h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It is extremely unlikely that offsite pictures could be reinstated due to abuse and copyright issues. However, I think there's cause for more - Congrats on another great collaborative entry, everyone!

Whoami?

Halleluja!

[Broken Link Removed by Moderator]

Praise be!

~jwf~

Offsite pictures will NEVER be reinstated, and to be honest it's something I approve of. They shouldn't be reinstated, because of copyright partly, but also because it's just not very nice for the people who host those pictures to have loads of bandwidth used just to show a picture on h2g2. I know many people had their own webspace accounts for such pictures, but some didn't.

Best to have hosting within h2g2 itself.

I don't really mind if they're offsite or onsite, as long as some mechanism exists to show them...!

JWF, The link leads to an error page:

"Document Not Found
Sorry, the document you requested is not available."

Works for me... what a photo!

shazz

I get the same message as Peet, do you have to be a member of a specific group to see the photo?

It is broken for me too, and I do Yahoo!



k

I was logged in to Yahoo, with my user name at the top of the screen, when I got the error...

Re: uploading pictures. We hear you, and we're looking into the cost of server space per user (etc) so we can work out how to implement user-uploading of images. It's something we definitely want to do.

Re: reactive moderation. We're in active dialogue about this sort of thing with the policy units. Don't think we're avoiding the issue!

Glad Shazz saw it anyway!

The link was fine, and I got to it, from here, as an identity not registered with Yahoo.

The apparently 'broken' link is really the web acting very clunky today, doing all sorts of wonky stuff and very slowly. Status bar keeps saying 'done' before things load, the 'internet' icon keeps getting replaced with 'unknown region' and my firewall and virus scans are flashing madly. There are 'poxy servers' everwhere!

Like I said, the link was fine and probably should not have been removed after only one try on a bad day. "If at first you dont suck seed, never try skydiving".

My general joy that URLs have returned will not allow me to grumble or get cranky over this loss of having you witness my 'epiphany', nor shall I besmurch this happy occassion by hurling phrases like 'trigger-happy moderator', but rather I shall be content and thankful for the larger small mercies.

peace
jwf

"Like I said, the link was fine and probably should not have been removed after only one try on a bad day."

In this game, you only get one shot. C'est la vie.

Make mine a brandy


k

"Couldn't you persuade Jim to write a script to recover pre-BBC URLs which were moderated out of the backlog...?"

Assuming the original text still exists, you'd still have to go through each post that was moderated for URL content and check the links by hand, so it's not a trivial exercise.

However, were we to get reactive moderation (i.e. things only get moderated if complained about) then that might be an option.

Sounds like some good ideas are coming up but also a lot of very hard work!

Mel

to the PTB good weekend all

*bookmarks*

URLs here to stay - excellent news
Waz

for links, + for all the exciting words, news and thoughts on languages and reactive moderation.
*keeps fingers crossed*


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