Easter Eggs?

[Tapewolf]

Zina has been banned for showing the secret cast pages. 

Out of morbid curiosity, what happens if Damaris accidentally bans herself?  Does llearch have to go in and modifiy the system tables by hand?

[Alondro]

*ughs at Zina*  But clicking on that link is too much work...  I want someone to click it for me.  

[Zina]

Zina has been banned for showing the secret cast pages. 

But Bill.
I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around
and desert you.

[bill]

Zina has been banned for showing the secret cast pages. 

But Bill.
I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around
and desert you.

Flattery will get you nowhere.



Bribery on the other hand... 

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Out of morbid curiosity, what happens if Damaris accidentally bans herself?  Does llearch have to go in and modifiy the system tables by hand?

Any of the admins can unban as well as ban. So no.

I -can-, but there are easier ways around the issue.

[Zina]

Zina has been banned for showing the secret cast pages. 

But Bill.
I'm never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around
and desert you.

Flattery will get you nowhere.



Bribery on the other hand... 

I'll give you six Zina Fun Bucks.
Good at any Zina Fun Park. Where you will have the time of your life.

[bill]

Out of morbid curiosity, what happens if Damaris accidentally bans herself?  Does llearch have to go in and modifiy the system tables by hand?

Any of the admins can unban as well as ban. So no.

I -can-, but there are easier ways around the issue.

so I can't usurp power by banning every other mod/admin? 

I'll give you six Zina Fun Bucks.
Good at any Zina Fun Park. Where you will have the time of your life.

y thank u 

[Dannysaysnoo]

I'll give you six Zina Fun Bucks.
Good at any Zina Fun Park. Where you will have the time of your life.

That sounds a little weird...

[Tapewolf]

Any of the admins can unban as well as ban. So no.

Ah, I assumed the other admins would have a lower privilege level...

[Darkmoon]

Not the way we do things.

[Sid]

Finally went around to dig out the two pages (*disables his hastily created Greasemonkey script again*), and I've got two things to say:
1) If I ever get around to properly resuming my fic, there will have to be several changes of the plot outline. (D'oh)
2) *GLEE* *ARTGASM*

Edit:
Since I've been digging around: The Demo101's Being page has a "Back to top" link that goes to the wrong page (GryphonB).

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

so I can't usurp power by banning every other mod/admin? 

You can. Right up until I log in and fix the issue - if necessary, craft a sql script to auto-unban me first. ;-]

Any of the admins can unban as well as ban. So no.

Ah, I assumed the other admins would have a lower privilege level...

They do, but the bans are part of it. They can't shut down the forum as a whole for maintenance; other than that, permissions are more or less shared.

Some of us have focus on some bits, and some others. For example, D concentrates on the Lost Lake area and the Haunted Ballroom, RJ tends to watch the Tower of Art, and I do the underlying code, but we can all pinch-hit for each other, as it were.

Does that help?

[Amber Williams]

The best part was when I found out people were using stupid scripts to find them so I removed the links for a couple hours while they ran their searches.

Oh well. I guess next time I wont even bother letting there be an actual link but make people have to guess the word since people can't play nice.

[Tapewolf]

Oh well. I guess next time I wont even bother letting there be an actual link but make people have to guess the word since people can't play nice.

To be perfectly honest, I was surprised you did.  I had expected some weird hidden message spread out letter by letter in commented out parts of the HTML or some other chicanery.
About half an hour was wasted because I had this cuckoo idea that you'd inserted some kind of hint or link at the end of a bunch of spaces so it could only be seen if you scrolled the source code to the far right 

Apparently Groo The Wanderer had a secret message encoded in binary in the patterns of someone's cloak or something.  My brother never got that issue so I never managed to verify it.

**EDIT**
And one of the pictures on my website has a message encoded in it which is only visible if you edit the palette since it's a GIF file with two black colours.  Even I can't remember which picture it is though...

[Amber Williams]

To be perfectly honest, I was surprised you did.  I had expected some weird hidden message spread out letter by letter in commented out parts of the HTML or some other chicanery.

Truthfully, I had wanted to keep it simple...and something that people later on might be able to uncover just by accident if they were wandering around.  These weren't necessarily meant to be insanely difficult or requiring one to traverse seventeen pages to find them...which is probably why it is more insulting than anything to know people used scripts to find them.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

The best part was when I found out people were using stupid scripts to find them so I removed the links for a couple hours while they ran their searches.

... that might have been me. Sorry. I -was- trying to limit it, but it didn't work. :-/ I -did- stop it as soon as I realised it had wandered off the way it wasn't supposed to. :-/

[Sid]

Truthfully, I had wanted to keep it simple...and something that people later on might be able to uncover just by accident if they were wandering around.  These weren't necessarily meant to be insanely difficult or requiring one to traverse seventeen pages to find them...which is probably why it is more insulting than anything to know people used scripts to find them.

