Manytales, I'll reassign your old posts at the new forums.
Rob -- I honestly don't remember everything I was thinking the first time I went through the settings. I do know that I wanted to reproduce as closely as possible the register-to-post functionality we've had all these years, but apparently I didn't do it right.
Speaking of going through settings, I'm doing so now. A few points of interest:
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Rob -- I honestly don't remember everything I was thinking the first time I went through the settings. I do know that I wanted to reproduce as closely as possible the register-to-post functionality we've had all these years, but apparently I didn't do it right.
Speaking of going through settings, I'm doing so now. A few points of interest:
- I've just maxed the message size -- they're now effectively unlimited.
- We currently have a maximum of 15 images and 5 videos per post, which I set based on past posts in the pics and vids threads. If anyone thinks more is necessary, let me know.
- I've set the "hot topic" threshold to 195 posts, as we've had here for several years. But that was because of how obnoxious the alert graphic was. If it's a bit calmer, I might set this back to 25.
- The board is currently set to 25 posts per page, although I personally like to use 50 myself.
- I've found and turned off the option that forces board visitors to login or register in order to read the board.
- Oh, the swallow question? "African or European?" But I'll put Rob's longer version in as acceptable answers, too.
- Nice to see that no one got any of the security questions incorrect (at least not so as the system logged an incorrect answer), but I'm kinda disappointed that only half of the folks asked about Tsukino Usagi answered the question.
- I've added a few more for diversity, and they shouldn't be too hard. I'm tempted to add "What is your quest?"/"I seek the grail", though. Most folks likely to join the forums after we move should get it, and it'd be a rare spambot indeed that could answer it.
- Where do people stand on smilies? Keep, nuke, allow individual choice?
- I have all forum censorship functionality turned off. But the word filter function (aka the naughty word replacer) tempts me terribly to use it for comic purposes.
- I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since the website menu now points to the new forums instead of here, but it's been spidered multiple times already by five different outfits, including Google, Alexa and Bing. And one hit just 8 minutes ago as I type this.
- I'm going to have to change the user titles and their thresholds. Top level, "Posting Freak", is hit at a mere 750. Heh. Some of you folks passed that over a decade ago. And I find most of the titles vaguely derisive.
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.