User pictures

[karen2205]

I'm really fed up with having non-work-safe user pics on my friends' page. No, am not calling into question anyone's right to have non-work-safe pictures or to use them when they want. I just don't want them on my friends page - which I regularly read from places other than my own home.

It seems that the solutions to this are:

(a) using the Lynx site scheme, which I don't want to do, because I much prefer XColibur for its useful functions.

(b) changing my journal style to one that doesn't use user pictures at all, and I don't want to do that 'cos I like the 'Classic' style. I want to keep my journal style as simple and unfussy as possible because I'm more interested in the content of what I'm/other people are writing than the style in which it's written. I'm also aware that most people will be reading in their own style through their own friends pages so don't see the point in spending time on a style no one will use.

(c) getting bogged down in S2 layers and seeing if I can remove the code that displays user pics on friends pages.

I am about to do (c), so if stuff goes wacky, this is why.

Now done - way of doing it was: Advanced customisations, create custom theme layer, copy in the print_entry bit from the Classic source code and then edit the line

if ($userpic != "" and ($p.view == "friends" or $*show_entry_userpic == true))
      {
          print $userpic;
      }

so that "friends" = "recent".

This means I get user pics on my recent entries page and none on my friends' page and I'm happy:-)

Comments

[uon.livejournal.com]

(d) Use lynx!

[karen2205]

It tends not to be installed on non-home computers and it's generally not possible to install it.

It's also not possible to ssh from work (not sure about other places like internet cafes) so I can't ssh to urchin and use lynx from there.

[cyberiantiger.livejournal.com]

Isn't it good blogequette to put anything NSFW behind a cut ?

-CT

[karen2205]

IMO yes - but my opinion isn't really important.

And I believe in taking responsibility for your own reading in case other people aren't as considerate as they ought to be.

So I:

(a) use image placeholders for all images (partly for work-safeness reasons, partly because I have a dialup internet connection at home)

(b) remove people from my default view who post non-work-safe stuff without an <lj-cut>.

and now I'd like to do (c) and remove people's user pictures from my friends' page.

[bob]

use firefox. tell it to block images from livejournal.com.

[karen2205]

This suffers from the same problem as using Lynx:-( - it's not generally installed on non-home machines and I don't generally have access to install it.

[uon.livejournal.com]

That's a pity, because if you had Firefox, you could install Greasemonkey and use my All JDC All The Time! script to change all the userpics on livejournal to pictures of JDC! It makes the current discussion would look like this.

[karen2205]

That's scary. One jdc is quite enough:-)

[bob]

you scare me.
run away!

[daweaver.livejournal.com]

This is trivial in Proper Styles, where there's a specific Friends_Friendpic doohickey. You may leave this blank and all userpics will be removed. I would assume that you can add in a Friends_Head definition to this effect.

Quite why S2 has to be so obtuse about a simple task is beyond me. But then, everything in S2 is beyond me.

Good luck!

[karen2205]

Oh, overall S2 is great - if you want to spend some time learning how to work with the language.

It does make it hard to do some 'easy' things though.

[daweaver.livejournal.com]

S2: the Mornington Crescent of programming languages.

[wintrmute.livejournal.com]

erm, much easier solution - just right click on one of the LJ user icons, and select "Block pictures from ..." in Firefox.

[karen2205]

I don't have access to Firefox at work and can't install it there.

Also don't have admin access to the Internet Options in IE either, so I can't block images there, even if I did want to block *all* images.

[diffrentcolours]

I thought that there were options to customise your LJ to replace images with placeholders, either over a certain size or universally. Yes, it's on http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml -"Use image placeholders on your friends page"

[karen2205]

Placeholders don't apply to user pics. I do use placeholders for all other images.

[shepline.livejournal.com]

Umm... I just went and had a look, and I got userpics on your friends page??

[calum]

I tried to make a style that would always show the users default userpic, a while ago, but sadly, there is no way to get that when printing a friends page.

Since there is a policy that default userpics must not be obscene, that would have resolved things when I was at work.