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qbism · Post by **qbism** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:56 am

func_chan
http://qbism.com/chan/

As awful as it sounds. You know you were thinking about it, and now it's here.

EDIT: Enter 'qsg' in the email field, silly human detector.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:58 am

Good luck. Maintaining an imageboard to the best of your own ability will be one of the hardest forums you'll ever maintain despite its implied simplicity. You'd have to prepare for the porn image spambots once your page circulates google one bit.

ceriux · Post by **ceriux** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:23 am

lol what is that?

qbism · Post by **qbism** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:09 am

Yeah, the spambots may become a problem... We'll see how long it lasts.

What is it? A channel or 'chan' is an anonymous threaded forum. Registration is not required to post. Images may be posted. On some chans, image posting is required, but it's not required on func_chan. Feels sort of like a cross between IRC chat and a regular forum.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:38 am

qbism wrote:Yeah, the spambots may become a problem... We'll see how long it lasts.

This isn't the usual kind - it's the kind that try to frame your server for hosting illegal content they planted themselves. Automatically. ...and at that point, it's going to get personal, and nobody wants that.

I hope you have a keen eye for vigilance - it's something quake communities lack apparently - even here.

Sorry about all of the fear being brought up, but it's no myth that anonymous services tend to be abused by criminals. I'm not claiming all anonymous are criminals (I know thats a bloody lie) it's just by generously providing a service without registration, you're open to extreme vulnerability and a high pressure of responsiblity.

qbism · Post by **qbism** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:03 am

This isn't the usual kind - it's the kind that try to frame your server

That sounds like a horrible abuse, but believable... if we can't find real criminals, let's fabricate some. Guess it could be either government or truly evil bot coders. Even seemingly secure forums can get nasty spam, whether entrapment or not.

Anyway, already got some relatively harmless spam. So, going to take this down for a little while for some "are you human?" type captcha.

The anonymous aspect is not the most important aspect as I see it, it 's the fact one doesn't have to own or defend a momentary thought forever, leading to a more casual atmosphere. Minimizing the hassle to post is part of it. Perhaps even if it's not anonymous, comments should disappear after a few days or weeks like most chans. I think back to the simple QSG threaded forum and similar flat boards. If it were still around it might get spammed to death nowadays.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 8:16 am

I wonder how a Quake-centric captcha would turn out

as in

"what's the classname of a Spawn?" type in monster_tarbaby,etc

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:35 pm

qbism wrote:the fact one doesn't have to own or defend a momentary thought forever, leading to a more casual atmosphere.

That's down to each one's ego.

I also agree that it's great when ideas can be considered and validated regardless of their authors' reputation, but this is something that mature people can do naturally.

leileilol wrote:"what's the classname of a Spawn?"

Al Simmons!

gnounc · Post by **gnounc** » Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:02 pm

No thats clearly an entity name.
Classname is Hellspawn.

UFIA · Post by **UFIA** » Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:58 pm

Registered...now what?

qbism · Post by **qbism** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:19 am

Thanks for registering. I switched to hopefully less-spammy script but now none of the boards will show up in the index. Working on it.

qbism · Post by **qbism** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:07 pm

OK, it's back up, for now. Human detector: Enter "qsg" in the email field. To post and stay within the thread, enter "qsg noko".

If it doesn't crash, eventually I'll post some docs on the site about tripcodes etc. I'm no expert, and am learning as well!

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:52 pm

Obviously that's not working. You have porn already!

qbism · Post by **qbism** » Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:14 pm

At least is was apparently a human poster and not a bot. And it goes to show what kind of people read inside3d

MasterSplinter · Post by **MasterSplinter** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:56 pm

qbism wrote:func_chan
http://qbism.com/chan/

As awful as it sounds. You know you were thinking about it, and now it's here.

EDIT: Enter 'qsg' in the email field, silly human detector.

"Magic word in email is required to post." May I have it pweese? I've read the thread and tried what was suggested.

I have a huge archive of Quake 1 animated .gifs that I have made. Lots of them are just begging to be modified.

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