Moderators (requests and notices)

Done, but pointless. Virtually no spammers bother crawling the web for emails nowadays, and Gmail spam filters are so good that you shouldn't subsequently see spam.

If you feel you're being spammed, it's far more likely that some company sold your email address.

It was more that I got prompted when logging into my gmail account about Google's privacy policy changes, which led to me fiddling with various settings and stuff. Searching for my email address bought up 3 results, two of which were that post, so I figured it was easy enough to ask nicely for it to be removed :)

Thanks again!

Yes.

I've got to change the navigation... there isn't the space to add CP to it given that the site has to work for people with smaller screens.

So I'm going to swap that out for drop downs and add it then.

It will be done next week.

brilliant thanks very much

is there any plans to add the current projects to the forums tab at the top please? bugs me that i have to go back to the main page every time

Same for Ladies forum?

and for Cycle Training forum
(yes there is one:)

Same for Ladies forum?

Noted.

But before anyone asks for every forum to go up there, the nav isn't supposed to fully replace the home page, just offer access to the most frequently accessed items or things people find hard to find.

Only 9 of the 30+ forums are on there for that reason.

If I add any more, then I will remove others.

And if I have to remove some, I'll have to think what makes one more important than another... it will likely be post count (ignoring classifieds which has it's own tab, and misc which is off-topic). So you may not all get your way.

Basically........

That's about as plain English as I can get on the matter.

Outstanding explanation. I fully understand now. Many thanks!

We need a lots more of them.

I gave a couple to some who needed it, any chance of producing more Site Boss?

We need a lots more of them.

I gave a couple to some who needed it, any chance of producing more Site Boss?

memorable urls?

Is there anyway to have more readable urls for the important threads / notices

e.g. here

A more memorable url might be lfgss.com/accident.

(You would have to have it redirect for Scoble, natch.)

Would prefer lfgss.com/crash

Accident suggests no blame, a chance incident. Even the police don't use accident anymore

memorable urls?

Don't think it'd work as well as an actual laminated flyer, if I told you to go to this URL for more information, what's the likelihood of you actually doing that?

Would prefer lfgss.com/crash

Accident suggests no blame, a chance incident. Even the police don't use accident anymore

quite right, "collision" is being used instead.

I think he means a more memorable url to put ON the flyer.

I don't think she have a penis.

Is there anyway to have more readable urls for the important threads / notices

e.g. here

A more memorable url might be lfgss.com/accident.

(You would have to have it redirect for Scoble, natch.)

lfgss.com/crash surely?

Typed the flyer text here http://www.lfgss.com/post2656654-15.html
There are a couple of hundred flyers with velocio. I'm picking them up at Wests next week and will be using some for CTUK trainees and handing some out at LMNH. date TBC.
Be good to print more and can tweak the text and change url if new one created.
Also people have pm'd me with address out of London so will post some.

perhaps better to discuss this further here http://www.lfgss.com/thread78130.html[URL="http://www.lfgss.com/thread78130.html#post2656654"][/URL]

lfgss.com/crash surely?

reeeeee

Don't think it'd work as well as an actual laminated flyer, if I told you to go to this URL for more information, what's the likelihood of you actually doing that?

rolls eyes

Back when the Pendleton thread started, I did see that for a while "naked victoria pendleton" was the #1 search on Google that led here.

were you searching for naked victoria pendleton on google only to find your beloved?

#busted

lfgss.com/fuckingowiesyouprickfuckikillyou

lfgss.com/accident.

lfgss.com/crash

lfgss.com/fuckingowiesyouprickfuckikillyou

Got there in the end.
Love the group brainstorm

URLs are forever not just for Christmas.

I don't know what that means either.

Basically, that site is trying to stop people "stealing" their bandwidth. A ludicrous idea in any case... but the way they've gone about it is to say: If someone requests this image and they're on impawards.com, serve the image... otherwise don't serve the image.

If you have a small limited bandwidth hosting package and some big pictures, it doesn't seem such a "ludicrous idea" when some fusker accounts for 90% of your bandwidth. I prefer to serve some tiny .png indicating that the image has been stolen rather than just a simple 'request failed', but hosting costs money and it's up to the people paying the bills how they handle hotlinking.

URLs are forever not just for Christmas.

How many redirects would you need to manually add to the .htaccess? I can see why automatically changing thread URLs to something like lfgss.com/thread_title would be a PITA, but for the small number of important/popular threads it wouldn't seem like a big imposition to create the necessary redirect.

If you have a small limited bandwidth hosting package and some big pictures, it doesn't seem such a "ludicrous idea" when some fusker accounts for 90% of your bandwidth. I prefer to serve some tiny .png indicating that the image has been stolen rather than just a simple 'request failed', but hosting costs money and it's up to the people paying the bills how they handle hotlinking.[quote]
The method of blocking is ludicrous (referrer checking), as is the notion that using bandwidth is "stealing".
[quote]How many redirects would you need to manually add to the .htaccess? I can see why automatically changing thread URLs to something like lfgss.com/thread_title would be a PITA, but for the small number of important/popular threads it wouldn't seem like a big imposition to create the necessary redirect.

The .htaccess is already so large (I handle all the old Vanilla ones) that it hurt each request, so I took it out and moved it to the apache2.conf file.

It's non-trivial. There are 4.5 million URLs that work on this site, and I'm not about to start making exceptions to the structure of them.

Not sure I agree on this one- if you host a picture and pay for the storage thereof, and the bandwidth to display it and someone else appropriates both, then how is that not "stealing" it?

The person paying the bill is getting nothing out of the situation, other than a cost.

Bandwidth costs money- I work for an ISP, so can attest to that first hand.

Because you, as the host, define the availability of the file on the server. If you have chosen not to apply any access control or authentication (the right tools for declaring that access to something is restricted), then it is effectively publicly available.

To then try and use referrer information to restrict access is a poor substitution for access control. Not just a poor substitution, but actually ineffective (all SSL access gets around it, as would all wget and curl requests).

Trying to secure anything with referrer checking is equivalent to having a house and putting a sign on the front door saying it's locked, but leaving the windows wide open and the back door open. It's dumb.

Also... it most certainly isn't theft, or stealing, as the act of theft deprives the owner of something. To request a file from a server and to be granted a copy of that file isn't theft.

It's not even unauthorised access to a computer, as you configured your server in such a way that permitted the access.

If people want to limit the bandwidth used by their hosting of pictures, then they should use the right tools... authentication and authorisation.