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Arancaytar
Law Bringer
Member # 2984
 written Friday, January 26 2007 04:38 Profile Homepage #23
quote:
Originally written by Randomizer:

So just send me model number, color and delivery information so you can get yours.
As a note of warning, Randomizer has no influence whatsoever on the process of choosing moderators.

Since he is not a mod.

Unlike some others.

*wink*

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Arancaytar
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 written Thursday, January 25 2007 00:34 Profile Homepage #114
Wouldn't you like to know. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 23:17 Profile Homepage #98
Easy. I'd already thought about adding it, but put it off for later. I'd code it now, but the Ermarian Network appears to have gone down hard once again.

Edit: Back up, and done.

[ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 23:56: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 22:51 Profile Homepage #111
Over 100 posts already?

I'm telling you, Dikiyoba, if you don't finish Episode 3 up soon, you'll end up with the two longest threads in written history. Together they might even surpass Nephils vs Sliths at that point...

quote:
Ahhhhhh! Get it off! Get it off!
Bonus points for playing my character properly.

Deduction for, well, killing me.

quote:
...killing him instantly.
:( And I never even got to tell---

[ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 23:22: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 22:14 Profile Homepage #46
quote:
Originally written by Randomizer:

That's because the US is going metric with the same resolve it's using to win the war on terror.
I would like to add that switching to the metric system has never killed anyone.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 12:28 Profile Homepage #40
quote:
Originally written by Let and if let...:

I'm actually interested in knowing who gets karma votes, although the actual number isn't very meaningful. I'm willing to bet that most votes are for people who are offensive, not people who are nice, but I can't prove it without data.

Actually, I can't prove it at all because I am lazy. But now I can potentially prove it!

Other than that, I think your default settings are good, Aran.

—Alorael, who discovered through the miracle of Google that his name and moniker are still tenuously connected. He's rather surprised, since he knows there are a number of places where his online and offline personas are linked. It's apparently just not obvious enough for Google or lost in the deep web.
I vaguely remember a name, but when I try to recall it, I only end up with the key exchange protocol "Diffie-Hellman".

[ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:30: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 10:31 Profile Homepage #37
No, I'd actually planned on just making the information inaccessible, because this way it's still possible to change your mind without a big hassle. I agree - what isn't public can't really raise privacy issues (unless we're talking about the NSA).

Although if someone really, really wanted their data to be eternally and utterly deleted and never again crawled, I'd probably give in.

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 07:29 Profile Homepage #35
Because on one hand it's interesting to see who got new votes, and on the other it doesn't seem very personally revealing to show those numbers. If you disagree, well, they don't need to be shown by default.

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while() in Blades of Avernum Editor
Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 04:39 Profile Homepage #11
quote:
Originally written by Dintiradan:

die "Cannot open file: $!\n"
unless fclose($name);
Not to useful, though I find having the condition after the statement sometimes makes more sense than a naked if.
Ironically, this implies that the difference between "if" and "unless" is not primarily that the condition inside must be true or false, but that it precedes or follows the statement.

Why this?

if (condition) doThis();

doThis() unless(!condition);
And not

doThis() if (condition);

unless(!condition) doThis();
? It seems arbitrary...

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A final nitpick: "die unless tryThis" makes no sense at all from the readability perspective. Are you expecting an error and surprised if it doesn't occur? That's what it looks like...

PHP's way of "tryThis or die" at least makes some superficial sense...

[ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 04:42: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 03:30 Profile Homepage #33
Most people are voting for opt-out, some for opt-in, and some for the removal of non-basic fields.

My idea for a compromise is this: A more detailed form allows everyone to choose which fields to display (in the same fashion as the removal itself). This way, there is an opt-out method for the statistical part of the information (name, posts, title), while most of the profile is opt-in.

The settings are:

Disabled. The field won't show up anywhere, in lists, profiles or searches.Current. The current value of the field is displayed, no older values are.Track last month. The current and last known value are public; differences are listed in the "Track changes" pages.All archives. All archived values of the field are available and can be compared.The defaults would be something like this.
Disabled:: Real name, locationCurrent:: ICQ, AIM, Occupation, Interests, Favorite game, Birthday.Track last month: HomepageArchives: Displayed name, Posts, Title, Karma (votes and score)(Defaults can be freely changed, as described above.)
I'll implement something like this over the weekend. Meanwhile, it would be good to know what you think of the default values. Should something be set differently?

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 21:25 Profile Homepage #2
Once again: "He's on to us. Eliminate target immediately."

