DescriptionsOfVariablesInDatabaseTableVars
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| name | description |
| absolutedir_secure | Absolute base URL of Secure HTTP site (blank if site has no HTTPS side) |
| accesslog_css_skip | Skip logging css hits to accesslog table? |
| accesslog_disable | Disable apache writing to accesslog? |
| accesslog_hoursback | Number of hours before accesslog rows are purged |
| accesslog_imageregex | Image hits will only be written into accesslog if their URL path matches this regex, empty string for all, NONE for none |
| accesslog_insert_cachesize | Cache accesslog inserts and do this many all at once (0 to disable, if enabled, suggest value of 5 or so) |
| ach_maker_adlesstime | After a maker_mode user turns off ads, how long does the adless state persist, in seconds |
| adminmail | All admin mail goes here |
| adminmail_ban | All admin mail about users being banned goes here |
| adminmail_check_replication | Check replication if is caught up before starting adminmail |
| adminmail_last_run | day adminmail last ran |
| adminmail_mod | All admin mail about moderation goes here |
| adminmail_post | All admin mail about comment posting goes here |
| admin_check_clearpass | Check whether admins have sent their Slash passwords in the clear? |
| admin_clearpass_disable | Should admins who send their Slash passwords in the clear have their admin privileges removed until they change their passwords? |
| admin_formkeys | Do admins have to bother with formkeys? |
| admin_maxdays_divider | Max number of days on the admin.pl story list to bother showing the day-dividers |
| admin_secure_ip_regex | IP addresses or networks known to be secure. |
| admin_story_lookahead_default | In the admin.pl storylist, how many seconds to look into the future for all stories by default (but see skins_admin_story_lookahead_mainpage) |
| admin_story_lookahead_infinite | In the admin.pl storylist, always show all future stories no matter how far in the future? |
| admin_story_lookahead_mainpage | In the admin.pl storylist, how many seconds to look into the future for stories on the mainpage |
| admin_timeout | time in minutes before idle admin session ends |
| admin_use_blob_for_upload | Use blobs for fileuploading - 1 for yes, 0 for no or file-based uploading |
| admin_warn_primaryskid | Warn admin if a story is saved with the following primaryskids (skids delimited by |) |
| ad_max | Maximum ad number (must be at least ad_messaging_num) |
| ad_messaging_num | Which ad (env var AD_BANNER_x) is the "messaging ad"? |
| ad_messaging_prob | Probability that the messaging ad will be shown, if the circumstances are right |
| ad_messaging_sections | Vertbar-separated list of sections where messaging ads can appear; if empty, all sections |
| al2_type_aliases | List of AL2s that imply other AL2s, in a whitespace-delimited list of A->B format |
| allow_anonymous | allow anonymous posters |
| allow_anon_poll_voting | Set this to decide whether anonymous users can vote in polls) |
| allow_nonadmin_ssl | 0=users with seclev <= 1 cannot access the site over Secure HTTP; 1=they all can; 2=only if they are subscribers |
| anonymous_coward_uid | UID to use for anonymous coward |
| anon_name_alt | Name of anonymous user to be displayed in stories |
| apache_cache | Default times for the getCurrentCache(). |
| approvedtags | Tags that you can use |
| approvedtags_attr | definition of approvedtags attributes in the following format a:href_RU img:src_RU,alt,width,height,longdesc_U see Slash::Utility::Data.pm for more details |
| approvedtags_attr_admin | inherits from approvedtags_attr |
| approvedtags_break | Tags that break words (see breakHtml()) |
| approved_url_schemes | Schemes that can be used in comment links without being stripped of bogus chars |
| archive_delay | days to wait for story archiving |
| archive_delay_mod | Days before moderator logs are expired |
| articles_only | show only Articles in submission count in admin menu |
| article_nocomment | Show no comments in article.pl |
| authors_unlimited | Seclev for which authors have unlimited comment-moderation and -deletion power (see also the ACLs) |
| backup_db_user | The virtual user of the database that the code should use for intensive database access that may bring down the live site. If you don't know what this is for, you should leave it blank. |
| badge_icon_ext | Badge icon extension ("gif" or "png", probably) |
| badge_icon_size | Badge icon height/width |
| badge_icon_size_wide | Badge icon width for wide icons |
| badkarma | Users get penalized for posts if karma is below this value |
| bad_password_warn_ip | Warn admin if an ip specifies password incorrectly this many times in one day |
| bad_password_warn_subnet | Warn admin if a subnet specifies password incorrectly this many times in one day |
| bad_password_warn_uid | Warn admin if user specifies password incorrectly this many times in one day |
| bad_password_warn_user_interval | Warn a user on the Nth bad password attempt within 24 hours. Set to 0 if you do not want users to be warned |
| banlist_expire | Default expiration time for the banlist cache |
| basedir | Where should the html/perl files be found? |
| basedomain | The URL for the site |
| block_expire | Default expiration time for the block cache |
| body_bytes | Use Slashdot like byte message instead of word count on stories |
| breakhtml_wordlength | Maximum word length before whitespace is inserted in comments |
| breaking | Establishes the maximum number of comments the system will display when reading comments from a "live" discussion. For stories that exceed this number of comments, there will be "page breaks" printed at the bottom. This setting does not affect "archive" m |
