New forum permissions as per Ben Heckendorn

Post by **benheck** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:38 am

I've had some complaints about spammers, dumb threads etc. While I think the forums should be open to everyone it's also important that we keep things in order.

So I've changed the permissions. They are now as follows:

View/Read stuff: All
New topics/posts/replies: Registered Users
Edit/Delete posts/topics: Moderators
Vote on polls: Registered Users
Create Polls: Moderators

Hopefully this will encourage people to look for answers to things before posting the same kind of questions over and over. Again, here are the basic rules of the forums:

No discussing religion or politics!
No pointless bandwidth-sucking un-videogame hacking realted topics (only I get to create those

No flaming other users!
Please keep topics in their appropriate game-specific forums
Reasonably sized avatars and sigs

This forum is growing and of course there's going to be some growing pains, but I think we can all work through this together. Thank you for your time.

-Ben Heckendorn

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:47 pm

What, no editing? I want editing at least in Marketplace!

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:53 pm

yeah, I think that editing should be allowed, it really comes in handy and hasn't been abused much.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:54 pm

^if it has been by a normal user at all. See what I mean? I just thought of it after I posted, but I can't edit it in

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:07 pm

I swear! I'm not doing this to prove my point!

Also, polls in non F42 forums aren't that bad. They have been a bit abused in the past, but that is mostly by people that are soon banned anyway.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:08 pm

I think editing should be allowed by members.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 2:54 pm

Oh, and I don't like the upload avatar thing. That would use up even more bandwidth!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:29 pm

Thank you Ben.

VB_Master, I think Ben can administrate his own forums. If the upload avatar sucks bandwidth Ben will disable it.

Post by **benheck** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:50 pm

Editing is back, deletion is still mod-only.

What's this avator thing about?

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:51 pm

Another problem. TinyURL.com isn't working here anymore... used to work perfectly.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:51 pm

IMages only work for some people, I have no idea why...

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:52 pm

If I use the full URL, it works, if I use TinyURL.com, it doesn't work. Grrr!

Post by **gannon** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:54 pm

The img tag only works for certain file extensions. That's why bitmaps won't show with the img tag.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:55 pm

oh mines a bmp fixing...~

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:57 pm

gannon wrote:The img tag only works for certain file extensions. That's why bitmaps won't show with the img tag.

It worked before.