Re: On Being Silenced

Having been witness to the quoted events, I really think you are reading far too much into this - At the time when all of this happened, you were chatting at a mile per minute and I think the problem which you experienced is more likely to be some sort of anti-flooding or caching issue rather than an active removal of chatterbox permissions.

Anyhow, the feature to remove a users' ability to use the chatterbox has existed for power users for quite some time - When this happens, the Nodereaper swallows them whole and the users reside in Borg's Belly for a period of 15 minutes (IIRC) before having chatterbox permissions restored.

By the way, you did get tye's permission to quote him in this post didn't you? Because quoting from the chatterbox without permission really isn't a done thing ... :-)

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Re: Re: On Being Silenced by mischief (Hermit) on Jun 29, 2002 at 09:13 UTC
You're probably right, I am reading far too much into this. It's the PHP getting to me. In my defence, I did think that there might be some automatic block in place, and looked around the site to try and find out if something like what you described might have happened. And no, I didn't get tye's permission to quote him, but isn't it acceptable to quote something that someone actually said? Maybe I should go back to lurking for another 6 months.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: On Being Silenced by Chady (Priest) on Jun 29, 2002 at 14:40 UTC
"isn't it acceptable to quote something that someone actually said?" I quoted you right after your post, so people reading it can see its context. But quoting really needs a context, because it can be dangerous. maybe tye was talking about a completely diffrent thing there, but quoting him in your context makes him trying to pull off something nasty here.. He who asks will be a fool for five minutes, but he who doesn't ask will remain a fool for life. Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: On Being Silenced by mischief (Hermit) on Jun 29, 2002 at 15:06 UTC
Did it really seem like that in my post? If so I apologise, but I honestly tried to make it clear what the situation was by saying "Nobody except me had said anything for a while, so it wasn't replying to anyone else"...	[reply]
Re: Re: On Being Silenced by theorbtwo (Prior) on Jun 29, 2002 at 23:03 UTC
Specificly, that didn't happen -- as already mentioned, I was around at the time. IIRC, tye was making some changes related to (other) forms at the time; it's possible that some mistake was made. (OTOH, things seemed to be working just fine for me at the time.) I'd look for a simpler explination then "tye shut me up". We are using here a powerful strategy of synthesis: wishful thinking. -- The Wizard Book	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: On Being Silenced by mischief (Hermit) on Jul 01, 2002 at 21:57 UTC
Oh, ok then. I actually favour the auto-removal of chatterbox functionality myself, it makes sense. Plus, to be honest, I'm not sure that tye would do something like that.	[reply]


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