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Integration of the DearDiary system with the e-mail system is in progress. You might notice some glitches – I should be on to them, but if they persist beyond the next hour or so then please let me know 🙂 [EDIT]: It seems notifies are not working properly still. I am looking into it.
Hi All, Matt here. This is just a quick note to say that I am in the process of moving house at the moment – packing has begun, we pick up keys tomorrow and the move itself happens on the 23rd. This means that for the most part i’m going to be off the net…
Atomic Albums search engine was one potential cause of a problem, this problem (displaying all pictures on the entire site if no search criteria specified) is now fixed, and a better way of displaying the pictures will be implemented in the next few days…. Sorry again. Steve.
I forgot to add in the last entry, if we can actually generate some guaranteed revenue to cover the costs of the site, we can actually put in place a decent affiliate program. To that extent we would also plan on implementing something like this; DiaristA tells her friend, DiaristB about DearDiary.NET (or AtomIC Systems)….
I think the reader comment problem should now be fixed – I had a PHP setting that I had missed when I switched servers so that it forced people to use cookies. Unfortunately there’s some personal firewalls and such like out there that feel ANY cookie is an invasion of privacy and therefore block them,…
Or, you just get a 403, Forbidden error message… Yeah, sorry. The server was recently compromised by some unscrupulous bots that exploit weaknesses in various scripts that are available on the internet. Usually phpBB, but the list is growing. I’ve therefore tightened up the security settings for the server, but it appears these settings are…
I agree that it is too much for one person to do. I’ll give it more thought, but one suggestion would be to form some sort of committee to handle such things. By gathering a group of users who are familiar with the system, you would have a democratic way to resolve disputes and determine if policies are being broken.
Hope this helps!
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a group of persons helping to resolve disputes is a good idea, however, choosing who would be in this group will be a bit difficult. perhaps a stronger rule such as the following will deter those who hide behind a monitor and keyboard from taking it as far as what i and other users have had to deal with recently: i feel that once there is valid proof that any user has crossed from online to offline to harass another diarist/user…that person should automatically lose their privileges to write at this site. there have been many many arguments, disputes, etc, etc, etc, between diarists here and eventually they came to a resolution. noone, however, should have to deal with harassment at their workplace. this entire situation forced me to involve security, my boss, and staff members. it also affected the library’s homepage. our MIS department decided (for safety’s sake since i had forwarded the threat made towards lilith to security because it was the SAME voice that left messages on my machine) to exclude helpful contact information for the different departments. all staff names and phone numbers are now no longer available to students/faculty/employees where i work, because someone decided to step over the line.
i also believe that the number of diaries one person can have should be limited.
I agree with kaycee. Some sort of mini court. To decide what’s going on with the situation, and how to peacefully resolve it.
Mmmmm.. Hard question. I personally feel the responsibility for who gets busted for what falls to the site owners and operators. Unfortunately, it’s their site, their web space and a service they offer. I’d be all for the idea of judge and jury except for one fact. Impartiality. It doesn’t exist in this forum. To many people dislike to many others. Even the way people have responded to a certain DD being absentee is indicative of that fact.
I’m sorry, but impartiality is not possible. There’s to much sniping and cliquish behaviour to achieve that, so, still, it’s up to one or two people to determine how their site is run. Not the community as a whole. If so many of these people couldn’t even resolve their between user issues without resorting to petty name calling, not to mention the root of this issue, stalker like behaviour, then how would it be possible to gain a fair, court-like system?