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I figured it had been added by the spell check host. I'm not sure. Grey could answer better than I could on the legalize of it. It appears the banners I've seen are for non-profit companies but DC might not care.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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It's not so much a matter of legality, as one of what would tempt DC's lawyers to cause grief for a site like LW.net. We rely on extensive "fair use" of DC material and trademarks, and on their being lenient about fan art and fan fiction.
In the past, any banner advertising has been a red flag in front of those charging bulls -- when they look at a site at all, that is. Whole individual-fan sites have been taken down because of it. Non-profit or for-profit, doesn't matter -- it's third-party ads that get their goat.
The spell check is well-buried, but if it won't run without pulling up banner ads, I'd suggest that you remove or replace it.
From: Starhaven Consulate, City of Angels | Registered: Jul 2003
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I've noticed the only time it'll pull up the banner ad is if you are actually spell-checking. If you hit it with having anything to check then no banner shows.
As much as I'd hate to get rid of Gary's hard work I'd agree with Steve. Get rid of it. With the reboot and all the effort going into it (just the names of Waid/Kitson alone) we don't want to give DC any reason to issue us a cease and desist.
From: Utah | Registered: Jul 2003
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Sorry Lou and Gary. I wouldn't have even brought it up but banner ads, especially on sites like ours, just are too scary to chance. I'd rather copy and paste my posts into Word or something else and do a spellcheck than risk a chance of losing the site.
Everything seems to be going great guns so far Gary. Anything new we should be watching for with 6.7.2?
quote:- The Accelerator should now run properly under PHP 5. - Added some checks to stop the error resulting from topic move notification emails from being sent to unregistered / deleted users. - Recent Visitors should now more accurately count visits to private forums from users in certain configurations. - The mass mail tool should now always respect the user's opt-in/opt-out preference. - The private message notification icon should now appear if you have registration suspended. - Added the PM notification icon to the Today's Active Topics page when it is NOT requested from the Accelerator. - The suggested time offset on the registration page is now calculated correctly. - Avatars are now saved properly during initial registration. You may need to update your Avatar Settings to correct this problem fully. - A portion of Javascript code on the FAQ page now no longer prints at the top of the HTML output. - The initial setup routine now properly uses the Variables Path for certain checks. - Fixed an Accelerator check that could result in a 404 error when running in spider friendly mode and compatibility mode
From: San Diego, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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No worries Scott. I totally understand why it had to go. No need to give DC's lawyers anything to gnash their teeth over. You're right, of course. It's better to spell check a post in Word or some other program (Google makes a fairly good spell checker for individual words and short phrases) than risk losing the board entirely because of the banner ads.
And Gary, so far everything seems to be running properly for me too.
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From: The Loser Cave | Registered: Jul 2003
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The main page still displays the generic Sun Boy icon at the top, instead of my own avatar. (I changed it and changed it back, then logged out and back in, no difference.) Did you mention that the next software upgrade was expected to correct that database glitch? It doesn't seem to have done so.
From: Starhaven Consulate, City of Angels | Registered: Jul 2003
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That was back when I thought it was our software that was the problem or that I would able to solve the problem on my end.
Recent information by PowWeb has given me a greater understanding of what the problem is.
Our website is being spread across several servers. PowWeb did this to us back in late July the week before Comic-Con. Some of the files in the Member's folder above the root have been permanately effected by this change. Those of us who attempted to log on those fateful evenings.
And right now most of our problems can be linked to this. In fact, the recent slowdowns and missing pages are due to the fact that they are either still working on spreading us or adding other sites to our virtual servers or something.
Anyway, I was hoping an upgrade would knock some sense into the avatar issue, but it did not.
From: San Diego, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Nightcrawler: Some of the files in the Member's folder above the root have been permanately effected by this change. Those of us who attempted to log on those fateful evenings.
Wait... d'you mean that, even when you finally manage to escape this godforsaken host, all the glitches they've caused might still be around?
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quote:Originally posted by Reboot: Wait... d'you mean that, even when you finally manage to escape this godforsaken host, all the glitches they've caused might still be around?
Based on the fact that they still existed on the temp board I set up on Legionpics.net, yes.
From: San Diego, CA | Registered: Jul 2003
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