okay, so while this may have caused a few problems for people who have logged into @A Crow without realizing the account was banned (i tried to post some more nazi punch remixes and can no longer now use kintsugi on firefox on laptop, for instance), i'm getting one good idea while this disaster in progress continues this actually provides us with a really interesting potential feature: we now have a way for people to ban themselves, which i feel has the potential to be a lot more useful than the current ban/unban request thread system. proposal: people who feel they need to be banned from the forums can have an account they can log into to ban themselves, that they can requested be temporarily unbanned once they are ready to log back in to their main account. ideally, this would be a subaccount for most ease of access, minimizing the time between someone wanting to be banned and the ban occurring. this can help someone allow themselves less opportunity for harmful impulsive behaviors
wouldn't that provide a (admittedly short) window for other people to log out at the same time if everyone uses the same banned sub?
well, it doesn't necessarily have to be a universal banned sub, and the assumption is that if you log into it, you're probably not going to be checking kintsugi to know when it's unbanned unless you have eaten your cookies, in which case, you've already completely evaded the ban
i tried to post a link in a post and...somehow broke both the post and the editing window? the post was entirely a link, using the url= code, with the url being http://www.wbur.org/npr/518230414/first-clouded-leopard-cub-born-using-cryopreserved-semen and the text for the url title thing being something like "A clouded leopard cub has been born in captivity from artificial insemination for the first time!" but worded better. when it posted, the post was totally blank. i figured i'd typoed the code and went to edit it, but the edit window was also totally blank and the text pointer thingy was way too high up the box.
it's never done this before no matter what i did. the only glitches i've gotten before are alerts sometimes not loading on pages that have been open and unrefreshed for days, and slow internet making the alerts box not work.
I have a question and I don't know if it's come up before, but you know how when you click the name of a person and it pops up that little box which shows their name, title, most recent status, and links to their profile page? Would it be possible and/or inoffensive to have that box also provide whatever they entered in the Gender Identity field? There are a lot of people who hide their profiles for safety's sake and it takes time to load up a profile page and see if that field is filled, more time than a quick click. I feel like this would help with informing people on proper pronoun usage at a glance without having to load up another page they may or may not have access to.
That's one possible way to be informative, but we have a box meant to do that too. I'd like to see it get more use.
I think the forum has a hook for the built-in gender thing to appear in the user info box next to a post, but it can't do that for other fields without a lot more work. If memory serves, I specifically turned that off because I do not like the way subtle sexism infiltrates forum interactions.
flashback to that one French otherkin forum which displays a huge icon for the built-in gender which you can't change and is mandatory when making your account
okay so my new idea is: what if i made the WORST mental health recovery forum starting with "there are only two gender choices, it's mandatory, it can't be changed, and we display large animated genitalia on your posts"
Okay, but the only thing here that they didn't do was the icon being genitalia. Sadly(????), I wanted to get some screenshots but they seem to have removed the icon. That or it's members-only.
now you can confuse your friends and family with your icon and the gender field! it might not be a thing you ever want to do or expected someone to find, but look: it is possible!
The thing about trying to run the WORST forum is: You're gonna have to be creative and work hard, because the field is really fucking competitive.
That's really not what I was suggesting and this post makes me uncomfortable for some reason - like, I can't shake this feeling that it's directed at my idea. I might be parsing poorly because I'm depressed right now. The gender identity field has never been mandatory on this forum, at least not the one we're meant to use that isn't built into Xenforo. I didn't want to insinuate anything like that.
