What the is Facebook planning to do with the Oculus Rift?

_Nightmare_ wrote:What the is Facebook planning to do with the Oculus Rift?

Aking myself the same question. Why did they even buy it?

I imagine they're going to use it to make connecting with people easier in an attempt to compete with Google's various digital interface doohickeys. I don't see the lucrative business opportunities created by allowing people to update their Facebook nonsense on the go when they already do that with mobile devices, not to mention without a big, clunky visor obscuring their vision.

It's _Nightmare_
I created this guest account to allow all non-registered people to post their comments on stuff without having to create their own first. Obviously this will need to be discussed further before I post the password, so what do you guys think?

guest wrote:It's _Nightmare_
I created this guest account to allow all non-registered people to post their comments on stuff without having to create their own first. Obviously this will need to be discussed further before I post the password, so what do you guys think?

I don't think that's a good idea, as it might become a problem if guests suddenly started creating too many topics with the account. It makes the 3-posts rule ineffective unless some permanent restrictions are added to it, which IMO isn't worth it.

juanjpro wrote:

guest wrote:It's _Nightmare_
I created this guest account to allow all non-registered people to post their comments on stuff without having to create their own first. Obviously this will need to be discussed further before I post the password, so what do you guys think?

I don't think that's a good idea, as it might become a problem if guests suddenly started creating too many topics with the account. It makes the 3-posts rule ineffective unless some permanent restrictions are added to it, which IMO isn't worth it.

The 3 posts rule was only implemented to make bots unable to create threads, not people.

In the old forum we used to allow guest posting, but we don't allow it now for... reasons I can't quite remember. In any case, I see confusion would come from this account if people do use it as there would be multiple people using the same name on the same account. More importantly, it basically leaves the back door open for anybody that gets banned.

I never thought of the banned users.
About the confusion issue. We could ask guests to put a name, be it their actual name or a fake one, in the top of their posts.
Also, can't administrators block privileges on accounts such as creating threads, private messaging, etc.?

_Nightmare_ wrote:I never thought of the banned users.
About the confusion issue. We could ask guests to put a name, be it their actual name or a fake one, in the top of their posts.
Also, can't administrators block privileges on accounts such as creating threads, private messaging, etc.?

Yes, but just because we ask them to put a name at the top of their posts, doesn't mean they will. Blocking privileges like those on the account would probably be pointless, as at that point it would probably be better to make an account.

Above all, it wouldn't work as anybody could sign in to the account and change the password.

Also, people using the guest account could edit posts made by others using the guest account, which can cause problems if somebody gets angry about that.

guest wrote:It's _Nightmare_
I created this guest account to allow all non-registered people to post their comments on stuff without having to create their own first. Obviously this will need to be discussed further before I post the password, so what do you guys think?

We had the guest system back on the old forum and it does have it's pretty notable bad sides since you couldn't give penalties or anything to guests. Not a good system imo.