-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 04:14 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: > On 11/27/2011 10:18 PM, Bane wrote: >> Walter Bright Wrote: >> >>> On 11/27/2011 11:08 AM, Bane wrote: >>>> And with registred usernames there would be less/no trolls ? >>> >>> Required registration is a barrier for people who want to be >>> onetime posters. (And onetime posters often become regular >>> posters!) >> >> Yeah, I hate that too. Then anonymous access and >> FunnyCaptchas(tm) might work? > > How do you create a captcha that reliably discriminates between > trolls and non-trolls? have something similar to /.'s anonymous coward. with a hide anonymous preference in the settings.
Voila. easy to post, you wanna ignore them you can. Or have one specific forum for anonymous. A q-and-a type deal. There are probably a hundred ways around this. One specific forum I was a member of had a rank system based on number of posts and time since joined. anonymous and newbies get one or two small spots to post, and can still see the rest. Shrugs. It's not NG vs. forum here guys... Both have their benefits, so we should have the best of both worlds. //quote cause I'm lazy Those are all desirable properties. But the forum software I've seen throws out what's good about NNTP news forums: 1. Threaded view 2. Being able to mark messages as "read" 3. Being able to quickly scan read vs unread //end quote 1. Forums can have threaded view too, 2. I thought that that was pretty standard for forums? Highlighting for threads you've seen and threads you haven't... not for individual messages, but the last number (25 or so) messages you've seen. 3. click the nice little subscribe to thread button and it tells you if anyone else submits something. These are all things that forums have had for a while... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO0uZxAAoJENcHIWLyQiSl5PUIAM7yy4DG4WDTnxRER5zTKL0L EoB8saJJacyIByuXmZRkLF56MMHIKhaLdmq/YfVGoe4M7GYeRZRqqPrYI6ny/7UH Yt6Tm/qE75avgwuq2kDsaMf5bmfAmRk5206q6v8VxIXRMG7uZpuI+feGHcHQyoWH DZccH9H3Ig1UMU3CywxbdKxYlqmlJyZpdG67nBvif9hXr9lbviVqCbmq4C9FxnDc xc/ZrB4s/x574TZBSDVJDriwU6YyC6wc0tAvSBSyQMVZhXyenf9+FoXC5LgSeJaI MS61W1IoeobrIGLoPTsxZw2444zjUFJiX0O1fhC2p5/8ZkWoBQlIkFyeki5SXdc= =rFfd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
