We wish. There's not much we CAN do, actually.

Correction, the Admin (David) can do anything. The mods can do almost anything.

@MOM: If it does work that way, then that's cool. But then again, megabanning gives you a million warnings, so maybe it isn't possible.

Hopefully David will give us an answer.

I still think he was spam.

Maybe. We'll wait to see if AP gets a reply.

None yet, but the email didn't bounce.

Hmm. Could be that his email got hijacked and used by spam, but that still doesn't really explain why it was here. It didn't advertise anything.

www.goofans.com/user/11645
stupid spam. i already have a watch.

*SPLAT*

Darn. I saw that, but forgot to delete it. I always like to check the rest of the forums before I delete spam, so that if there's any more I can do it in a big ban rush. Stoopid me.

Spam:
http://goofans.com/forum/world-of-goo/general-discussion/3502#comment-35101

But in the future, please try not to post in a thread made by spam. It makes it more tedious to ban, because we have to delete all comments in the thread before the thread (and thus the user) can be removed.

I did not know that! Sorry!

what is the HTML code for showing the image above with out just posting a link?

<img src="path to image.png" />. But only moderators can do that.

Yeah, sorry. I try not to do it too much or else people will start saying that it's unfair. It kind of is unfair, but if anybody could do it then some people would post images that are too large and could deform the page.

Wait, can they deform the page? Let me test this.

(If nothing appears below, it's the standard 256 test pattern)

it cuts off the edge.

But it doesn't deform?

OK, fine, so it doesn't deform. But it does look pretty ugly, and if you have a massive height then it could be really annoying.

My point is that DavidC has a valid reason for not allowing regular users to use the tag. That's not to say I wouldn't mind it being allowed: any inappropriate/annoying images could be removed by mods, and once/if we get edit (and thus temp ban) access we could enforce related rules.

I vote no. Some users may post porn or other offensive material.

It's not really necessary.

@Red: That's what I meant, we can remove those images. But I guess you guys are right.

You're right about it being ugly. Removed.

I can unban someone (by unblocking their IP addresses), but there's no way to restore their user profile or any posts that were deleted. Hence the giant warning.

I was going to put a BBCode filter in the forums so you can do [img]http://blah[/img] and so forth. I could still do this if it would be helpful.

-davidc

I just megabanned the spam on Beuty's Escape, but there's an "established user" on New Records who's protected.

BBCode for that and other things would be handy, as long as images have size restrictions. However, as Red mentioned above, offensive/explicit images could become a problem.

You can still remove his post though Deleted it just now.

I was going to be worried that new users would spam images from memes or explicit subjects. Maybe making it so that only established users can post images would work? We should try it out. Most of the people posting in the forums are, for the most part, trustworthy.

^good idea.

Anyway, just banned 3 spam users. One of them even quoted a post and said "I agree with this"!

speaking of spam:
www.goofans.com/user/11701
i don't really need an electric tooth brush