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Is it possible to block forums?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:34 pm
by loofisawesome
I want to not get notices about posts from the Meet and Greet thread, because of what happened to Wonderland King's i'm alive! thread.
Re: Is it possible to block forums?
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 11:35 pm
by Sammy_P
loofisawesome wrote:I want to not get notices about posts from the Meet and Greet thread, because of what happened to Wonderland King's i'm alive! thread.
There's a Mark All Forums Read button at the bottom of the index page.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:17 am
by garirry
Ignoring them is the best option. Also, you won't receive any more mail notifications if you don't click the link.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 12:32 am
by tyteen4a03
Remember to turn off Always notify me of replies in your Profile.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:00 am
by Caton
patrick can block swear words on here.
Obscenity Censor
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:07 am
by Jutomi
That sounds like a good idea,
but I've had hard relationships with noswear.
They either work too tightly or work too loosely.
Or both.
Still, nice comment in my opinion.
Plus I don't know if he'd even be able to do it.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:11 am
by Caton
In my old forum I had administrator control panel I saw something called... Word Censors he adds the swear word and he will add a other word that will replace that swear word.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:13 am
by garirry
MS trusts us and doesn't turn on the censor words thingy. Yes, it is indeed available in pretty much all forum bases, phpBB included.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:18 am
by Caton
yeah but kids are on here If he blocked it swearing would nerver happen on here.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:03 pm
by tyteen4a03
I'm actually not sure what happened to it. We used to have it in this forum, but it got disabled somewhere down the line.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:31 pm
by Master Wonder Mage
The problem with word censors is if you are merely swearing to be offensive/break rules, as was pretty obviously the case here, they wouldn't really accomplish anything, since they are pretty easy to work around via character substitutions, spacing, etc. It would help if someone habitually swears and does so in their posts without thinking about it, but that is very rarely the case.
Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:30 pm
by Muzozavr
&@#$!
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Anyway, the "no swear" feature can get very confused when it's not properly implemented and since this forum runs on a very old version of phpBB, I wouldn't trust the noswear of that version to be perfect. I'm struggling to give an example that wouldn't technically break the rules here...
... but I'll just mention the words "clbuttic mistake" and the fact that people living in Scunthorpe have been repeatedly denied registration back in AOL days due to a malfunctioning profanity filter (no explanation will be given here, for obvious reasons) as reasons why the noswear filter is probably not the best idea.