MODERATOR ANNOUNCEMENT: ILE to accept posts from registered users only

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Okay, we are now in position to make ILE accept posts only from those registered and logged in. This has been thought necessary because of persistent offenders who we have been unable to ban. Now they will need to reregister using a valid and unique email address - and if someone does this repeatedly after being banned, there are other possible steps we can take about them. So I hope people will think twice about the kind of behaviour that would lead to their being banned.

It's not happening this minute - it will happen as soon as we feel the need to ban someone, with no further notice. Therefore I'd recommend registering now, though there will be nothing to stop you doing so after the switch happens. People already registered need take no action at all.

We're sorry for the extra inconvenience for some, and the restrictions on random visitors immediately posting, but various events and campaigns of objectionable behaviour have led to the moderators and most others believing this is the right step.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Bravo!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I kinda worry what the regulars who've never registered (for some reason or other) will do.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope they will register.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Now they will need to reregister using a valid and unique email address

noise dudes with 700 random characters in the e-mail field will be bummed

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll kind of miss all those "regular user posting anonymously" threads.

(but if the mods think it's necessary, then it's necessary, i guess)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

There are plans to hide email addresses, or offer the option of doing so for your email, and offer a webmail service instead so you can still contact users.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmmmm. What if I want to make an anonymous posting about contacting a woman I haven't spoken to in ten years?

(I didn't start that thread, by the way. That logged out user has apparently been burnin' since the world's been turnin'.)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT WHERE WILL I GO?? WHO WILL TAKE ME IN??

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― I change usernames every post, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not like your real name is Pleasant Plains, is it? Those of us who do use our real names... I don't know. I've never had difficulties admitting personal stuff on ILE, but that's just me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I started an anonymous thread once about how to stop yourself crushing on people.

Maybe the ILX coders could add an option to hide the usernames on selected posts from non-mods, or something. I'm sure it wouldn't be tricky to implement; it would, of course, be another thing to bloat the code with.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe my name IS Pleasant Plains!

But how am I going to start an anonymous thread about how much I had a crush on that girl from the Drop Nineteens album cover without all of YOU knowing about it?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, that wasn't so hard.

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ILM is about to become even less interesting than it used to be

― Vansi, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

impossible.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I just haven't been registering lately because I've been flitting around from computing machine to computing machine, and have been known to be perversely unable to log out on some machines, but whatever, this will probably be a good thing, except for the people who really don't care that everybody thinks they're an asshole.

oh yeah, and goodbye random googlers, I suppose.
xpost

― Huck, Monday, 26 July 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(after all, if a normal user posts anonymously at the moment, the mods can work out who it is fairly easily by IP analysis)

(xpost, lots)

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

About time.q

― The Dreaded Rear Admiral (Leee), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this was just ILE, not ILX-wide.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the death of ILX!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 26 July 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's going to pay for all the syringes?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

This spells the end for Janne Karlsson.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dudes, you're all forgetting how many gmail invites we probably all still have. Nothing stopping anyone making actual legitame addresses to go with any additional proper logins you might want...

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 00:55 (twenty-one years ago)

or if you run your own domain name....

― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it impossible to post anonymously now? That needs to stay, I think.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, does this just apply to ILE or the whole of ILX?

(BTW....Yay! At last!)

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ahh what about Allyzay's wonderful email addresses?

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well how would you differentiate an anon post for those puposes from someoen just using a random name as a googler/to be a dick/to evade banning? As far as the database knows theres no difference :-/

(xpost to Tracer)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to say that this will kill a lot of ILX appeal. Part of the reason why I started posting on ILX (and haven't posted to many forums I often wish I could) was b/c I didn't have to go through any crazy registration procedures and all the crap that goes along with them.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

All the crap? It took me literally a minute to fill in a name and a (never used) email address when I came here. Cookies meant I never had to think about it again, unless I forcibly logged out or used a new PC.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

how is the legitness of the email addy checked anyway? couldn't you just make one up that looked legit?