| bytime_delay | days to go back for next/previous links on stories |
| cache_enabled | Simple Boolean to determine if content is cached or not(was 1 audioguy set to 0) |
| cache_enabled_template | If set, then template caching is still active even if var cache_enabled is turned off. |
| charrefs_bad_entity | Entities that approveCharref should always delete |
| charrefs_bad_numeric | Numeric references that approveCharref should always delete |
| checklist_length | Length of user_index checklist fields (default is VARCHAR(255)) |
| clientip_xff_trust_header | Name of HTTP request header to prefer over "X-Forwarded-For", if present |
| clientip_xff_trust_regex | IP addresses from which we will trust an X-Forwarded-For header |
| commentnew_msg | Allow sending of a message on every posted comment (dangerous) |
| commentstatus | default comment code |
| comments_anon_speed_limit | seconds delay before repeat posting for anonymous user. If 0 uses default speed_limit for all users |
| comments_anon_speed_limit_mult | Multiply speedlimit by this amount for each comment previously posted in the past 24 hours |
| comments_codemode_wsfactor | Whitespace factor for CODE posting mode |
| comments_control_horizontal | Is Discussion2 control is configured horizontally? |
| comments_forgetip_hours | Hours after which a comment's ipid/subnetid are forgotten; set very large to disable |
| comments_forgetip_maxrows | Max number of rows to forget IPs of at once |
| comments_forgetip_mincid | Minimum cid to start forgetting IP at |
| comments_hardcoded | Turns on hardcoded layout (this is a Slashdot only feature) |
| comments_max_email_len | Max num of chars of fakeemail to display in comment header |
| comments_min_line_len | Minimum minimum average line length |
| comments_min_line_len_kicks_in | Num chars at which minimum average line length first takes effect |
| comments_min_line_len_max | Maximum minimum average line length |
| comments_moddable_archived | Are comments in discussions that have been archived moderatable? |
| comments_moddable_hours | Num hours after being posted that a comment may be moderated |
| comments_mod_totals_exact | Show exact moderation counts? |
| comments_more_seclev | Seclev required to see More Comments (special: 2 means subscribers) |
| comments_perday_anon | Number of comments allowed to be posted per day, by any one IPID, anonymously. |
| comments_perday_bykarma | Number of comments allowed to be posted per day, by karma score. |
| comments_portscan | Scan incoming IPs for open proxy ports? 0=never, 1=anon posting only, 2=all posting |
| comments_portscan_cachehours | If comments_portscan_anon_for_proxy is true, hours to cache a result of a portscan for open proxies on a particular IP |
| comments_portscan_ports | If comments_portscan_anon_for_proxy is true, scan these space-separated ports |
| comments_portscan_timeout | If comments_portscan_anon_for_proxy is true, use this as timeout |
| comments_response_limit | interval between reply and submit |
| comments_speed_limit | seconds delay before repeat posting |
| comments_wsfactor | Whitespace factor |
| comment_cache_max_hours | Discussion age at which comments are no longer cached |
| comment_commentlimit | Max commentlimit users can set |
| comment_compress_slice | Chars to slice comment into for compressOk |
| comment_homepage_disp | Chars of poster URL to show in comment header |
| comment_karma_limit | Max karma that a single comment can cost a user, normally negative values or 0 to never take karma with downmods, empty string for unlimited |
| comment_maxscore | Maximum score for a specific comment |
| comment_minscore | Minimum score for a specific comment |
| comment_nonstartwordchars | Chars which cannot start a word (will be forcibly separated from the rest of the word by a space) - this works around a Windows/MSIE "widening" bug - set blank for no action |
| comment_startword_workaround | Should breakHtml() insert kludgy HTML to work around an MSIE bug? |
| common_story_words | Words which are considered too common to be used in detecting "similar" stories |
| content_type_webpage | The Content-Type header for webpages |
| cookiedomain | Domain for cookie to be active (normally leave blank) |
| cookiepath | Path on server for cookie to be active |
| cookiesecure | Set the secure flag in cookies if SSL is on? |
| cookie_location | Default for user's cookie_location value (also see users_info schema!) |
| counthits_lastmaxid | Last accesslog id scanned by counthits task |
| css_expire | Time in seconds before css cache expires |
| css_use_imagedir | Place .css files in imagedir instead for your rootdir? You may want to utilize this if you are using boa or another lightweight webserver to serve images. Run symlink-tool after switching var |
| currentqid | The Current Question on the homepage pollbooth |
| cur_performance_pps | Pages per second the site is running at |
| cur_performance_stats | Stores current performance stats in a var for display to admins |
| cur_performance_stats_disp | Show current performance stats? |
| cur_performance_stats_lastid | accesslogid to start searching at |
| cur_performance_stats_weeks | number of weeks back to compare current stats to |
| cur_performance_stat_ops | ops to show current performance stats for |
| cvs_tag_currentcode | The current cvs tag that the code was updated to - this does not affect site behavior but may be useful for your records |
| datadir | What is the root of the install for Slash |
