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Board Meeting, August 13, 2008

Board of Directors.

Posted to Diary on Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 01:10:34 AM EST. RSS.

Agenda, minutes, chat log.

Tonight's meeting covered a variety of topics, one of which may already be on the front page by the time you are reading this.  We're down to two active editors (and one is on vacation at the moment), so we are putting out a call for more to try and take some of the load off Port1080 and 1fastdog.

We also realized that we never got around to adopting our Terms of Service document, so we did, and that should be migrated onto this site shortly.

We took another look at our current setup, and decided it would be a good idea to get a backup admin in case Shane is unavailable, and another good idea to find a dedicated offsite backup host.

Finally, with incorporation approved, and the IRS exemption application almost ready to be sent, we started to talk about what assets the site needed to receive to become a fully independent entity.

(RD)

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Re: Board Meeting, August 13, 2008

MayorBob.

Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 09:37:25 AM EST

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Sorry I missed the board meeting. Was it even advertised by QL? At any rate I did have a suggestion regarding moderation categories. TnT stalwart delete me posted a diary entry about the need for more moderation categories and that made me wonder if it was possible for a moderator to type in his or her own specific moderation category. I suggested just leaving a set number of spaces available for a user to apply their moderation. I believe profwhat concurred (meaning it would be technically doable) but I'm not sure he was serious or not. At any rate, someone suggested taking it to the board so here you are.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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Custom moderations

profwhat.

Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 10:01:39 AM EST

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It is doable.  It would also be a lot of fun.  For aesthetics, I'd like to limit moderations to containing only lowercase English letters.  And, as I mentioned before, it would make me very sad if "disingenuous" became a moderation on TNT, so maybe we could block that specific word.

In fact, funny story: When I implemented ajax moderation, I noticed a bug/security flaw/feature in the existing code.  Basically, it let people create their own moderation categories.  The drop-down provided only a few options, but if you edited your HTTP POST data, you could get around that easily.  (This is easier than it sounds; the Tamper Data Firefox extension makes it easy, for example).  So, for those who knew how to do it, you could put in any moderation you wanted.  This was a security problem, because it meant you could insert JavaScript code onto the page, and do crazy stuff like force people to click through 500 alerts or post their authentication cookie as a QuickLink.  So I fixed that.  But, no reason why I couldn't break it again.

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