On a forum I used to visit banner images weren't banned by use of software but as a well known "don't do that" sort of thing. Seemed to work great.
I know I'm doing my part to let it be known it's not welcome.
]]>When I originally posted this thread, the phpbb website was comprimised and they were restoring their server, so I didn't get to do a search for it myself. That's not a client side thingy is it? You were indirectly posting that the admins would have to install it, rightt?
I would install it if I knew how, but I'm not familiar with what's available to clients already using a phpBB server. I read through 8 pages of that link and couldn't find anything for phpBB clients. I barely get by with what little php/sql stuff I know already. I thought it was all server side. Help a brother out...
From their website, I did see that phbBB2 says, "Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options". I don't know what version we are using, and even if that applies to the client or even this topic. Most of those posts from that link you gave seemed to indicate that particular feature was "buggy", even up until the last post dated ~2 months ago.
Either way, I liked your response you gave to one of those sig banner guy's posts, something like "...it will probably get fixed on it's own if you change your sig. That's what causing your alsa mixer problem." I don't remember the thread or the topic (and I was already in the process of hitting the "back" button while the page was still rendering, until I saw you or Dusty's name). I thought your response was pretty damn funny...
This whole thing ain't that really big of a deal to me, especially if I have to go around using pop blockers or Arch has to upgrade their whole phpBB to implement it. I'll figure something out, like throwing duct tape across certain segments of my monitor which I know the sigs will render under. Everybody's got their own "flavor" to add to BBs, and I enjoy the diversity. All of it, including this particular banner man. I'm just too set in my ways when it comes to big banners. I'll manage somehow...
]]>[...]edit: I found the user I assume you guys are talking about, and it is as simple as rightclicking on the gigantic banner and choosing "Adblock this Image"... and abrakadabra... the Image is gone
Sweet. I'll try that out as soon as I get my Arch box running again. I'm using an older Netscape and I can't put firefox on without a "glibc" update.
Hopefully, the forums won't get too many of these massive graphic sigs running around. I hate to think I'll be playing "space invaders" on these forums by clicking "ad block" repetitively. Worse yet, what happens if a prior sig which I had blocked changes their URL, to circumvent the one already stored in firefox? More "space invaders", just when I thought I got high score and was finished...
]]>(Tools -> Extensions -> "Get more extensions" for a list of all the extensions available)
]]>just add the full url to the image you hate in your adblock list, and you will never see it again..
you can also add wildcards (*) to make the blocklist more powerfull...
edit: I found the user I assume you guys are talking about, and it is as simple as rightclicking on the gigantic banner and choosing "Adblock this Image"... and abrakadabra... the Image is gone
]]>I'd still like to see other images though, like avatars. Every time I see your "dancing" carton of cigarettes avatar, I feel like I'm back in a swank 70's movie theater.
Milk..
The method I proposed is a bit encompassing. For instance, blocking all images from imageshack.com might hose something I might want to see down the line. but..say i want to block imageshack.com/~naughtyimageuser
the /etc/hosts solution blocks them all, not just naughtyuser.
I think a more elegant solution would be achievable using something like squid proxy.
I wish firefox could block images from web directories, as well as image hosts themselves..that would be nice too.
]]>Anyway, i'd like an option to disable everything except plain text, and the tags for url and code, since that's close to plain text.
// STi
]]>I'd still like to see other images though, like avatars.
should be fine, as long as the images are not hosted on a common server. IE. If they use their own domain, and you don't ever think you will ever go to their domain..
like..um...doubleclick..
*wink*