| dbsparklines_disp | Display dbsparklines in the currentAdminUsers box? |
| dbsparklines_height | Pixel height of sparkline graphs |
| dbsparklines_pngsuffix | Random number to make it hard for unauthorized users to read these PNGs without permission |
| dbsparklines_secsback | How many seconds to look back for the sparklines |
| dbsparklines_width | Pixel width of sparkline graphs |
| dbsparklines_ymax | Max bog value (clip higher values to this) |
| dbsparklines_ymin | Min lag value (clip lower values to this) - should be negative |
| dbs_reader_adjust_delay | Number of seconds between each adjustment of reader DB weights |
| dbs_reader_bog_secs_end | Number of seconds of reader DB bog at which balance_readers.pl hits the minimum weight |
| dbs_reader_bog_secs_start | Number of seconds of reader DB bog at which balance_readers.pl should start to reduce its weight |
| dbs_reader_bog_weight_min | The minimum weight to multiply a reader DB's base weight by once its bog hits dbs_reader_bog_secs_end |
| dbs_reader_expire_secs | Number of seconds worth of dbs_readerstatus log to keep around |
| dbs_reader_lag_secs_end | Number of seconds of reader DB lag at which balance_readers.pl hits the minimum weight |
| dbs_reader_lag_secs_start | Number of seconds of reader DB lag at which balance_readers.pl should start to reduce its weight |
| dbs_reader_lag_weight_min | The minimum weight to multiply a reader DB's base weight by once its lag hits dbs_reader_lag_secs_end |
| dbs_reader_weight_increase_max | The maximum number of units per minute to restore weight back up to 1 |
| dbs_reader_weight_reduce_max | The maximum number of units per minute to reduce weight down to the minimum |
| dbs_revive_seconds | After a DB goes from isalive=no to yes, ramp up accesses to it over how many seconds? |
| db_auto_increment_increment | If your master DB uses auto_increment_increment, i.e. multiple master replication, echo its value into this var |
| db_questions_accesslog_last | \N |
| db_questions_lasttime | \N |
| db_questions_last_slash | \N |
| db_slave_lag_ignore | Bytes of lag between master and slave DB to ignore |
| debughash_getSkins | false = no debugging; default regex = ^d+$ |
| debughash_getTopicTree | false = no debugging; default regex = ^d+$ |
| debug_db_cache | If set, then write debug info for the Slash::DB cache to STDERR |
| debug_maintable_border | Border on the main table (for debugging purposes) |
| defaultbytelimit | The default setting for comment bytelimit |
| defaultcommentstatus | default code for article comments- normally "enabled" |
| defaultdisplaystatus | Default display status ... |
| defaultsection | Default section to display |
| defaulttopic | Default topic to use |
| default_maxcommentsize | Default user pref value, if you change the schema default for users_comments.maxcommentsize, change this too |
| default_rss_template | name of default rss template used by portald |
| delayed_inserts_off | This turns off delayed inserts (which you probably want to do) |
| delete_old_stories | Delete stories and discussions that are older than the archive delay. |
| discussions_speed_limit | seconds delay before repeat discussion |
| discussion_approval | If this is set to 1, set all user created discussions when created to 0 so that they must be approved |
| discussion_create_seclev | Seclev required to create discussions (yes, this could be an ACL in the future). |
| discussion_default_topic | Default topic of user-created discussions. |
| discussion_display_limit | Number of default discussions to list. |
| down_moderations | number of how many comments you can post that get down moderated |
| do_expiry | Flag which controls whether we expire users. |
| draconian_charrefs | Enable strictest-possible rules for disallowing HTML entities/character references? |
| draconian_charset | Convert high-bit characters to character references, which are then filtered by approveCharrefs or encode_html_amp (works only with Latin-1 for now) |
| draconian_charset_convert | Convert some of high-bit chars to ASCII representations instead (see draconian_charset) |
| email_domains_invalid | space separated list of domains that are not valid for email addresses |
| enable_index_topic | set this to the value in string param for index topic (something like "topic_4") |
| fancyboxwidth | What size should the boxes be in? |
| feature_story_enabled | Simple Boolean to determine if homepage prints feature story |
| feed_types | Feed types allowed. |
| formkey_minloggedinkarma | The min karma a user must have to "count" as a logged-in user for some purposes |
| formkey_timeframe | The time frame that we check for a formkey |
| freshenup_max_stories | Maximum number of article.shtml files to write at a time in freshenup.pl |
| freshenup_small_cc | How many comments is considered a small commentcount, indicating a story needs its commentcount updated frequently? |
| freshenup_text_render_daysback | Oldest stories to write a story_text.rendered field for, in days |
| freshen_homepage_min_minutes | Number of minutes between updating the main index.shtml homepage (if 0, disabled, only updates when freshenup.pl believes it is required)(Was:60 audioguy set to 0) |
| goodkarma | Users get bonus points for posts if karma above this value |
| gse_fallback_min_stoid | Set by set_gse_min_stoid to define how far back to search max when not passing an issue or offset |
| gse_mp_max_days_back | Max days back to go in gSE select for mainpage in instances where we haven't passed an offset / issue -- 0 if you don't want to use this |
| gse_precache_mins_ahead | How many minutes ahead to precache getStoriesEssentials data in the query cache and memcached? |
