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Nah.

Remember Rule #1: The Doctor lies.

The silver ice in his heart could easily refer to everything he's done (remember Journey's End: "The Doctor, always running, never looks back because he dares not out of shame." or "I'm not innocent, Wilfred, I've taken lives. Worse, I got clever, I manipulated others into taking their own." from The End of Time) or even the comments from "The Impossible Astronaut" when 900-year-old Eleven walks in after the others have seen the older Eleven be killed and River says "That's cold, even for you"

If you're thinking of the Valeyard, technically that was distilled from the evil in his heart(s) from somewhere between the 12th and Final regenerations. And certainly there have been hints of that in recent times (the Dream Lord in particular)

There are certainly issues with respect to it being marked read upon editing.

As far as being marked read just after you posted it, I would wonder if there isn't some kind of blocking on the log_topics table.

I've deliberately given it a few days to calm down somewhat. You'll notice that here was the only place I avoided over the last few days. I even released a mod on sm.org inspired by my commits to Wedge (and including a possible new minor enhancement depending on how well it works out), a clue to some people that I was *really* pissed off. Getting vocal about it a few days ago wouldn't have helped with anything, though.

What upset me? Well, let's see.

* Criticising me for missing a comma in the CSS files and being snarky that I didn't catch it at commit time when you've done similar and worse things in the past. Almost like you'd committed stuff without even testing it once first.

* Overbearing sense of optimisation - after I'm done with the warning system, if I have any sanity left, I won't be touching any of the CSS files again, I'll just ask you to add the styles required and you can worry about optimising them. As for anything else, I actively don't like adding things to any page that isn't buried away any more for the simple reason that you'll complain about the number of bytes I use. As a result, adding new features stopped being fun some time ago. For a while, pretty much everything I've added has been because I believe it's necessary for Wedge to be able to compete with other platforms, not because I'm enjoying the process.

As I suggested on the thoughts previously, if I'm going to spend x time writing it and you spend y time rewriting it, we might both save some time if you just spend something like (x+y)/2 time writing it correctly the first time.

In any case, premature optimisation is the devil's work for idle hands. The best example I have is the menu icons - they are pretty well optimised, and don't get me wrong, that's an achievement in itself. However, it doesn't matter that mods adding menu icons is a completely fucked up process that's entirely skin dependent (meaning mods just won't *bother*) and even when I've asked in the past about improving that, it's gone unnoticed.

I'm going to end up writing an entire menu management system so that plugins and users can implement their buttons, without having to juggle around the menu icons optimisation because they have no better method of doing it.[1]

* The hypocrisy that goes on around here. You complain that no-one answers your threads and provides opinions, you complain that I don't answer your questions - but that's *exactly* what happens with you and my threads. You even admitted it yourself that you're *pages* behind in some of the topics that are pretty important. You'd have noticed, if you'd read them, that with the features I'm trying to write, I'm having trouble doing it, not on a technical basis but where it's actively screwing me up, and then you start criticising me for what I did manage to commit, which was specifically done for YOUR benefit, not mine.

All you've managed to do is make me feel like my commits are perpetually substandard, and that I shouldn't ever commit anything again unless it's a completed feature, fully tested, over optimised and so on, without any WIP or partial bits like I've done in the past. I also have the strong feeling that I should just commit what I feel like without really asking opinions on it any more and assume that I always know best.


@agent47, sorry, yes, I am that petty. Being petty is part of what generally makes a good programmer, because it makes us worry about the details.

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The act of adding a single line of CSS manually is irritating enough, but hands up who remembers Weglas? It was a skin I did based on Bloc's BlueLight theme. The menu changes I made would *break* every time with buttons that weren't part of the main skin declaration. Which was any plugin that added any button to the menu. Even when I cleared the cache after the plugin was installed.

Well, there's extra files whose positions go into the usual places, the rest is a fat diff that describes the changes between current SVN and what I have locally with all the integration. It shows *part* of the tangled mess.

Because I'm a bit fed up of some of the comments going on, here's why I'm going out of my skull trying to cope with all of what's going on.

This is only part of it, too. There's still part of the ACP for creating infractions, the actual issuing of infractions, a scheduled task, various other stuff.

This is why I'm having trouble being nice to people or indeed concentrate on anything. I swear I'm going to end up having a breakdown when this is done.

Wait until you see what I'm cooking up right now ;)Full warning history is already there, as is IP tracking, profile edit tracking etc. Seems to me that all a user's posts that got reported would be an ideal extra for there.


:edit: Added picture. There's no prefs menu because there's no need for an entire extra page for it ;)

So I started work on this today and that's also behind the last thought I added - I finally added a facility to *properly* set the items you're displaying in the board index (for posts/topics or redirections), so that I can also have open reports, or for WedgeDesk, there's the option for things like the number of open tickets. It's also firmly customisable in terms of numbers, so even crazy things like SD's tracker used to have, it would be possible to inject that too (e.g. 'Bugs', 'Features', 'Enhancements' as numbers)

I have the first part of this side of it done, with the reported board and its attendant counts, though I haven't yet got it to fetch the last open report. I'd show you a screenshot but it looks nearly the same as the above screenshot >_<

I'm still not really sure what to do with the moderation centre as a whole. I mean... I looked at the preferences bit again and I see no reason to futz with that at all, just show users everything they can see and be done with it. But I don't really know what to do with the front page anyway.

I do know that I want to get more filtering options in there, e.g. be able to see all the reports a single user's posts have accrued (so if you have a problem user, you can say 'he had all these reported posts') as well as moderation items perhaps relating to that user's posts and topics. I don't entirely know where to go with this yet - but I get the feeling I'd rather put it in the profile area for a given user.