Requesting clarification regarding the rule against external links - Page 5

Damix2 · #61 03-29-2006, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

What?

Ask him then.

Because we all know how easily accessable he is

haunter · #62 03-29-2006, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

What?

Not very on the ball recently, are we?... (attachment)

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

Ask him then.

I thought that part of your job was to help with communication between the players and Unixmad on matters of the forums.

excaliber7388 · #63 03-29-2006, 04:35 PM

http:// dictionary.reference.com/search?q=link

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Computer Science. A segment of text or a graphical item that serves as a cross-reference between parts of a hypertext document or between files or hypertext documents. Also called hotlink, hyperlink.

So a link is short for hyperlink, which the above is not
So, it's not against the rules.
I beleive the rule was created so people don't get linked to porn or some kind of prank. But with the effective moderation we hae, those posts would be modified, or the thread would be closed anyway, so why make a rule against all links? Afterall, if i wanted to make an actual link to dictionary.com, i'd have some difficulty

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Originally Posted by Damix2

Because we all know how easily accessable he is

-I had more posts than him a few months ago
-It took weeks for him to read my PM
-We STILL don't have a special NGRT section
-somehow, I doubt he's all that active
-Moonie knows him better than we all could, because they apparently talk often (or he gives really specific instructions, as opposed to the specific rules)

sorry unix I don't mean to be so harsh

haunter · #64 03-29-2006, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by excaliber7388

<dictionary link>

So a link is short for hyperlink, which the above is not
So, it's not against the rules.

The rule has been changed.

Darlene159 · #65 03-29-2006, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by haunter

Not very on the ball recently, are we?... (attachment)

I quoted him, I don't know how it became a clickable link *shrugs*

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I thought that part of your job was to help with communication between the players and Unixmad on matters of the forums.

My job is to Moderate the forums, and to make sure the rules are enforced, and followed, and to make sure other moderators do the same.

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Originally Posted by excaliber7388

So a link is short for hyperlink, which the above is not
So, it's not against the rules.
I beleive the rule was created so people don't get linked to porn or some kind of prank. But with the effective moderation we hae, those posts would be modified, or the thread would be closed anyway, so why make a rule against all links? Afterall, if i wanted to make an actual link to dictionary.com, i'd have some difficulty

The rules have been modified for those who need it spelled out for them.
I'm not really hip to the whole internet url/link language. Saying No URL's to other sites other than Graal related sites should sum it up?

excaliber7388 · #66 03-29-2006, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

I quoted him, I don't know how it became a clickable link *shrugs*

My job is to Moderate the forums, and to make sure the rules are enforced, and followed, and to make sure other moderators do the same.

The rules have been modified for those who need it spelled out for them.
I'm not really hip to the whole internet url/link language. Saying No URL's to other sites other than Graal related sites should sum it up?

Yup, thats it, loophole closed.
Ah, what would these older people do without us young smartasses?
Oh well, we can wait for the new NGRT, until then, continue to renew! And if you don't, I'll call you back when it's up, if you're still interested.

haunter · #67 03-29-2006, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

I quoted him, I don't know how it became a clickable link *shrugs*

Cool.

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

My job is to Moderate the forums, and to make sure the rules are enforced, and followed, and to make sure other moderators do the same.

So why are you editing rules as well? I don't see that in your list. Aside from that: I'm sure Unixmad wouldn't appreciate you sending dozens of users his way with a wave of, sometimes redundant/repeated, forum related questions. Wouldn't it make sense for you to weed through those first?

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

The rules have been modified for those who need it spelled out for them.

You'd be a terrible lawyer.

Darlene159 · #68 03-29-2006, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by haunter

So why are you editing rules as well? I don't see that in your list. Aside from that: I'm sure Unixmad wouldn't appreciate you sending dozens of users his way with a wave of, sometimes redundant/repeated, forum related questions. Wouldn't it make sense for you to weed through those first?

So members understand the rule?

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You'd be a terrible lawyer.

Good thing I'm not a lawyer, nor need to be to work here, huh?

haunter · #69 03-29-2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

So members understand the rule?

They understood it. You just changed it's meaning. But my point was that 'editing rules' wasn't in your job description.

Benm00t · #70 03-29-2006, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

The rules have been modified for those who need it spelled out for them.
I'm not really hip to the whole internet url/link language. Saying No URL's to other sites other than Graal related sites should sum it up?

An HTTP URL follows the pattern http[s]://host:port/path?query#anchor. According to the current rule, we get to paraphrase URLs. For example, "via your web browser you can open a connection to forums.graalonline.com (tcp port 80, but you know that), to send a request /forums/forumdisplay.php, passing forumid=84 as a query!" is no URL at all. Pretending it was not Graal related, it would still be technically allowed on the forum. Hell, we could even come up with a pseudo-format like path?query#anchor@host:port and it would be legal according to the rules.

What you probably want to say is "You are not allowed to refer to the internet apart from Graal".

Crono · #71 03-29-2006, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Darlene159

Good thing I'm not a lawyer, nor need to be to work here, huh?

If only...

And just a side note, I can't find my post. Who deleted it and took off the "soandso's message was deleted for soandsobadreason"

zell12 · #72 03-30-2006, 01:47 PM

Everyone needs to chill out. Give the staff some time to open the private forums, add new moderators, etc. Almost all of your questions have also been answered by moonie about 5 times and people still are complaining about the links and stuff...

You can post external links in the NGR forum when it is private. While you're waiting for that, I'm sure it will not kill you not to post any links that are NGR.

Have fun newbies.