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Re: Signature Image Abuse
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Thu, 29 May 2003 15:09:48 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Tim Courtney wrote:
> > In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > > In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > > Technical question? Can it be turned off again without disruption if for
> > > > whatever reason that were desired?
> > >
> > > Do you mean can the feature as a whole be disabled?
> > > Yes, it would be trivial.
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> This is what I meant.. if for whatever reason it's decided that FTX should no
> longer be allowed in posts, can you at that point
> - prevent people from including FTX tags? (I suspect not, at least not in an
> easy to implement but hard to get false positives or false negatives way)
> - turn off the rendering code that actually renders the tags as enhanced content
> for posts? (I suspect yes)
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> > > Or do you mean on a person-by-person basis? That would be a bit more work.
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> I hadn't meant that but it's an interesting idea. Again... can you
> - prevent a specific person from including FTX tags (I again suspect not)
> - turn off the rendering code for some people's posts, but not everyone's, based
> on some sort of privilege list? (I suspect yes but with as you say, a fair bit
> of work... you have to recognise that a post is from a particular person in
> order to turn off the renderer for that post)
Turn it around - let people turn off FTX in messages they read. Todd's
already contemplating a setting to let people choose to filter out images based
on size. How about another option to filter out all FTX formatting?
> Hence my statement that I don't like this new feature. At least not yet. As of
> right now, I see the disadvantages outweighing the advantages. I've always liked
> Lugnet's relative serious look/format.
I've always liked Lugnet's serious look as well.
Brian H. Nielsen
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| (...) This is what I meant.. if for whatever reason it's decided that FTX should no longer be allowed in posts, can you at that point - prevent people from including FTX tags? (I suspect not, at least not in an easy to implement but hard to get (...) (21 years ago, 29-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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