Saturday, April 25, 2009

Dear Admins, Some Help Please?

So DC just PMed me, saying that posts made via the “quick save” feature were invisible (which was odd, since I am not an admin, and he is). I checked it out, and they are invisible from the main page (though they ARE visible from the archives). So is there a way to remove the quick save function?

Example: http://blognomic.com/archive/this_post_is_invisible

posted by Wakukee at 25 Apr 2009 16:20:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Wakukee:

25-04-2009 16:28:49 UTC

Wait, What? Nevermind…

...Darn it DC!

Kevan: he/him

25-04-2009 17:34:58 UTC

This is just a “save this but don’t publish it yet, I haven’t finished writing it” blog feature. I can’t imagine there’s an option to turn it off, and abuse of it would already be covered by Rule 3.6.

Klisz:

27-04-2009 00:30:46 UTC

I don’t see how 3.6 makes it illegal.

Kevan: he/him

27-04-2009 18:38:13 UTC

Abuse of it would be illegal. (“A Scripter should not deliberately exploit bugs or unexpected behaviours in the software running the game.”)

Kevan: he/him

27-04-2009 20:04:09 UTC

And messing around with secret-message blog-post URLs is still slightly annoying for anyone using this plugin, Wakukee.

Klisz:

27-04-2009 21:52:09 UTC

It’s not a bug or an unexpected behavior.

Kevan: he/him

27-04-2009 22:35:56 UTC

Feel free to suggest a clearer adjective to use there, but Wakukee seemed surprised by it. We would shoot down a scam that hinged on a blog post being saved but unpublished, if most players were unaware that such a state existed.

(Did Wakukee find the invisible post feature “odd”, or the fact that Darth decided to send him a private message about it?)