Erm, you didn't expect this to happen? You announced that two links were hidden somewhere, somehow. Your site has 1000+ pages, and without knowing what to look for, it's pure coincidence for somebody to notice the hidden links the first time through (I had actually started going through the archives and mousehovering over ALL the mow icons to see if one of them might be The Link... and before that, I hovered over all the links on the Downloads page to see if you had maybe changed the 800*600 link of the tenth wallpaper or something.) Heck, I browsed by the page(s) with the hidden link(s) at least three times without noticing them (then again, now I'm not sure there WERE any links since I might have browsed in that linkless window).

So people using tools to auto-mine for links was pretty much a natural reaction, all things considered (before you ask: No, not me, but mostly because I didn't have a GUI-based tool handy at the moment)

[Amber Williams]

Using tools? Yes.  Promoting said tools and apparently using the unnoffical chat as a base of operations? No.

Normally I could care little if people are using particular means, but if they are going to be public about it and announce their intents to the point that I am able to spot it, then I'm going to react.  In much the same way of my reaction to people pirating software, I don't care if people are doing it...but I don't want to hear about it.

If I'm actually able to figure out the means of which people are finding the pages, then you are doing it wrong. Cause really, I'm lazy and not all that bright.  It's only when people get show-off and chatty that I get any indicator.

[phat feet]

I'm so enraged by this i can only find one and the other is killing me slowly 

[Sid]

Using tools? Yes.  Promoting said tools and apparently using the unnoffical chat as a base of operations? No.

Yeah, okay, that may be pushing it

[Reese Tora]

scripts? whut?

darn you, firefox users!

Actually, I'm at work, and don't have the time to go looking... (nor the disipline or patience to follow through if I did...) so I'm going to wait until someone slips up or they get posted normally...

[Faerie Alex]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I just found both using ye olde-fashioned scan-it-with-your-eyes method. That second one was real tricky; it had me looking in the source codes for a while, but I eventually found it (6 hours or so after the first ) without.

[M]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I just found both using ye olde-fashioned scan-it-with-your-eyes method. That second one was real tricky; it had me looking in the source codes for a while, but I eventually found it (6 hours or so after the first ) without.

I did that, too. Took forever. XD

But the frustration makes the find so much more rewarding, don't you think?

[bill]

I got it because someone posted it in the admin board 

[CameronCN]

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

*Goes insane because he hasn't found one.*

[Dannysaysnoo]

AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

*Goes insane because he hasn't found one.*

second'd

[Saist]

Using tools? Yes.  Promoting said tools and apparently using the unnoffical chat as a base of operations? No.

Normally I could care little if people are using particular means, but if they are going to be public about it and announce their intents to the point that I am able to spot it, then I'm going to react.  In much the same way of my reaction to people pirating software, I don't care if people are doing it...but I don't want to hear about it.

If I'm actually able to figure out the means of which people are finding the pages, then you are doing it wrong. Cause really, I'm lazy and not all that bright.  It's only when people get show-off and chatty that I get any indicator.

Actually I was using Opera. One of the features it's had for... I think a couple of years now... is a function that shows all of the links on a page. As far as I know FireFox has nothing like that, so in my view, people who were using FireFox scripts were overworking themselves 

[CameronCN]

Using tools? Yes.  Promoting said tools and apparently using the unnoffical chat as a base of operations? No.

Normally I could care little if people are using particular means, but if they are going to be public about it and announce their intents to the point that I am able to spot it, then I'm going to react.  In much the same way of my reaction to people pirating software, I don't care if people are doing it...but I don't want to hear about it.

If I'm actually able to figure out the means of which people are finding the pages, then you are doing it wrong. Cause really, I'm lazy and not all that bright.  It's only when people get show-off and chatty that I get any indicator.

Actually I was using Opera. One of the features it's had for... I think a couple of years now... is a function that shows all of the links on a page. As far as I know FireFox has nothing like that, so in my view, people who were using FireFox scripts were overworking themselves 

It does, but it takes a couple of clicks to get to it, so it's not practical to go through the whole website using it.

[Fex]

*keeps on pussing every light orange button that is on the site* curse you Amber, CURSE you straight to hell ... must find damn cast links grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr *keeps on pushing*  GET OUT OFF MY HEAD

(edit)
GOD YES YES I FOUND ONE *does the very happy dance* and I ain't telling let other people be tormented to

[Tapewolf]

It does, but it takes a couple of clicks to get to it, so it's not practical to go through the whole website using it.

You must be doing it wrong.  It took two keypresses here
Either that or it's some weird apple-specific thing...

**EDIT**
Sorry, two keypresses and a click.