Agreed! I dunno how the bold could be made more... bold, but it is a little hard to see
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What does it mean when someone's name is crossed out? https://forums.escapistmagazine.com/posts/5079/
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I don't see anything crossed out on my screen. But when I go to their profile page, it says "This user's profile is not available."
Huh, I just cleared my cache, and it's normal again. Still, as you say, the profile error is still there.
Perhaps she's banned? I've seen that error earlier today after an adbot's thread was deleted, so showing up again if a profile was banned makes a little sense...
If that's the case I strongly prefer how the old site handled warnings and bans. It was always nice to be able to click on the link and see what the offending post was. Also you should still be able to see the profile when someone is banned in my opinion. Unless we're turning this into some sort of Orwellian state where if you're banned it's like you've never existed.
Yup, it's a ban. Although as always we can't disclose the actual reason for it.
I will admit though, it's not as obvious as it was on V1. (Having said that, maybe V1 overdid it a bit, with red "BANNED" labels, faded posts, and 'permabanned' avatars, ...might've been a bit overboard).
I will admit though, it's not as obvious as it was on V1. (Having said that, maybe V1 overdid it a bit, with red "BANNED" labels, faded posts, and 'permabanned' avatars, ...might've been a bit overboard).
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Saelune was banned earlier this morning, and her account has been deactivated for their own privacy. Normally you'd see the offending post, but this was special circumstances where a single post was not involved. The beta feedback thread is not a place for discussion about said ban, however.
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I might have an issue. I made this current signature to tease Drathnoxis a bit, and went to change it tonight to something else, and could no longer find the option. I thought that Nick said he'd taken them away, period, a few weeks ago. Maybe things are set up somehow that people can still set one, but once it's set they don't have the option anymore?
Nah, that's a title, that still shows up in options fine. You see in my posts where it appends "Drathnoxis is a Bubsy 3d fan"? That's a signature (they don't show up on my phone, if that's where you're browsing from), and I can't find the option for it again after I set it
The text color hex editor occasionally gives an error when trying to highlight quoted text. The “Oops we ran into some problems” error that won’t let you post. Not sure what the cause is.
Also sometimes the entire editing toolbar is grayed out.
For general use, a new paragraph doesn’t automatically capitalize the first letter like the old forums. You have to backspace delete it and then it’s there. Also when you do that, it’ll erroneously capitalize the next word automatically.
Having said that, maybe it’s because I’m usually using the boards on my phone, which is automatically crap for input next to a proper PC.
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Also sometimes the entire editing toolbar is grayed out.
For general use, a new paragraph doesn’t automatically capitalize the first letter like the old forums. You have to backspace delete it and then it’s there. Also when you do that, it’ll erroneously capitalize the next word automatically.
Having said that, maybe it’s because I’m usually using the boards on my phone, which is automatically crap for input next to a proper PC.
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Not sure where to ask this so I'll just put it here.
So, I get why you need the current events thing to be based on something legitimate. At the same time, things do occur whether a reputable source has yet reported on them or not. I am very reluctant to relinquish truth-definining-authority to "respectable news sources" cause we didn't find nukes in iraq and there was no evidence linking the trump camaign to russia and they hid the Epstein case for as long as they could.
You have cases where some youtuber is found to be disreputable and youtube takes them down and then some news source makes an article where their ONLY reference is that youtuber and that somehow legitimizes them so now the youtuber can make a video on the article that is about themselves that is actually not any more reputable that their original video which got removed. Such a state of affairs is beyond dumb.
At the same time, I get why you'd wanna have the current events topics be more airtight.
So, basically I'm suggesting a political off topic subforum where you can discuss breaking or not-picked-up-yet factual stories that are occurring around the world. That way we won't need to be beholden to the mainstream media like youtube is.
So, I get why you need the current events thing to be based on something legitimate. At the same time, things do occur whether a reputable source has yet reported on them or not. I am very reluctant to relinquish truth-definining-authority to "respectable news sources" cause we didn't find nukes in iraq and there was no evidence linking the trump camaign to russia and they hid the Epstein case for as long as they could.
You have cases where some youtuber is found to be disreputable and youtube takes them down and then some news source makes an article where their ONLY reference is that youtuber and that somehow legitimizes them so now the youtuber can make a video on the article that is about themselves that is actually not any more reputable that their original video which got removed. Such a state of affairs is beyond dumb.
At the same time, I get why you'd wanna have the current events topics be more airtight.
So, basically I'm suggesting a political off topic subforum where you can discuss breaking or not-picked-up-yet factual stories that are occurring around the world. That way we won't need to be beholden to the mainstream media like youtube is.
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If we make a political off-topic forum, that pretty much negates the Current Events subforum. It'd be the same thing with a very strict rule-set, and to be quite honest, we just don't have the manpower to moderate another whole subforum of politically charged topics between Current Events and this new subforum you're suggesting.
We're being lenient in most cases right now on the Current Events stuff. I let some threads go today that brought up interesting subjects with reputable sources that weren't just CNN, or whatever.
The main reason I made this post was due to the closure of the topic about Vaush. This sort of subject isn't something you'll have a reputable source about. It's a current that's on youtube and twitter spheres, it's entirely contained in those areas. Where do we go to discuss it? Would it be fine to post that topic in the off topic subforum? Maybe if you close something down give a suggestion about where we could talk about it.