[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[Sava]

I just clicked-through and bought $120 worth of cat food!

You're welcome!

[Sava]

JM

(sorry, I only did it once)

[Aeson]

If you really love your cats ... don't feed them the cheap stuff

[Sava]

always on the upsell

I should put you on the corner to work for me

I'll pay you 2 grams for every 10 you sell

[Aeson]

Thats way better commission than Amazon pays

[Sava]

I take care of my employees

[My Wife Hates CIV]

last post!

[Nikolai]

No.

[Nikolai]

Back to the topic of weird ads. This doesn't seem to work on smart phones. I get so much weirdness when I'm on my phone. Just got an ad for ultrasound in 4D.

[Felch]

I'm holding out for a 5th dimension, hopefully one with unicorns that shoot laser beams from their butts.

[Bereta_Eder]

Hello.
Is there a way to stop youtube video images from appearing and have them appear only like www.youtube.whatever.com?
In machines with lower memory it causes the browser to stop responding in the music thread which has a lot of youtube video images.
Thank you very much.

[The Mad Monk]

If you're in firefox, you can go to the Add-ons page (under Tools) and set flash to "ask"

[Aeson]

As it's likely to be noticed very soon, 2 posters have been banned.

Ben Kenobi - for personal attacks based on race. 4 months.

Kidicious - for derogatory comments about women/women's issues/feminism after warnings about the same. 2 months.

It brings me no pleasure to have to ban anyone from an already slow site, but we do need to observe that there still are some rules here. Mean spirited use of stereotypes or attacks based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality are against the rules. While there is some gray area in there where friendly jokes, consensual flaming, or mocking of a position can be acceptable, we moderators/admins use our best judgement as to when the line has been crossed. In these two cases we are in agreement that it has been crossed.

If anyone has a question as to the rules or this ruling this is the place for them. Please, no taunting of posters who are not able to respond at this time.

[ricketyclik]

Wow, it's gunna be quiet around here.

Any chance of links? It'd be nice to know just what it takes to get a banning.

[Aeson]

Kid's posts are over the course of the last couple months (and then early this year) and are still all there. None of them on their own would warrant a banning but in aggregate and with the previous warning on the topic it reached the threshold.

Ben's posts have been deleted as we don't want that on the forum. Just don't attack or belittle someone based on their race (or other protected aspect of their being).