SneakyDave

Made me chuckle GTB "I wonder when Paul will shut Admin-Hub and turn it into a Polish camping photograph site about breeding cats" It just... it just might work!

Copied from chat. Is he right? Wrong? Delusional? Admin forums will always be around, always have an allure to us types that have dreams of having great social communities of our favorite subjects. Unfortunately, the new age of internet users aren't looking for this type of social experience. They want a place where you log into a site with your phone number. They want instant gratification. They don't want to have to wait for an email to be verified. They don't want to have be be suspected of spam with every new post they make, if they can even found out how to create a "post", or even sign in. They will choose shiny things over quality content. Everybody knows this, I don't think anybody has an answer. It's nobody's fault and everybody's fault. Forums are what blogs started to become 10 years ago. We just wait until the big asteroid hits and wipes us all out. lol (Oldest chats are on the bottom) ---------------- SneakyDave: The Tao of sheldon has spoken, lol 17 minutes ago Sandyman: hey @Sheldon what's the largest community you've ever built, just curious. Today at 9:25 PM Sheldon: I wouldn't want anyone's site hindered due to my name being in any staff list. Today at 7:24 PM Sheldon: .... and even then, I'd lean towards doubtful. Today at 7:23 PM Sheldon: @Paul , appreciate it, but I'll only even consider work on Flarum or XF.... it's s comfort thing. Today at 7:19 PM tracy perry: Bid's haven't closed yet.. @Sandyman, but I did get some 5 Vegas Triple A's in... they are a "knock you on your ass" strength. Today at 7:15 PM Sheldon: Then I got blasted for selling. Hahahhahah. Fuck you too. Lololl Today at 7:13 PM Sheldon: It's not a waste. I've already proven to myself what I can do. I made and sold everything I created personally from bottom up. Those that purchased, couldn't carry out what I wad doing... either their time or desire in the way. Today at 7:13 PM Dakota: Sheldon, you've obviously got ideas, and good ones. It's a shame to waste them, no? Today at 7:11 PM Sheldon: People might join.... then the "clique" would appear. I certainly don't feel the need to call them out on their lies and bullshit daily. Today at 7:11 PM Sheldon: I'm an asshole. No one will join anything my name is attached to. I don't know that I have the time, much less desire. Today at 7:10 PM Dakota: Just come join the club and show us all how it's done, Sheldon ;) Today at 7:09 PM Paul: You wanna be admin on Admin-Hub @Sheldon ? Today at 7:08 PM Sheldon: Sorry for the rant @SneakyDave , didn't expect to go that long. Hah. You can copt that into a thread for discussion of you'd like. Too hard on my phone. Today at 7:05 PM Sheldon: You old school admins need to wake up. You're driving the wedge between forums and new users with your archaic bullshit. Get over yourselves. Your not fucking gods because you have a fucking domain and a fucking database. Get passed that, you might start seeing a change. Today at 7:04 PM Sheldon: I love BASH. I'll be here until it folds, or @SneakyDave no longer owns it. Here, I can say what I want or post what I want (sans ignorant shit like family members, child porn, etc...) I don't care who reads what I say, as I still know I can voice my opinion. Today at 7:02 PM Sheldon: Open and closing threads on a whim? Denying links to certain sites? Fuck that. Eat my censored dick. Today at 7:01 PM Sheldon: "Moderating", 2000ish. No one wants to have someone looking over their shoulder when they post. Fuck you and your locked topic because it's "off-topic" in the fucking off topic section. Today at 7:00 PM Sheldon: They will continue to die until you do something to snap out of your current bullshit antics. Today at 6:59 PM Sheldon: This isn't 2000 dipshits. Your big board means two dicks right about now. Should have sold when you had the chance. Today at 6:58 PM Sheldon: Forums are dying, and these old-school forum admins are driving that. Today at 6:58 PM Sheldon: Need all this info.... hah. Facebook has a billion more users, yet the majority of fucksticks running forums want more info to register. Lolol. Okay. Today at 6:57 PM Sheldon: All these "demands" upon registration? Eat a dick. Not happening. They spend more than 20 seconds for that shit, it's done. They will leave. Today at 6:56 PM Sheldon: Not 300 fucking categories for you to browse through. No one has time for that bullshit. Today at 6:55 PM Sheldon: People want to get in, get out. The demand is to see what's going on in threads first. Today at 6:55 PM Sheldon: The days of 100 forums, 50 subforums is over. Today at 6:54 PM Sheldon: Ease of use is #1 priority. Today at 6:54 PM Sheldon: You simply cannot stay a site of you aren't willing to put in zero time or effort. Today at 6:54 PM Sheldon: Or, you could say "Fuck It", roll out drastic shit, huge ideas, spend your time on your site, be vocal, mix up what everyone thinks works (cause it doesn't)... and go at it. Why open any site if you aren't fully 100% in it. Today at 6:52 PM Sheldon: Could do like Admin-Hub... slow and steady, trying to follow the traditional layout and look of TAZ.... Today at 6:51 PM Sheldon: Could do like AdminsZone.... just hope people post, even though for some reason @Cloaked won't go at it 100% Today at 6:51 PM Sheldon: Could do life TAC, throw as much random shit together as fast as possible.... Today at 6:50 PM Sheldon: One Admin is notorious for that.... eh, Lee /Lisa/ whatever the piss you go by? Today at 6:50 PM Sheldon: You can follow TAZ lead, start something, get to 60%, stop, and hope no one notices.... Today at 6:49 PM Sheldon: You'll continue to lose to social media. Facebook, reddit, Twitter.... not necessarily in that order. Today at 6:48 PM Sheldon: You'll never get excitement, nor the "new" users with the same old same. Today at 6:47 PM Sheldon: More proof you say? Ok, Morganna goes to each one, they all die. Today at 6:46 PM Sheldon: Need proof? Look at the Admin sites. They are duplicates of each other. Same setup, same structure, etc. Today at 6:46 PM Sheldon: Why isn't anyone willing to take chances? The same shit over and over is stale. Today at 6:45 PM Sheldon: I know, for fact, I could come up with something a bit better for an admin forum. Today at 6:42 PM Sheldon: The entire concept is unoriginal. Today at 6:42 PM SneakyDave: Does seem like a lot of duplicate topics. Today at 6:40 PM Sheldon: I'd be ashamed. Today at 6:06 PM Sheldon: Is creativity that dead? Holy shit. Today at 6:06 PM Sheldon: "TAC: Where Creativity Oozes"

