User talk:Elliottcable/Archive01

Vandalism

 * Post temp isn't broken, regarding banning - first, visit this page and make an entry according to what you're doing and why: Known vandals. I'd make an entry for either 'annoying' or 'medium' vandalism, and probably give him a 7 day ban at most, escalate it to something higher (with a new entry and such as well) if he does it again when he can edit again in 7 days. Regarding the technicalities of banning an IP, see Special:Blockip.

As well, I'm pretty sure it's a bot - the adding of the trailing slash indicates he/it things the pages are a directory, a human would have quickly learned that the pages on the wiki aren't actual served content, hence no trailing slash like a folder, but a bot wouldn't know that. 01:45, August 16, 2007 (EDT)

Unlocking of page / increasing of permissions on DDO wiki

 * I'm consistently amazed how this site continues to grow without guidance - everytime the most prolific contributor stops, well, contributing... somebody else appears from nowhere to take his place!

In any case, I'm not usually the one you'd go to for this sort of thing nowadays, I haven't been active in, what, a year? Maybe even two? But I've upped you to superuser status, that should allow you to edit that page. Given your current level of contribution, you may be a prospective admin, you'd have to try to get one of the more active admin's attentions for that (I prefer not to meddle this late in the game).

Thanks for your contributions, and best of luck in your endeavors! 05:50, August 27, 2008 (EDT)



Sorry about the lack of a fix, the wiki DB seems to have gone boom right when I submitted the page. It's taken care of now, and Borror0 also seems to have unprotected the page in any case. (On that note, I'd suggest re-protecting such a relatively high profile page to superuser-only edits). To confirm your e-mail address, I'd have to dig into the database - I know exactly why it won't send you the confirmation mail (postfix retardation, it's been a problem since I first set up the wiki ages ago). Not much I can do about it without digging up my administration login details for the system itself, and I don't know if it's even still SSH-accessible after all this time. So, yeah, sorry, but there isn't really much I can do. E-mail notifications are kind of out unless I can get that fixed. I suggest you do what I do - use an RSS feed reader and the recent changes/watchlist RSS feeds. Andy, you had a little bug with the post template, in the future, you might want to use the   substitution template (hover over the purple infobox when editing a page to see a summary of its use) to prevent that annoying bug showing itself. 20:29, August 27, 2008 (EDT)


 * Screenshot of the purple box on the editing page

The bug is that with the actual post template, if you don't have numbered arguments on some random posts, it will fail to parse and you'll end up with something like this, where the content shows up in the signature field and your signature doesn't show up at all. The {{subst:p}} template fixes that (also makes it a bit quicker to type). 11:15, August 28, 2008 (EDT)