User Controls
Auto-Embeds
-
2017-06-22 at 3:51 PM UTCCan we have this back, Lanny?
I can't remember who abused it but if it was bling I'll ask him to not do it again. -
2017-06-22 at 4:36 PM UTCThere's no good way to do it for technical reasons. The counting logic needs to stay, you can lock up people's browsers with too many embeds on a page and I know it's going to be abused as soon as I remove it, and auto embedding interferes with the counting. I'd need to rewrite substantive parts of the BBC parser to make it work correctly.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2017-06-22 at 4:51 PM UTCWhat if I murder the people who abuse it?
It was such a great fucking time to be alive back then. -
2017-06-22 at 5 PM UTCLanny, as massive of a gay jedi as he is, is a sensible computerlad
-
2017-06-22 at 5:02 PM UTCmassive gay jedi pride
fuck the police -
2017-06-22 at 5:07 PM UTCHow long will it take me to understand what a BBC parser is and how to fix this?
-
2017-06-22 at 5:12 PM UTCCouple months of daily study maybe? People have spent their careers studying varieties of parsers but BBCode is one of the simpler cases you'll run into, it's just the interaction of the auto-linker and the parser makes it tricky.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
-
2017-06-22 at 6:24 PM UTCI'll code it this afternoon. You're welcome.
-
2017-06-22 at 11:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny People have spent their careers studying varieties of parsers
Oh my god, that sounds like a living hell. Well, I was already aware that the vast majority of researchers and people in academia end up like this.
Still, why would someone do that to themselves? This would require a god-tier level of functional a.utism to dedicate so much of your life and effort to such a specific subject, and actually enjoy it. I really doubt these people are particularly happy, even if they are literally on the spectrum. -
2017-06-23 at 6:57 PM UTCDeleted a bunch of posts. This is H&S so let's try and keep it at least tangentially near the topic, which calling each other whores is not.
-
2017-06-23 at 7:03 PM UTCFlood control?
-
2017-06-23 at 7:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by Malice Oh my god, that sounds like a living hell. Well, I was already aware that the vast majority of researchers and people in academia end up like this.
Still, why would someone do that to themselves? This would require a god-tier level of functional a.utism to dedicate so much of your life and effort to such a specific subject, and actually enjoy it. I really doubt these people are particularly happy, even if they are literally on the spectrum.
Ah, 'tis but ignorance speaking. Parsers are a really interesting subject, one of the most interesting in CS in my opinion. The ideas that support the formal study of parsers are fundamental to the field, some of the most interesting implications not only in CS but also mathematics generally are intimately linked to parsers. You can trace the ideas there to number theory, linguistics, philosophy and psychology. Which is not to say everyone who ever wrote a parser is some kind of brilliant renaissance man, if we're talking about turning BBCode into HTML then yeah, you could probably do that without any deep understanding of the underlying concepts but people who do active research in the field aren't doing that. -
2017-06-23 at 7:15 PM UTC
-
2017-06-23 at 7:17 PM UTCIt stops people from crashing shit in 5 seconds with the same video.
-
2017-06-23 at 7:32 PM UTCYou can use the same video over and over in one post, flood control prevents multiple posts with duplicate content, not single posts with repetitive content
-
2017-06-23 at 8:25 PM UTCThat's true. Fuck.
