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  2. Afraid Of Getting Banned? No.

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

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    Well, that's fair enough. But there are some simple things that can be done to resolve some of the issues.

    For instance, people not liking images being repeated over and over as people quote replies with quotes in them. I sent you the solution to that yesterday.

    People posting incorrectly in the Tutorials section. Remove member's abilities to start new threads in there and get the mods to move the tutorial into that section.

    People swearing. Install a word filter. I know you're trying to keep this as a family website, so replace the word with asteriks.

    Images that case sideways scrolling. Install a picture resizer or encourage people to use thumbnails.

    Newbies not using the search function. Remove their ability to start new threads until they've posted 10 times or make the search function more obvious.

    And relax. This place is supposed to be fun but everyone is attacking everyone. Remember when the Slam thread was around. Everyone could attack everyone else just for a laugh and some fun. If someone had something to say about someone else, they said it in there, not in the middle of a topic about whether LMII die is better than StewMac stuff.

    But that's just my 2 cents.

  3. Afraid Of Getting Banned? No.

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

    Posted · Edited by feylya

    i never thought about it...but why does it matter?

    what else do you want to know?are we all white?do we all have long hair?are we all conservative?i don't know the answers to these questions.

    and since you can check the locations as easily as i can...then it seems to me you are trying to stir up some notion of favoritism here...which is uncalled for,as we moderate based on nothing more than posting,in the context of the thread itself

    the only thing that is important is that we all play guitars of some variety,we all like to mod or build them,and we are all human beings with a cleanly run forum at heart.

    No no no, it's got nothing to do with trying to stir up anything. It's just that I find Americans to be quite strict with things. Perhaps strict is the wrong word but deleting people's posts or otherwise editting can come across wrongly, even if the content of the post was against the rules.

    But no, I am seriously not trying to stir up any trouble for favouritism or another else like that.

  11. Holy Crap,

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

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    The only problem with the file size idea is it would have to be done server side meaning it would have to read the image from wherever it was hosted (PhotoBucket for instance), get the file size (even height by width would give an approximate size). Then it would edit the users post before it's actually posted. I think it's possibly but I'll have to install IPB on my own server first to have a tweak with it.

  13. Holy Crap,

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

    Posted · Edited by feylya

    Cos newbies won't do that. Then all the "regulars" will start bitching at them and everyone will start attacking each other again. Where as, if all control is removed from the newbies by an automated script, no one can bitch about anything.

    Of course, they'll probably find a way :D

  14. Holy Crap,

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

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    You're certainly heading the right direction but the resizers you referenced doesn't do anything to conserve bandwidth usage.  The first one is a client side javascript that will only make the image look smaller, byte size will remain the same.

    Yes, I know. I said that. LGM's biggest annoyance from what I've read over previous threads is the fact that large pictures will result in a scroll bar. That java script would solve that problem, even if the whole image has to be loaded.

    In order to stop big pictures, filesize-wise, from being loaded, they'll need a server side script to get the file size of the image and then decide whether to post and resize it or to just provide a link.

  15. Holy Crap,

    in Site Feedback, Issue Reporting and Test area

    Posted · Edited by feylya

    Feylya, back to that coding solution - that intrigues me. Obviously, it wouldn't do any good to simply scale the oversized pictures, since the entire picture would still have to be downloaded before scaling - do you suggest simply blocking oversized pictures, or are there other options? I'm obviously no PHP wizard, but I do know it sports a powerful set of data handling functions - any thoughts on how to do this?

    Basically, there's two main complaints that I can see on this forum about pics:

    1) People don't like having to scroll sideways

    2) People on Dial Up are crippled with big pictures

    To solve the first one, I'm sure there a hack on the net or one could be written to simply resize the picture to 600 wide but the whole picture would have to be read.

    To solve the second one, write code to get the file size of the picture. If it's over a certain size, eg 20K, don't display it. If it is less than 20K but bigger than 600 wide, the first bit of code should fix it.

    As for pictures being displayed in Quotes, just disable %7Boption%7D tags in quotes. Or just allow one previous message to be quoted eg:

    Bleh

    I agree

    Instead of:

    Bleh

    lol

    OMG

    I agree

    Automated Image Resizers for IPB2

    http://www.mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php?f=4552

    http://www.mods.invisionize.com/db/index.php?f=4445

    Reckon the first one is the way to go.

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