| gse_skip_count_if_no_min_stoid | If no min_stoid is available, skip counting the s_t_r rows and go straight to the one-table select? Rule of thumb, set this to true for sites with many stories (say, over 10,000) |
| gse_table_join_row_cutoff | Number of stoids below which getStoriesEssentials performs 2 separate selects and above which it performs a JOIN |
| http_proxy | http://proxy.slashcott.org |
| id_md5_vislength | Num chars to display for ipid/subnetid (0 for all) |
| ignore_uid_date_index | Ignore uid_date index on comments where it may slow performance |
| imagedir | Absolute URL for image directory |
| imagemagick_convert | Location of imagemagick convert for thumbnail generation |
| index_gse_backup_prob | Probability that index.pl getStoriesEssentials will look to backup_db_user instead of the main db: 0=never, 1=always |
| index_handler | The perl servlet to call for connections to the root of the server. |
| index_handler_noanon | The shtml page to call if a user is anon and index_noanon is set (was:home, audioguy set to loginonly.shtml) |
| index_new_user_beta | Use index beta for new users? |
| index_noanon | Redirect all anonymous users to index_handler_noanon instead of index.shtml. Set to 1 to activate, 0 to remove.(was:0 audioguy set to 1) |
| index_readmore_with_bytes | Include bytes / word count in readmore link where applicable? |
| ircslash | Enable the ircslash task and connect to an IRC channel whenever slashd starts |
| ircslash_channel | Which channel to join |
| ircslash_channel_password | Password for ircslash_channel |
| ircslash_dbalert_bogthresh | Alert the IRC channel when DB query bog exceeds this value, in seconds, for the last minute average |
| ircslash_dbalert_lagthresh | Alert the IRC channel when DB replication lag exceeds this value, in seconds, for the last minute average |
| ircslash_ircname | Name to use on IRC server (defaults to "(slashsite) slashd") |
| ircslash_jabber_users | Pipe-separated list of userids ("userid" or "userid/resource") to send Jabber messages to, instead of sending to channel |
| ircslash_lastremarkid | Id of the last remark seen |
| ircslash_lcr_sites | Pipe-separated list of site names to use for lcr cmd |
| ircslash_nick | Nick to use on IRC server (has a reasonable default) |
| ircslash_port | Port to use on IRC server |
| ircslash_remarks_delay | How often, in seconds, to poll for new remarks |
| ircslash_remarks_max_day | How many remarks a single user can send, in a day, before we start ignoring them |
| ircslash_remarks_max_month | How many remarks a single user can send, in a month, before we start ignoring them |
| ircslash_remarks_max_year | How many remarks a single user can send, in a year, before we start ignoring them |
| ircslash_server | Which IRC server to connect to |
| ircslash_ssl | Try to connect over SSL? |
| ircslash_username | Username to use on IRC server (has a reasonable default) |
| ispell | Location of ispell binary or empty string to turn off |
| ispell_is_really_aspell_with_lang | Some systems install aspell and a script that mimics the behavior of ispell; if yours does, set this to your preferred language name, e.g. "english" |
| issue_lookback_days | Number of days to look back in issue mode |
| istroll_downmods_ip | Downmods at which an IP is considered a troll |
| istroll_downmods_subnet | Downmods at which a subnet is considered a troll |
| istroll_downmods_user | Downmods at which a user is considered a troll |
| istroll_ipid_hours | Hours back that getIsTroll checks IPs for comment mods |
| istroll_max_halflives | Max number of times to cut the TrollModval impact of a downmod in half |
| istroll_uid_hours | Hours back that getIsTroll checks uids for comment mods |
| jabberslash | Enable the ircslash task for Jabber, and connect to a Jabber channel whenever slashd starts |
| jabberslash_channel | Which channel to join |
| jabberslash_channel_password | Password for jabberslash_channel |
| jabberslash_channel_server | Which Jabber server to use for the channel (defaults to jabberslash_server) |
| jabberslash_ircname | Account name to use on Jabber server (defaults to "(slashsite) slashd") |
| jabberslash_nick | Nick to use on IRC server (has a reasonable default); is used for jabber Resource and channel alias |
| jabberslash_password | Password for jabberslash_ircname account |
| jabberslash_port | Port to use on Jabber server |
| jabberslash_server | Which Jabber server to connect to |
| jabberslash_tls | Try to connect using TLS? |
| journal2submit_skid | skid to submit journal entries to, if not set they go to mainpage skid |
| journal_allow_journal2submit | Allow journals to be submitted as submissions? |
| journal_comments | Turn on and off comments for journal entries |
| journal_create_submission | Do you want setting the publicize flag to create a submission in addition to a journal? |
| journal_default_display | Number of journals to display on a user's page |
| journal_default_theme | Default theme to use on journal entries |
| journal_default_topic | Default topic that all journal discussions belong to |
| journal_rdfitemdesc | 1 == include introtext in item description; 0 == don't. Any other number is substr() of introtext to use |
| journal_rdfitemdesc_html | 1 == include HTML in item description; 0 == strip HTML (plain text only); 2 == HTML for subscribers only |
| journal_speed_limit | seconds delay before repeat posting |
| journal_top | Number of journals to display in the top page |
| journal_top_friend | Turn on and off top friends view |
| journal_top_posters | Turn on and off top posters view |
