Hey, so Minecraft's mouse sensitivity option is a percentage instead of a number value (ie "3.0") like with other games (Quake, Half Life). This is bugging me because I'd like to set the sensitivity exactly the same. Anyone know of a way you can figure out what the equivalent setting value is in Minecraft?
Hi, this might be because I've done something wrong here - on my system this mod pushes back the fog but doesn't actually increase the horizon at which chunks are rendered, so the effect is that of a clearer horizon not a further away horizon.
Same here. It appears the mod in its current form does not work.
Is there anything wrong with having a seed input? All I'm getting out of your story is that you don't appreciate the idea of sharing cool sights and scenery you found in some randomly generated world with other people. Spawn points may be random (to some degree, I'm not sure how much), but world coordinates are not, so everything generated with that seed can still be found in the exact same location by any other player. If you're wondering why seed input is a big deal, it's not. It's just a small feature that has its use but doesn't effect the gameplay experience of Minecraft very much. The reason why people have been hyper about it in the forums is because it's still a brand-new feature. Give it a couple of months and people wont be dedicating whole threads to endless lists of seeds people came up with.
Okay, so perhaps moderators are more tied up with taking care of recent situations and less available to take care of Herobrine threads. That sounds like a natural consequence. I don't mean to sound rude, but perhaps you're overreacting. If you don't like Herobrine threads, just stay away from them. I don't think Herobrine has priority over phishing schemes. Everyone is working hard to find a solution to things, hopefully bringing everything back to normal, and I get the impression that you're simply being impatient about it. No offense intended.
OK, I see your point here, but it is important to think like a spammer. Most spammers don't do things directly, they use a program that does it for them. They might have certain inputs, such as "let's target this site" or manually creating login ID's to circumvent the captchas, but the program does the rest. If said spammer finds out that some people are getting around this by limiting 15 posts in an hour, he simply changes one line in his code to wait for one hour before continuing to make replies. Yes, this could give enough time for a moderator to find out and delete his account, but really how active are the moderators? It's not like this forum is wikipedia or something.
In the meantime, really active chatters who are trying to get their mods updated or discuss issues and need to make a lot of posts now get frustrated because they've run out of posts to make and have to wait an hour to continue. Not to mention the newbies who need to post links/images to describe things within the forum now can't do it without much effort.
Okay, spammers may use software to reduce the effort involved. But that doesn't reduce the time involved. Any posts made with software to try and get up to the post threshold would be very obviously spam, and it should be easier for a moderator to get on top of it BEFORE any actual spam links or images are posted. Whether or not forums moderators are active or numerous enough is a different issue, and one that's being addressed currently. If we do have sufficient mod activity, this should work.
The posting limits as I suggested might have to be adjusted. 15 posts in one hour is quite a bit, but that limit might be a tad too restrictive. 15 posts in half an hour is plenty I think. That's one post every two minutes. Nobody has any business posting that much. Also the threshold could be made a bit higher if necessary. It IS and inconvenience for new users, but as I added to the original post, even that isn't necessarily an entirely bad thing. As I've said, this isn't a perfect or foolproof solution, but I think if implemented well it could only help the forums. If we were able to successfully stop spammers before they were able to post any of the links or images they rely on, with any amount of consistency, it may even make it not worth their time to keep trying.
Even if it is not possible to post on the same topic 15 times in a row, you could post 1 reply on 15 separate topics, which should definitely be possible. One thing about spammers is that "making it hard for them" doesn't actually solve anything, because they don't care how much work it takes, especially if they use a program to do it for them. But it almost always does affect users, since it would thus make it just as hard for them to do something legitimate.
FYI - I am a linux sysadmin who sub-specializes in security issues as my profession. Don't mean to sound like I know it all or anything, but this is a common issue with many different forums...
I wrote this before reading your comment but I will post it as a reply.
Allow me to explain this in a different manner. Lets assume that the forum has limitations on how many posts you can make within a certain amount of time, which it probably ought to anyways. Lets say you can't make more than 15 posts in one hour. I'm just making these numbers up; they might need adjusting. That means it would take a spammer at least one hour, in addition to the time to create an account and etc., to be able to post a malicious/inappropriate link or image. Not only would that give moderators a full hour to notice and take care of the issue (unless they worked hard enough to make relevant comments on things, which isn't such a bad thing), but it also greatly increases the effort involved for the spammer as well as reducing profitability of their time spent.
