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Daniel Siskind wrote: <snip> I'm not sure I'm ready to take as drastic a step as Dan, but I have to say his words resonate with me. PLEASE document the guidelines for acceptable pictures. Frank (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I agree. This would be extremely helpful to me. I think Dan is referring to me when he said "all folders immediately approved except for Jihad" because I have been semi systematically trying to approve folders of people I know already (or that (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) My disagreement isn't necessarily directed towards Larry (and I should thank him for making most of my files public at a very early stage), but he illustrates a good point in what is wrong with this current situation. If I hold anyone (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) you're allowed to have your opinion, but I think Kevin did exactly what he should have done. But tell me this - why is the moderation so rotten? Because you can't view your pictures in the recent folders? Or people can't view your "folder"? (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) This is true, but misses the point. All that is being asked for by me is some more concrete understanding of what to approve, and what not to, and what to do with things that are questionable. (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Oh really? I didn't notice a need for every posting to be reviewed before being posted. Now everything, including stuff that has been viewed thousands of times before, is now under scutiny and with just the vaguest of idea of what is and what (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Why is it that the good Reverend has everyone of his folders moderated? Rev's gallery: (URL) must have come up on the random hit list and is pretty high up the host hits ladder. Some 'celebrities' have had all their folders cleared within days of (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) they are not unmoderated, but they are not yet public either. I'm sure that's no problem for Brendan, since he deep links to them on his website. I think everyone needs to take a deep breath and relax and wait for us to catch up on moderation. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Why? Why set them aside for further review? What is in question? I've seen his pictures, they're not pornographic. The majority deals with the bible and it's topics, and does not every christian church give free and full access of the bible to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I admit, circumstances caused the moderation system to be implemented in a sudden and clumsy manner. Life works that way sometimes. The alternative was to leave the gallery offline for a few months while proper software development and (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) I should also add that almost all of the off topic folders that are deleted on Brickshelf *would* be on-topic on Geekshelf. In fact that is one of the main reasons I opened Geekshelf. KL (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) You forgot to add IMHO or IMO to that sentence. (Note that I'm not claiming that they are, but I certainly now people who might think that). (...) I don't think the bible as endorsed by most Christian churches necessarily contains pictures. (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) He has uploaded a handful of images in the past that were not (according to me). Therefore I want to carefully review all of them to make sure they are all kid-safe. The subject matter (the Bible) deals with alot of very adult topics that (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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What's the difference between "deep links" and just plain links? -- Thanx~ Nicole (URL) Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:GyrF5M.14w@lugnet.com... (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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ty for replying Kevin. Granted I understand the sensitivity around some of the Testament chapters but he's got several other projects that have no offensive nature except possibly in their colour schemes. My question is why there was a carpet policy (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) LOL! It's simple, he broke (or pushed) the rules in the past, so I want to carefully review everything he's uploaded. Why haven't the easy ones been moderated ok yet? That's a matter of mechanics and priorities. I took them out of the general (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Raising the question, could there be an easy method for users to move stuff from BS to GS, without having to delete/upload? ROSCO (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Nothing from the perspective of the linking page. Deep linking is just linking direct to the jpg (or whatever) from a page on another server, rather than linking to the BS file/folder number (gallery.cgi) or the main page or whatever. ROSCO (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Ohh. So my idea of moving images from our site to B.S. to recover space is one that can be done! Just link to the jpg itself? Example: the story picture sets are large. So my plan is to link them from our story section. -- Thanx~ Nicole (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Regarding the Brick Testament being under review: In lugnet.publish, Anthony Sava writes: <snip> (...) Well, I'll take a crack at correcting you. Firstly, despite the fact that minifigs do not have genitalia, that does not mean it is not possible to (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Yes, that's quite possible. That's how I do all my Lugnet pages: (URL) the pictures on the pages linked from there are hosted by Brickshelf. thanks, James (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Hi Kevin, in news:GyrGGo.3zy@lugnet.com you wrote (...) I don't think it would take a few months to write one short HTML page with your submission rules and put it on www.brickshelf.com. This has nothing to do with programming software. You could (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Have you considered the possibility that people may not have local copies of the images they have uploaded? I would be the first to admit that it is a bad idea to do so, but someone may have accidentally deleted their local copies of some (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) That is false. There is one moderator and the rules could not possibly be simpler or more transparent. People's vivid imagination appears to be much more interesting than reality when it comes to Brickshelf moderation. KL (22 years ago, 7-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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(...) Actually, I'd like to second this idea. Over the weekend I was talking to a friend who also uses Brickshelf, but not Lugnet. He had no idea what was going on with my folders (most of which are still off-line). After I him told what I had (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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Hi. Been out of town the last few days, but now that I'm back, I just wanted to chime in on this thread since The Brick Testament was being talked about. In my opinion, BrickShelf has been nothing short of wonderful for the online LEGO community, (...) (22 years ago, 7-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish) !!
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(...) I think this is an excellent idea. I think part of the confusion is that in the TOS of Brickshelf it states something to the effect of: "this site is for pictures of Legos and pictures generally of interest to the community" i think everyone (...) (22 years ago, 11-Jul-02, to lugnet.publish)
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