If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

First the concern. It's refreshing to be able to preview posts. I think everyone can agree on that. I was also pleasantly surprised that I was able to go back and edit a post for clarity (I accidentally a verb or something). I'm concerned that this ability can be open to abuse. I'd hate to think th...

It's not a swear word as such. Brits who were at least teenagers in the late '60s are most likely to win the game...

Not a lot of work on my side, really. I could then give you the list of old and new colours side by side. Then, if it's normal CSS, you'd only have to run a find- and-substitute; or just find then paste. However, I'll have a look at the ready themes if that's easier for you. Thanks for the offer. M...

Sigh. Just, sigh...

I'm going to point you to Badger3K for that - I don't use RSS, and it appears to work for him/her...

Could well be, Tuvok, could well be. And being a forum rather than a blog may help aggregate information in a more readily accessible fashion - blogs are not well suited for that, IMHO. I'm really glad to see the registration and participation that has happened in less that 24 hours. Of course, it m...

John Greg wrote:I'm liking "porcupine-free zone" more and more.

As opposed to a Free Porcupine Zone?

Big thanks to Lsuoma for setting this up. I love the new forum format already. Definitely more flexible and easy to follow than the mega-thread approach. Also, thanks to Abbie for putting up with us for so long. Hope things work out for you. Thanks, Darren. And I'd really like to see Abbie Herself ...

0verlord wrote:Accusations of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by people who want to paint "us" in a bad light.

I don't give a flying fuck about what anyone thinks. And don't forget, private messaging is available on this board - would you have me disable that?

LSuoma, should I create a pleasant colour palette in order to give it a more distinctive appearance? Feel free to do so. I've looked before into making wholesale changes to a phpBB forum and it can get to be a lot of work, so I wouldn't want you to spend a lot of time without a guarantee that I'd i...

Darren wrote:I wish the polls weren't limited to 10 options.

Now 25.

I don't see this board as being at war. This is a place for discussion on various matters. People who want to post here might have had history elsewhere. That doesn't carry over automatically. But neither is it automatically dismissed.

I don't think it's useful to have a "back channel." I know that's not the intention but I see the accusations flying already. Maybe not allow non-members to post, but the forums should be 100% transparent. If we don't want to be bothered by it, we won't read it. Accusations of what by whom? People ...

How about, "Lying face-down in the mud, kicking your ass". I LOLed. This is definitely a candidate! The whole "we need to react to their pearl clutching" idea gets us nowhere, by the way. And even a passing reference to the baboollies validates them. I don't like conforming to someone else's agenda...

I like this idea. On it's way. Thanks!

Suggestions for a new tagline? That one comes from one of my favourite old jokes about someone who ends up in hell, and is given three choices of how to spend eternity. He's shown three options: 1. Being whipped endlessly by a huge muscled demon with a whip of fire (Balrog?) 2. Being boiled alive in...

I was wrong - profanity (love that word!) has to be specified at the board level, and then it affects everyone. So, no, no censorship here except for that one, terrible, terrible word. And no, I don't mean Belgium, swut or turlingdrome: a shiny new custom rank awaits the first poster that tickles my...

Y'see, I'm so tempted to go over there and tell them that, no, there won't be censorship or thread-hiding. But it won't achieve anything. Anything at all.

I think that individual users can choose to have teh bad werdz show up as Nathan Hales instead of the naughty letters - check out your profile. I'll also take a look...

Well, not to push the slippery slope, but over at After the Bar Closes, people can post wherever (not sure about the admin) but some people who've proven to be trolls (JoeG, other IDiots) end up having their posts redirected to their own threads (named for them) so they won't be spamming and thread...

John Greg wrote:Hi Admin god. Under the Chatter group, can we have a basic SlymeChat forum for just plain everyday chit chat and blather? Currently there does not really exist such a general blah blah forum.

On its way...

That's where they went because they had no parent category. I've added "Other Stuff" and reparented. This is still fluid, and stuff can be moved around at will.

Keep the suggestions coming.

welch wrote:I also beat my dog, according to Laden.

I beat my meat - does that count?

I've tried up loading the archived comments from those threads as compressed html, but the files were too large. The infamous "Periodic Table of Swearing" is currently over four megs compressed. Heh. I think I have the first four as single-page htmls, but they are on my work computer, and I'm not t...

