Whaddya know, the superscript and subscript were pretty easy, only issue is that by default the sub/sup tags are disabled.
Wait... Should I be seeing another button for sub/superscript? Because I'm not...(I hit alllll the buttons) or is it a keyboard short cut or something??
Yeah, I don't think I can add buttons, but there's a thing to let me make my own bbcode entries for some simple stuff.
Deleting creates... issues. Like, the database has things like "who started this thread" and so on. So I've been inclined not to have a delete option, but to let people stop posting if they want. Or make sub-accounts for posting stuff and then stop using them. I'm trying to sort of find a middle ground between letting people bail out and keeping the forums from getting confusing and losing data. I am very fussy about losing data.
I frankly do not feel safe having anything I shared be on this forum anymore or taking part in any of the topics.
Can you tell me what happened so I can maybe do something about this? I am really confused. I can look into whether there's a way to hide your stuff, I guess?
@Kijikun you can also delete posts you made and threads you started, though I understand why that might be too daunting a task. Stay safe <3
I'm gonna look into a thing, which may involve temp-banning @Kijikun, please understand she's done nothing wrong, I just want to see if I can make the system fix a thing.
@seebs could also change their name to ******* to "delete" their identity or the like too, maybe? @wixbloom: you can't delete started threads, due to forum workings, I think, but you could edit the original post to be blank
Yeah. I just wanna see if there's some kind of "don't display this user's posts" feature I could use.
@seebs Could you hypothetically add a "people who can see my posts" toggle to the privacy settings page? Like "members and visitors" "members only" "nobody"?
It might be sort of sensible, but it can't really be enforced usefully, in general. I am inclined to leave it as a guideline, which I think it sort of is already.
Would it be worthwhile to add a robots.txt file, so things won't show up on Google? For the non-technically inclined, robots.txt files are how you tell Google/Bing/all the reputable search engines "hey, don't add this to your results". It can be done for a whole website, or just for part of it. It doesn't prevent actual humans from accessing pages, it's just a message for the robots that maintain search engines. Search engines are not required to obey robots.txt, but the reputable ones do. Not sure how folks feel about that; I'm not strongly invested, but thought it might be worth asking. Pros: Reduces chance that "outsiders" will stumble across the forum accidentally - e.g., someone googling a Tumblr url. Slightly more privacy for users. Cons: Added privacy may increase risk that the forum will become an echo chamber. Users would need to rely on the (probably less effective) website's search to find messages/conversations.
I'm not sure what I think is the right move wrt bots, but I do feel that it's worth thinking about, I guess? I think we're probably okay, but I also don't really have anything to lose if someone discovers I'm here.