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No cos it sends the password to that email. It does that now, this is why I dont get peoples confusion!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

norandom g00glers wil suk

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I actually came over here to because of no registrations. It was nice to come in, write something, get out. The other board I went to went to a boxy format with all of the tables and HTML rules like [quote] or [bold] and had those weird avatars that move around and everything. It was horrible.

I like the simplicity of this place. However, in just the last month or so, I've started signing in everytime. Being able to skip immediately to the unread posts and being able to see what threads have been updated and not on the front page or more than worth it.

So from a very, very guarded point of view, I suppose that I would vote AYE on registration being required. But I do like some of the anonymous threads very much.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

It should be noted that only moderators would be able to tell who posted "anonymous" threads (assuming that the username link goes away).

Also, I'd humbly suggest that anything you don't feel comfortable putting your name to isn't something you should put on an archived, publicly-accessible message board.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I started an anonymous thread once about how to stop yourself crushing on people.
Maybe the ILX coders could add an option to hide the usernames on selected posts from non-mods, or something.

what if say I have a crush on one of the mods? (see c-man for example if say he needs to confess anonymously his love for ned)

― parakeet_esparanto (parakeetesparanto), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, and I just realized that if you're signed in, the days change on the front place at midnight LOCAL time instead of GMT. The pleasures of registration are infectious!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized that if you're signed in, the days change on the front place at midnight LOCAL time instead of GMT.

Yeah, whenever I'm not logged in for some reason and check the New Answers I always get weirded out by the time offset.

There'll probably be a 'Post Anonymously' checkbox next to submit button, for those who wish to post something sensitive.

― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i am angry about this.

― anthony, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't see thatthere has been a problem enoguh to warrant this step. I'm rather unhappy about it. I'm unhappy that it appears to have been presented as a fait accompli, rather than discussed which makes me even more opposed to the idea.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm standing on top of my chair and applauding. Thanks!

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

What, so every idea gets discussed forever and because half the people disagree, nothing ever gets done about anything ever?

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

sorta like a real parliament then trayce

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the idea definitely, good work!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm more amenable to registration than some, but if you think logins don't stop people posting LAME things/embeds/bad links you've never been to popbitch.

How about a category of 'lurker would like to say something' where someone who wants a bite rather than a whole bloody sandwich could contribute, but would be unable to post pix?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Just because you register, surely doesn't mean you have to post if you don't want to.

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

good job mods!

― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:16 (twenty-one years ago)

You know how some people won't register to the NY Times site on principle? People are a bit like that with boards sometimes.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm unhappy that it appears to have been presented as a fait accompli, rather than discussed which makes me even more opposed to the idea.

Ed, this has been discussed a lot in the past, with regarding Calum and the other trolls we've had. And the comments made have been pretty much same as on this thread.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

About bloody time - I don't see why people are so precious about being able to change usernames five times a day and random Googlers are hardly a big draw to ILX as far as I'm concerned.

Ed - this has not been presented as a fait accompli, the notion has been discussed again and again for months with valid points presented on both sides.

I'm not convinced it will stop people who are intent on causing a nuisance but hopefully it will go some way to sorting out the mess that ILE has become lately.

A 'post anonymously' button is urgent and key though.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 995 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Bravo!
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― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 7 April 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

pwnt

― gff, Monday, 7 April 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

3,599 registered users

― markers, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

i'm doing the inception music in my head rite now

― cant believe you sb'd me for that (darraghmac), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 00:47 (fifteen years ago)

wonder what Trayce was talking abt upthread when she thought me or ally or millar was maybe posting under a sock at some pt

― honkin' on joey kramer (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:12 (fifteen years ago)

you and ally and tom and dingbod in collusion to create a fiendish Frankensteinian super-troll

― Feel Adele (sic), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 01:24 (fifteen years ago)

BTW I find it amusing that it didnt occur to anyone else that the randy/jakc nastyshouting troll might have been a conspicuously absent regular who we knew had issues with the current direction - eg Ally, Millar, J0hn D, Kate or Marcello.

I included you in that cos that was at the time of the ILX book "just a bit of fun" foorforaw, as I recall.