It's really amazing how often that phrase becomes apt. :P

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Arancaytar
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Member # 2984
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 21:10 Profile Homepage #31
quote:
Originally written by Zeviz:

I don't know if current deletion of PDNs from threads was intentional
It's not. It's an unintended side effect of my precaution of fragmenting the databases more completely: Instead of a single root account, the Drupal sites now use limited accounts that can access only their own database. Which blocks PPP from fetching data from the Endeavor.

Since they're on the same server, I have a plan to include some kind of XML data exchange whereby PPP uses an open interface of the Endeavor to receive member data. This also means that I don't need to implement the security filter twice - the data from the XML interface is already filtered not to show anything private.

Edit: And it's done.

[ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 00:01: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 21:03 Profile Homepage #30
Likewise. It's still not very hard to find out my real name, if you go from my pseudonym, but the reverse is not as easy - gradually, a lot of the old references dropped out of Google.

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 16:43 Profile Homepage #25
Well, since opt-out (and the reversal of this decision) is already automated, opt-in would be equally easy. Just start with the assumption that everyone has opted out and let them opt in again.

The problem is, as Tullegolar pointed out, when someone has an account they wish to delist but can't access. I literally have to check manually whether this member is authorized. In Tully's case, I can look at the info, maybe compare login names, real names, IPs, and conclude that it's him (and Salmon too... kidding. :P ). In most cases, this is tough.

Oh and:
quote:
Every time someone wants [something], they say something, and Aran has to get on it.
I'm used to it by now. :P

[ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 16:46: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 12:03 Profile Homepage #18
*checks* No, unless your real name is Tullegolar Manaliana.

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 10:13 Profile Homepage #14
quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Out of curiosity, who complained about it?
Nobody you know.

If you're keen to guess, you can fill "/remove/n" with all numbers from 1-8000 and see which returns an "already delisted" error. Or look through the lists to find all gaps and check it against Spiderweb to see which profile is not listed, but still exists on Spiderweb. :P

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 09:47 Profile Homepage #13
Yes, that was me. Or rather, that happened to me too. Which is also why I want to make it as easy as possible to opt out.

The PPP archives were a bit tough to manage in the past - you can't very well censor part of an HTML file. With the posts stored in a relational database, it wouldn't be a big difficulty to add the possibility of removing content from the archives. The forum archives save things that were meant for public view - real communication, not user data - which is why so far I've had less qualms with it. But if people want their posts to be gone there too, I'll put in similar feature for PPP.

Edit: That's the third time my post has been sniped in this topic. :rolleyes:

[ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:07: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 09:31 Profile Homepage #6
Yes, it's "while", not "until".

(Which supposedly exists in some interpreted languages. I find it hard to believe - what part of "!" is so inconvenient?)

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 05:17 Profile Homepage #6
All-Caps have a way of accelerating reactions. Archives are now off-limits to non-authorized (non-me, for all practical purposes) users.

This is merely a drastic first action - a few fields may later be re-opened, such as postcount.

Automated opt-out is already done - I just have to test it to make sure it works.

And there's not yet a way to automatically re-list members if they change their mind (that'll come later).

Edit: I successfully delisted one of my multiple accounts. Works very smoothly.

Edit2: I have de- and relisted the member several times. That also works beautifully, and within the space of a few seconds.

[ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 05:53: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 04:12 Profile Homepage #3
Well, it's a bit different - the site not only shows your current profile, but it also stores your past profiles even if you change it at some point. If you put your real name on there now and remove it next month, it'll still be there in the archives.

So it's more like the Wayback Archive than the Google Cache.

Edit: This refers to the post second to last (see posting time).

[ Tuesday, January 23, 2007 04:36: Message edited by: Arancaytar ]

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Arancaytar
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 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 03:38 Profile Homepage #0
With the first actual privacy complaint regarding the Endeavor, I'd like to ask you what you really think of having an external website regularly crawl this forum and store and publish your member information permanently. I feared that this would come up a lot sooner, but somehow it hasn't.

I've quickly added in a blacklist and this member has been placed on it so they won't be crawled or stored any longer. However, in the future, this might not be enough - which I'd rather not find out after receiving the lawsuit.

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, January 22 2007 23:19 Profile Homepage #81
You really have a way with subtlety, Gnosis. -_-

End of the week? Promise?

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, January 22 2007 08:57 Profile Homepage #93
They were hitting the Polaris Interim forum, which was about as dead as they come back then.

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, January 22 2007 08:50 Profile Homepage #2
Begone, spammer.

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Arancaytar
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 written Monday, January 22 2007 07:26 Profile Homepage #33
Darn anarchistic government.

What Wikipedia needs to do is block the entire IP range of the US, like it did to Quatar. :P

(Well, the entire IP address of Quatar.)

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