| journal_top_recent | Turn on and off top recent view |
| karma_adj | Adjectives that describe karma, used if karma_obfuscate is set (best to keep aligned with badkarma, m2_maxbonus_karma, and goodkarma) |
| karma_obfuscate | Should users see, not their numeric karma score, but instead an adjective describing their approximate karma? |
| karma_posting_penalty_style | 0=old (starting score decremented), 1=new (display score shown lower, comment can suffer results of additional downvotes) |
| label_ui | Whether to label some things in the admin ui |
| lastComments | Last time we checked comments for moderation points |
| lastlookmemory | Amount of time the uid last looked-at will be remembered/displayed |
| lastsrandsec | Last Block used in the semi-random block |
| lenient_formkeys | 0 - only ipid, 1 - ipid OR subnetid, in formkey validation check |
| logdir | Where should the logs be found? |
| logdir_flock | flock(LOCK_EX) around appends to log files in logdir? |
| login_nontemp_days | Days before a nontemp login expires |
| login_speed_limit | How fast a user can create users, etc. |
| login_temp_minutes | Minutes before a temporary login expires |
| log_admin | This turns on/off entries to the accesslog. If you are a small site and want a true number for your stats turn this off. |
| log_db_user | The virtual user of the database that the code should write accesslog to. If you don't know what this is for, you should leave it blank. |
| m1 | Allows use of the moderation system |
| m1_admin_show_mods_with_comments | Show moderations with comments for admins? |
| m1_eligible_hitcount | Number of hits on comments.pl before user can be considered eligible for moderation |
| m1_eligible_percentage | Percentage of users eligible to moderate |
| m1_pluginname | Which moderation plugin to use |
| m1_pointgrant_end | Ending percentage into the pool of eligible moderators (used by moderatord) |
| m1_pointgrant_factor_downfairratio | Factor of downmods fairness ratio in deciding who is eligible for moderation (1=irrelevant, 2=top user twice as likely) |
| m1_pointgrant_factor_fairtotal | Factor of fairness total in deciding who is eligible for moderation (1=irrelevant, 2=top user twice as likely) |
| m1_pointgrant_factor_stirratio | Factor of stirred-points ratio in deciding who is eligible for moderation (1=irrelevant, 2=top user twice as likely) |
| m1_pointgrant_factor_upfairratio | Factor of upmods fairness ratio in deciding who is eligible for moderation (1=irrelevant, 2=top user twice as likely) |
| m2 | Allows use of the metamoderation system |
| m2_batchsize | Maximum number of moderations processed for M2 reconciliation per execution of moderation daemon. |
| m2_comments | Number of comments for meta-moderation - if more than about 15, doublecheck that users_info.mods_saved is large enough |
| m2_consensus | Number of M2 votes per M1 before it is reconciled by consensus - if not odd, will be forced to next highest odd number |
| m2_consensus_waitpow | Positive real number, 0.2 to 5 is sensible. Between 0 and 1, older mods are chosen for M2 preferentially. Greater than 1, newer |
| m2_consequences | Rewards and penalties for M2ers and moderator, up to the given amount of fairness (0.0-1.0): numbers are 1, tokens to fair-voters, 2, tokens to unfair-voters, 3, tokens to moderator, and 4, karma to moderator |
| m2_consequences_bonus_earlymod_secs | Fairly moderate a comment within this many seconds of its being posted and gain a token bonus |
| m2_consequences_bonus_earlymod_tokenmult | Fairly moderate a comment early, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_minfairfrac | Fraction of Fair metamods a mod has to get for its user to be eligible for the m2 csq bonuses |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_-1 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_0 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_1 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_2 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_3 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_4 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_pointsorig_5 | Fairly moderate a comment from this score, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_quintile_1 | Fairly moderate a comment in the first 20% of a discussion and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_quintile_2 | Fairly moderate a comment in the second 20% of a discussion and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_quintile_3 | Fairly moderate a comment in the third 20% of a discussion and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_quintile_4 | Fairly moderate a comment in the fourth 20% of a discussion and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_quintile_5 | Fairly moderate a comment in the last 20% of a discussion and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_bonus_replypost_tokenmult | Fairly moderate a reply, instead of a top-level comment, and gain this bonus multiplier |
| m2_consequences_repeats | Token penalties for modding same user multiple times, applied at M2 reconcile time |
| m2_consequences_token_max | Maximum number of tokens a user can have, for being on the consensus side of an M2 or being judged Fair, to merit gaining tokens |
| m2_consequences_token_min | Minimum number of tokens a user must have, for being on the consensus side of an M2 to merit gaining tokens |
| m2_freq | In seconds, the maximum frequency which users can metamoderate |
| m2_inherit | Set to true if you would like to inherit m2s from previous mods with the same cid-reason |
| m2_maxbonus_karma | Usually about half of goodkarma |
