advertising sites

...wait, so there actually IS an FAQ?

Completely re-written to fit EoFF, too. :up: to Unne.

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Originally Posted by Loony BoB

I put about as much trust in users to read the FAQ as I do for users to not post porn. In other words, even if they are forced to read the FAQ, I highly doubt they'll give a crap. They'll post their ads and porn anyway. You think these people are here to stick around? You're misled.

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so make members have to have their links authorized by a knight or admin for a cirtain period at the beginning of their time here, then u wont get any advertising or porn or crap

We -- or at least I -- don't really mind closing those threads and banning those people.

This counts as an advertisement! ZOMG

Also, how much code would it take to rework the url button so that it says no advertising? It's probably more than I would wanna do, so I don't blame you. BAN BAN BAN!

the point was that if u dont allow it why not just prevent it, or it could b deleted after closed, but i was told that things arent deleted for archiving purposes but why would a thread of advertising or porn be archived?

They're not archived. Threads that contain porn are moved into a subforum within the Staff forum. We do this to preserve the IP and contents of the post. It's not possible to prevent any of this. The best we can do is deal with it once it happens.

Just you wait!

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Originally Posted by Karl

the point was that if u dont allow it why not just prevent it, or it could b deleted after closed, but i was told that things arent deleted for archiving purposes but why would a thread of advertising or porn be archived?

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How can you make it so that one person can't link to a site, but another person can link to another site? There's more work involved in preventing it than just in editting/closing a thread.