get rid of links
I rarely play here anymore.
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Originally Posted by MEGAREDS
Posts are not "threads." The posts are ascribed to the indiviual users. There should be a difference between what is inside the posts -- what the users write -- and what is around them -- the advertising. The board is portraying users as endorsing products we've got no affiliation with. That's why it's wrong.
As to the legality of the inserted links, true, I have not gone back to look, but I doubt that the board has limitless authority to change the individual posts, at least not under the agreement that existed when I joined. The owners of the board would never be within their rights to modify an innocent post solely to suggest that the author was a child molester, for example -- that would be libel, no matter what the agreement says. Nor do I think the board's owers could ever claim copyright ownership over a poem, picture or story posted without explicit disclosure of the loss of the copyright to the work's author before he posted it -- and I've seen none. I've posted lots such stories and photos and, unless shown otherwise, I believe I own the copyrights to those works, even though I think the board has likely taken the right to use them. (If the board sold a photo I took to Car and Driver, for example, it would be violating my copyright to the photo, even though I've probably signed away any right to complain when the photo gets put on the site's home page.)
Am I going to sue? Of course not. Am I going to keep posting? That's the harder question.
-PS: LOL. Car and Driver is an advertised link. Who knew? I shoulda guessed.
As to the legality of the inserted links, true, I have not gone back to look, but I doubt that the board has limitless authority to change the individual posts, at least not under the agreement that existed when I joined. The owners of the board would never be within their rights to modify an innocent post solely to suggest that the author was a child molester, for example -- that would be libel, no matter what the agreement says. Nor do I think the board's owers could ever claim copyright ownership over a poem, picture or story posted without explicit disclosure of the loss of the copyright to the work's author before he posted it -- and I've seen none. I've posted lots such stories and photos and, unless shown otherwise, I believe I own the copyrights to those works, even though I think the board has likely taken the right to use them. (If the board sold a photo I took to Car and Driver, for example, it would be violating my copyright to the photo, even though I've probably signed away any right to complain when the photo gets put on the site's home page.)
Am I going to sue? Of course not. Am I going to keep posting? That's the harder question.
-PS: LOL. Car and Driver is an advertised link. Who knew? I shoulda guessed.
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In closing...
If a user decides to post anything on a public message board, it is public domain.
Any and all content on a public message board is the property of the webmaster, as in the one who owns the database. If he wants to edit/change/move/remove anything, that's his call and there isn't anything legal whatsoever anyone can do to the webmaster.
Last edited by LostAngel; Nov 1, 2005 at 10:29 PM.
Goh Mifune
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From: Green Oaks, IL
Originally Posted by LostAngel
In closing...
If a user decides to post anything on a public message board, it is public domain.
Any and all content on a public message board is the property of the webmaster, as in the one who owns the database. If he wants to edit/change/move/remove anything, that's his call and there isn't anything legal whatsoever anyone can do to the webmaster.
If a user decides to post anything on a public message board, it is public domain.
Any and all content on a public message board is the property of the webmaster, as in the one who owns the database. If he wants to edit/change/move/remove anything, that's his call and there isn't anything legal whatsoever anyone can do to the webmaster.
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It's quite simle acutally. The links are here to stay, whether you like it or not.
If you don't like it, take your little ball and go home.
The rest of us have learned to accept them, so should you.
Red: YOU have the coolest little smilies. Pass the popcorn, would ya?
If you don't like it, take your little ball and go home.
The rest of us have learned to accept them, so should you.
Red: YOU have the coolest little smilies. Pass the popcorn, would ya?
Originally Posted by BlueEyes
Just get firefox, and the javascript blocker plugin. Then you won't see them anymore, ecept in quotes, but they are just dead links.
Has the whole shit.
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From: Orlando, FL
Originally Posted by BigOLundh
javascript blocker will also prevent you from seeing many things u do need.
Last edited by Rhawb; Nov 3, 2005 at 12:23 AM.
Oh, now come on. It isn't that big of a deal. Just turn them off on your machine and forget about it.
Just add "0.0.0.0 rx8club.us.intellitxt.com" (no quotes) to the end of your hosts file and you won't be bothered by them any more.
No "script blockers" or anything like it is needed.
The hosts file is in the /system32/drivers/etc/ folder.
Just add "0.0.0.0 rx8club.us.intellitxt.com" (no quotes) to the end of your hosts file and you won't be bothered by them any more.
No "script blockers" or anything like it is needed.
The hosts file is in the /system32/drivers/etc/ folder.
Goh Mifune
Joined: Sep 2003
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From: Green Oaks, IL
Originally Posted by MazdaManiac
Just add "0.0.0.0 rx8club.us.intellitxt.com" (no quotes) to the end of your hosts file and you won't be bothered by them any more.
Originally Posted by MazdaManiac
Oh, now come on. It isn't that big of a deal. Just turn them off on your machine and forget about it.
Just add "0.0.0.0 rx8club.us.intellitxt.com" (no quotes) to the end of your hosts file and you won't be bothered by them any more.
No "script blockers" or anything like it is needed.
The hosts file is in the /system32/drivers/etc/ folder.
Just add "0.0.0.0 rx8club.us.intellitxt.com" (no quotes) to the end of your hosts file and you won't be bothered by them any more.
No "script blockers" or anything like it is needed.
The hosts file is in the /system32/drivers/etc/ folder.
some more help please, my hosts file seems to be an unknown file type, I can view and save it as a text file, but not as the unknown file type that it is
edit: nevermind, it took from the saved text file
Last edited by TeamRX8; Nov 17, 2005 at 01:08 PM.
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