Air Bud
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Reply 4 of 72 (Originally posted on: 05-25-03 10:34:25 PM)
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As far as restricting what kind of file extensions can be uploaded, I'm going to be doing the reverse of what INTL current has, instead of allowing people to upload anything, EXCEPT certain extensions, you'll be able to upload ONLY the accepted file extensions. I like the idea of setting this up on a user-by-user feature, so that when you purchase a certain amount of space, you'll unlock certain extensions (zip, html, mp3, txt, and so forth). So yeah, it has a limited application that most people probably won't really notice, but would give certain people incentive to purchase more upload space.
As far as limiting PMs, I'm not going to do that. As Sunshine said, I don't want to drive people away from the site by limiting what they can do on it. People rely on the PM feature and if I took it away from them, most people would probably get upset and leave. However, INTL3 is going to have a quota as far as how many PMs you can have in your inbox, thus it may be possible to make it so that your quota goes from say 50 to 100 when you purchase the bonus features.
As far as limiting guests to being able to view ID only, I'm going to say no to that, at least for now. INTL is still growing and needs all the forums open to the public in order to generate as many keywords as possible to bring in as much google hits as possible.
Last point before I submit this reply. Yes, I am going to include some provisions to make something like this possible. I'm going to assign permissions to certain forum features on an individual basis. The administrators will be able to define the default settings for new users upon registration, but they'll also be able to give and/or take away permissions to certain features. For example, the current "bonus account" thing, when someone purchases a "bonus account", an administrator will merely load up their profile and grant them the permissions that come along with purchasing the "bonus account". On the same token, if someone abuses a certain feature, such as private messages, but harassing people via that feature, an administrator will be able to load up their profile and restrict them from using it temporarily or indefinitely; or if someone violates the karma distribution bug, an administrator can just restrict them giving karma. Also, if someone decides to flame and troll in Inside Discussions, we can take away their access to all forums, other than Retardation Station, thus locking them to RS and RS alone as a punishment, instead of banning them for a week.
The possibilities are endless, and I am still open to suggestion as far as INTL3 and the whole "bonus account" thing goes, so don't hesitate to suggest ideas for both.
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