Posts by wallowindawn

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"Islam does not mean peace it means submission", Anjem Choudary

by adjusted knowledge in

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i was watching the news and came upon an interview with brigitte gabriel on muslim extremists.

what caught my attention was the above quote.

the reason is, it brought back what an elder recently told me about our faith in the governing body.. i will paraphrase what he told me below:.

wallowindawn

O dear god... read more than headlines. What is wrong with this place lol.

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Obama and Muslims

by Shanagirl1 in

in audacity of hope he writes: i will stand with the muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

the quote comes from page 261 of the paperback edition of the audacity of hope.. he couildn't march in solidarity.

yesterday the "political winds shift" happened.

wallowindawn

So you are stupid enough to think that Obama is a Kenya muslim that wants America to go down the drain?

What is wrong with you

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Please post new forum feedback or questions here

by Simon in

well, the switchover happened - there were a couple of things i had to fix which meant the posting was disabled for longer than i planned but it's now enabled and some people have already posted.. if you have any questions about the new format or suggestions on how to improve it, please post them here.. if you are having trouble signing in or posting then you'll need to email me instead.. many thanks to everyone for their patience during the changeover !.

wallowindawn

How do you delete private messages?

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

wallowindawn

http://i59.tinypic.com/10dia7q.gif

I don't have any male are or spyware. It's being set from here

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

wallowindawn

Not sure if this thread is the best place to post this but I am receiving cookie requests from very strange sites when logging in like dmitry.com and pix.ru? What is that?

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

wallowindawn

Simon you said you are trying to catch people? Catch whom? Catch them doing what? Is it the Nigerians trying to solicit money from people

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

wallowindawn

There is also the important question of European and UK Data protection laws. What is the site owner doing with the PII (Personally Identifiable Information) that he is collecting?

The IP in and of itself is not always considered Personal Data, however it can become personal data by definition once combined with other forms of personal data collected by the site owner during the profile creation process of the site even if the end-user name is not a part of that data. In the UK however, tdealing with end-user I.P.'s is serious as I am sure the site owner is aware.

Best practice is to have a statement during the registration process stating what you will be doing with the I.P. Addresses you are collecting so end-users can make a calculated decision on wether or not they want to join the site based upon that.

I would think the only recourse at this point would be to add this information to all new users and allow all who have joined up previously to be exempt fro the flag display. I think forcing the displaying of ones country of origin is really unnecessary as it will also provide some preconceived feelings by some. That is evident based upon the opening comments of this thread. Why would such a feature be forced anyway, just allow each user to decide.

I am sure for the older crowd and those not familiar with programming it sounds like it would take a long time to implement some feature that would make this option something the user selects. In actuality any web developer straight out of college could implement this in literally minutes.

Also does this NEW website allow the deletion of enormous lists of Private Messages?

What about the ability to remove oneself from the website altogether?

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Poster country flags and privacy

by Simon in

the new forum originally had a little country flag next to each post showing the country that the post was made from based on the geoip encoding (the country the ip address is from).

before i switched over to the new site someone made an issue about it violating their privacy and i didn't want to complicate and confuse the switchover with policy debate at the same time as technical issues so removed the flags even though i disagreed.. someone has already requested it as a feature and i think it should be added back so i thought it's now time to open the discussion and get everyone's opinions.

first, the reason i think it should be shown:.

wallowindawn

What for of software I'd being used for this site that it takes excessive amounts of code to do the simplest of things? I have built forums from the ground up in the past and I can say that adding or removing that feature could be done with 1 simple if statement....

If this is an out of the box forum which would be the best bet for someone not able to code then it would merely be a check box to click to enable some for of user specific option.