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USER
STUFF
Q. How does logging in make
me a better person?
A. For one thing, your vote might not be registered on the polls. If someone
already voted from your IP address, it won't be counted. But if you're
logged in and you haven't voted, you'll be okay. This makes it a little
harder for the lamers to tip the scales. Also, if you post a lot of comments,
it gives you an identity, a chance to make new friends/enemies. And besides,
you won't show up as a Random Shemp.
Q.
Why should I give you all my info, pervert?!
A. Well, it's not so much for us as it is for the other people on here.
Feel free to put in an alias, forget your password once you login, and
use a hotmail account for e-mail (and a fake one to be shown on your posts).
Q.
Am I going to get spammed if I give you my e-mail address?
A. Absolutely not! We hate spammers almost
more than answering the phone. We'll only use your e-mail address to send
you things you might need to know about this site. If you forget your
password, but remember your login, your password will be sent to that
address. But we'll never send you anything that isn't absolutely necessary.
And if you're afraid of having your e-mail address mined off our pages,
feel free to put in whatever you want as your fake e-mail.
COMMENT
POSTING
Q.
How do I post a comment?
A. Click on the comments link at the bottom of a story, then click on
the "comment on this story" link at the bottom of the news article.
Once you have done that you should get a form. If you follow instructions
like a good little boy/girl you should not have any other problems.
Q.
Why am I not seeing comments?
A. Because there are no comments to that particular story? Sorry! And if you do want to see comments, then go write a comment yourself!
GENERAL
Q.
I clicked on something, and I heard a loud explosion. Then my page didn't
show up the way I thought it would why?
A. We've put a lot of development and testing time into this site, but
we're constantly adding features and bugs. If you have any technical problems
with the site, you'll alert our army of trained monkeys. If you get something
that doesn't look right and it doesn't say anything about the monkeys,
please let us know.
Q.
You misspelled something.
A.
If it's in a story, we really don't care. But if it's in one of the pages
that doesn't change very often and it bugs you enough to complain about
it, then it will bug us enough to change it.
Q.
Who's responsible for this site?
A. I am(Killbot), and so
is Joe(Egor), Eka(EJ)
and Joel(Syndicate).
Although we try to issue unbiased news reports most of the time, we will
occassionally filter in our own thoughts and opinions. The comments
belong to whomever posted them. If we're violating something of yours
on here please let us know, and we might take it off.
Q.
Some of these things aren't questions, and I don't think any of them were
even asked.
A. This is not a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page. It's a Favorite
Answer Quollection. If you have a question that you didn't see answered
here, feel free to ask. click
here
TECHNICAL.
Q.
Do you have a backend?
A.
Yes and you can use it too. Some restrictions do apply(of course).
Please help us prevent overloading and server crashes etc.. by only accessing
these pages once every 27 minutes. Also respect all copyright laws and
trademarks etc. OK enough said here they are:
The backend freshmeat style:
http://www.dtheatre.com/backend.php3
The backend XML style:
http://www.dtheatre.com/backend.php3?xml=yes
The backend RSS (netscape) style:
http://www.dtheatre.com/backend.php3?rss=yes
Click here for scripts that use our backend
scripts that use our backend
And you can even add us to your MyNetscape page:
enjoy..
Q.
What makes this site work?
A.
The Digital Theatre site is
currently powered by a dual PIII-500 with 512MB of RAM on a OC-3 line.
The site itself consists of a large amout of PHP3
scripts serving pages on the fly for news and commenting purposes. All
data is stored in a MySQL database hosted
on the main machine. The webserver used here is the well-known Apache
webserver.
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