07-25-2004, 04:22 PM
Yeah, they were the same person, which made an IP ban that much easier. ;) Since I can't think of anything we might have done lately to anger a newcomer, my guess is that it's someone who was IP banned on the old forums. Just as the friendly lurkers are still dropping in from time to time with an "OMG I didn't realize this place was still running", I think the unfriendly ones happen by from time to time, too.
The funny thing was, I hadn't planned to be on at all last night. I had plans to go to an overnight event with my daughter. But, I had the dates wrong, so we missed the event. :( I checked in on the forums while little Gris was wailing angrily through the house. I deleted some tubgirl pics and some spam, and by the time I was done, she was feeling better and we went to a late movie.
While it seemed terrible last night, and is worse than we've seen here in quite some time, I think in the grand scheme of things it wasn't such a big deal. How much of this will we remember in a month? A year? While I'm sorry that anyone had to see those pictures here, it still amounted to less than half a day of "downtime". It's just unfortunate that the forums were still up until I could come by and clean everything up.
I think the idea of *limiting* posts made by new posters is a good idea, but I do want to be careful and think about legitimate reasons that new posters might want to post immediately. There are usually as many guests as members browsing these forums. At some point, I'm sure that one of these guests will make a discorvery that they want to share, or have information that they can contribute to a thread. That's when they're going to register. They're not going to register ahead of time because they might want to post some day in the future.
Also, I believe that allowing at least some posting right after registration will help this site continue to have an atmosphere of collaboration, and not competition. Sometimes information, events, and discoveries start at one site, but are discussed (and often, further refined) at another. When this happens, sometimes people from one site might register at another site to participate in that discussion. I think an example of this is when the new rune words were discovered. XShadow began participating in the discussion at the Basin and on the battle.net forums. I may be mistaken, but I believe he was a new member of the Basin at the time (or at least someone who hadn't posted there very often). I want to continue to give people the flexibility to pop into the Lounge if they've made a discovery elsewhere that's being discussed here. If the waiting period were too harsh, I don't think that they would.
Of course, no newcomer needs the ability to come in and make 40 posts in an hour or so (there were 36 offending posts in total last night). There is a happy medium in there somewhere, and it would behoove us to look for it.
The funny thing was, I hadn't planned to be on at all last night. I had plans to go to an overnight event with my daughter. But, I had the dates wrong, so we missed the event. :( I checked in on the forums while little Gris was wailing angrily through the house. I deleted some tubgirl pics and some spam, and by the time I was done, she was feeling better and we went to a late movie.
While it seemed terrible last night, and is worse than we've seen here in quite some time, I think in the grand scheme of things it wasn't such a big deal. How much of this will we remember in a month? A year? While I'm sorry that anyone had to see those pictures here, it still amounted to less than half a day of "downtime". It's just unfortunate that the forums were still up until I could come by and clean everything up.
I think the idea of *limiting* posts made by new posters is a good idea, but I do want to be careful and think about legitimate reasons that new posters might want to post immediately. There are usually as many guests as members browsing these forums. At some point, I'm sure that one of these guests will make a discorvery that they want to share, or have information that they can contribute to a thread. That's when they're going to register. They're not going to register ahead of time because they might want to post some day in the future.
Also, I believe that allowing at least some posting right after registration will help this site continue to have an atmosphere of collaboration, and not competition. Sometimes information, events, and discoveries start at one site, but are discussed (and often, further refined) at another. When this happens, sometimes people from one site might register at another site to participate in that discussion. I think an example of this is when the new rune words were discovered. XShadow began participating in the discussion at the Basin and on the battle.net forums. I may be mistaken, but I believe he was a new member of the Basin at the time (or at least someone who hadn't posted there very often). I want to continue to give people the flexibility to pop into the Lounge if they've made a discovery elsewhere that's being discussed here. If the waiting period were too harsh, I don't think that they would.
Of course, no newcomer needs the ability to come in and make 40 posts in an hour or so (there were 36 offending posts in total last night). There is a happy medium in there somewhere, and it would behoove us to look for it.
Why can't we all just get along
--Pete
--Pete