Why not update the board?

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  • fanch75
    fanch75 Posts: 3,734
    know1 wrote:
    I love it when people complain about a free service. Love it!!

    Why don't you start your own board with the features you want if you do not like it?

    They're just suggesting something.
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  • Lizardjam
    Lizardjam Posts: 1,121
    genie wrote:
    no i'm not going to relax, ok?? if something like this bothers me i'm not going to just sit back and relax!

    you know what? i'll be stalking you now and writing down all the personal details you going to say about yourself. and believe me after you've been on this board for a long time, i'll be able to make a good profile of you, and don't you worry, from gathering a little pieces of info here and there..... i will know a lot about you.........................
    haha, just kidding i haven't got time to do that kind of stuff and i don't want to, but internet is full of weirdos and you never know someone might be doing what i've just said.

    It's not really the mod's responsibility to make sure your private information isn't given out, it's yours. Like the person before said...that's what PMs are for. Don't post info that you wouldn't want everyone to see in posts. If they made your post inaccessible without your permission, that would make portions of threads unavailable and completely void the whole point of the forum.

    It's the internet. Watch what you say, monitor yourself...or get parental controls if you're that weirded out by it. If someone is actually stalking you like they said, report 'em. Otherwise, don't give them the information they need to stalk you in threads.

    On topic...I like it the way it is. If you're internet connection is fast enough to load a page with pictures, then when you click on links to open them in other pages, it'd be just as fast.
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    Lizardjam wrote:
    It's not really the mod's responsibility to make sure your private information isn't given out, it's yours. Like the person before said...that's what PMs are for. Don't post info that you wouldn't want everyone to see in posts. If they made your post inaccessible without your permission, that would make portions of threads unavailable and completely void the whole point of the forum.

    oh, i give up!

    To Kat and Sea

    i would really love, and you will make my day if my request will be fulfilled.
    so, i'll give some details...

    in my account, there are two links one that says "view genie's threads" and the other one says "view genie's posts" , if someone wants to watch ONLY my posts or threads i'd like to be able to have a say, who can be allowed and who can't.
    so, as they click those links i could decide whether to let them read or not.

    p.s this site could do with some updating, but even as it is i like this web site. thank you :)
  • Perceptual
    Perceptual Posts: 200
    I found someone on the internet using just their last name and the town they lived in (which I converted to a postcode [or zipcode for Yanks]). That might not seem like easy information to get a hold of, but it can be... oh and I wasn't stalking them, I hadn't heard from them in a while and I was worried about them... I think I over-reacted a bit.

    Just trying to put things in perspective.
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    genie wrote:
    oh, i give up!

    To Kat and Sea

    i would really love, and you will make my day if my request will be fulfilled.
    so, i'll give some details...

    in my account, there are two links one that says "view genie's threads" and the other one says "view genie's posts" , if someone wants to watch ONLY my posts or threads i'd like to be able to have a say, who can be allowed and who can't.
    so, as they click those links i could decide whether to let them read or not.

    p.s this site could do with some updating, but even as it is i like this web site. thank you :)

    I was wondering genie girl, coz I can understand your concerns, what if you could block access to the people that you don't want to be able to look at your threads or posts? That way as Lizardjam said, they would still be part of a thread and maintain the continuity of the thread and include your very important to the rest of us views :), but whomever you felt was taking an inordinate amount of interest in you specifically would be forced to read an entire thread to get access to all that you have to say. And perhaps by making it harder for them, they would give up and bugger off. :D Or even if you had them blocked they wouldn't be able to see what you had to say at all? That way you could feel comfortable to continue being your very lovely self, those of us who love you and reading what you have to say could continue and the person with the unhealthy practices would be stopped in his tracks.
    I don't know, just a suggestion. I can completely understand where you are coming from on this. I'm just not sure about how it would affect the rest of us. Not being a computer whiz kid or anything! ;)
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    NCBRI wrote:
    My guess is they turn the image code off to keep things from bogging down. A lot of pictures, especially ones that are full size throw things off and make it slower to open threads.

    Bingo.

    It's not that the board is out dated it's, the administrators decide to only allow certain code to be "opened" for certain forums.

    and it wouldn't slow the board down if they did allow this, they just choose not to.
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • bovy_j
    bovy_j Posts: 1,008
    cutback wrote:
    I prefer the board the way it is. Pictures, avatars and the like are too distracting. One of the reasons I've stuck with this board is because it doesn't have a lot of distractions. And the bandwidth strain would slow the board down.

    Agreed.

    If the board was able to contain small avatars and signatures, sure, it'd be cool. But, I don't want anything to slow this down. I like how fast the board runs and I hope it remains that way.
  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Perceptual wrote:
    I found someone on the internet using just their last name and the town they lived in (which I converted to a postcode [or zipcode for Yanks]). That might not seem like easy information to get a hold .
    Dead easy... online phone directories. Name and town of residency is more than enough to locate someone.

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