STICKY November 14 2009, 00:07:40 #1 [Y/N 4 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N -3 T] [@]
Welcome to m.essag.es!
This is a user-moderated fully anonymous bulletin board.
Remember: + spam or + troll if you think a post _IS_ spam or trolling, minus if not.
MNB (the software running this board) does not allow any formatting code (HTML, BBcode, etc) - it will be escaped and displayed as entered. MNB does not automatically convert or mangle links. MNB does not allow editing of posts. If you want to correct your post, post again.
MNB allows the following moderation options:
* You may moderate plus or minus on these three categories: agree, spam, troll
* You may moderate posts once in each category
* You may not change your moderation on a post in any category
* You may not moderate your own posts, if you are recognized as the same user
Current configuration will allow you to filter troll and spam posts if they are moderated as such to +2 or higher. You must click the "Hide Spam" or "Hide Trolls" links in order to use this feature. This will be adjusted as necessary. Remember that you can always see all posts.
Anticipated questions:
Q: Is there a login or moderator control panel?
A: No. There are no administrative capabilities. Posts can only be deleted or made sticky via direct access to MySQL.
Q: Why?
A: Anonymous communication is vitally important in keeping the internet relevant to political and societal change, especially as government interference and regulation grows.
Q: Will you delete offensive posts?
A: No. As noted, there is no easy way to delete posts; it must be done from MySQL and I'm lazy. The only reason I can see for deleting posts would be if there were a spam bot attack.
Q: What's to stop spammers?
A: Nothing, but this site is set not to be indexed, and you can't link to anything automatically, so the payout of such an effort should be nil. Should usage grow, some throttling capabilities may be added.
Q: Can I have the source code?
A: Code should be public some time in 2010.
Feel free to post questions on this thread and I will try to respond.
Replies: 55
Saged 5 times
November 14 2009, 00:37:10 #5 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Also, the server hosting this site does not store an access log.
November 14 2009, 10:19:29 #8 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
This forum also works very well from mobile web browsers. I'm posting this from my cell phone with the crappy OpenWave browser that comes with most phones.
November 15 2009, 17:46:16 #30 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Anonyminity for the win.
Also, it works fine in Lynx. Kickass. It should indent replies though.
November 15 2009, 18:05:59 #32 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Ratings can go negative; OP is −1 troll. Interesting.
November 16 2009, 00:11:46 #34 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
I would like a "quote" feature. Implement it the way that 4chan does.
November 16 2009, 00:28:06 #35 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Quote and reply are definitely on the list, I just need to figure out the best way to handle them. I think it will be @12345 for replies and *chan-style > quotes
November 16 2009, 13:19:37 #38 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Lol, some formatting is broken in IE, but who gives a poop.
November 16 2009, 14:19:27 #39 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
How the hell is formatting broken on IE? This is the simplest layout evar.
November 16 2009, 17:56:41 #43 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
How does bumping/thread sorting work?
November 16 2009, 18:05:04 #44 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
When you reply and do not sage, the latest post time of the OP is updated to your post's timestamp. When you sage, the latest post is not updated.
Sort order is: !ignored first, sticky first (by sticky value, 255-0), latest post newest first.
Also, I fixed some XHTML errors in the templates and should be passing validation now... I think that may fix IE.
November 16 2009, 23:36:08 #51 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
The reply box is broken in Firefox 3.5 on Windows 7.
The actual message box is bigger than the blue background that's supposed to contain it.
November 16 2009, 23:48:39 #52 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@51
I'm aware of the reply box bug... it affects quite a few browsers actually, but it's purely aesthetic so I've put off fixing it. :P Maybe I'll get to that tomorrow.
November 17 2009, 09:20:23 #54 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Note to self: decrease textarea cols="44" to fix in Chrome.
November 20 2009, 16:40:26 #145 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Browsing from an iPod touch right now,everything seems to work perfectly fine.
Also, obligatory sage in sticky.
November 20 2009, 23:24:37 #160 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
New feature! Replies (@nnn) are now clickable links and also: 4chan-style post highlighting so you can tell which post you've jumped to.
Next on the list: improve replies/quotes
November 21 2009, 06:30:28 #168 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@145 Why wouldn't it? Safari on iPod Touch = Safari on a Mac/PC normally. As far as HTML/CSS/Javascript rendering, I don't think they took out /anything/.
@160 hot. also, make URLs clickable and show previews if the URL is an image.
December 6 2009, 22:36:41 #533 [Y/N -1 Agree] [Y/N 1 S] [Y/N 1 T] [@]
Alright, there is now a reply feature, by clicking the @ sign in the post info area... adds the reply to the textbox, scrolls you down to the reply box.
And, images: (not sure if this will work) http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/45686689.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1260157965&Signature=Eti6WdkLdD8mY2dQ2Jpd94bjBMs%3D
December 6 2009, 22:38:28 #536 [Y/N 1 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@533 image didn't work... try this: http://i49.tinypic.com/qskpz7.jpg
December 6 2009, 23:32:39 #554 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@533
Make sure you also focus text input on the textarea: Textarea.focus()
December 6 2009, 23:38:57 #559 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@554 it should be but isn't working for me in FF3.5 on Ubuntu. Too lazy to test now.
December 8 2009, 17:14:38 #616 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@559 Focuses in Chrome for Linux but at the wrong place. Will investigate eventually.
SAGE December 12 2009, 22:52:39 #705 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
New features:
* Added sage count, statistical bump on saged threads
* Added post count to thread list (index)
Sage is now counted & recorded, as well as marked with a nice sage-green "SAGE" next to the post. The more a thread is saged, the higher the likelyhood is that a regular non-sage post will not bump the thread. This may or may not remain a feature, depending on whether it's used for good or evil.
