Aquavelvaman
Banned
I want a personal thread ban list. I want to blacklist threads and never see them again. I will pay $5 for such a feature.
EviLore said:Site staff doesn't have access to your PMs.
It's there to cover things like receiving PMs, or PMs being forwarded and then posted openly, etc.
I guess this isn't a bad place to reiterate my demands for animated sigs (<2MB of course).Aquavelvaman said:I want a personal thread ban list. I want to blacklist threads and never see them again. I will pay $5 for such a feature.
AstroLad said:I guess this isn't a bad place to reiterate my demands for animated sigs (<2MB of course).
So you don't trust neogaf mods and admits then? Let's not forget that not having this clause hasn't stopped a mod from giving private information out. Not to a company or anything like that, but still. This is a matter about how much you're willing to trust Neogaf Inc. and its operators, which, despite not meeting them or really knowing them, I do. I doubt they'll ever release PMs publicly. Unless you're planning on murdering someone through it. Or creating a massive pyramid scheme or running child porn rings or something.Urban Scholar said:Me? Nothing but banter as usual. I'm just saying I'd think PM investigation should be left to admins & mods. PM = private message after all. I just think if anything sour(or severe) goes down the info shared shouldn't be made public.
I think it's useful for threads you want to follow instead of scanning the page for them all the time. I saw this functionality on Fatwallet:EviLore said:Personal stickies? Hrm, someone would probably have to make a browser script for that, as it seems like a niche function.
Polls without forcing the use to provide reasoning are generally useless since they're subject to trolling the results.blame space said:bring back polls
Site staff doesn't have access to your PMs.
It's there to cover things like receiving PMs, or PMs being forwarded and then posted openly, etc.
Korey said:I think it's useful for threads you want to follow instead of scanning the page for them all the time. I saw this functionality on Fatwallet:
Anyways just a suggestion
Copernicus said:Can we get rep points back? I liked looking at the approval ratings that never changed.
jaxword said:Aren't rep points sort of...childish? Like, this person is more popular than that person, let's put a number on it so they can tell the world?
jaxword said:Aren't rep points sort of...childish? Like, this person is more popular than that person, let's put a number on it so they can tell the world?
I would argue the opposite.Angry Grimace said:Polls without forcing the use to provide reasoning are generally useless since they're subject to trolling the results.
Jintor said:Man, our Private Messages too? :T
Oh okay.
Well you'll probably be Anned from now on.Heavy said:any chance of giving the user "Heavy" a tag, preferably one that doesn't start with the letter B?
phisheep said:Let me just stick my oar in here briefly. Usual disclaimer - details vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so I'm just looking at common law and generally-recognised international copyright law.
Basically I'm not too fussed about this at all.
1) Your copyright
You have copyright in anything you post that is original to you (that includes original photos, text, photoshops etc). Licensing these to NeoGAF through the TOS does not take that away. So you have not lost any legal rights if somebody steals it in whole or in part.
2) Licence to NeoGAF
The revised TOS give NeoGAF a perpetual etc etc licence to republish etc etc blah blah. It does not mean that NeoGAF gets your copyright. It does mean that you can't sue for copyright breach either NeoGAF or anyone that NeoGAF lets use it.
The retrospectively applicable TOS looks a bit dodgy - but no more so than many others out there (and they haven't really been tested by the courts, so I am unsure of the impact). It looks a lot of words, but they are mostly in practice harmless except for two things.
First: there's a potential exposure if NeoGAF ever gets taken over by someone less scrupulously straightforward than EvilLore. I'd prefer if the licence were non-transferable rather than transferable, so that (a) we are protected in the event of a takeover (b) EvilLore gets an extra negotiating point to avoid a takeover if he wants to (c) nobody (e.g. Kotaku) will be able to argue they had a transferred licence and syndicate your post off to umpteen million other places.
Second: there's a potential issue if a copied post gives ground for action by a third party. For example, there are some posts on GAF (including some of mine) that are potentially libellous if taken out of the context of the whole thread. And you could end up on the wrong end of a libel case. I don't think that's dreadfully likely though, and in any event EvilLore is not stupid enough to licence such posts out anyway.
3) There's a way around it (there's ALWAYS a way around it)
NeoGAF can only claim to be able to licence the copyright of something that is original to the poster. If the poster doesn't have copyright in the material posted, then NeoGAF can't acquire any such rights by virtue of the TOS.
So, if you're really worried about this, write out your posts and have your wife post them on her account. They're not her copyright, so NeoGAF acquires no rights in them whatsoever.
If you don't have a wife - go get one.
Fry8 said:Wouldn't Personal stickies make Subscription useless?
hahaha, holy fucking shit.Funky Papa said:
TimedogTimedog said:Can Evilore steal all of my old stuff before the ToS change happened? I have some really innovative posts. Should I go back and edit every single post I've ever made on this forum??? I might.
New Kotaku feature: Ask Dr. Neogaf.Timedog said:Can Evilore steal all of my old stuff before the ToS change happened? I have some really innovative posts. Should I go back and edit every single post I've ever made on this forum??? I might.
Sorry man. You're now Timedog - A Wholly Owned Subsidiary of NeoGaf Corp.Timedog said:Can Evilore steal all of my old stuff before the ToS change happened? I have some really innovative posts. Should I go back and edit every single post I've ever made on this forum??? I might.
Jintor said:Cheers Phi.
Does 'authorised users' in this context mean 'users authorised to repost and republish content' or 'authorised users of the NeoGAF forums'? I'm leaning towards the latter.
we get search back in a few days?!?!?!?!!?!?EviLore said:I don't think the current version of the forum software supports that, actually, or I would have. When we update to the newer software in a few days, in order to get full search back and other features, I can go ahead and do that if it'll clarify things for people.
Londa said:I don't know, I guess I must be the only one who doesn't like a site letting a third party have access to an image I posted before the TOS was changed. I guess I'm crazy.
No, he's not. The only benefit we get is more traffic to the site, potentially.Tron 2.0 said:It's also none of my business, but is EvilLore being compensated for the new Kotaku article?
Londa said:I don't know, I guess I must be the only one who doesn't like a site letting a third party have access to an image I posted before the TOS was changed. I guess I'm crazy.
Londa said:I don't know, I guess I must be the only one who doesn't like a site letting a third party have access to an image I posted before the TOS was changed. I guess I'm crazy.
Jintor said:They don't even possess a licence to the image if I'm reading this correctly, only the URL of the images... I think... the wording is a bit confusing.
I don't actually understand how subscriptions work or why anyone would subscribe to a thread, isn't it an email thing? that doesn't help me in my day to day GAF browsingFry8 said:Wouldn't Personal stickies make Subscription useless?
Londa said:We will see when their Neogafartist's series pops up.
There is a script for this. I had it installed for a while a few years back. I don't remember much else though, sorry I can't provide more info.Aquavelvaman said:I want a personal thread ban list. I want to blacklist threads and never see them again. I will pay $5 for such a feature.
I own mine, too. ChetRippo is a total liar. And Nintendo. And Nickelodeon.Thunder Monkey said:I actually own this character. The monkey I mean.
Can't exactly win against google lawyers though.
Korey said:I don't actually understand how subscriptions work or why anyone would subscribe to a thread, isn't it an email thing? that doesn't help me in my day to day GAF browsing
Oh god yes!EviLore said:in order to get full search back and other features