the hash is back in town
posted by max on May 17, 2006 at 05:10:20 PM
No, not from Mexico. The beloved "# !" combo on the site template is now available in your user options.
I've made some changes to the pop bar on sites, nothing major but hopefully a little better looking.
I'm working on some pretty neat stuff to clean up YTMND a bit, if you are interested, read more.
First off, I'm working on a pretty thorough dupe account checker. It's already caught quite a few members. I've decided to change the dupe account policy. If you have 1 extra account I will most likely do nothing. If you have more than 2, a few things will happen. You will be posted to the new "wall of shame", this includes your email address, and your password will be reset and posted as well. Anyone can log in to your account and do whatever they want (except change the password). Your username will be pink everywhere it is posted on the site. Ultimately, 48 hours later, all of your accounts will be deleted. I may leave the option of keeping a single account, but with all of the vandalization that will most likely occur, it probably wont be worth it.
Next I'm working on some features to keep people from voting on sites before they have seen them. It will make it a lot harder to down-vote or up-vote all of a users sites or the front page. I may be able to remove votes made in this way from the past but I can't tell yet.
On another note, please stop taking this site so seriously. I know it can get competitive at times, but you guys seriously need to chill on the hate.
I've made some changes to the pop bar on sites, nothing major but hopefully a little better looking.
I'm working on some pretty neat stuff to clean up YTMND a bit, if you are interested, read more.
First off, I'm working on a pretty thorough dupe account checker. It's already caught quite a few members. I've decided to change the dupe account policy. If you have 1 extra account I will most likely do nothing. If you have more than 2, a few things will happen. You will be posted to the new "wall of shame", this includes your email address, and your password will be reset and posted as well. Anyone can log in to your account and do whatever they want (except change the password). Your username will be pink everywhere it is posted on the site. Ultimately, 48 hours later, all of your accounts will be deleted. I may leave the option of keeping a single account, but with all of the vandalization that will most likely occur, it probably wont be worth it.
Next I'm working on some features to keep people from voting on sites before they have seen them. It will make it a lot harder to down-vote or up-vote all of a users sites or the front page. I may be able to remove votes made in this way from the past but I can't tell yet.
On another note, please stop taking this site so seriously. I know it can get competitive at times, but you guys seriously need to chill on the hate.
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the wall of shame is just screaming 'bad idea'. Everyone can get access to these accounts, even other downvoters. All your doing is giving them even MORE accounts to downvote with. They don't even have to create accounts, there will be so many just freely available through the wall of shame. Plus, if there's a site that someone REALLY doesn't like, they could log into all of them and downvote it.
"Plus, if there's a site that someone REALLY doesn't like, they could log into all of
them and downvote it." That is why the account gets deleted after 2 days, and those votes get deleted, hence nothing bad. (also, max could just disable voting with those accounts) Are you people retarded or something? Learn to read.
Max.. I think what you're doing is a great idea, but legally I don't think I'd release people's passwords and e-mail. Alot of people use their same password for e-mail as they would here, so that's leading towards a world of hurt. Maybe, say, revert it to some default password instead!! Same result, less problems.
Also, since you seem too lazy to fix the utterly broken Top 15 Viewed system, at least up the rating threshold to something more reasonable like 3.5 instead of the current 2.4. When less than a third of all voting YTMNDers don't enjoy a site, I think it's fair to say it does not deserve to be seen by thousands of people each day.
IMO the Wall of Shame is not in the least extreme. People are ruining the site for us non-cheaters by making accounts to vote things so that some get more representation than others. The Wall of Shame will highly discourage this. Afterall, those multi-account kiddies don't want their Runescape accounts in danger.
Max, there's a glitch with the "Top5" page. It's stuck on an update from yesterday. It's alternating between 2 old updates. ( You'll notice "Vocabulary..." stuck at 5 stars, and "Xenosaga I: Last Battle" with a similar high score.) It's still showing 0 views for sites made yesterday, and the Ronald/McFly & Mickey sites are nowhere to be seen. Look at it & see what I mean.
i have a good idea aswell, why not delete all the crap stites that go against the "Expect your site to be deleted if it lacks humor and includes any of the following: anime, extreme racism, hardcore pornography, anything illegal, pictures of your friends, inside jokes, etc" rule. that would definatly make the servers faster.
Max, before you go ahead with the user name and password reveal, you should be careful about laws concerning Phising and exposing passwords for user names and handles. You could be held liable for people using their same handles and passwords for emails, and paypals, and bank accounts...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
1) Corevirus, the #! is optional now. 2) Maybe you should only be allowed to vote if you leave a comment; that'll at least stop aninymous downvoting. 3) I had no idea that being too SERIOUS on YTMND was ever a problem. 4) You can make two good YTMND's in less than 15 minutes, if you have the images and soundfiles prepared in advance. 5) Onion donuts FTW
BTW, might want to take your privacy policy into account as well (even though as of now it doesn't work). "We do not share your information with other companies and will never send you an unsolicited email after the confirmation.
This is purely for confirmation purposes. For more information, see our privacy policy."