What kind of music is this categorized as? One of my kids likes it,but searching for "electronica" on pandora and spotify paints a pretty wide brush. Basically gamer/rave/electronica/instrumental ? Maybe EDM (Electronic Dance Music)?

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If you sonsabitches would just pay for premium membership, Howie wouldn't have to run those intrusive ads. Now get out your credit cards! What a bunch of selfish jerks! On a side note, I noticed that the number of "known" staff is down to 8. Has Robust been a moderator for a while, or is he new?

Why don't you post them MRGTB, @Gary, @GTB? Sorry, I forgot that you left the conversation

Was DWiz taking over Gary's WBB account, or was Gary keeping that, and doing a license transfer? I like the WBB account transfer option, although I hope the username could be changed. Going around posing as GTB on WBB could be quite fun though.

I think that's Chickenscratches on drums. #ComeBack

Maybe the edits were just to get DWiz's attention? Is that how it works on WBB? He edited the message 17 times, then waited almost a day to say he was leaving the conversation? #onlygtb

Oh shit, I'm sorry about the edit, was on mobile yesterday, and just edited the message, and didn't delete the attachment.

Let's not be like Howard and bring people's family members into this.

DBtech security add-on blowing up TAZ this morning. On a side note, who's idea was it to name the web directory in leetspeak? Is that the userid Howie uses to access the server?

The idea came from this thread: Remove the ignore function? | BASH.zone I was commenting on how the ignore function action is seldom used on forums, and usually only brought up in discussion to spite other members, so I had planned to remove it here. Chickenscratches (バイス) commented in chat that he liked the idea because he would then know for sure that everybody would be privy to his trolling, and would sleep better knowing his intended posts were being accepted by their intended recipients, or some shit like that. Knowing his intentions, and other members saying that they actually use the ignore feature on Chickenscratches (referred to as 'bitch ass mother fuckers'), I changed my mind about removing the ability to ignore members. The Ignore List was an idea by Paul o try to satiate the seething chickenscratches, lol. But it was too little, too late. Chickenscratches left like dust in the wind, due to my apparent hypocrisy.

This thread is about coding, it isn't about crowdfunding.

