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Re: Why is Lukas in headlines? (was Re: Bulleid Leader)
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Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:51:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Timothy Gould wrote:
   In lugnet.admin.general, Felix Greco wrote:
   His annoying habits aside, does no one have the ability to go in and manually remove things from the headlines list?

I seem to recall some discussions that the admins don’t have this power but I think it’s under consideration.

Yes, that’s true. The spotlight list is auto-generated, and posts are able to be manually removed from the list based on any criteria at the moment. It’s definitely on the list to allow admins to remove specific posts. Other ideas suggested have been to preclude specific threads and specific groups from being on the spotlight.

Without a coding change, the only way to remove these posts would be to take the automatic spotlight points from the announce and/or announce.moc groups, which I think is rather less than optimal.

DaveE



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  Re: Why is Lukas in headlines? (was Re: Bulleid Leader)
 
(...) Er, that should read "aren't able to be manually removed", oops. DaveE (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)
  Re: Why is Lukas in headlines? (was Re: Bulleid Leader)
 
(...) Hmm, I see. I wasn't aware that it would involve going into the code. Some of the other forums (CSF, classic-castle) will regularly throw posts into different areas so I assumed the same should be true at Lugnet. I'm not overly (...) (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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  Re: Why is Lukas in headlines? (was Re: Bulleid Leader)
 
(...) I seem to recall some discussions that the admins don't have this power but I think it's underconsideration. Tim (18 years ago, 16-Oct-06, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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