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I guess I can only visit/read no more than 5 pages an hour then...
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^ Seriously? Your employer allows only 5 facebook urls an hour? That's odd because there are more than 5 things loaded from Facebook with every page. something like 23 in total.
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Editing a hosts file...let's pretend for a minute that a place that has restrictive IT policies actually would allow someone access to edit their hosts file. Does it seem reasonable to request people to do that to view our site unencumbered?
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The button stays. You can choose to "Like" it or not, it's entirely your choice. Don't tell me they are messy or clutter up the page. Have you seen a page? Yeah, they ruin everything.
I spent 2 solid weeks and over 120 hours redoing the search engine because it was big f'ing deal and the site was unusable with what we had and do you think one of those guys raising a stink about how "the search sucks" would try it and offer a little feedback? 1 comment FFS and all they wanted was to make it work a forum index page???
No, now there is going to some BS hoopla about a button 99.999% of the users either like or don't care about and that you don't have to click but you know you can't stand it, you can't resist clicking that button, and you're going to come in here and tell me it's an abomination and how if I don't remove a button time will stop and the moon will fling off into space and the icebergs will melt.
You know what will happen? Nothing. I'll spend 10-20 hours redesigning the page layout so it's not "ugly" and I'll add a bunch of options to allow you to customize when and where and if it appears followed by the people raising a stink saying "meh", I didn't care that much anyway.
Well, I'm not going to do it this time. The button stays. I'll find a better home for it when I get around to it and you'll likely never have an option to turn it off.
Facebook is a reality. We have an opportunity to extend s2ki content, your content and your community, to an audience of over 300 million people and we're going to take it, no, have taken it. That decision has been made and the train has left the station.
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I suggest you choose to like it
I spent 2 solid weeks and over 120 hours redoing the search engine because it was big f'ing deal and the site was unusable with what we had and do you think one of those guys raising a stink about how "the search sucks" would try it and offer a little feedback? 1 comment FFS and all they wanted was to make it work a forum index page???
No, now there is going to some BS hoopla about a button 99.999% of the users either like or don't care about and that you don't have to click but you know you can't stand it, you can't resist clicking that button, and you're going to come in here and tell me it's an abomination and how if I don't remove a button time will stop and the moon will fling off into space and the icebergs will melt.
You know what will happen? Nothing. I'll spend 10-20 hours redesigning the page layout so it's not "ugly" and I'll add a bunch of options to allow you to customize when and where and if it appears followed by the people raising a stink saying "meh", I didn't care that much anyway.
Well, I'm not going to do it this time. The button stays. I'll find a better home for it when I get around to it and you'll likely never have an option to turn it off.
Facebook is a reality. We have an opportunity to extend s2ki content, your content and your community, to an audience of over 300 million people and we're going to take it, no, have taken it. That decision has been made and the train has left the station.
/story
I suggest you choose to like it
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That's fair enough, you choose what you provide us however as you correctly say, it's up to us to choose what we view.
So to that end, using Firefox and adblock plus, you can block specific frames from loading on any webpage you view on your computer - if for whatever reason you don't want to see it then all you have to do is right click and add a custom filter.
for example;
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
This doesn't affect how S2ki runs and nor does it affect how facebook runs when you use facebook.
So to that end, using Firefox and adblock plus, you can block specific frames from loading on any webpage you view on your computer - if for whatever reason you don't want to see it then all you have to do is right click and add a custom filter.
for example;
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/*
This doesn't affect how S2ki runs and nor does it affect how facebook runs when you use facebook.