| m2_mintokens | The min M2 tokens |
| m2_min_daysbackcushion | The minimum days-back cushion |
| m2_multicount | Additional multiplier for M2s performed on duplicate mods (leave 0 to disable) |
| m2_oldest_wanted | How many days old can un-M2d mods get before they are considered important to get fully reconciled? |
| m2_oldest_zone_mult | How many times the normal amount of M2s are applied to the oldest un-M2d mods? |
| m2_oldest_zone_percentile | What percentile of the oldest un-M2d mods are to be considered highest priority? |
| m2_oldzone | Starting id (youngest) of the old-zone of moderations that still require M2 (the oldest certain percentile) |
| m2_only_perdec | What perdecage of mods should get M2d? 1=1/10th, 10=all |
| m2_userpercentage | UID must be below this percentage of the total userbase to metamoderate |
| m2_wait_hours | Number of hours to wait before a mod is available for m2 |
| mailfrom | All mail addressed from the site looks like it is coming from here |
| mailpass_max_hours | Mailing a password only allowed mailpass_max_num times per account per this many hours |
| mailpass_max_num | Mailing a password only allowed this many times per account per mainpass_max_hours hours |
| mailpass_valid_days | A mailed newpasswd is expired after this many days |
| mainfontface | Fonts |
| mainpage_displayable_nexuses | List of nexuses that can appear on the mainpage depending on settings; if empty, getStorypickableNexusChildren is used instead |
| mainpage_nexus_tid | Topic ID of the nexus considered "mainpage", the front page, what used to be meant by "always display" -- this should be determinable from mainpage_skid but for now it is a separate var |
| mainpage_skid | ID of the skin considered "mainpage", the front page, what used to be meant by "always display" |
| markup_checked_attribute | The checked attribute that is used on the "input" HTML element, CHECKED for HTML 3.2 and checked="checked" for HTML 4.0 and beyond. Must include leading space! |
| maxkarma | Maximum karma a user can accumulate |
| maxpoints | The maximum number of points any moderator can have |
| maxtokens | Token threshold that must be hit to get any points |
| maxtokens_add | Max tokens to give any one user per pass |
| max_comments_allowed | maximum number of posts per day allowed |
| max_comments_unusedfk | How many unused formkeys are permitted |
| max_depth | max depth for nesting of comments |
| max_discussions_allowed | maximum number of posts per day allowed |
| max_discussions_unusedfk | How many unused formkeys are permitted |
| max_expiry_comm | Largest value for comment expiry trigger. |
| max_expiry_days | Largest value for duration expiry trigger. |
| max_journals_unusedfk | How many unused formkeys are permitted |
| max_journal_allowed | maximum number of journals per timeframe allowed |
| max_login_allowed | How many forms a user can submit |
| max_submissions_allowed | maximum number of submissions per timeframe allowed |
| max_submissions_unusedfk | How many unused formkeys are permitted |
| max_submission_size | max size of submission before warning message is displayed |
| max_users_allowed | How many changes a user can submit |
| max_users_unusedfk | How many unused formkeys are permitted |
| max_users_viewings | how many times users.pl can be viewed |
| memcached | Use memcached? |
| memcached_debug | Turn on debugging for memcached? |
| memcached_exptime_comtext | Number of seconds comment text lives in memcached before requiring a re-read from the DB (empty string=default, 0=forever) |
| memcached_exptime_story | Number of seconds a story record lives in memcached before requiring a re-read from the DB |
| memcached_exptime_user | Number of seconds a user record lives in memcached before requiring a re-read from the DB (empty string=default, 0=forever) |
| memcached_keyprefix | Unique, short (1-2 chars probably) prefix to distinguish this site from the other sites sharing memcaches |
| memcached_servers | Space-sep list of servers for memcached in host:port format; to weight a server append =n |
| message_last_deferred | The last date that deferred messages were sent |
| message_process_count | Number of messages to process at each delivery interval |
| message_send_expire | Number of days to hold message in delivery queue |
| message_threshold | Default threshold for a comment to trigger a message |
| message_web_expire | Number of days to keep message on web site |
| message_web_maxtotal | Number of total messages to keep on web site, per user |
| minkarma | Minimum karma a user can sink to |
| min_cid_last_1_days | \N |
| min_cid_last_30_days | \N |
| min_expiry_comm | Lowest value for comment expiry trigger. |
| min_expiry_days | Lowest value for duration expiry trigger. |
| moderatord_catchup_count | The number of times moderatord will loop if replication is used and is too far behind our threshold. |
| moderatord_catchup_sleep | The number of seconds moderatord will wait each time it loops if replication is behind. |
| moderatord_debug_info | Add in more detailed information into slashd.log for moderation task info. This WILL increase the size by slashd.log quite a bit, so use only if you need to. |
| moderatord_lag_threshold | The number of updates replication must be within before moderatord will run using the replicated handle. If this threshold isn't met, moderatord will not run. |
| moderatord_lastmaxid | Last accesslog.id seen by run_moderatord |
| moderatord_maxrows | Max number of accesslog rows to process at once in run_moderatord |
| modviewseclev | Minimum seclev to see moderation totals on a comment |