I was chatting with Abbie last night, and she knows that she's more than welcome here. If anyone wants to suggest to her in the ERV thread that she jump in, filfre...

Increasing username size in profile block on left requires increasing size of all text in that block. Not sure I want to do that right now.

May be looking for a new theme soon anyway.

Slither wrote:Just FYI, if you go to slymepit.com or http://www.slymepit.com, you get an error message. Probably both should redirect to the main page.

Thanks: should be fixed now for both.

Badger3k wrote:Thanks - I'm trying the main Slyme Pit feed, which should get everything (if it works the same as others I've been on). So far it seems to work.

Cool. Thanks for the feedback.

Given the site has been up less than 24 hours, I'm inordinately proud of the requests I've been able to fill so far :-)

You can now embed YouTube vids using the [youtube]xxxxxx[/youtube] tag pair, where xxxxxx is the YouTube id. This is available at the top-right of the posting box.

Filfre to post these wherever you see fit.

Parge wrote:Not sure if you'd want to put it on an "m." subdomain or just have a link at the footer. Download a plugin thingy here.

Possible, but low priority for now. Apols.

Now works for YouTube. Thanks, Franc.

Testing:

[youtube]nPfX2tMoPic[/youtube]

So guest posts are allowed as well then! That, no doubt, is going to lead to some shenanigans. That's OK. The last thing we want to do is give the impression we're blocking people like the FC5 does. Over at PZ's latest TET, the morons are all howling over pure speculation that this forum is going t...

Bhoytony: don't sweat the boilerplate.

As Ian Dury once said:

Arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks!

User details now on left. Working on increasing username size.

Width set to 1000.

Re. John's NEW Q4. Guests can post with some restrictions, no registration required. That may change.

Several people have recommended that I trim the forum count, which seemed like a good idea.

TBH, I'm not going to get upset if people post in odd places, so filfre...

Font size increased to 11px from 10px.

Will set confirmation code to recaptcha.

Working on setting width to fixed (will make it 1000px) and putting user details on left, with bigger username.

I have - I think - enabled an Atom feed. Try it out and let me know if it works.

franc wrote:
Lsuoma wrote:Avatars now 240x240
That spills outside of CSS. 180x180 is =>

Forum count trimmed. Now off to reduce the avatar size.

Thanks for all the suggestions - keep 'em coming...

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All good ideas, thanks. some done:

100 posts per page
Avatars now 240x240

Will consolidate thread, and look at other suggestions soon.

Done and done...

One of the things we have here is partitioning: I am too sanguine to believe there will be sanguinary posts, but I want to let people post without let or hindrance, hence the "Take It Outside!" forum.

Oh, and I like autoantonyms...

Andrew - slightly different quoting style - BBCode, not HTML. I fixed your post for you (that bastard Lsuoma, already editing posts!!!)

If I was an FTB Bully I'd use the #ftbullies hashtag. Hashtag.

No!

I am sure I will have more of these as time passes. 1. Are you going to allow PMs (private messaging)? 2. Are you going to hire , so to speak, moderators and/or administrators? 3. Are you going to post any sort of however vague or specific posting guidelines? 3a. If Yes, is that going to be built v...

So, the Baboollies appear to have discovered the Streisand Effect...

These are links to Abbie's original threads on ERV that gave rise to this board. I'm working on making them more permanent, but pro tem they link back to Science Blogs. http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/07/01/bad-form-rebecca-watson/ http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2011/07/18/dawkins-coup-de-grace-in-ve...

BTW, I made it general - there may be lots of other stuff that needs capturing. If it looks like we need to break this out into subcategories, it's trivial...

Created. Good idea, Franc.

franc wrote:Folks have made quite a few neat ones lately.

On its way...

MyEarsAreRinging wrote:Just what it says. Please. Some of us have coping difficulties.

:-)

Unfortunately I'm not sure I can implement an all-caps forum without some programming, and I don't have the time for that right now.

Also, doesn't it seem a bit too baboolieish, like PeeZus' disemvowelling?

JAB wrote:Am I the first?

Just beat you by a second or two: I was getting lonely so I posted a message myself...

Something to help take away a bit of the heat, I hope.

Please treat this place as you would your own, or you have at ERV.

Like I said, pretty much anything goes here...

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