Complete nonsense. I'm doing nothing of the sort. — Tzeentch

Calling people naive isn't demonizing them. — Tzeentch

Yeah, I was just thinking about that. The comment URLs on this site don't contain the dicussion IDs, so I can't just use a basic mapping. But I don't want to include an explicit individual redirect for every one of the million or whatever comments. — Jamal

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^discussion/comment/([0-9]{7})/?$ jamals-script.php?commentID=$1

$commentID = $_GET['commentID'];

if ( preg_match( '{^([0-9]{7})$}', $commentID, $matches ) )
{
    // comment ID is a 7-digit numeric string
    if ( $friendlyURL = searchDatabaseForPostID( $commentID ) )
    {
        // assuming the above function returns the relevant friendly URL segment or FALSE if not found (ie. "1234567-friendly-title-here")
        header( 'https://tpfarchive.com/discussions/' . $friendlyURL . '.html#comment-' . $commentID;
        die;

        // or, simply read and print out the intended target (perhaps add a javascript function to let the page "jump" to the given comment, similar to how Plush operates currently) up to you!
        // $page = file_get_contents( 'https://tpfarchive.com/discussions/' . $friendlyURL . '.html?jumpToComment=' . $commentID );
        // echo $page; // presuming you add a special JS bit when "jumpToComment" URL var is detected, if a user has javascript enabled, the end page shows to the browser as the original comment URL but is actually the contents of the above "file_get_contents" request. this may be desired or to be avoided based on user preference. you can even edit the html post-retrieval and throw in a one line javascript bit in the <header> tag yourself before displaying to the user
        // die;
    }
}

// if we are here either the comment ID was not valid (7 digits) or the comment ID was not found
header( $_SERVER['SERVER_PROTOCOL'] . ' 404 Not Found', true, 404);
include( '404.php' ); // or simple print a 5 line 404 html page
die;

// or, simply redirect to default 404 page
// header( 'https://tpfarchive.com/notfound' );

All discussion URLs, i.e., all links to specific discussions/threads/OPs from the old site (this one), will be redirected to the relevant pages of the archive. This means threads which are indexed on Google and linked to from other sites will not leave a trail of broken links behind them. I'm not sure if it's worth doing this for individual comments too. — Jamal

Your naive empathy is not a virtue. — Tzeentch

Again, I'm not interested in sob stories. — Tzeentch

It has not. The main character of Breaking Bad is obviously a "hardcore criminal", and this was the subject from the very beginning. — Tzeentch

Showing understanding and leniency towards hardcore criminals on account of them being "large, violent, dangerous children" is the sympathy route.

Why choose sympathy for them over sympathy for their many victims? — Tzeentch

Are you saying that criminals are essentially subhumans I ought not judge on the same basis as I would ordinary people? — Tzeentch

Anglo-American philosophy has been stranded for some time in an attempted pivot away from Cartesian dualism. The OP is pestering the issue anew.

You could probably find a forum focused on welding if the OP question seems like a waste of your time. :grin: — frank

There is a huge and mighty choice between solipsism and idealism and choosing to dip your feet into the real world. — Colo Millz

It's helpful for identifying trolls. — frank

No. I am not arguing that delusion is an issue. I said reason and destiny. Not madness and destiny. — Tom Storm

It's best not to presume what others here know or don't know about themselves on a forum. — Tom Storm

That said, I'm not sure what your point is. — Tom Storm

It works. I have a couple of subreddits which I've never had to moderate. Downvotes do all the work. — frank

Which reminds me that the most dangerous people in the world are probably those who think they have reason and destiny on their side. — Tom Storm

Maybe we could trial downvotes? They have a harsh side where immature people downvote to signal disagreement, but they can also be an effective means of community self moderation. — frank

It's not a sign of intellectual rigor, broad-mindedness or virtuous humanity to empathize with career criminals; it's cowardice masquerading as such.

I can assure you none of you would be pleading for nuance if you had had a single experience of the pitiless malevolence with which such individuals operate.

These people ruin lives, communities, entire societies for petty monetary gain. They deserve no sympathy nor quarter. — Tzeentch

what I think of when I think of a chatbox is an ongoing text group conversation, where the comments are brief and move back and forth quickly. That does describe the Shoutbox as it currently exists, although the comments can become longer and more involved, sometimes being used as a place to test out discussions as opposed to starting a thread. It's the longer conversations I wonder if will get lost under a chatbox feature. — Hanover

I also thought the layout from the old site was better in certain ways (although it had countless bugs and unreliability problems) because it showed the categories and the posts by recency by each category and not just everything at once. — Hanover

I bear responsibility for my own actions, and not for those of others. — Tzeentch

A man voluntarily chooses to spend his final days on earth destroying the lives of as many people as possible by getting them hooked on meth - what room for nuance is there in our judgement of such a person? — Tzeentch

How could a live chat not function as a "community posting room"? — Jamal

Existing members will have to sign up to join the new site [...] there will probably be a permanent announcement on the archive site. — Jamal

There's no such time. Time came into existence along with the universe; the Big Bang is not an event in time but a boundary of time. — Banno

This sort of speculative physics makes for poor threads. — Banno

The big bang is as an explanation for, and from, what we see around us; the very opposite of what you are suggesting. — Banno

Why would you suppose that? Do you think the big bang is beyond comprehension? — Banno

Because reality is what there is.

To posit something "beyond reality" is to posit more of what there is. It is to extend reality. — Banno

"Beyond reality" is not a region; it is a grammatical error. — Banno

All of existence is a prison. The question is, what is outside that prison? — an-salad

We’ll assume there is something beyond the reality we can experience that is not accessible and never will be. — T Clark

If the reality we experience is the only thing that we have experienced — an-salad

So, you disagree with the aspects of existence, being and behaviour that I proposed - the aspect of increasing wealth? I propose that the increase in wealth is indeed an aspect of our existence, our being and our behaviour - it is an aspect that is indeed known to any and all man — Pieter R van Wyk

But philosophy, if it is to remain a relevant and vibrant force in the world, needs to address modern day problems and issues much more than it does now. — Philosophim

it's not immoral to transition. — Moliere

Wokeness: — is to behave AS IF only white males ever did anything bad.

Is that right, chaps?
And from that place, — unenlightened