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John H
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 10:27
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Please remove logout links from your signature. You may think they are humorous, but they in fact, are not. Ive been recieving numerous complaints on AIM/MSN that too many people have them in their signature, and are getting in the way.

If you could remove them it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

RPGamer


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Ilya
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 10:29
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Well I don't have any in my sig or the web button...
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Eric T
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 10:31
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I belive he means in general, it is quite annoying.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 10:43
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RPGamer - give me a list of people who have it in their signature and I'll wipe their sig and lock them out from being able to change it to anything else.

Assuming they don't actually do what you ask of course.

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Neofish
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 10:53
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u just want the power rush dont you

i agree, the only links in ur sig should be nice and friendly

the only acceptable use of the logout link (i believe) is a message teaching people not to click links straight off and to find out where they go, showing what the contents of the link are. and that's not even that acceptable

Yes i know im a bastage but who cares?
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Eric T
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 10:58
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Another thing i don't like is the ability to use HTML in the source box. That could lead to viral attacks.

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Neofish
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 11:02 Edited at: 2nd Sep 2004 11:04
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*tests PHP in source box*

the code is thus so dont worry:


edit: didnt work as it is PHP but it is still dangerous

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Ilya
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 11:19 Edited at: 2nd Sep 2004 11:19
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This is PHP:
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>
Your getting confused with DarbBasic.

And now the test[EDIT: Doesn't work]:
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Neofish
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echo and print work, im not confused, look at my site, thats the only bit that uses print (the rest uses echo) so HA!

another thing that needs to be change on the forum is the green bar text thingy at the top, it should show the server time or the +/- to server time, its very annoying not knowing if it is old or not

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 11:24
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And when people come on here asking for help in a nice way STOP posting links to the logout for a response Why would you do that? It is indeed time to grow up. It is different if they are a-holes about it.

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Newbie Brogo
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People should just have a nice picture and maybe an innocent little 'ole link of your website in it. I believe the logout page is TGC's website? That means TGC only should link to it, which they do, at the top right of the page.

Lets look at mine for example.
It's so cute, and shows one of my favorite things, with no links involved.

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Dave J
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 16:02
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Quote: "another thing that needs to be change on the forum is the green bar text thingy at the top, it should show the server time or the +/- to server time, its very annoying not knowing if it is old or not"


Lol! It's the most recent post, of course it's going to be new.


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Powersoft
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i agree RPG



[testing html]


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Neofish
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 21:34
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yes but its very confusing, its not the latest latest thing and my browser keeps making mistakes all the time and i cant tell whioch is which (im set to server time shouldnt be, what the hell is CEST)

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 21:45
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Quote: "didnt work as it is PHP but it is still dangerous"


Only if its parsed, which it never will be. Equally HTML isn't parsed either. The text in the source code box is as dangerous as a soft cuddly toy. It cannot harm you unless you are dumb enough to specifically make it do so.

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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 22:01 Edited at: 2nd Sep 2004 22:02
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Test...

Rich, check the source box, there's an example of how it could be used maliciously by the wrong users.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 22:04
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I'm looking but just see some JS.

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 22:05
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testing JS in a code tag:



testing...

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Kentaree
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 22:21
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Uhm, ok...
Probably my bad, maybe it was the test version I made up

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spooky
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 22:36 Edited at: 2nd Sep 2004 22:37
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Looks like you have fixed the 'HTML in source code' bug. Can't find the original posts but a few people demonstrated javascript and flash movies emebededded in the source code box because you wasn't using the php commands to change < to html equivalent, etc. It does it now though, which is good.


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Kentaree
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Posted: 2nd Sep 2004 22:57
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While we're on the topic anyway, is there any way you could fix all the code tags for proper use in firefox?

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teh game wiz
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@spooky
i was one of the people, you could put html or javascript in. tried alsorts

anyway, i agree that log out links can be realy anoying

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Peter H
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2004 02:17
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i haven't seen any logout links in sigs lately...

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2004 22:14
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Quote: "i haven't seen any logout links in sigs lately..."


That'll be the code I added the other day that tells you what a plonker you are for having it in your sig (or just in the message in general) which stops them from posting.

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Van B
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Posted: 3rd Sep 2004 23:23
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Hehe, nice one Rich - your really giving these numpties some grief . Forums smell fresher already.


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