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****Other:general is not the only category****
****Beware of genetic modification****
****There is a help file on the left, under meta****
The main box could contain the latest item of hb related news, so as to avoid winding up none-newbies.
It would go away as soon
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as long as principally these messages were sarcastic or funny (like tag lines) I'm not un in favour, although I think all it would do is make it even more obvious when the trolls came to visit. |
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Just change the default category to Home: Child Control. Might be a tad humorous. |
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This would require Javascript. Get thee behind me, Satan. |
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This gets stale very quickly. I wrote a defect-tracking system, and amended it so that two users who had poor command of grammar would get random messages popping up sometimes, things like "Speak English, man" or "Can you really understand this?" Great laugh, for about 15 minutes. |
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waugs: not so, not that that makes it a good idea.
PS: my favorite user-specific feature involving randomly jiggling the application window 1-3 pixels every now and again. That one lasted all week and still makes me smile, even though the target died 9/11. |
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Not so what? That it would require Javascript? Well I suppose you could do it with an embedded Java applet or a Flash doohickey. Yes, there are other ways, all of which suck even worse than Javascript. |
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The main point is that it gives ideas one last chance to avoid ending up in other general. If you all think its not worth it than thats fair enough. |
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Waugs: plain old HTML gives you default values. |
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You missed the bit where he wants the text to "go away as soon as you started to type". HTML can't do that. |
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Ok then, I'd be willing to settle for not going away if necessary. Although it could occasionaly leave really ironic ideas where the title is still 'please <edit>don't</edit> put me in other general'. |
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If the text didn't go away, then you'd have a problem of people forgetting to remove it before they submitted their ideas, perhaps not noticing it was there. Then every message would have the default text at the bottom. ****There is a help file on the left, under meta**** |
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Maybe we should include a few of these helpful hints into the taglines? |
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[waugs] - maybe we should try it?
****There is a help file on the left, under meta**** |
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//every message would have the default text at the bottom//
The cgi script on the server could strip that out. |
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