[Jeff Vader]

The problem is that not only do you have to delete the posts (which is easy, any moderator with access can do it) -- you also have to ban and delete the bot.  And that's something that 1) takes several clicks to accomplish; and 2) can only be done by an admin.

are you telling me that global mods cant ban?

We're global moderators, meaning we can moderate on all the public boards. You don't see regular moderators banning people from their boards either.

[pecenipicek]

admins choice if you ask me.



my opinion on the matter of banning stuff however is that global mods should also have the ability to do so.



(from personal experience tho, boards i admin are mostly single or dual admin boards, unlike HLP)

[Niue]

 

[Scotty]

Would that be -cos(-TT/2), or did I make a mistake somewhere?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

It's always 0 or infinity.

[Herra Tohtori]

 

Well it's a partial derivate by x from a function that doesn't have a variable x; evaluated when x is 2pi - but there is no x in the function itself anywhere, which means the answer is always 1 0, the slope coefficient of a horizontal line graph...

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Well it's a partial derivate by x from a function that doesn't have a variable x; evaluated when x is 2pi - but there is no x in the function itself anywhere, which means the answer is always 1, the slope coefficient of a horizontal line graph...

The slope of a horizontal line... wouldn't that be 0?

[Macfie]

Since slope is the run divded by the rise and the rise is zero the slope would be infinite.

[General Battuta]

Since slope is the run divded by the rise and the rise is zero the slope would be infinite.

I'm pretty sure the slope of a horizontal line actually is zero. Vertical lines have infinite slope. I think your run/rise is backwards; slope is usually delta Y over delta X. 

[Macfie]

You are correct, I had the formula backward.  So it would be zero.

[Lucika]

Yay for nerdy offtopics!

[Herra Tohtori]

Yeah, my bad. It's still a trick question, though, unless I'm reading something else wrong...

[headdie]

any further administrator comments on whether SMF 2 is the way to go?

[rev_posix]

any further administrator comments on whether SMF 2 is the way to go?

Has anyone looked at the existing modules for anti-spam?  It doesn't appear that there are any installed at the moment, but most of them do seem to need at least 1.1.12 (current installed version is 1.1.11).

Personally, I'm hesitant to install anything on any system that's an RC for a production system, ifyaknowwhatImean...

[Galemp]

Ironically bots would be more likely to get that right than humans. I prefer KittenAuth, where you have to pick the pictures of kittens out of an array of other cute fluffy animals.

[Goober5000]

KittenAuth is awesome, but last time I visited their site I couldn't download their code.  All their site links were broken.

As for SMF 2 RC, http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/ is another forum I go to pretty frequently, and they use SMF 2 RC3.

[Shade]

While we're on the topic, I just want to say Good Job to the supermods. On a couple of occasions now we've had bots active when no admins were around to bring down the banhammer, but the global mods have been fast enough on the trigger that you barely noticed the posts before they were deleted.

[General Battuta]

Thank you.

[General Battuta]

Two more today. Got them within ten seconds of their posts, I think, but it's getting to be annoying. Doubly so for the admins, I imagine.

[Dilmah G]

Gargh, this is getting absolutely ridiculous.