I'm in two minds about this. Anyone new to the site may not realise what paranoia mode is for, or be aware that twiddly tricks with javascript are possible on homenodes. I've only seen one or two 'so-and-monk snoops around ctrl-z's homenode' in the CB, so it obviously isn't a major problem, and I know from being embarassed by the first homenode button that I clicked (barts) that it's a reasonably good way of attracting newbies attention to the fact that this sort of thing goes on. ctrl-z's reasonably harmless code might draw attention to this kind of trick and stop people falling for password stealing, XP chopping or vote stealing scripts.

I tend to use javascript only when necessary and don't know it very well, so I can only applaud the experimental spirit that I assume lies behind ctrl-z's script. I spent a couple of hours playing with random phrase selectors for a homenode button and found it an interesting coding problem. Perhaps it is a peacock tail type display, but isn't the monastery somewhere to have fun?

OTOH, it is a bit anti-social to run code immediately on visiting a homenode, and I think sets a bad precedent. I often visit homenodes of people I don't know in response to their remarks in the CB, and wouldn't want the CB to be constantly disrupted by this sort of thing.

On balance, my comment to ctrl-z would probably be "Nice trick, and I for one am suitably impressed by your inventiveness (seriously, I'm not being sarcastic). But please take it down".

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g0n, backpropagated monk

In reply to Re: Has a line been crossed by this user by g0n
in thread Has a line been crossed by this user by PhilHibbs

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