Site questions, comments, and suggestions

[worik]

26 minutes ago, Tirloque said:

So maybe the problem appears mainly on W7 (though had it too on a netbook with windows XP recently), but it's probably not related to it. ?

Probably just unmaintained fonts on your W7/XP. ?

An older linux notebook where we don't bother to update fonts anymore has similar emoji problems. Nevertheless it's good enough to read LL

 

 

Edit: If t is nagging you too much, you could manually search and update your fonts/emoji definitions. It will take time to find the right page in the shitty M$ website, but you should still have a good chance to get it fixed.

[Grey Cloud]

15 hours ago, Vyxenne said:

• Emojis broken - all monochrome again and the colon-code ( for example) doesn't resolve when post is submitted
• Avatar images broken again (no avatar appears at all for people with images as their avatars)
• Big square initial-letter "avatars" (for people who don't use images as avatars) are working but all monochrome

It seems like every UPgrade turns out to be the opposite- can we please DOWNgrade back to where we were prior to the last couple of days?

(imagine that I was able to insert a confused/dismayed emoji here)

I'm on W7 64-bit with SP1. Have done an update for several years.

I can see people's avatars and the capital letter thumbnails are all in the different colours.

No idea what this proves.

[MadMansGun]

i recommend placing stronger restrictions on "Junior Member" accounts:

no file uploads of any kind & no website links,

and/or

all posts must be approved by staff before going live.

 

also maybe even make it so they can't start private messages.

 

[Vyxenne]

8 hours ago, Grey Cloud said:

I'm on W7 64-bit with SP1. Have done an update for several years.

I can see people's avatars and the capital letter thumbnails are all in the different colours.

No idea what this proves.

Today, the single-letter colored-block avatars are back to normal, full colors, but no avatar images are showing up for me at all. This can't possibly be a Windows 7 Fonts issue.

[MadMansGun]

2 hours ago, Vyxenne said:

Today, the single-letter colored-block avatars are back to normal, full colors, but no avatar images are showing up for me at all. This can't possibly be a Windows 7 Fonts issue.

have you tried clearing your history?

[Vyxenne]

14 minutes ago, MadMansGun said:

have you tried clearing your history?

No, I'm working with my Referer Control addon to find a filter setting that allows LL to see where I'm coming from but blocks where I'm coming from when I'm on LL trying to see an Imgur image (and/or other sites that blacklist LL, if any). It's trickier than I had initially thought and may be what is blocking image avatars. Not sure yet.

[worik]

4 hours ago, MadMansGun said:

all posts must be approved by staff before going live.

? That sounds like quite a burden to a very limited ressource.

So, I guess purely technical solutions woud be the preference.

[winny257]

8 hours ago, MadMansGun said:

i recommend placing stronger restrictions on "Junior Member" accounts:

no file uploads of any kind & no website links,

and/or

all posts must be approved by staff before going live.

 

also maybe even make it so they can't start private messages.

 

that is censorship, or curtailment of all rights on a free website!
everyone who has been here longer has self newly started!
was ever a contribution (as a new member) from you blocked or not approved?
I can not remember that this was ever the case!
Oh but, nasty comments. 

[Guest]

Restrictions on new accounts? Has there been cases of trolling recently? I don't know about you, but I find people oddly pretty convivial here, not sure if it's just because erotic content tends to attract more "open-minded" people or what.

[vagonumero13]

1 hour ago, BWithLola said:

Restrictions on new accounts? Has there been cases of trolling recently? I don't know about you, but I find people oddly pretty convivial here, not sure if it's just because erotic content tends to attract more "open-minded" people or what.

We have an insistent troll in the DOA section since several weeks. And you are wrong: just like it may attract open-minded people, it can also atract the opposite people that would burn this site if they could: the several flavours of moralists, normal trolls, copyright trolls, anti-modders, etc,

 

I'm with with MadMansgun: place a restriction on new members. The only penalization for legit new users would be waiting a bit for their posts to appear, I don't see any issue with that, other sites have the same thing and there is no drama.

[vagonumero13]

1 minute ago, madorrax said:

Goblin, I want to tell you that this troll has hundreds of old accounts, so your maneuver will not help you much. Invent a new one.

Of course it will, because not only time of registration would be checked, retard.

[Grey Cloud]

4 minutes ago, madorrax said:

I want to tell you that this troll has hundreds of old accounts, so your maneuver will not help you much. Invent a new one.

The sad people are with us always.

[MadMansGun]

4 hours ago, BWithLola said:

Restrictions on new accounts? Has there been cases of trolling recently? I don't know about you, but I find people oddly pretty convivial here, not sure if it's just because erotic content tends to attract more "open-minded" people or what.

things that have happened in the past 365 days:

1. spam bots....lots of them.

2. fake accounts made to look like staff members (some crazy self entitled fucker was attacking the site because the mods here let people have sex with his favorite follower, or some other stupidly retarded story like that)

3. some other nut job (that my post was actually a reply to) that apparently got banned for posting child pornography keeps making new accounts and posting ads for cancer sticks.