| mod_elig_minkarma | The min M1 karma |
| mod_karma_bonus_max_downmods | How many times can you downmod a comment without it losing its karma bonus? (bonus lost at value+1th downmod) (set very high to disable) |
| mod_same_subnet_forbid | Forbid users from moderating any comments posted by someone in their subnet? |
| mod_stats | Include stats on moderation in the daily admin mail? |
| mod_stats_lookback_days | Number of days to look back for repeat mods |
| mod_stats_min_repeat | Minimum number repeat mods to appear in mod stats |
| mod_stats_reports | Who to send daily moderation stats reports to |
| mod_stir_recycle_fraction | What fraction of unused mod points get recycled back into the system? |
| mod_stir_token_cost | What is the token cost of having each mod point stirred? |
| mod_token_assignment_delay | Pause in seconds between batches of assigning token changes |
| mod_token_decay_days | How many days of inactivity before tokens start to decay? |
| mod_token_decay_perday | If inactivity, how many tokens lost per day? |
| mod_unm2able_token_cost | What is the token cost of performing an un-M2able mod? |
| mod_up_points_needed | Need more than 1 point to mod up? Hash |
| nesting_maxdepth | Maximum depth to which
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| nest_su_maxdepth | Maximum depth to which and tags can be nested |
| newsletter_body | Print bodytext, not merely introtext, in newsletter. |
| nick_chars | Characters allowed in user nicknames |
| nick_maxlen | Max length of nickname, should correspond with schema for users.nickname |
| nick_regex | Regex (case-sensitive) allowed for user nicknames |
| no_prerendered_stories | Turn off use of prerendered stories in display |
| offer_insecure_login_link | Offer the user the 'totally insecure but very convenient' index.pl login link |
| openid_consumer_allow | Allow users to authenticate using OpenID, and manage OpenID identities. |
| openid_consumer_secret | Consumer secret for OpenID |
| optipng | path to optipng if it is to be used for compressing thumbnails |
| op_exclude_from_countdaily | Ops to omit from daily counts in adminmail |
| organise_stories | organise story blocks |
| panic | 0:Normal, 1:No frills, 2:Essentials only |
| people_max | Maximum number of friends/foes you can have |
| people_max_subscriber | Maximum number of friends/foes you can have |
| poll_cache | On home page, cache and display default poll for users (if false, is extra hits to database) |
| poll_discussions | Allow discussions on polls |
| poll_fwdfor | Loose proxy management for voting? |
| postedout_end_secs | Window to count posted-out stories closes this many seconds in the future |
| postedout_start_secs | Window to count posted-out stories opens this many seconds in the future |
| postedout_thisnexusonly | If nonzero, only count posted-out stories that are rendered in this nexus, otherwise count all |
| postedout_wanted | Number of posted-out stories considered a satisfying normal amount |
| rdfencoding | Site encoding |
| rdfimg | site icon to be used by RSS subscribers |
| rdfitemdesc | 1 == include introtext in item description; 0 == don't. Any other number is substr() of introtext to use |
| rdfitemdesc_html | 1 == include HTML in item description; 0 == strip HTML (plain text only) |
| rdflanguage | What language is the site in? |
| rdfpublisher | The "publisher" for your RSS channel |
| rdfrights | The "copyright" for your RSS channel |
| rdfsubject | The "subject" for your RSS channel |
| rdfupdatebase | The date to use as a base for the updating |
| rdfupdatefrequency | How often to update per rdfupdateperiod |
| rdfupdateperiod | When to update |
| recent_topic_img_count | Number of recent topics to store in the template "recentTopics" |
| recent_topic_txt_count | Number of recent topics to store in the block "recenttopics" |
| referrer_external_static_redirect | If true, redirect anon requests referred from other sites for dynamic article.pl to static .shtml. This can greatly improve chances of surviving a slashdotting |
| reskey_srcid_masksize | which srcid mask size to use for reskeys |
| reskey_static_salt | sitewide salt for reskeys |
| reskey_timeframe | Default timeframe base to use for max-uses (in seconds) |
| returnto_passwd | Password used to sign MD5s for returnto URLs from remote sites |
| rootdir | Base URL of site; used for creating on-site links that need protocol-inspecific URL (so site can be used via HTTP and HTTPS at the same time) |
| rss_allow_index | Allow RSS feeds to be served from index.pl (1 = admins, 2 = subscribers, 3 = all logged-in users) |
| rss_expire_days | Number of days till we blank the data from the database (the signatures still stick around though) |
| rss_max_items_incoming | Max number of rss items shown in a slashbox, by default |
| rss_max_items_outgoing | Max number of rss items emitted in an rss/rdf/atom feed |
| rss_store | Should we be saving incoming submissions for rss |
| runtask_verbosity | How much information runtask should write to slashd.log: 0-3 or empty string to use slashd_verbosity |
| run_ads | Should we be running ads? |
| sbindir | Where are the sbin scripts kept |
| search_default_display | Default number of entries to display on Search page |
| search_google | Turn on to disable local search (and invite users to use google.com) |
| search_ignore_skids | list of skids that you want to not include in search results. Delimit skids with | |
| search_journal_enabled | Turns on searching journals. |
| search_method | Method to use to weight scores for search returns (and to narrow down possible matches) |
