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First of all, I want to thank everyone who runs this forum for the fine job they've done. While I myself have not yet had any need for help, I have enjoyed and learned while helping others.

We installed this as a test case to see how content was being copied and pasted to other sites. So far, we don't seem to have received much benefit, frankly speaking. Some links are generated back to the site, but, unfortunately, the majority of the links are generated within the site by users like yourself.

I agree with you that it is annoying to have this enabled when copy-and-pasting within this same site (versus only tracking copy-and-paste to other sites), and we don't seem to be able to turn it off (by configuration) for copy-and-paste tracing on the same site, unfortunately.

I have no problem turning it off, if it is that annoying to cut/copy and paste on the site.

Does anyone else have an opinion?

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Hi tyntguy,

I think it would be better if there was a "blanket" configuration option to turn off Tynt for copy-and-paste withing the same site.

In other words, if you are posting on www. unix.com and you cut-and-paste withing the selected domain (www. unix.com to www. unix.com), then we should have a configuration option in the control panel to turn it off for for this "internal" case, because content is not actually "leaving" this site.

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OBTW, I forgot to mention that one of the site benefits of TYNT is that when a poster double posts by copy and pasting within the site, it does automatically post to the other post. We thought that was a nice unintended "side effect" because it helped with double posting reference back to the original post (and made the mods jobs easier).

Thx Neo. We've been working on the ability to turn off attribution when copying into the same domain. Let me check on the status of that.

Update: Due to the concerns voice by alister and also a concern voiced by one of the mods about formatting issues on the site, and the fact we can't disable for intra-site copy-and-paste, I have disabled Tynt until (1) others voice their opinion and add comments and (2) Tynt provides a way to turn off Tynt inside the site (intra-site copy and paste).

I don't think single browser "opt out" is going to be acceptable to power users on the site.

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Thanks.

In the meantime, I've disabled due to valid voiced concerns by two valuable members of the team.

Hello, Neo:

Thank you very much for the swift response. It's appreciated.

In case it is not a moot point, I wanted to clarify my concern.

Personally, I have not been bothered by copy-pasting within the site. For me, the source of all frustration is when I paste someone's shell code into a terminal window. The attributive text fires up vi on osx, and on other machines generates benign (thankfully) command not found errors.

In my opinion, tynt is simply a poor fit for a forum whose users often copy-paste text from a browser to a terminal, which happens to interpret that text and run commands.

However this pans out, thanks for taking the time to consider the issue.

Alister