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Szechuanosaurus
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Just to clarify how this works...
Do I now have two seperate PixelSumorai accounts, one here and one in the chat forums or are they still one account? THey appear to behave as seperate accounts - ie, seperate PM boxes, seperate login, seperate avatar/sig settings etc. so i presume they are seperate.
Does this then mean that new forumers creating accounts post-devolution have to create a new account seperately for each forum or do they just create one account that then automatically splits into these two demi-accounts?
Also, did anybody read Altered Carbon?
Do I now have two seperate PixelSumorai accounts, one here and one in the chat forums or are they still one account? THey appear to behave as seperate accounts - ie, seperate PM boxes, seperate login, seperate avatar/sig settings etc. so i presume they are seperate.
Does this then mean that new forumers creating accounts post-devolution have to create a new account seperately for each forum or do they just create one account that then automatically splits into these two demi-accounts?
Also, did anybody read Altered Carbon?
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When you register, you register for both forums. Each forum has it's own profile settings, so if you change one profile, it won't effect the other. This works the same way with bannings. Getting banned from OnTopic won't get you banned from Skelter.
I read that as 'won't get you banned from Skeletor', and immediately thought that would be a cool name for the forum.
So you can be banned from the forums seperatly.
Don't listen to munkus. It was to make you unhappy.
You make me unhappy, not munkus, or the forum coding.
m i rite?
About that jailing thing. Seems there is an error with people banned before the schism. They are unfreeable by normal standards.
Well, they're not really separable things. I chaired the Committee on Arguing Small, Cosmetic Features into the Ground.
yeah, I'm aware of this but haven't fixed it yet. My schedule has been rather fucked up this week, and just 15 minutes ago I did a double-take at the calendar, I had no idea tomorrow was Friday already.
Upsides for separate accounts and sessions include:
- was accomplished with very little programming effort
- separate jailing
- separate deputy, mod , junior admin, and admin status
- profiles are separate which fits in with the differing avatar and sig standards between the boards
- separate banlists
- separate sessions means your "unviewed posts indicators" are kept separately. You can visit one board or the other and not lose track of what you've seen or not seen on the one you didn't visit
Downsides for separate accounts:
- Need to login separately ( might I suggest auto-login? )
- PM boxes are separate ( this one annoys me somewhat )
- super-trolls or spammers have to be handled twice, once for each board. (I'm currently not annoyed enough by this to do something about it. Under sufficient pressure from the mods, I may write code for it)
If there are more downsides, they have not yet made themselves apparent to me. And the very first upside (the one which involves my laziness) is a powerful force for the downsides to reckon with. :P
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Well, this sure was the right thread to post that. Good work.
Oh, wait, it wasn't.
The are trained in ninjitsu.
The extra PM space was pretty much the only good thing about this, I thought. I don't know why anyone's complaining.
there DOES need to be a way to ban from both.
a person should only be banned from one forum when they are primarily violating the rules and status quo of that forum.
but, if they do something not tolerated in either, like post porn, make hate-crime type comments, etc. they should immediately be banned from both.
it would be sad to see a troll do a buncha shit on one forum, get banned, then spedn the next half an hour doing the same thing on the other while the mods have to scramble to get on it.
...Scramble?
Mod bans the crapface, switches over to the other forum, opens up Mod CP, and bans him again. That is more around the time of a minute, 2 minutes max.
So he could make 4 posts at the other forum before he was banned there too.
he can.
edit: NM