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#27 Aug 19 2013 at 11:00 AM Rating: Good
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I know that the one on the left has a character named Sassymithra, and Hellboy had Sassythief, also.
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#28 Aug 19 2013 at 2:59 PM Rating: Excellent
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On an unrelated note, can all of you suddenly see about 30 more topics on the front page of OOT forum thread view than you could 5 minutes ago?
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#29 Aug 19 2013 at 3:11 PM Rating: Good
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Yes
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#30 Aug 19 2013 at 3:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ok, cool. new forum toy works! except for the whole access denied error message thingy. but yeah!
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#31 Aug 19 2013 at 3:28 PM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
On an unrelated note, can all of you suddenly see about 30 more topics on the front page of OOT forum thread view than you could 5 minutes ago?
dunno, I don't usually scroll down.
#32 Aug 20 2013 at 7:35 AM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Ok, cool. new forum toy works! except for the whole access denied error message thingy. but yeah!
Do tell so we know what we're looking at slash for.
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#33 Aug 20 2013 at 7:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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Basically, its a button that lets me send a given nuked thread to "spammer hell" or forum 999, but without leaving the "moved thread" residue that normally results from a move. The benefit is that the nuked posts don't take up any of the default 50 posts per page slots, which is why in some forums recently it's looked like there were only 8 or 9 threads, because there really were that many nuked spam posts. Someone really, really wanted to sell you guys fake ID's and stolen credit card numbers.
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#34 Aug 20 2013 at 8:01 AM Rating: Good
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Which button gives me back the 6 posts I lost to thread nuking? Smiley: mad
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#35 Aug 20 2013 at 9:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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The one that sends me $100 bills when you press it?
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#36 Aug 20 2013 at 10:29 AM Rating: Good
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I went to forum 999. Bad idea. Don't go there.
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#37 Aug 20 2013 at 12:50 PM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Basically, its a button that lets me send a given nuked thread to "spammer hell" or forum 999
999, not 666? Missed opportunity.
#38 Aug 20 2013 at 1:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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666 was already taken at the time it was made. You can't see that one anymore on account of the whole "all unofficial forums don't allow or display posts anymore to prevent spamming to 10k fix"
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#39 Aug 20 2013 at 2:00 PM Rating: Good
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So what was forum=666?
#40 Aug 20 2013 at 2:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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if I remember right someone was using it as a makeshift journal. it might have been youshutup. I can't see whats in it either anymore, which creats issues from time to time.
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#41 Aug 20 2013 at 2:31 PM Rating: Good
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You can't just have it removed entirely?
#42 Aug 20 2013 at 2:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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Eh, probably, we just never bothered.
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#43 Aug 20 2013 at 6:19 PM Rating: Good
It's probably safer to just disable all unofficial forums like they have. Remember =sanctuary?

From a coding perspective, I don't know how the site works, so I don't know if it's possible to just make it so that any given forum isn't just disabled, but flat out doesn't exist until it is created and assigned a number. That seems a simpler solution, though.
#44 Aug 20 2013 at 8:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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It's a relational database. Each post you make has a bunch of data that goes into a very large table as a row. That post includes the text and title of the post, but it also includes the forum ID, the thread ID (or message ID , the mid= part) and the post ID itself, which is usually shown as p=1. Going to a forum and pressing "post something" creates a row in the database with that forum= id. Posting in forums that aren't on the currently allowed list is not enabled anymore, but it was at one time, so to reuse an existing ID, we have to either move all the old posts out of it, or pick one that hasn't been used. if you just flat out delete the rows in a relational database, bad, catestrophic things happen to your database usually, so we avoid that if at all possible.
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#45 Aug 20 2013 at 8:57 PM Rating: Decent
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OOT was never good.

Still better than Reddit.
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#46 Aug 20 2013 at 10:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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New OOT is old asylum.

D-E-D dead.
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#47 Aug 21 2013 at 1:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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You guys need more active topic starters. There are enough OOT repliers to topics, but you don't end up with enough new topics to sustain the gestalt or attract new posters or bring back old lurkers. It may be the only "fix" is to merge the forums with Asylum to get enough people concentrated, but at this point Asylum doesn't also need that, since they have juuust enough people in there to keep it going. I'm hopeing a few of the new flood of ffxivers wanders in here and takes up residence. We'll see. Admins don't tend to work as topic starters, since it starts looking like we're taking over a forum, and it can't just be one or two others either. The trick isn't even really to post particularily good topics. They just have to be intriguing. People will post, it ups their post count, and if they dislike a topic they'll mold it to whatever they want. getting that starter in the first place is the tricky part, since only a fraction of forum posters start new topics regularily.
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#48 Aug 21 2013 at 4:17 AM Rating: Good
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Usagi wrote:
OOT was never good.

Still better than Reddit.
The quality of reddit depends almost entirely on what part of reddit you are.
#49 Aug 21 2013 at 7:42 AM Rating: Good
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You guys need more active topic starters.
Lure the XIVers. That'll be fun with how touchy feely they are.
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#50 Aug 21 2013 at 8:16 AM Rating: Good
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lolgaxe wrote:
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
You guys need more active topic starters.
Lure the XIVers. That'll be fun with how touchy feely they are.
We could use some good drama here.
#51 Aug 21 2013 at 8:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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