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Quoting Larchy
Ooo bit of a fuckup there! sorry m8, should be able to edit topics ok now, I messed up with the permissions for normal users.
That's alright, I wasn't blaming you, I am blaming the Snarkpit Trolls. One or more of the members has been feeding the trolls, do not feed the trolls!
Quoting Larchy
What happened when your post didn't 'go through'? Did it timeout? The database seems to be pretty slow again :/
No timeout or anything, it just for some reason post the whole post, at first I thought there was some sort of word limit bug where if you exceed this (non existent) word limit your post doesn't all go through. Must be the trolls again.
Quoting Flynn
Quoting aaron_da_killa
Luckily I pasted most of the thread in notepad before I posted.
Heck I thought I was the only one who does that
I have had a few incidents where I have lost entire huge posts of mine I have written and edited with BB code and such, mainly my fault such as accidentally navigating to the previous page and losing the post or closing the window 
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Quoting Riven
My thoughts: Well, for discussion's sake: Members can already post a link to their website that shows on their profile page. So, the form for it is already there.
I don't know if you mean that the idea of putting members websites on the links page is a bad idea because they are already shown in their respective profiles or if you think there is no need to post requests for member websites to be put on the links page because all the links are in the profiles and they can be collected there.
Either way, I have something to say. There is no real disadvantage to having member websites on the links page, it is below the other links (in another category) so it is not cluttering or crowding the existing links, and its something that I'm sure a fair few people are interested in (looking at other peoples websites). Not to mention its giving the owners of the websites more hits and giving more reasons for people to visit the links page! There is an extra reason for every new link!
As for going through the data base and shoving all the member websites up there, thats a bad idea. Alot of those websites would be obsolete or broken now and they may not want their website to appear on the links page (for whatever strange reason), not to mention the tedious work it would be.
Quoting Riven
However, if we do go about doing this, I would want a way to monitor that. Someone could easily upload links to porno sites.
Yes, I considered this aswell, but not for that reason :dodgy:. Its unlikely that one of our members will suddenly add a whole bunch of links to various porn websites, but I was thinking more of monitoring incase if they get removed from the server or whatever, the last thing we need is a bunch of broken links.
Quoting Riven
I think it should be an option to choose to add our links to the link page, and we could also write a short (50-100 character limit) description next to it. (the description would only appear on the links page and not on the profile page).
Yes, I thought about this aswell. A description or just a simile array of categories to choose from like "Blog", "Portfolio (maps, tutorials etc)", "Personnal website", "Community" etc.
Quoting Riven
Quoting aaron_da_killa
And we can even go further and suggest free file/image/web hosting
-We do; they're called 'pits'.
Yes but I'm sure Gwil isn't prepared to hand out pits to everyone, and I wouldn't want peoples pits to munch up all the server space. I was thinking like, ImageShack, FileFront, stuff like that.
Quoting Gwil
You shall be placed in the stocks at noon tomorrow!
Oh no, he's a goner.
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I'd do it now but im slightly concerned about the tight feeling i've had in my chest all day.. cigarettes, drugs and alcohol finally catching up!
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