Follow-up to my own post:
I want to apologise (albeit slightly; that is to say, I don't feel bad for anything I've written, but I fully acknowledge it's very harsh) for what I wrote above. Rather than edit it, I felt replying would be more appropriate/fair.
Right now I have more things going on in my life that I think I've ever had to handle at the same time, some of which are demanding, others are devastating. So needless to say I'm under a lot of stress and my tolerance level (in general) is extremely thin. Don't take it personally -- just how things are for me right now. I imagine they'll be better (sort of) come April, but eh, outside of the topic...
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My reply thanking you for taking the time to give a shit seems to have been lost or removed. Ah well. Thanks for taking the time and giving a shit!koitsu wrote:Follow-up to my own post:
I want to apologise (albeit slightly; that is to say, I don't feel bad for anything I've written, but I fully acknowledge it's very harsh) for what I wrote above. Rather than edit it, I felt replying would be more appropriate/fair.
Right now I have more things going on in my life that I think I've ever had to handle at the same time, some of which are demanding, others are devastating. So needless to say I'm under a lot of stress and my tolerance level (in general) is extremely thin. Don't take it personally -- just how things are for me right now. I imagine they'll be better (sort of) come April, but eh, outside of the topic...
Perhaps someone inferred sarcasm from the phrasing. Some people's sarcasm detectors are mistuned, and this appears especially common among programmers for some reason. It may take extra effort to get across that a particular comment is in sarcasm mode or sincerity mode.cpow wrote:My reply thanking you for taking the time to give a shit seems to have been lost or removed.
Is this real? Looks like a bot replying... o.Ocpow wrote:My reply thanking you for taking the time to give a shit seems to have been lost or removed. Ah well. Thanks for taking the time and giving a shit!
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There has been for years, it's just that the entire world (not this board, I really do mean the majority of the world) doesn't care enough to consider celebrating it in some way. I guess I can't blame people, because most "admins" of things these days tend to not know anything about what they're administrating, so we actual admins are left celebrating it ourselves, by ourselves, with a beer or some tears. :-)RLError wrote:There needs to ba an admin appreciation day.
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While I don't know all the technical details behind phpBB and MediaWiki, it seems like it ought to be possible to tie the wiki user accounts directly to the board accounts. So only board accounts in good standing even have wiki accounts.
That would allow your existing spam fighting to also combat wiki spammers (even if they only spam account creation). It would also remove the need for board members who want to edit the wiki to explicitly sign up, and also remove the admin overhead (small as it probably is) of approving such requests.
Of course, such a move would require developing a plug-in for phpBB, MediaWiki, or both. (Or, perhaps, some sort of standalone script that could be run from a cron job.) I suppose there may not be admin time (or skills, depending) to develop such a thing, but if there is, I think it would be an elegant solution.
That would allow your existing spam fighting to also combat wiki spammers (even if they only spam account creation). It would also remove the need for board members who want to edit the wiki to explicitly sign up, and also remove the admin overhead (small as it probably is) of approving such requests.
Of course, such a move would require developing a plug-in for phpBB, MediaWiki, or both. (Or, perhaps, some sort of standalone script that could be run from a cron job.) I suppose there may not be admin time (or skills, depending) to develop such a thing, but if there is, I think it would be an elegant solution.