When you check that box, a cookie file is stored on your machine that that site can read the next time you visit, and go “Oh, yeah. Now, when you open the SDMB site, just like when you open other sites where you log in, there is almost always some form or version of a “remember me” check box. I believe it was Sherlock Holmes who said, “Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” Well, let’s look at this logically, and see whether we can figure something out. I have dark visions of conspiracies aimed at atheist, anarcho-libertarian queers who have middle class jobs and own homes. Our IT department SS might not like it.Īnd I am still suspicious that it would happen in both unrelated PCs at (apparently) the same time. I will give it a try at home, but I don’t know if I’m allowed to run something like that at work. It works much faster than the Control Panel. After that, run it regularly and include cookies every once in a while.Ĭrap Cleaner will also scan your registry for orphans and out of place stuff, and remove them (if you say to). It specializes in deleting orphan files in orphan temp folders that cropped up when IE or Firefox crashed or closed unexpectedly. Use Crap Cleaner (nowadays called “CCleaner”). I recommend you delete all your cookies, and while you’re at it all your temp files. They’re read from and written to so much. But cookies, especially old ones, can become corrupt files over time. So, in addition to the community, etc, which is why we old-timers come, for the new user to the SDMB, the purpose of this board is to be a place where they, too, can be intelligent and literate, a quality almost impossible to find elsewhere on the internet.It’s cookies. They come because I invite them, and those that stay, stay because of the literacy and quality of conversation. They don’t have a connection with Cecil and I barely even mention the books, etc, other than the origin story. I get feedback, and for those who like this place and register, their comments eventually comes down to this: They find the SDMB to be a place where they, too, can be literate and expect a literate response, something they cannot find elsewhere on the internet.ĭozens of people have told me throughout the years that they are impressed with the amount of well-written user content, and the fact that the SDMB attracts people like Neil Degrasse Tyson and Hayes Brown (of MSNBC)… as well as the many quality ladies I have introduced to this place in the past 3 years (hi!)… is a testament to this Board’s purpose and uniqueness. Just be me.Īnyway, the point of the above is I talk about the board in my real life, on SM, etc. Likely because back in the 1990s when ‘anonymity’ was one of the drivers of the early internet, I had already been doxxed on a Prodigy board and I figured that I might as well be myself, saving myself a lot of hassle in trying to keep two separate personalities - my real life self and my internet self. I mention this because, unlike most here, I very open about my activity on the SDMB. In the Discourse era I have 1 thread with over 1k outside readers, 2 other threads with 300+ outside readers, and 28 threads with 25+ outside readers (31 threads in total). Then Discourse happened and it tracks this for me (kinda) so I don’t do that anymore except on high-activity tweets. For years, dozens and hundreds of tweets and fb posts and etc. One tweet got over 500 clicks to the SDMB, another would get 6, another would get 50, etc. Pre Discourse days I would track the number of visitors myself- Twitter, for example, tells you how many people clicked on a link placed in your tweet, for example. I do it to people I know in real life (family, friends, girlfriends and wives), on Twitter and Facebook, etc. I have introduced people to the SDMB for 20+ years now, especially over the past 6.
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