Well, I got the "getIgnoredByUserList" query working to grab all results for the page, rather than running for each user from the first query, but the fetchAllKeyed by 'user_id' method results in removing the duplicate user_id's from the array, which may exist, if a person is ignored by multiple people. So I need to use a different method, maybe just a get->Db() call, or fetchAllKeyed by 'nothing' to get all the duplicitous results, and then work with that. Thanks for the extended help.

I figured I could do that, I was just looking at here with XFMG. Now I'm not sure if I should just put that all in an installer, or just go and create the route/controller. decisions, decisions.

Yeah, I'll work on that as a next step. The only other small problem that would exist if I didn't convert this into a route and controller is that the page would be accessible by /pages/ignore-list. I created a route filter to make it just /ignore-list, so it doesn't "look" like a XenForo page. That's not a big deal though.

I use this to get the top users being ignored. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, other than possibly not needing the user_option table. public function getIgnoredUserList() { $sql = ' SELECT user.*, user_profile.*, user_option.*, count(*) as total FROM xf_user_ignored as user_ignored INNER JOIN xf_user AS user ON (user.user_id = user_ignored.ignored_user_id AND user.is_banned = 0) INNER JOIN xf_user_profile AS user_profile ON (user_profile.user_id = user.user_id) INNER JOIN xf_user_option AS user_option ON (user_option.user_id = user.user_id) GROUP BY ignored_user_id ORDER BY total DESC, user.username LIMIT 10 '; return $this->fetchAllKeyed($sql, 'user_id'); } I use this to get the "Ignored by x members", given a userid. I thought this query could use a little work, but maybe it's about as good as I can get it. It only runs once per user from the list above. public function getIgnoredByUserList($userId) { $sql = ' SELECT user.*, user_profile.*, user_option.* FROM xf_user_ignored as user_ignored INNER JOIN xf_user AS user ON (user.user_id = user_ignored.user_id AND user.is_banned = 0) INNER JOIN xf_user_profile AS user_profile ON (user_profile.user_id = user.user_id) INNER JOIN xf_user_option AS user_option ON (user_option.user_id = user.user_id) WHERE user_ignored.ignored_user_id = ? '; return $this->fetchAllKeyed($sql, 'user_id', $userId); }

ooohhhhh.. thanks for that Daniel, didn't think of that. I have the page updated now with most of the bugs worked out. I think I'm doing too many queries though, so I'm going to try to reduce them. I haven't done an addon accessing models yet, and getting db results to work correctly in templates gives me a headache. I wish there was a better way to debug that stuff.

Just realized there was a TAZ thread yesterday about Adsense warnings with mobile ads Adsense warning help

I might do that after I get a few more bugs worked out. At the moment, it uses a page node with a php callback. Pages can't be packaged as addon's, so I'd have to convert that to a public controller.

I have a pubic ignore list almost feature complete here: Ignore List | BASH.zone There isn't much data on the site to really be "useful", but it displays the top members that have been ignored the most, and lists all members' people they ignore, as well as who is ignoring them (yet to finish). I'm currently ignoring Gary and GTB just to demonstrate the functionality. Curiously, the unregistered user "Kramer" is the one ignoring Sheldon and I. I'm not sure how they are able to ignore administrators, but maybe that's an permission I set on administrator accounts. If you see anything that might make it more useful, please let me know. I'm not sure where a link to this page should exist? May on the "People you ignore" page? It doesn't seem to justify being a tab. bugs / outstanding items. I have to clean up the styling a little bit. When "Nobody" is displayed, it uses the tooltip from the ignoring member. The title "Ignoring" title is displayed, when the user's status tooltip should suffice. Finish displaying the [TO DO] list of "ignored by" members. The sort should include the username, as well as the number of people ignoring the member. Rework the model to try to reduce queries.

I have a site with 2, 300px block ads side by side. Those have been running 10 years or so, but are the only ads on the page, but they don't display on mobile.

Is the rule dor Adsense on mobile, 2 ads per page? I think on desktop, it's 3 ads per page. Adsense might be more interested in the piracy/nulled software discussion, which clearly isn't allowed per Adsense TOS

Those are about the only Adsense ads that he allows on TAZ Site Promotion | BASH.zone He still has that Tapatalk ad too, which promises cash monies to site owners that use it, making Howie's eyes bulge. But I've never heard of one site owner ever receiving a check from Tapatalk.