gaia with the notion of text parsing. Even if they used it once that would give them more power than anything. All of our words may be translated into whatever they wish. If gaia ever used it to alter a user's intended posts other than *'s for the filter they have now, I'm afraid that I personally cannot partake in posting on this site at all.

They already use it to disable image tags not on the white list and if you have choosen to not see images at all.

And the ability to turn words into *'s is the same power as being able to force the word "the" into the word "cocks". all forums have these features built in, or easily built into the system by the owners.

And where is this whitelist, if I may ask?

Maintained by Gaia, don't know what exactly is on it. But if you go to account settings and tell it to only let you see white-listed images then all the others have the IMG tags stripped out when browsing the forums.

[Hapshant]

Oh, sure, and while we clamp down on the pornography, why not also put the boot-heel down on the throat of creativity?
You sir are a dolt.