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Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

#11

This is wonderful. I'm off to limit my visits to daily, or maybe twice-daily if I login once in the morning and once at night. Will this kick you off in the middle of writing a comment? That's my one qualm about it - that I'll start writing a response and then won't be able to submit it because maxvisit has timed out. Maybe exempt the comment-posting URL (it should block you from further reloads afterwards, though)?

Will this kick you off in the middle of writing a comment?

No, it doesn't apply till the server tries to generate the page following the submission. If you want to know what it's like, just set maxvisit to 1 and try it.

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

#16

Speaking of yc.news settings, what does "showdead" do?

Spam/otherwise inappropriate posts/submissions are marked by admins as dead. This removes them from the view of everyone that doesn't have showdead on. It's a great way of avoiding claims of censorship -- it's all there to be viewed if you want.
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