I don't want to use spam tools to fight trolls. We can just argue with or ignore trolls like we always have. 

Func was down for about a day just now...this was due to SleepwalkR moving celephais.net to a new server. I have now updated the DNS and SleepwalkR fixed a configuration issue and it appears everything is back to normal. 

All good for me, DNS was down yesterday.

A few messages weren't marked as read but that was from the previous site. 

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have you considered using captcha for anonymous posts? Don't use it for register users, just anyone who posts without an account. I don't think there is much harm to free discussion and offers at least a little protection from spam 

i think we (moderators) are doing a pretty good job of flagging spam as it appears. The only thing that still bothers me is that spam posts are counted as "new posts" so you might visit a thread marked "new 1" and not find any legit new posts. And the other issue is that the spam posts are still displayed in the thread view isntead of completely hidden.

I don't want to fix the second problem without fixing the first (otherwise it would be really confusing to see "new 1" and then click and see zero posts.) 

can I be a mod again? 

HTH. 

Post title capitalization does not work when symbols are before characters, eg a quote. I'd vote for leaving titles alone in any case though. 

could someone please delete my recent posts in the general abuse thread? XD

sorry for that 

your inanities will be visible to others throughout the ages. 

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[16:10] <ShamblR> wtf is up with func?
[16:10] <ShamblR> i've cleared my cache and cookies and flushed dns
[16:10] <ShamblR> still same message
[16:11] <@Scampie> ShamblR: Daz was saying he still had it a few days ago
[16:11] <@Scampie> my dns was updated right off
[16:12] <ShamblR> weird
[16:12] <Daz_> func_ is fine for me atm, but occasionally it will go back to the "old" func
[16:12] <ShamblR> it updated on my laptop but not on my desktop
[16:13] <ShamblR> anything else i can do to refresh it? 

in case it wasn't clear, they get the message about servers moving and DNS 

for blambler maybe the hosts file? 

Can't offer an explanation, but something that might be worth testing: try using 8.8.8.8 as your DNS server (it's the google DNS) when it occurs, and see if that helps. 

I had the old ip in my local hosts file due to some ancient stuff up so other people might have done that too? 

might have been when the dns was busted the time before. i recall someone had said to just access the board with the ip address. 

:( 

I'm unable to access the full users list. The nofilter=1 thing seems broken in FF24. 

seems broken in chrome 30 as well 

weird, i'll check it out 

Sometime in recent history, "register_globals" was set to false in the server configuration. This is a good thing because it's more secure now, but the side effect is it broke some code on the people page. Code has been fixed. 

Thought so. The setting was changed when we moved to the new server.