Your Underwear Is Showing

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Hey, Giraffe. Someone *cough*fenris?*cough* must've been playing with the admin control panel because the Moderation and Fenrisland forums are visible. I can't actually post in them (dammit!), but I can view them.

[JackieLikesVariety]

if you can see this, you're either a moderator or I don't know how to configure vBulletin.

[Clothahump]

Interesting to see "behind the scenes".

[Lungfish]

Took a peek in there myself. It like going though some ones things. You know you shouldn't do but you can't help yourself.

[pickle berry]

LOL

[Borborygmi]

I am feeling very NSA right now.

[pickle berry]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

I forgot to mention this. That right there is why I love this place.

[Chocodile]

Girls talk shit when you're backed up against it
Don't believe any word that they hear
And you can do what it is that you want
Without some little bitch in your ear

And girls talk shit, making no bones about it
When you're something that they don't understand
And you can do what it is that you want
Without some little bitch in your ear

Garbage - Girls Talk

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by The Futility of Nihilism

Hey, Giraffe. Someone *cough*fenris?*cough* must've been playing with the admin control panel because the Moderation and Fenrisland forums are visible. I can't actually post in them (dammit!), but I can view them.

you can report a post...

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

you can report a post...

OK, now that's funny.

[hajario]

Weren't we just talking about incompetent Admins yesterday?

I have no idea what's going on with this glitch. Enjoy your reading for now. I'd be doing the same thing.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Well, it's not important whose fault it is. What's important is how you're going to punish Fenris for this.

[Detroit Hoser]

Originally Posted by Lungfish

Took a peek in there myself. It like going though some ones things. You know you shouldn't do but you can't help yourself.

But in this case it's like going through someone's medicine cabinet expecting to find something way more scintillating than what's actually there. This was like two Spiderman Band-Aids and a tube of Preparation H.

MAKE THIS SECRET FORUM MORE ENTERTAINING, DAMMIT.

[Fenris]

I may have fixed it (or, conversely, made things horribly worse). Let me know if your computers explode or turn into Destructicons bent on obliterating the human race or something.

[Solfy]

Originally Posted by Detroit Hoser

But in this case it's like going through someone's medicine cabinet expecting to find something way more scintillating than what's actually there. This was like two Spiderman Band-Aids and a tube of Preparation H.

MAKE THIS SECRET FORUM MORE ENTERTAINING, DAMMIT.

I found a few things that I found very. . . enlightening. And some that made me a little sad. Then I ate a sandwich and got over it.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Originally Posted by Fenris

I may have fixed it (or, conversely, made things horribly worse). Let me know if your computers explode or turn into Destructicons bent on obliterating the human race or something.

What if my computer was already bent on obliterating the human race?

[Giraffe]

Welp, my moral high ground on the "not sucking at vBulletin" front has slipped a few (more) notches.

As you may or may not have guessed, I made a change to the usergroups that was supposed to be transparent, but which inadvertently gave posters access to the administrative forums. That should have been fixed by now, please let me know if you can still see all those threads of me telling Fenris to install more terrible smilies so I can pretend to hate them.

As for the change itself, I was going to post a thread today about it: there are a few posters who are a pretty consistent nuisance with the tags, basically using them to threadshit without actually posting in a thread. With the new usergroup set up, we can now turn off any individual poster's ability to edit tags. Please report threadshitty tags so we can disable the rights of serial offenders.

[Solfy]

You mean those practically anonymous tags - the ones where it's really inconvenient to find out who left them?

"The mods can figure out who left which tags (although it's just enough work that we almost never do). . . "

[Jeff]

You are singularly awful. How you've managed to stay employed flipping burgers and wiping down tables all these years I'll never know.

[Giraffe]

Originally Posted by Solfy

You mean those practically anonymous tags - the ones where it's really inconvenient to find out who left them?

"The mods can figure out who left which tags (although it's just enough work that we almost never do). . . "

It's not wildly inconvenient -- if someone reports a tag, I'll check and see if it's the same person who left the last five rude tags. But I can't do it from my phone or iPad, and it's enough work (hardly any, but some) that I rarely ever look unless someone asks or I notice someone going over the top with the trolling.

[Jeff]

p.s. Why can't I edit tags anymore. Don't make me express my feelings in more than 25 characters, you assholes.

[Solfy]

Mouseovering is hard.

Not that I GAF, but I recall a fuss being made over whether it was possible to look up who left a tag, and how it was possible but time consuming and not simple back when Wednesday was a mod.

[Giraffe]

Originally Posted by Solfy

Mouseovering is hard.

Not that I GAF, but I recall a fuss being made over whether it was possible to look up who left a tag, and how it was possible but time consuming and not simple back when Wednesday was a mod.

I'm going entirely by (likely faulty) memory here, but for some reason I thought we were doing it in a more convoluted way before we discovered the mouseover option. I don't know. Either way, there's no guarantee of anonymity for taggers from the mods, but we're also not compiling lists of everyone's tags. We'll check the author if we have a reason to, otherwise we treat them like everyone else does.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

I'd like to thank the great and always capable Fenris for so quickly taking care of that little underwear problem. And I also think this new ability to selectively take away the tag editing abilities of certain users is a fantastic idea. You should start with the scalawag who left all those terrible tags at the bottom of this thread.


And if you give me my ability to edit tags back I'll get rid of every one of them.

