AO - Max security for a connected world

no fair deleting posts Nihil, let's leave all this up for the world to see - nothing bad will come of it, only good.

What posts got deleted?

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Originally Posted by |3lack|ce

Meh. Go advanced instead of 'post quick' - made me type this all over again:

That one popup was enough to make me block 'em here forever. It's a minor annoyance yes, but an annoyance nonetheless, and one that will drive off touchy users. I'd strongly suggest ditching it. Malware, I'm seeing fastclick and doubleclick loading quite a bit. Granted this site doesn't have as much as other ad run sites like say..neopets or something, but being a Security site, it should have ZERO. My offered solution to that is to screen any and all advertisements before allowing them onto the site, period. Also double check existing ads, as well as the site itself to make sure that no malware is being distributed to the users, even benign ones.

Remember, you're representing yourself as Maximum Security for a Connected World. That means this site should be 100% malware free forever, bar none, period, even on download links you offer and advertisements that keep you afloat.

On the warm, fuzzy side - thanks for listening. The fact that you care enough to answer personally and address issues goes a very long way with me. I'll post more here because of it, most especially if I see resulting change from user suggestions. I do realize and keep in mind that you cannot please everyone all the time, but do your best ;)

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thanks, I'm trying and will continue to. I don't like pop-ups either, but the sad fact is I don't carry all that much weight where such decisions are concerned.

Thought I'd seen a nihil post right above yours but after my prev disappear. I could be mistaken, I'm on flu meds...

Understood your efforts to halt something that will make the company money will be difficult at best, but worth the fight if you justify it by saying 'would you rather lose your membership, then wind up losing all your advertising dollars'? I still picture in my mind the nice fat offer JP(original) got for the site from JupMedia and how Jup thought it was a worthwhile investment. It's my sincerest hope they've made a truckload of money off the site, and that they will continue to do so, but not at the expense of the members which are the site's lifeblood.

My own big thing of late is game reviews. I'm wanting to set myself up writing articles on various gaming packages for major sites. I've had one taker so far, but I wound up buying the software at my own expense (which must be stopped since I'm giving them free advertising with a review), wound up in a war with their tech support over that game, getting a replacement after 6 months of no fix, and finally reviewing the new software instead. Heck of a start eh? Perhaps as I do these reviews I'll mirror them across both forums - it can't hurt me given the popularity of each, most definitely can't hurt the companies that will ask me to do their reviews, and is good for both forums in that most-necessary item that is site content.

Most of my tutorials on installations I just stopped doing after the 300th message of "You're an idiot, and this is stupid, anyone can install all of that without a problem so you're threads are pointless".

the BOFH thing I did had about the same reaction in private as opposed to people in public who seemed to like it. I deleted the messages in my inbox so I don't recall who said all of it, but it was tiring to go through that every month and delete or respond with "what didn't you like about it?" and not ever get a reply.

If you really want, I'll do it again, for both tutorials and Bastard stories I wrote.

Heh. Gore, 'tis a thankless job at best you undertake. Always remember that for each person who nukes your creativity, there's Ten out there who silently appreciate what you did. Having found myself in that very same most tenuous of positions in the past, I can honestly say that being unpopular and getting nuked on all the time sucks. The best thing I could say when all was said and done was 'I persevered, I did my best, and left my mark there because of it.' Remember the satisfaction you derive from doing a job 'gratis' is the fact you did it, and must be derived from one's own self, not from others. If you're looking for a pat on the back, you're in the wrong place..

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Thought I'd seen a nihil post right above yours but after my prev disappear. I could be mistaken, I'm on flu meds...

Understood your efforts to halt something that will make the company money will be difficult at best, but worth the fight if you justify it by saying 'would you rather lose your membership, then wind up losing all your advertising dollars'? I still picture in my mind the nice fat offer JP(original) got for the site from JupMedia and how Jup thought it was a worthwhile investment. It's my sincerest hope they've made a truckload of money off the site, and that they will continue to do so, but not at the expense of the members which are the site's lifeblood.

My own big thing of late is game reviews. I'm wanting to set myself up writing articles on various gaming packages for major sites. I've had one taker so far, but I wound up buying the software at my own expense (which must be stopped since I'm giving them free advertising with a review), wound up in a war with their tech support over that game, getting a replacement after 6 months of no fix, and finally reviewing the new software instead. Heck of a start eh? Perhaps as I do these reviews I'll mirror them across both forums - it can't hurt me given the popularity of each, most definitely can't hurt the companies that will ask me to do their reviews, and is good for both forums in that most-necessary item that is site content.

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I admit to feeling a certain amount of futility where fighting over advertisements is concerned. I understand they pay my salary, but I'm also the member of the company who has his finger on the pulse of the users to the greatest degree. I interact with them every day, pretty much all day, seven days a week. So based on that, I feel like I know what the users will and will not tolerate, better than anybody else in the company. I do what I can.

*cackle* /me points up to his previous post and addresses it to JPNyc as well.

Even paid, sometimes it's like ramming your head into a brick wall. This insight is quite invaluable to the membership though - it helps to understand why things don't happen quite the way we want them to sometimes. Don't go to the well too often on it though please.

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Originally Posted by |3lack|ce

Heh. Gore, 'tis a thankless job at best you undertake. Always remember that for each person who nukes your creativity, there's Ten out there who silently appreciate what you did. Having found myself in that very same most tenuous of positions in the past, I can honestly say that being unpopular and getting nuked on all the time sucks. The best thing I could say when all was said and done was 'I persevered, I did my best, and left my mark there because of it.' Remember the satisfaction you derive from doing a job 'gratis' is the fact you did it, and must be derived from one's own self, not from others. If you're looking for a pat on the back, you're in the wrong place..

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I knew that ;) I really should do some more, which I probably will, I've been thinking about doing one for Solaris like I was saying because it's kind of neat and not everyone has that.

And the new FreeBSD should be out soon, so it may be cool to do one on that. Or maybe rebuilding the whole thing from source could be an idea. I mean it's documented but the docs don't always make it work right so it may be another idea.

And I've got a good 3 years of pent up aggression I could work out electronically. So the Bastard admin from Michigan may rise from the dead again to feed on the lusers once again...lol.

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Originally Posted by |3lack|ce

*cackle* /me points up to his previous post and addresses it to JPNyc as well.

Even paid, sometimes it's like ramming your head into a brick wall. This insight is quite invaluable to the membership though - it helps to understand why things don't happen quite the way we want them to sometimes. Don't go to the well too often on it though please.

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promise, I only will when I find myself tempted to pull out the .3006 and climb a tower:D