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Following my advice has very little to do with whether you read this thread or not - and more to do with the fact that my own personal opinion is that saying that the rules change about banning and permanent banning will mean everyone now has a measure of how dickish they can be and still be “not as dickish as Drew” is neither correct nor helpful.
Like I said earlier - only those who run this forum and put the graft in should be able to determine who retains the right to post here or not. Comparisons don’t help. Similarly I’m a firm believer in judging every poster on their current activity, their current input, and how they act going forward.
Ive spent way too much time (and money) on here I guess, but it remains my no.1 internet ‘home’.
I love to see, hear and joust with some of the characters on here; some are knobs and narcissistic in every way, others pretend they have great knowledge, still others add so much wisdom.
But they are all characters and, in a uniform world, where we try to globalise everything, those such characters are warmly welcomed in my book.
Welcome back Drew.
Good luck Lee.
Im here to help in any way possible
So yes - if people are willing to have 12 months where they can't post or contribute in any way, and then roll the dice as to whether they've upset the modmins enough that they don't get to come back, they can be as dickish as they like.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
The code will be publicly available, and - in theory - well-documented with comments so that anybody who has a vague understanding of Rails (which isn't that hard) can just pick it up and run with it. That's another advantage of this - Vanilla (and most of the other forums out there) uses its own home-grown framework which (inexplicably) they seem to have thought would grow up and have uses outside of the main codebase, whereas this will use a well-documented, incredibly popular one. I probably won't need to use any esoteric metaprogramming, so I'd estimate that if the torch was wrenched out of my hands by a vertically-incoming piano, it'd take somebody who's already got programming knowledge about two or three days to get to grips with the whole thing.
As for server access... @monquixote has the credentials for the server (although he's probably forgotten that he has them by now...), so that's an unofficial solution to the bus problem. Anybody who has direct access to the database will trivially be able to upgrade an account to admin, so that's easy enough too. That's been true since the beginning, and will be true with the new solution too.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
I'm sure it'll work out for you too fella. Good luck!