The site has now migrated to Xenforo 2. If you see any issues with the forum operation, please post them in the feedback thread.
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Since it has happened MULTIPLE times now, I want to be very clear about this. You do not get to abandon an account and create a new one. You do not get to pass an account to someone else and create a new one. If you do so anyway, you will be banned for creating sockpuppets.
Due to the actions of particularly persistent spammers and trolls, we will be banning disposable email addresses from today onward.
The rules regarding NSFW links have been updated. See here for details.
A setting, necessary to XF's functionality, had been set when I installed the system circa April, but not made persistent. Thus, when the system rebooted recently it snapped back.
Whatever changes Xon has made to threadmarks have not yet filtered back into the upstream version. I'll be updating it when updates are available.
I don't think that kind of thing is really possible; only the admins have any kind of permissions-granting interface at all, so there's no real way...
No real idea. I kind of doubt it; things like Threadmarks usually act by injecting their code straight into the generated stream, rather than sanely by modifying the template system.
Threadmarks has been updated, and now has a "mark in own thread" permission. Therefore, the ability of users to add threadmarks in other people's threads is now gone. If there's some compelling reason to add them without just asking the person who owns the thread, message a mod.
We also now have threadmarks.
It seems that the publicly-available version of this is an early and unsophisticated version; Xon at SV apparently has a fork, and has said he'll soon be merging that back into the original version. Until this happens, the permissions on threadmarks are a little...
There are now tags.
The XenTags addon is fairly complex and has a bunch of options/permissions I haven't yet fully gone through. Please do report any issues.
Tags seem like a good idea, though I've never made much use of them personally. My only compunction is that NSFW tags might break the UI separation between NSFW and non-NSFW content. But then, that's why we've got the prefixes.