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- I'm okay with adding a $context var next to $txt['copyright'] or whatever. :)
- I'm just not confident enough with plugin writing to even be able to do something as simple as hooking into that variable...

- Also, just wanted to say that locally, I'm finished with the install bugs. They're 100% fixed (hopefully), I even fixed a few bugs that weren't visible, and also fixed clean_cache() to work properly on sub-folders (I'm afraid it didn't cut it before then...)
I'm just left with committing the stuff... And it's quite a huge commit, intertwined with many CSS tweaks done over the week (or simply today, ah.) I'm actually tempted to just commit everything in a batch, rather than split files such as index.css which would need to be committed several times for thematic reasons... :-/

You're a March 21 too? :)
I don't know many people who were born on the same date! Except for the usual celebrities: Timothy Dalton, Matthew Broderick (the only winning move is not to play, eh!), Ayrton Senna, Gary Oldman and my personal favorite, Nobuo Uematsu.

Okay we definitely need to create an Aries gang and a Libra gang here..!

http://nao.noisen.com/3534/je-ne-sais-plus-qui-je-suis/
It's in French but it basically explains my situation: I was born about an hour before we 'officially' switched to the Aries sign, which makes me a Pisces. However, I only discovered that right before I wrote the blog post. Earlier, I was 'just' an Aries because I'm from the usual Aries date. I didn't know you had to take the *hour* into account when calculating your sign. Which usually isn't a problem except of course if you happen to be born on a transition day... Well, I'm from the first day of the zodiacal calendar, if you may say.

So, I lived all my life as an Aries, and I'm a 100% Aries, and none of my personality is even remotely close to that of a Pisces. I've known several Pisces and never got along well with them. (Believe me, I've lived with one for over 5 years...)
So yeah, ever since that day, I have absolutely no belief in zodiacal signs. My belief is rather that we are *conditioned* to see what our 'sign' is about, and then conform to it, or at least its main aspects.

Security.php is definitely the latest here.
topic_solved is the latest as well... At least out of what's on the svn!

Although I don't actually remember siliconsara offering me $100 for anything...?!Not really, from my experience... It depends if people feel that the 'price is right'. Some will have problems and won't even bother to tell us, even if we made them pay, because they'll assume it's their issue to fix, not ours (whether it's true or not). Others will think it's expensive (even if it's $5 or whatever) and expect us to install and configure everything for them. There's always going to be a wide range of people with different technical skills, different expectations and different behaviors.
Just don't reduce everyone to the smaller group of whiners, really most people are nice, probably even nicer than the 'free' crowd, because if they give you money, sometimes it's not only for the software, or the service, but because they just plain like you :)

And Aaron too, I love you guys! :eheh:

And happy birthday Aaron!

(There, a Libra again, what did I say!!)

I absolutely love the idea... Wish I had it first :lol:

There are two things to say about it.

- How things could go wrong:
(1) Wedge is known to offer this feature,
(2) Banned user may not be so stupid and might read about it,
(3) they may simply log off (if they're not also tracked by IP), or look for their topics through google, then explore the cached version (in which case IP tracking won't help at all), and they would then be able to see the guest version of their topic -- which doesn't have their posts.
(4) User might then choose to retaliate for the waste of time and/or to complain about the silent censorship.

- How this could be implemented:
* That's an even better opportunity to rename the 'approved' field to 'status', and have it set between several flags, such as 'unapproved' (has to go through approval), 'live' (normal post), 'ignored' (hellbanning), 'hidden' (user chose to temporarily hide their post through a button, which they can re-publish later)... Or even, although I wouldn't recommend it, 'scheduled', i.e. post won't be shown until the scheduled time is right. Of course I'd rather have a separate table for scheduled posts, because otherwise the post ID would give away that it's not a live post, you could even recover the original posting date by comparing with posts with similar IDs.
* At hellban time, give the moderator the choice between 'ignoring all existing posts' (e.g. spammers), or 'ignoring future posts' (i.e. do not change status for existing posts).
* User can view own posts normally. Moderators can view them but with a specific style around the post showing that it's globally ignored, and the Quote/Reply buttons should be disabled to prevent a moderator from accidentally quoting a post and then having others point out that the post was non-existent in the first place.

I think it's an interesting thing to explore, provided we find workarounds for the 'things that could go wrong' area...