Why was my Signature Changer Program thread locked?

[VBboy]

I suggested here that I can write a program which will allow the user to change his or her signature automatically at most ONCE a day. What was wrong with that?

Why not at least reply in the thread why it's not desired? Many users asked me why it was locked and whether I was still going to do it.
Thanks

And new features bring more subscribers, isn't that your goal? 🙂

I'm not the mod who locked it, but I'll ask and see if I can get a response.

Edit: According to the mod who locked it, it was locked because it belonged in a different forum. Try posting it in Software.

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[Anubis]

im guessing cause the mods didnt like your idea. and thought it was unapproiate

 

[ProviaFan]

That might be a cool capability to have. Why they didn't like it I have no idea. 😕

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1
im guessing cause the mods didnt like your idea. and thought it was unapproiate

Well, although they don't owe me anything, it would still be nice for them to explain why. I'm sure someone else would just do it without asking, and explaining why it's not allowed would set others on the right track too.

 

[olds]

How would you do it. Some kind of script? My guess would be they (Zuni) don't want "outside influences" messing with the board/software/etc.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
How would you do it. Some kind of script? My guess would be they (Zuni) don't want "outside influences" messing with the board/software/etc.

1. It would be a Visual Basic program, not a "script".
2. It's not messing, it would work the same way as you manually changing your profile, just like thye have software to post and monitor listing on Ebay.
3. Fine, I won't do it, I don't give a flying shoe.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: VBboy

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
How would you do it. Some kind of script? My guess would be they (Zuni) don't want "outside influences" messing with the board/software/etc.

1. It would be a Visual Basic program, not a "script".
2. It's not messing, it would work the same way as you manually changing your profile, just like thye have software to post and monitor listing on Ebay.
3. Fine, I won't do it, I don't give a flying shoe.

I don't speak for Anandtech. That was just my opinion.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I actually mentioned the same thing in the OS forum quite a while back, in the form of probably a shell script or something, I know curl can definitely do most of the work, I just never got all that motivated about doing it.

 

[BatmanNate]

I think that sounds like a really cool idea.

 

[VBboy]

Examples would be... (italic text is automatically changed daily, once week, etc):

Quote of the day: In Soviet Russia, your signature changes you!
Ah, I love Mondays!
I will be on vacation in 4 days.

And nothing like:

The time now is 3:40pm
My computer has been up for 10390.. 10391.. 10392.. seconds
FTP status: up

(because it wouldn't let you change it more than once a day)

 

[sash1]

I dun see the problem, sounds like a good idea

And isn't there a program that will bump your thread every four hours so you dun have to (in FS/FT)? I beleive I've seen a few people do this.

~Aunix

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: VBboy
Examples would be... (italic text is automatically changed daily, once week, etc):

Quote of the day: In Soviet Russia, your signature changes you!
Ah, I love Mondays!
I will be on vacation in 4 days.

And nothing like:

The time now is 3:40pm
My computer has been up for 10390.. 10391.. 10392.. seconds
FTP status: up

I was gonna use fortune for it. That's what I do for my email .sig, every hour cron runs a little script which gets a fortune output of limited size and sticks it formatted with other stuff into ~/.signature. It's pretty cool. Gives people (and yourself) a reason to actually read the damn thing 😉

(because it wouldn't let you change it more than once a day)

Bah, software-enforced limits suck, put the responsibility upon the user. And you can't lock someone out of a shell script like you can with a compiled language 🙂

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Bah, software-enforced limits suck, put the responsibility upon the user. And you can't lock someone out of a shell script like you can with a compiled language 🙂

Well, I would TRUST the user not to use it too often to avoid overloading the poor Anandtech server, but I would also BACK IT UP with a software-enforced limit 🙂