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Turk

04:14 / 09.06.02

Would it be too much to ask for more options to fill in when it comes to member profiles? Websites, occupations, personal comments, attractiveness and so on.

Tom Coates

08:03 / 09.06.02

I don't think it's too much to ask, but it might be too much to expect of Cal at the moment. Bear with us. I know it seems to be taking forever, but we've got some quite radical changes we want to make and it's going to require him to have a good clear week or so...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

17:54 / 09.06.02

Does anyone else think Tom is getting quite Grant Morrison-ish now in his posts?
"Yeah, in year five Barbelith takes a radical change in direction as we introduce the eagerly awaited knitting forum and people are only allowed to post if the first write a thousand word essay on their favourite cheese. And a beloved fiction suit DIES!"

Rev. Jesse

20:32 / 09.06.02

At least he's not asking us in the Magick ghetto to jerk off for the board.

Not recently, at least.

In other news, I don't see the point in more profile information. Who's going to put down "fuguly" or anything less that "super model beatiful" on an attractiveness query? People can put up their own sites and link them from the profile if they want to say more. I'd say that our webmasters' time is better spent doing other stuff.

Like drinking and dancing.

-Jesse

Tom Coates

07:54 / 10.06.02

I like your style. PS - if you start a thread WRITE A GODDAM SUMMARY.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:22 / 10.06.02

Who's going to put down... anything less that "super model beatiful" on an attractiveness query?

Me. An attractiveness query would be a great fuckwit detector. "Oh, wwell, you would disagree with so-and-so: ze's a 9 and you're only a 4."

PLONK!

Hehehehe.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:58 / 11.06.02

My looks frighten small children and dogs. Mostly dogs.

But I'd never put that in my profile. Just a pic of me as a Naked Washing Machine Boy looking for a hug.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

13:54 / 11.06.02

Lada:

No.

Tom's trying to provide us with more toys. At the same time, he's trying to get us to be intelligent about the functionalities we already have and never use - like linking direct to posts and summaries.

And lastly, he's insisting, gently, that we not clutter up this hard-created, time-consuming cyburban development with the intellectual equivalent of MacDonalds wrappers.

Sounds good to me.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:38 / 11.06.02

I don't think we really want owt in the profiles except the basics, really: location, email and a link to a homepage. If you want to say more then you can easily run up a little Geocities site or something.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

19:02 / 11.06.02

Always remembering that someone may use the data you supply to be a pain in the ass.

The Apple-Picker

21:40 / 12.06.02

Erm. I think D was kidding about that "attractiveness" remark.

I could be wrong, though. But as a 10, I'd highly doubt it.

Turk

00:26 / 13.06.02

Yeah, I was kidding about that bit. Truth be told if I was being entirely serious, I'd have asked for a 'measurements' option instead. Something to let the guys really know who to listen to.

Wrecks City-Zen

00:51 / 12.07.02

Does anyone else think Tom is getting quite Grant Morrison-ish now in his posts?

Has anyone ever met Tom? How do we know he isn't Grant Morrison?

Nah...

Tom Coates

11:06 / 12.07.02

Everyone's met me. I'm a reclusive genius. I'm probably a super-villain. Super-villians were always the brilliant ones who got beaten up at school...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

18:10 / 13.07.02

[yorkshire man]

I used to dream of being worthy of being beaten up at school...

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