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(...) LUGNET is a free, mostly self-regulating community of FOL's, primarily of the A- variety, but with a few T- and K- types thrown in as well. Putting stricter systems in place to restrict and censor the tone of conversation in so-called (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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"Jesse Alan Long" <kiraya_malzant@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:I45MzA.1yKA@lugnet.com... (...) LEGO HAS (...) would (...) that on (...) being (...) God (...) Suzanne, (...) with (...) a (...) also have (...) life. (...) the (...) was (...) (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.people, lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.org)
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(...) Please. Even the poster thought that the subject matter was getting (URL) too blue>(note his post script), but the admin apparently (URL) didn't>. (...) Well, let's be clear that the whole matter is entirely subjective anyhow... (...) Well, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) Your whole argument seems to revolve around the idea that LUGNET will now have, or already has, inappropriate "adult content" in the NG. If that is the case, that's a violation of the TOS: (do not) Post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, (...) (22 years ago, 24-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) SNIP (...) SNIP (...) It's all useless. LGBT people can't seem to feel accepted in society unless they subdivide themselves into therapy groups. I'll still accept them, lavender bricks or not, and look upon their creations with the same eyes (...) (22 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) Cool. Thanks! Jason Spears | (URL) BrickCentral> | (URL) MichLUG> | (URL) CLB> (22 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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I've had time to read and reread and reread this post and I'd like to add a few comments further, if I may. "Teddy Welsh" <ewelsh@wsc.ma.edu> wrote in message news:I40H0H.1yKv@lugnet.com... (...) No one is unwelcome at Lugnet, not even Richard (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.fun.community, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.people, lugnet.org)
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(...) Yes Todd - but the problem was that the spamblocks were not always in the domain name, and did nothing to stop spam for those with 'catch-all' email accounts. But it looks like you fixed the problem from your other post, so I guess it does not (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Turns out it was just a one-line change to implement this. --Todd (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Actually, the spamblocks you see in the web interface are added on-the-fly when the page is shown to you. If you click "reload" several times, you'll see several different spamblocks. --Todd (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) AFAIK, the spotlight is calculated once an hour. That saves the server a lot of processing each time someone hits the front page (which is usually a major part of any site's traffic). But since that makes the spotlight "static" content, it (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Okay, leaving aside the blathering in the main thread, I just wanted to see what people thought about this. Since most of my castle creations technically are fantasy (being Tolkien-themed), such a forum would directly impact me. Personally I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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(...) I believe in the past, Todd has explained that the spotlight on the *front* page of LUGNET cannot easily reflect someone's personal filter settings, since that page is actually a flat HTML page that gets refreshed every few minutes (saves some (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Todd, Perhaps it would be a good idea to have the skip-filter defaults set to skip .off-topic, .people, and .loc, since, as you say above, "The 'LEGO-ness' of [these groups] is somewhat gray". Then people would always be free to opt in to such (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I will add my "me too" to this. I would love for the highlights to represent my skip filter settings. -Duane (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I would rather see the spotlight to honor my filter settings personally. Can that be done? -mark (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Actually I jsut figured out that changing my email will not really do anything as my posts with the old email addy will still show the old email addy. Maybe a fix would be to force the anti-spam on both sides of the '@'? Mark (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Hey, thanks for the explanation. Do you think it would be wise to give some automatic points to lugnet.build? I only say this because so many people (myslef included, really) say they would rather see MOCs in the top stories list rather than (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Correct. Crossweighted by age, so that newer items are generally preferred over older items. You'll see something climb up the list as more and more people spotlight it, then fall as it ages. (...) not showing any more in that particular (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) You could be right. But a higher threshold would encourage more people to spotlight the on-topic posts, in order to get them in the top stories. You can investigate how adjusting the threshold might affect the results here (URL) I'm pretty (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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