Black arts
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Can something be done about the raging wave of necromancy we've been experiencing lately? Like, for example, not allowing non-mods to post in topics whose most recent post is more than 3 months ago?
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@PleegWat I mean, we could go manually lock the old threads... or Ben could remove people's abilities to post in old categories...
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@PleegWat The problem is the bug that didn't mark old topics as "read" when they were imported. If Ben L fixed that, the old topics wouldn't show up as new anymore.
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@blakeyrat 'new' and 'unread' only go 3 months back. These ancient topics are dug up intentionally from the category view.
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@blakeyrat said in Black arts:
@PleegWat The problem is the bug that didn't mark old topics as "read" when they were imported. If Ben L fixed that, the old topics wouldn't show up as new anymore.
I did posit a simple query to fix that...
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@Lorne-Kates said in Black arts:
I did posit a simple query to fix that...
UPDATE users SET banned = true WHERE username = $1;
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@ben_lubar said in Black arts:
@Lorne-Kates said in Black arts:
I did posit a simple query to fix that...
UPDATE users SET banned = true WHERE username = 'fbmac';
FTFY. Calling a spade a spade, and all that jizz.
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@PleegWat said in Black arts:
Can something be done about the raging wave of necromancy we've been experiencing lately? Like, for example, not allowing non-mods to post in topics whose most recent post is more than 3 months ago?
I kinda like it. It's entertaining. The necro stuff stays, I say.
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At least some of us try to bring a necro'd topic back on track after people post 5-10 posts about the thread being necro'd.
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@anotherusername said in Black arts:
@PleegWat said in Black arts:
Can something be done about the raging wave of necromancy we've been experiencing lately? Like, for example, not allowing non-mods to post in topics whose most recent post is more than 3 months ago?
I kinda like it. It's entertaining. The necro stuff stays, I say.
Can we detect that a gap spanning from
$arbitrary-old-date
to$forum-migration-date
exists between posts, and if so, add a special CSS class so we can give it a spooky necromancer theme?
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@ben_lubar said in Black arts:
@Lorne-Kates said in Black arts:
I did posit a simple query to fix that...
UPDATE users SET banned = true WHERE username = $1;
But I like @$1 's posts. =(
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@tufty said in Black arts:
@ben_lubar said in Black arts:
@Lorne-Kates said in Black arts:
I did posit a simple query to fix that...
UPDATE users SET banned = true WHERE username = 'fbmac';
FTFY. Calling a spade a spade, and all that jizz.
*summon a dozen skeletons and send them after @tufty and @ben_lubar *
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@fbmac one skeleton arrives at ben's home, and asks him why the fucking italics didn't work
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@fbmac said in Black arts:
@fbmac one skeleton arrives at ben's home, and asks him why the fucking italics didn't work
Ladies and Gentleman, I present "Everything Wrong With Web 3.0 Development In A Single Screenshot"
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@Lorne-Kates And the Companion Piece: "Web 3.0: Your Parser Isn't Clever And Neither Are You (Breaking Solved Problems)"
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@fbmac said in Black arts:
@fbmac one skeleton arrives at ben's home, and asks him why the fucking italics didn't work
Because of the space. *italics * doesn't italic. Take it out and it italics and mentions properly.
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Is it too soon to necro this thread?
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@antiquarian Nope. I'll set an alarm on my phone to get back to it later.