Welcome to the MacNN Forums.

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

You are here: MacNN Forums > Community > Feedback > PC Users and FUD - A way to stop it?

PC Users and FUD - A way to stop it?
Thread Tools
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: DC
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 11, 2002, 12:06 AM
 
I don't suppose there is a way to block someone on a pc from logging into the forums? I mean, they can read, but not post.

Is there a way to detect a windows browser and just not allow a login?

I for one am getting sick of all the pc jerks coming and posting FUD.
I realize this is drastic, but it would eliminate half the forum's problems in one fell swoop.

Can anyone look into this?
     
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: DC
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 11, 2002, 01:09 AM
 
Originally posted by digimage:
I don't suppose there is a way to block someone on a pc from logging into the forums? I mean, they can read, but not post.

Is there a way to detect a windows browser and just not allow a login?

I for one am getting sick of all the pc jerks coming and posting FUD.
I realize this is drastic, but it would eliminate half the forum's problems in one fell swoop.

Can anyone look into this?
why? can't handle it?
half the forums problems in one fell swoop? what about the other half-wienerwads like yourself?
     
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: College Park, MD
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 11, 2002, 01:12 AM
 
That'd be bad.
I happen to like to be able to moderate the forum from work, or school, or anywhere else where I don't have my laptop or another mac handy.
My website
Help me pay for college. Click for more info.
     
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: DC
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 11, 2002, 07:35 AM
 
Originally posted by Fagetool:


why? can't handle it?
half the forums problems in one fell swoop? what about the other half-wienerwads like yourself?
I can handle it fine. I'm just sick of PC a$$holes taking over a mac forum.
Wienerwad? Wow! I'm a wienerwad?

At least I'm not an a$$hole troll.
     
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Orange County, CA
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 12, 2002, 01:40 AM
 
Some of our own are just as guilty of posting FUD.
     
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: DC
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 12, 2002, 08:53 AM
 
.
(Last edited by digimage; Sep 12, 2002 at 11:28 AM. )
     
Baninated
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: The Moon
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 13, 2002, 04:41 AM
 
I just say we get together as a forum and kill Fagtool.

:-)
     
Mac Elite
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: CO
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 13, 2002, 08:44 AM
 
Gosh I'm such a newbie...

Can anyone expand ''FUD'' for me? ( For Ur Disinformation ? )
     
Banned
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: DC
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 13, 2002, 11:33 PM
 
Originally posted by Love Calm Quiet:
Gosh I'm such a newbie...

Can anyone expand ''FUD'' for me? ( For Ur Disinformation ? )
Shut up TN.
     
Admin Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: New Yawk
Status: Offline
Reply With Quote
Sep 16, 2002, 11:05 AM
 
I already locked a bunch of threads. There are a lot of people who read the forums from Windows machines, and even if it were feasible, making that kind of blanket ban would be totally insane and lock out a lot of our legitimate readership.
"Do not be too positive about things. You may be in error." (C. F. Lawlor, The Mixicologist)
     
   
Thread Tools
Forum Links
Forum Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On
Top
Privacy Policy
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:52 PM.
All contents of these forums © 1995-2011 MacNN. All rights reserved.
Branding + Design: www.gesamtbild.com
vBulletin v.3.8.7 © 2000-2011, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd., Content Relevant URLs by vBSEO 3.3.2