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

As for the change itself, I was going to post a thread today about it: there are a few posters who are a pretty consistent nuisance with the tags, basically using them to threadshit without actually posting in a thread. With the new usergroup set up, we can now turn off any individual poster's ability to edit tags. Please report threadshitty tags so we can disable the rights of serial offenders.

But it's still Fenris' fault, right?

As for the tags thing, I wish you'd done that ages ago.

[Rat Diva]

Originally Posted by Fenris

I may have fixed it (or, conversely, made things horribly worse). Let me know if your computers explode or turn into Destructicons bent on obliterating the human race or something.

Can you explode my work PC, please? It's the only way I'll get a new one out of the cheapos in charge.

[Giraffe]

Originally Posted by Jeff

p.s. Why can't I edit tags anymore. Don't make me express my feelings in more than 25 characters, you assholes.

This should be fixed. In trying to make sure my mess was fully cleaned up, I fucked things up again. But now, now, things are working perfectly. I'm sure of it!

(Please tag this thread with your thoughts on how good I am at vBulletin, scale of 1-10.)

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

(Please tag this thread with your thoughts on how good I am at vBulletin, scale of 1-10.)

I would need more than 25 characters (and possibly an advanced mathematics degree) to properly express just how close to zero you come.

But thanks anyways.

[DoubleJ]

Originally Posted by Jeff

I would need more than 25 characters (and possibly an advanced mathematics degree) to properly express just how close to zero you come.

But thanks anyways.

I tried to type it out, but I don't think my simple mind can truly grasp the infinitesimal nature of that number.

[hajario]

Originally Posted by Solfy

Mouseovering is hard.

Not that I GAF, but I recall a fuss being made over whether it was possible to look up who left a tag, and how it was possible but time consuming and not simple back when Wednesday was a mod.

At this point, it's one click and a mouse over. It's an additional click to delete the tag. It's not a big deal at all. I almost never look at who made a tag unless it's really dickish or extremely clever and that's once every couple of months if that excluding when we get a report but that's pretty infrequent as well.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by DoubleJ

I tried to type it out, but I don't think my simple mind can truly grasp the infinitesimal nature of that number.

Imagine something approximately the size of Jeff's dick.

[Nummus]

Originally Posted by Giraffe

Welp, my moral high ground on the "not sucking at vBulletin" front has slipped a few (more) notches.

As you may or may not have guessed, I made a change to the usergroups that was supposed to be transparent, but which inadvertently gave posters access to the administrative forums. That should have been fixed by now, please let me know if you can still see all those threads of me telling Fenris to install more terrible smilies so I can pretend to hate them.

As for the change itself, I was going to post a thread today about it: there are a few posters who are a pretty consistent nuisance with the tags, basically using them to threadshit without actually posting in a thread. With the new usergroup set up, we can now turn off any individual poster's ability to edit tags. Please report threadshitty tags so we can disable the rights of serial offenders.

Don't worry. I won't be reposting this post anywhere else.

[BJMoose]

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

I am feeling very NSA right now.

Precisely. And virtually everthing they spend their time gawking at is equally dull.

[Kat]

Originally Posted by Solfy

You mean those practically anonymous tags - the ones where it's really inconvenient to find out who left them?

"The mods can figure out who left which tags (although it's just enough work that we almost never do). . . "

It's not that it's hard or inconvenient. It's that our mods & admins are reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyy yyyy lazy.

[PSXer]

I can't see the administration forums anymore when are you gonna fix this

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

Precisely. And virtually everthing they spend their time gawking at is equally dull.

Oh no it's worse, far worse.

Amtrak Lists Bought on the Sly for $854K Actually Were Free

[BJMoose]

This is why I tend to laugh whenever someone expresses fear of Big Brother. Government isn't any smarter than the rest of us.

[Glazer]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

This is why I tend to laugh whenever someone expresses fear of Big Brother. Government isn't any smarter than the rest of us.

That's why we're afraid.

[Solfy]

Originally Posted by Glazer

That's why we're afraid.

We have met the government and it is us.

[BJMoose]

Originally Posted by Glazer

That's why we're afraid.

Okay. Ya gotta point. . . .


Just had a thought: can you imagine what would have happened at the Durp if someone had accidentially made the mod forum public? (Probably wouldn't have been reported, either.)

[Xploder]

Originally Posted by BJMoose

Okay. Ya gotta point. . . .


Just had a thought: can you imagine what would have happened at the Durp if someone had accidentially made the mod forum public? (Probably wouldn't have been reported, either.)

Seems to me that I recall that happening once or twice for an extremely short amount of time. If I remember right, there was no huge outlash of negativity which tells me that the only ones who saw it were the same people who think that the modmins over there can do no wrong.

[BJMoose]

After I posted that I saw a comment in the snark thread that said the Dope used the moderator forum mainly to keep track of bannings and such. All the discussions actually happened by e-mail (doubtless a throwback to the days when the boards consisted of an aged field mouse limping amok in an empty Cheerios box).

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Xploder

Seems to me that I recall that happening once or twice for an extremely short amount of time.

Yeah, like about 20 minutes or so IIRC.

[Chocodile]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Yeah, like about 20 minutes or so IIRC.

In 1960.

[Khampelf]

I feel dirty that I get the reference. It makes me want spaghetti.

[Nummus]

<!bathyscaphe!>

Pardon me for coughing like I just did. I normally don't do that in mixed company.

<!marianna!>

Again, I apolog ... apol ...

uh-oh.
Scoosy.