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    Default Wraithy can fix anything!

    http://www.theworldforgotten.com/sho...ead-of-the-law.

    In this thread there seems to be a lot of broken quotes from people who are ordinarily perfectly capable of using the quote function. Rather than mock their stupidity outright, I thought I would just blame you for breaking the forums again.

    Fix it!
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    Can Wraith fix the 'Go to last post' button on the 'find allposts by user' results page?
    Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
    If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?

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    What about the more than useless search function?
    "Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.

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    Quote Originally Posted by littlelolligagged View Post
    http://www.theworldforgotten.com/sho...ead-of-the-law.

    In this thread there seems to be a lot of broken quotes from people who are ordinarily perfectly capable of using the quote function. Rather than mock their stupidity outright, I thought I would just blame you for breaking the forums again.

    Fix it!
    You should have mocked them.
    The Rules
    Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
    Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
    Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadnaught View Post
    What's wrong with the search?
    Last time i tried to use it was when loki said he had previously posted something about college students not knowing answers to simple political questions. I wanted to find that post and tried to use the search function. No dice. In fact, searching "college students" in all posts by Loki didnt even bring up the post that i was reading in the first place!

    Then i gave up.
    "Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.

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    Maybe he didn't say it? That is odd...that doesn't work, but a bunch of other stuff I'm trying does work.

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    But he said it in the thread where he talked about college students not understanding whatever it was. I used the exact phrase, and even the original post i was looking at didnt come up.
    "Son," he said without preamble, "never trust a man who doesn't drink, because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.

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    I know, I don't understand it...but it does seem to be working for others. Anything else specific you can think of to try that may also trigger a failure? Everything seems to be working okay for me.

    "Okay" being the operative word —*vB search has gotten worse and worse over the years on all boards.

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    Do you get more money for putting the ads in the middle? Cause if you don't, how bout putting them at the bottom?
    Faith is Hope (see Loki's sig for details)
    If hindsight is 20-20, why is it so often ignored?

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    You only get money from these ads if they're clicked on AFAIK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    You only get money from these ads if they're clicked on AFAIK.
    I think you get one sum of money for seeing them on your page (impression) and another for clicking through. The former is probably much smaller than the latter though.
    Hope is the denial of reality

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    Its only Adsense search that doesn't pay per impressions.

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    ...what ads?
    . . .

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    You have to be logged out to see them.

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    They're very nice ads, for things no one cares about at all.

    Like diploma mills.
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer View Post
    Its only Adsense search that doesn't pay per impressions.
    I was guessing it was AdSense that was here, is it not? Never seen it myself.

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    If we enable image ads (which I think we did), we are paid on a CPM and a CPC basis.

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    CPM is that per impression?

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    Well, I just disabled ad-block for a moment and browsed the site logged off to see what sort of ads would appear.

    Got 1 asking if I needed help getting a UK visa - no I'm in the UK, I don't need a visa
    Another asking if I wanted to meet "thousands of gay singles" - no thanks

    Ad-Block back on and re-logged in. I thought the idea with AdSense was to get ads related to what we were talking about, which sounded interesting. Guess we've not got that? Or is there something about the site that makes it appear full of gay illegals ...

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    We do discuss faggotry a lot here, at least
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
    We do discuss faggotry a lot here, at least
    You make it sound like a life-style choice.
    The Rules
    Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
    Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
    Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)

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    Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
    You make it sound like a life-style choice.
    What, discussing faggotry?
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nessus View Post
    What, discussing faggotry?
    The -try. The -try.
    The Rules
    Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
    Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
    Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)

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    Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
    The -try. The -try.
    I think you're projecting
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Probably not. Projection isn't in me.
    The Rules
    Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
    Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
    Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)

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    First, this is a weird choice of threads to bump and shove this discussion into.

    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    CPM is that per impression?
    Per thousand impressions.

    Quote Originally Posted by RandBlade View Post
    Well, I just disabled ad-block for a moment and browsed the site logged off to see what sort of ads would appear.

    Got 1 asking if I needed help getting a UK visa - no I'm in the UK, I don't need a visa
    Another asking if I wanted to meet "thousands of gay singles" - no thanks

    Ad-Block back on and re-logged in. I thought the idea with AdSense was to get ads related to what we were talking about, which sounded interesting. Guess we've not got that? Or is there something about the site that makes it appear full of gay illegals ...
    The adsense thing is a bit complex. It does pull from what we're discussing to decide how to advertise (and where the ad specifically appears, so GC will probably get a different set of ads than D&D), but the advertisers themselves get to decide what topics cause their ads to appear, and the highest bidder gets put on the site. They can also limit it by geography and maybe a few other things.

    I checked this morning, and it looks like about 7% of the ads we get are for dating stuff like that gay singles ad you saw. If it's really wanted, I can prevent ads like that from appearing again. I think right now, I only have ads for drugs like viagra blocked.

    Your ads probably come from our talking of gay rights and immigration.

    For what it's worth, I've been getting things like student loan financing and motorcycle technician training on GC, and pundity stuff like a site on Obamacare or congressional petitions on D&D when I look at the ads.

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    TIL that Wraith hates viagra.



    I now have a valid reason to find the most ridiculous subjects to start threads on.

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    Wraithy doesn't need viagra.
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    I don't think there's any reason to ban anything unless it affects people's sensibilities. Personally I don't care (its blocked for me anyway).

    If it was anything interesting I'd be tempted to whitelist this site somehow but since its standard internet crap I think I'll just keep it blocked.

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