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   On Tue, 20 May 2025 14:40:30 -0700   
   "Nightfox" (VERT/DIGDIST)    
   wrote:   
      
   >   Re: MRC: Remove "ping" on username mention   
   >   By: Rob Swindell to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Tue May 20 2025   
   > 02:36 pm   
   >    
   >  RS> Remember when web-sites used to automatically play audio (music,   
   >  RS> voices, sound effects) when you visited them? Yeah, it turns out   
   >  RS> people don't like that. :-)     
   >    
   > I'm reminded of MySpace, and how they let users customize their   
   > account's web page with CSS themes as well as letting it play music   
   > when loading their page..   
   >    
   > Also, years ago (around 2001, I think), there was a company called   
   > Frontier Labs that made MP3 players (I bought one of them, as it was   
   > much less expensive than an iPod), and for a little while, upon   
   > loading their web site, they had the web site play a voice of a child   
   > saying "Lucking Fovely Entertainment."  It seemed a bit out of place   
   > and raondom, yet funny at the same time..  I don't know why they did   
   > that.   
      
   My whole objection to this ping thing is that it wasn't there, and then   
   someone unilaterally decided it was a good idea that it should be   
   implemented for all users. I hate that shit, unless I ask for it, of   
   course :) It's kind of a double edged sword. New stuff should be   
   disabled by default and the sysop or user given a chance to enable it.   
   Not everyone is going to think that a change is useful or wanted.   
      
   I consider it a thoughtless infringement. But again, that's me. I get   
   annoyed by this stuff easily because it means I have to go and do stuff   
   I shouldn't have to/need to to get rid of it.   
      
   As for auto playing websites and that sort of stuff. Everybody likes to   
   play with new technology and see what it can do. Midi files autoplaying   
   was an interesting novelty that wore thin in a hurry. mp3s just as bad.   
   I can often be listening to something in headphones and then this noise   
   blasts through out of nowhere.    
      
   These days if I go to a website and they popup one of those "subscribe"   
   boxes. I'm just done with the website. They obviously don't want me to   
   read their content, so I'm not going to waste time on it. I have a low   
   tolerance level for website bullshit games. :)   
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