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If you don't want other people to read it don't freakin post it.
For chrissakes, even if it was members only, some jackass would have another reason to try to hack ZMD's boards.
Not something happening with this site. End.
Swamp's 100% right. That board should stay the way it is..
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> If you don't want other people to read it don't freakin post
> it.
I want YOU GUYS to read it.

> For chrissakes, even if it was members only, some jackass
> would have another reason to try to hack ZMD's boards.
what?

> Not something happening with this site. End.
> Swamp's 100% right. That board should stay the way it is..

ahem.. and I quote, "Hiding it from non-members is up for discussion."
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Look, if you wanna do that, fine....I think if you put more thought into what you were posting and possible repurcussions, then that (as far as the Diaries board is concerned) would help...
I've gotten to the point (call me paranoid, if you will) of not putting anything of sensitive or extremly personal material out on the net.
If people wanna find it, they will. I think that's the point you're missing.
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> If people wanna find it, they will. I think that's the
> point you're missing.

For what it is worth, I totally agree with Flash. If people really wanna see it, having the members-only restriction isn't going to stop them.

Thats why I believe that IF there is a restriction placed on the diaries board (or just individual threads), it should be member w/ 50 or more posts instead of just a member.
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> Thoughts?

The only feasable benefit that I can see of this is that Google will not crawl over the diaries page. It takes 5 minutes at the most to register for an account, so making them "members-only" is far from private.
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> Thats why I believe that IF there is a restriction placed on
> the diaries board (or just individual threads), it should be
> member w/ 50 or more posts instead of just a member.
>

agreed.
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> Thoughts?
>

The only downside I could think of is that Diaries wouldn't be backed up by Archive.org. For now, however that doesn't really matter, because for the past two years, Archive.org apparently hasn't been able to archive ZMD threads anyway. =P

Which brings me to ask: Besides ZD's robots.txt file (which is not currently set to block any robots from viewing anything in the wwwthreads directory), does the server currently have something set up to recognize connections by robots, and block them?
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> 1. I already have a blog. > 2. Not everyone here is a member of LiveJournal, and THIS is
> the audience I was posting to.
> So far, it seems like most of the people either agree, or
> are undecided. There have only been a couple who disagree
> with the idea.

I also have a Livejournal where I post stuff... and I know when to make my posts public, and when not to.

I didn't mean that people should just leave the diaries forum altogether, but they should know better than to post about sensitive stuff here. Stuff that can bite them back in the ass later, you know?

Anyway, sorry for my outburst.
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> The only feasable benefit that I can see of this is that
> Google will not crawl over the diaries page. It takes 5
> minutes at the most to register for an account, so making
> them "members-only" is far from private.

I can already stop the major search engines from crawling the diaries board. If you put up a robots.txt, the major ones will honor what you instruct it to do.
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> The only feasable benefit that I can see of this is that
> Google will not crawl over the diaries page. It takes 5
> minutes at the most to register for an account, so making
> them "members-only" is far from private.

Google can be blocked with a simple line in robots.txt, though.
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Don't you think asking for donations on a blog is a little pretentious and ridiculous?

To all who read my zmd diary entries: please donate because I pay for this out of my pocket.

To all who leeched off the site contributing to the 130 gig of bandwidth we did in the last 7 days: please donate beacuse I pay for this out of my pocket.

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> I can already stop the major search engines from crawling
> the diaries board. If you put up a robots.txt, the major
> ones will honor what you instruct it to do.

Point taken. Then I guess I see no reason for a members-only thing. I barely read Diaries to begin with, though.
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> when I said I have a blog, btw.. I didn't mean livejournal.
> I have my own blog.

Funny that, it looks JUST like a Livejournal to me.

Songlist: Check
Song lyrics: Check
Donation request: Check
Talking to yourself: Check
Quotes: Check
Notifying everyone of your birthday: Check

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> I host friends sites for free. I was kind of hoping one of
> them would donate.

Go to them and say....look, chip in you cheap bastard.
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> Go to them and say....look, chip in you cheap bastard.
>

I should. Especially since I also MADE the sites for free.. and they are pretty involved PHP/MySQL sites with admin panel included for posting/editing/deleting. Not to mention comment systems, etc.

I guess I'm "too nice"
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