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in thread The gods are everywhere

Thank you. That helped me find the cause.

It's like this: If the page is a pmdev-patchable type, *and* the current user is _not_ in pmdev, then the owner is displayed as "gods". *Otherwise*, the node's true owner is displayed. In this case, which is a good example, the "Comment on" and "preview page" pages _are_ pmdev-patchable types, so that means non-pmdev will see "gods" and pmdev will see the true owner, which in the case of these two files is PublicAccess.

That still leaves the question of how we keep anonynewbies from thinking the node they're replying to is owned by "gods" when they're on the comment drafting pages.

One idea I think would be most useful would be to remove the "attribution" altogether, rather than say the node is "by gods".

Update: Done. :-)

Update**2: I also have it suppressing the _date_ part of the attribution whenever the _author_ part is suppressed. In general, it makes very little sense to think about the creation date of infrastructure nodes like Message Inbox and PMUS.

I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.

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Re^6: The gods are everywhere
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Oct 10, 2016 at 15:33 UTC

    Intended or not, that change has also affected the Perl Monks User Search. Not a problem, but stood out when I refreshed a cached page.

    With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
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      Thanks; that would be expected. Any patchable node type will have this behavior. The set of patchable node types is pretty large; some of the ones ordinary users are most likely to run into include strangedocs (the most familiar of which is Message Inbox) and superdocs, of which there are dozens upon dozens.

      Definitely, if you see anything odd or amiss, please bring it to my attention.

      I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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        FYI, I bet all of the strangedocs can be converted to superdocs. It was a long time ago, but my memory is that there were quirks/bugs in parsing that were worked around by creating strangedocs but that were fixed long ago.

        - tye        

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Re^6: The gods are everywhere
by haukex (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2016 at 08:18 UTC

    Hi jdporter,

    I think the change looks good so far, Thank You!

    Regards,
    -- Hauke D

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