I disagree that it would not be of any benefit for the reasons I stated above. I don't see how spammers could not care how much work it takes. Spamming, by it's nature, relies on its ease and extremely low cost.
That's easy to circumvent. E.G.: I'm a spammer. I spam some topic with 15 posts in a row. Now I can do hyperlinks/images! Easy.
I addressed this in the post right above your own. It shouldn't even be possible to post 15 posts in a row, though I don't know whether it is or not as I've never tried.
I've posted a suggestion in the Forum Discussion forum that may help to remedy this issue if applied to images, as well as help protect the forums against malicious links.
Sound maybe rude but block Russian/Chinese characters for newly registered users.
This should probably be discussed in a separate topic.
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Also, maybe a limit for images too? To prevent the ever so annoying porn spammers.
Why not? Images are urls too, so it may just proceed naturally.
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And besides, what the OP said will most likely have the spammers spam MORE than less, because they'll just put one-word crap or something to abuse the posting. (Like having 10 posts of ... in one topic, or spam the post new thread buton.) Which is more likely to made more people madder than it once was.
This would make it much more obvious right away who are spammers, and make it easier to flag their posts for moderators to take care of them, all while being without the risk of any malicious/inappropriate links until they are able to reach that threshold. And the forum ought to have some limitations already set up as to how many topics you can create within a certain amount of time or posts within the same thread etc., though I've never attempted to test said limitations. There is no perfect solution, but I believe this would make it significantly more work for a spammer to be able to post something that could be legitimately dangerous on the forums.
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Same here. It appears the mod in its current form does not work.
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Okay, spammers may use software to reduce the effort involved. But that doesn't reduce the time involved. Any posts made with software to try and get up to the post threshold would be very obviously spam, and it should be easier for a moderator to get on top of it BEFORE any actual spam links or images are posted. Whether or not forums moderators are active or numerous enough is a different issue, and one that's being addressed currently. If we do have sufficient mod activity, this should work.
The posting limits as I suggested might have to be adjusted. 15 posts in one hour is quite a bit, but that limit might be a tad too restrictive. 15 posts in half an hour is plenty I think. That's one post every two minutes. Nobody has any business posting that much. Also the threshold could be made a bit higher if necessary. It IS and inconvenience for new users, but as I added to the original post, even that isn't necessarily an entirely bad thing. As I've said, this isn't a perfect or foolproof solution, but I think if implemented well it could only help the forums. If we were able to successfully stop spammers before they were able to post any of the links or images they rely on, with any amount of consistency, it may even make it not worth their time to keep trying.
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I wrote this before reading your comment but I will post it as a reply.
Allow me to explain this in a different manner. Lets assume that the forum has limitations on how many posts you can make within a certain amount of time, which it probably ought to anyways. Lets say you can't make more than 15 posts in one hour. I'm just making these numbers up; they might need adjusting. That means it would take a spammer at least one hour, in addition to the time to create an account and etc., to be able to post a malicious/inappropriate link or image. Not only would that give moderators a full hour to notice and take care of the issue (unless they worked hard enough to make relevant comments on things, which isn't such a bad thing), but it also greatly increases the effort involved for the spammer as well as reducing profitability of their time spent.
I disagree that it would not be of any benefit for the reasons I stated above. I don't see how spammers could not care how much work it takes. Spamming, by it's nature, relies on its ease and extremely low cost.
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I addressed this in the post right above your own. It shouldn't even be possible to post 15 posts in a row, though I don't know whether it is or not as I've never tried.
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It's not a perfect solution but I think it would be quite helpful.
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This should probably be discussed in a separate topic.
Why not? Images are urls too, so it may just proceed naturally.
This would make it much more obvious right away who are spammers, and make it easier to flag their posts for moderators to take care of them, all while being without the risk of any malicious/inappropriate links until they are able to reach that threshold. And the forum ought to have some limitations already set up as to how many topics you can create within a certain amount of time or posts within the same thread etc., though I've never attempted to test said limitations. There is no perfect solution, but I believe this would make it significantly more work for a spammer to be able to post something that could be legitimately dangerous on the forums.