Also I've saged in this post in order to show off the cool new sage marker.
December 22 2009, 08:09:45 #881 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
how come I can no longer post in an existing thread? (the Q & A thread) is it too long now?
December 22 2009, 10:12:21 #883 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@881 I was able to post... may have been a glitch. Does it work now?
December 22 2009, 10:23:56 #884 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
no -_-, I'm able to go as far down as @866
it wont go further than that and wont show any kind of comment box anyway.
Also I can see as far down the list as @882 from the front page... it just wont let me see the whole thread when I go IN it :/
December 22 2009, 14:17:50 #889 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@884 What browser are you using?
December 22 2009, 15:27:17 #890 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@884 Ah, I've fixed it. The page was running out of memory on the server because of how restrictive my settings were. I increased the memory limit and it seems to work fine now.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention!
December 22 2009, 15:31:35 #891 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@899
firefox in linux
@890
no problem, "Bravely complaining about things never complained about before!"
December 22 2009, 21:49:29 #905 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Couple minor changes today:
* Allowed search engines to index the site
* Style toggle, see the other thread about this
* Fixed the memory problem as per @890
* Disable page caching to make sure that your browser always grabs the current content of a thread etc
December 23 2009, 00:09:18 #906 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
And a few more:
* Unique anonymous identifiers are removed from posts after 6 hours
* Moderation records are deleted after 6 hours (this does not undo the moderation but removes the record of what unique anonymous identifier it came from)
* Posts that "fall off" the 5th page are archived away and cannot be bumped back... there will be an interface to view these threads soon, but there is not now. Nothing has been lost!
December 23 2009, 00:13:36 #908 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
>>* Allowed search engines to index the site
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
December 23 2009, 00:14:43 #909 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@908 What's wrong with that? It should bring traffic in eventually... hopefully.
December 23 2009, 04:13:39 #915 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
actually I agree with 908, now we'll be getting tons of stupid people and probably a lot of trolls/channers (probably 4channers asking for child porn) I'd prefer if this had stayed off the indexing and was essentially invitation only...
December 23 2009, 08:19:27 #916 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@915 I honestly don't think the influx is going to be that much... I've posted the URL to m.essag.es on 4chan a few times and it was ignored or ridiculed, which is fine. I think that the lack of images should keep away most of the /b/tards who are only interested in porn etc.
Of course, if it causes problems I'll consider disallowing search engines again, but because we have the moderation system and the ability to ignore threads I think we'll be fine.
December 23 2009, 09:45:23 #922 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Oh fuck, don't do that. We don't want their ilk on here.
December 30 2009, 22:04:44 #968 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Nothing new that affects the browsing experience, but I've instituted an automatic backup where the site including database (but not identifying hashes) is backed up nightly and then downloaded automatically to another host.
The plan, once we start growing, is to have a few volunteers start downloading the backups and hopefully even have a plan so that any one of them can host a copy of the site temporarily should there be a problem with my main hosting.
The significance of this isn't really visible at this point, but in the future my hope is to make it impossible to shut down or destroy the content of m.essag.es.
December 30 2009, 23:15:44 #971 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
I had a burst of motivation and went ahead and made the archived posts browsable. Click [Archive] in the nav bar and enjoy.
January 5 2010, 21:19:11 #994 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Added some simple captcha-type functionality when posting URLs or trying to post fail-links. Also tweaked the styles somewhat to hopefully counteract how horrible the site looked on Windows.
January 5 2010, 22:06:36 #996 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
The text (in Firefox) is much bigger than usual and/or a different font. Do not like.
January 5 2010, 22:12:52 #997 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@996 Firefox has text resizing, so probably the best solution would be to use ctrl-minus and ctrl-plus (PC) to adjust the font size to your liking. I may make the default font size smaller though.
January 10 2010, 12:09:41 #1029 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Encrypted threads are now available, thanks to Joshua Gross (joshisgross.com)!
More info: http://m.essag.es/?mode=thread&id=542 [link]
January 12 2010, 20:56:20 #1070 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Testing @OP reply feature.
- JG
January 14 2010, 20:27:21 #1086 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Made some improvements to the encrypted threads feature and upgraded to jQuery 1.4, which should make certain things slightly faster.
January 24 2010, 00:09:27 #1122 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
New about page: http://m.essag.es/index.php?mode=static&page=about [link] (linked in the footer)
February 3 2010, 09:32:53 #1238 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Moderation voting is temporarily broken.
February 3 2010, 23:38:24 #1257 [Y/N 2 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Moderation is fixed & we've changed to Y/N over +/- for moderation... the plus/minus system was confusing.
February 22 2010, 02:28:45 #1373 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Made some changes to combat botspam, details here: http://m.essag.es/t/1369 [link]
February 24 2010, 13:57:37 #1482 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
K, I'm not able to click to go to older pages. There isn't a link there anymore or something.
February 24 2010, 17:24:06 #1486 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
@1482 We only have 1 page of active threads right now. Click [Archive] in the header if you'd like to browse older topics.
Thanks for putting up with the growing pains lately, everybody!
February 26 2010, 21:14:41 #1515 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Yo, we should make this board r9k style.
February 28 2010, 04:05:18 #1523 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
r9k >threads< might be fun, but I feel like r9k'ing the entire forum is a difficult/fake idea.
February 28 2010, 09:50:00 #1525 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
I guess I'm not seeing the purpose since r9k already exists. I'd like to hear thoughts on why people think it would be cool.
March 1 2010, 17:33:54 #1540 [Y/N 0 Agree] [Y/N 0 S] [Y/N 0 T] [@]
Yeah r9k exists, but it is filled with 4channers. Also, I see how the idea would be difficult, but fake? The fuck is that supposed to mean?