 

4 hours ago, winny257 said:

that is censorship

no it's standard spam control, it's a common practice on many websites to restrict accounts until after they have made 10-25 posts to prove that they are legit.

[MadMansGun]

14 minutes ago, sanzo90 said:

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Joined

21 minutes ago

1 post

gee your totally not suspicious at all.

 

[winny257]

30 minutes ago, MadMansGun said:

no it's standard spam control, it's a common practice on many websites to restrict accounts until after they have made 10-25 posts to prove that they are legit.

I have already reported multiple, Spam - Contributions and to let removed.
but that's not what it's about, many new members have only now become 18+, who might need help or want to write something!
should these new members first 6 months be here member, before they are allowed to write a contribution?
This is not conducive to Loverslab!
every new member deserves a chance. 

[MadMansGun]

1 minute ago, winny257 said:

I have already reported multiple, Spam - Contributions and to let removed.
but that's not what it's about, many new members have only now become 18+, who might need help or want to write something!
should these new members first 6 months be here member, before they are allowed to write a contribution?
This is not conducive to Loverslab!
every new member deserves a chance. 

a "Junior Member" becomes a "Member" with the number of posts they make, it's not time based, and it has never been time based as far as i know.

Eg: on Kerbal Space Program's forum i have had an account there for many years, but i have only ever made 2 posts there so i still count as a "Curious George", that means my posts still need to be approved by the staff before they will show up on the site.

[winny257]

46 minutes ago, MadMansGun said:

that means my posts still need to be approved by the staff before they will show up on the site.

is me too high, here there are also members who have been members for many years and have not written any post yet.
when they now started writing, then a moderator should check this post?
holy shit, what a job for the moderator team, to check every post!
it would have pass weeks until this post is approved!

 

 

edit: second gif, not meant offensive, it only shows that a moderator would have to check thousands of posts throughout the day! 

[Grey Cloud]

Let's move on, people.  Don't waste time on issues raised by these spam morons. The admins will do what they think best.

 

[Vyxenne]

On 4/27/2019 at 3:01 PM, Grey Cloud said:

I'm on W7.

I'm having some minor weirdness with emojis since the last upgrade business. Some have disappeard, i.e. no longer available; some are in negative ouline. Some just appear as, say, colon, right bracket in the post but will appear correctly in a quote of that post.

Today, all emojis work as expected except the kissy lips, which work but are monochrome. Kind of a GreyCloud color. Coincidence? I DON'T THINK SO!

 

So since the forum's kissy lips are so anemic, I'll send you my own:

Huggles

[Grey Cloud]

10 minutes ago, Vyxenne said:

Today, all emojis work as expected except the kissy lips, which work but are monochrome. Kind of a GreyCloud color. Coincidence? I DON'T THINK SO!

 

So since the forum's kissy lips are so anemic, I'll send you my own:

 

  Hide contents

 

 

Huggles

 

 

Except that the forum being the forum, it didn't display NCPXTe2.gif

[Vyxenne]

10 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Except that the forum being the forum, it didn't display NCPXTe2.gif

It's not the forum- it's imgur.com, which blacklists 3rd-party referrals from loverslab.com. Install Referer Control and set a filter on imgur.com as follows:

TO / 3RD PARTY / CUSTOM / TARGET HOST. It will look like this when you do:

This seemed to fix it for me.

 

[RitualClarity]

22 hours ago, MadMansGun said:

i recommend placing stronger restrictions on "Junior Member" accounts:

no file uploads of any kind & no website links,

and/or

all posts must be approved by staff before going live.

 

also maybe even make it so they can't start private messages.

 

I see your point and understand. I truly do. I have been on the receiving end of some of "those" people/members.

 

However, I won't make any suggestions on posting or action restrictions on the site. The reason is, I am not the one that has to clean up all the shit that is created by those that want to "watch the world burn" or whatever the most popular meme is today. If the site admin/moderators have to clean up the mess/shit, then they should be the ones to place the limits on the access and post counts of new members. Besides that, there are negative sides to restrictions and the harder and more restrictions placed and/or longer it takes for a new member to fully engage the community.. the more likely they will get frustrated and leave. Potential loss in membership but also possible loss in future mod authors/content being created and / or hosted on this site.

 

It is a duel edged sword that has to be carefully considered. As much as I would also like these issues to be resolved, I will leave it to the admin/moderators to address for the above reasons.

[winny257]

1 hour ago, Grey Cloud said:

Except that the forum being the forum, it didn't display NCPXTe2.gif 

[Grey Cloud]

2 minutes ago, winny257 said:

Why Winny, I didn't know you cared.

[winny257]

3 minutes ago, Grey Cloud said:

Why Winny, I didn't know you cared. 

Ha, I just wanted to help, Imgur has this gif also only stolen, original playboy.