NFI why I mentioned Ally or Tom tho. Maybe for the same reason?

Wow I was an obnoxious cow on this thread.

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 03:59 (fifteen years ago)

...actually im not even sure if that *was* what I meant.

Maybe I was drunk.

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:03 (fifteen years ago)

"on this thread"

― the questeon, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:12 (fifteen years ago)

who are you, dude?

― sarahel, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:13 (fifteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I know who.

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:16 (fifteen years ago)

also, lol.

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:17 (fifteen years ago)

share it with the rest of the class then, please!

― sarahel, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:17 (fifteen years ago)

I'd rather not get into it.

― Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:19 (fifteen years ago)

fine then, message me!

― sarahel, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:20 (fifteen years ago)

got the message -

hey questeon - i wanted to ask you a question about morning after etiquette but i'm banned from IRE

― sarahel, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:26 (fifteen years ago)

welp - looks like you're off for a bit - i gotta go see my friends' awesome metal band - catch ya later!

― sarahel, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:33 (fifteen years ago)

why deny the obvious sock?

― buzza, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:40 (fifteen years ago)

KARL MALONE

― T-Rex's erotic imagination (Z S), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:42 (fifteen years ago)

― overtheseas aeroplanes I have flown (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 17 November 2010 04:44 (fifteen years ago)

socks are great - so was my friends' metal band!

― sarahel, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 10:25 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

3,000 registered users

― pplains, Thursday, 17 January 2013 14:52 (thirteen years ago)

all squeezed into two feet

― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:05 (thirteen years ago)

down by about 600 from two years ago. should we be out recruiting?

― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:06 (thirteen years ago)

that's only 300 pairs tbf

― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

the place is deathly quiet these days.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:08 (thirteen years ago)

fairly sure i argued against registered users but people said nothing because they were registered users.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:08 (thirteen years ago)

I don't think that's really a registered-only thing though - reg-only became basically unavoidable once we ended up with spambots all over the place.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:16 (thirteen years ago)

I do miss random Googlers though.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:16 (thirteen years ago)

Me too.

― Ulna (Nicole), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

we're all fading away

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:23 (thirteen years ago)

and the ability to post anonymously without having to register a sock

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

Chief Keef: why is he so bad and hated

― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

you try to tell that to today's posters and they wouldn't believe you xpost

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

"random googlers, we used to call them!"

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

you could kick a sock in the street

― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

"if you wanted to start a thread as a sock, you started it by god!"

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

do ppl really feel like ilx is dead?

― Mordy, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:28 (thirteen years ago)

84 logged in users are fucking the cold dead corpse of ilx

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:30 (thirteen years ago)

less socks we're talking 15-20

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:31 (thirteen years ago)

Real-time stats from right now: 6 pages per second, 134 browsers (doesn't include zing/mobile/etc)
Most read thread right now: this one.

― stet, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:34 (thirteen years ago)

it's too cold not to have a couple of pairs of socks on the go

― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:34 (thirteen years ago)

There'll probably be a 'Post Anonymously' checkbox next to submit button, for those who wish to post something sensitive.

http://media.tumblr.com/1651ac6b5cb5f06649fbbbcfbb9fc6a9/tumblr_inline_mfcf1124YA1ro2d43.gif

― pplains, Thursday, 17 January 2013 15:47 (thirteen years ago)

part of the reason registered poster number is down is that now the system culls unused accounts now after a certain period of time. iirc at one point i had 15 dormant sock accounts, so i was like 2.5% of that missing number. RIP "FREE HUGS!"

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:13 (thirteen years ago)

i forget the passwords for my socks after a bit

― non-elitist melted poo (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:18 (thirteen years ago)

That's why I never wear any.

― Ulna (Nicole), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

I always forget the yahoo email addresses that I sign up for them with.

― whose black line is it anyway? (how's life), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:21 (thirteen years ago)

jjjusten, poll these socks pls

― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:31 (thirteen years ago)

i am trying to remember all of them

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:42 (thirteen years ago)

try to keep a handle on it

― lemmy's rabbles (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 January 2013 16:54 (thirteen years ago)

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