| search_rdfitemdesc | 1 == include introtext in item description; 0 == don't. Any other number is substr() of introtext to use |
| search_rdfitemdesc_html | 1 == include HTML in item description; 0 == strip HTML (plain text only) |
| search_rss_enabled | Turns on searching rss. |
| search_text_length | This will tell search how many characters should be returned for text bodies in searches (think introtext for stories and article for journals). |
| section | This is the current setting for section. |
| send_mail | Turn On/Off to allow the system to send email messages. |
| signoff_notify | Add remark for bot on each signoff / update / save ? |
| signoff_use | Use signoff functionalilty? |
| similarstorydays | Number of days to look back for uncommon words when determining similar stories |
| similarstorymaxwords | Maximum number of top-weighted scores to search for in previous stories |
| similarstoryminweight | Minimum weight necessary for a story to be displayed as similar |
| similarstorynumshow | Maximum number of similar stories to show in admin preview |
| siteadmin | The admin for the site |
| siteadmin_name | The pretty name for the admin for the site |
| siteid | The unique ID for this site |
| sitename | Name of the site |
| sitepublisher | The entity that publishes the site |
| slashboxes_maxnum | Maximum number of slashboxes to allow |
| slashbox_sections | Allow used-selected slashboxes in sections |
| slashbox_whatsplaying | Whether or not to turn on the "What's Playing" Slashbox. |
| slashdir | Directory where Slash was installed |
| slashd_errnote_lastrun | Last time slashd_errnote ran |
| slashd_hostname_default | Hostname of the machine that slashd tasks run on unless otherwise specified in slashd_status.hostname - blank means slashd runs normally anywhere |
| slashd_verbosity | How much information slashd (and runtask) should write to slashd.log: 0-3, 3 can be a lot |
| slogan | Slogan of the site |
| smalldevices_ua_regex | regex of user agents for small devices |
| smtp_server | The mailserver for the site |
| stats_admin_seclev | seclev required to look at stats in stats.pl |
| stats_firehose_spamcount | Number of firehose items marked as is_spam |
| stats_reports | Who to send daily stats reports to |
| stats_sfnet_groupids | List of sf.net group IDs to keep stats on |
| stem_uncommon_words | Use stems of words for detecting similar stories instead of whole words? |
| stir | Number of days before unused moderator points expire |
| story_expire | Default expiration time for story cache |
| story_files | Allow stories to use files from Slash::Blob |
| story_never_topic_allow | Allow story_never_topic data to be edited and passed to getStoriesEssentials? 0=no, 1=subscriber-only, 2=yes |
| submissions_link_relnofollow | Add a rel="nofollow" to the submitter's vanity link for all submissions? |
| submissions_speed_limit | How fast they can submit |
| submission_bonus | Bonus given to user if submission is used |
| submission_count_days | Number of days back to count submissions made by the same UID or domain |
| submission_default_skid | Skid you would like selected by default for submissions, 0 or empty string for none |
| submission_force_default | Force selection of default skid for all submissions, takes away menu of options |
| submiss_ts | print timestamp in submissions view |
| submiss_view | allow users to view submissions queue |
| submit_categories | Extra submissions categories |
| submit_domains_invalid | space separated list of domains that are not valid for submitting stories |
| submit_extra_sort_key | Provides an additional submission list sorted on the given field name |
| submit_forgetip_hours | Hours after which a submissions's ipid/subnetid are forgotten; set very large to disable |
| submit_forgetip_maxrows | Max number of rows to forget IPs of at once |
| submit_forgetip_minsubid | Minimum subid to start forgetting IP at |
| submit_redirect_submit2 | Redirect submit to submit2 |
| submit_show_weight | Display optional weight field in submission admin. |
| subnet_karma_comments_needed | Number of comments needed before subnet karma is used for disallowing posting |
| subnet_karma_post_limit_range | range of subnet karma to block posting at -5|-9|-10|-999999 blocks anonymous posting at -5 to -9 subnet karma, and all posting from -10 to -999999 subnet karma |
| task_timespec_freshenup | Custom timespec (in cron style) for the freshenup task. Add more task_timespec_ vars if you want to override other task timespecs. |
| template_cache_request | Special boolean to cache templates only for a single request |
| template_cache_size | Number of templates to store in cache (0 = unlimited) |
| template_post_chomp | Chomp whitespace after directives (0 = no, 1 = yes, 2 = collapse; 0 or 2 recommended) |
| template_pre_chomp | Chomp whitespace before directives (0 = no, 1 = yes, 2 = collapse; 0 or 2 recommended) |
| template_show_comments | Show HTML comments before and after template? (see Slash::Display) 0=no 1=yes unless Nocomm 2=ALWAYS (debugging only!) |
| textarea_cols | Default # of columns for content TEXTAREA boxes |
| textarea_rows | Default # of rows for content TEXTAREA boxes |
| tids_in_urls | Want tid=1&tid=2 in story and discussion-related URLs? |
| titlebar_width | The width of the titlebar |
| tokenspercomment | Number of tokens to feed the system for each comment |
| tokensperpoint | Number of tokens per point |
| topcomm_days | Look back (n) days to display the Hot Comments slashbox |
| topcomm_num | Number of comments wanted for the Hot Comments slashbox. Defaults to 5. |
| topiclist_ignore_prefix | prefix of any topic keywords that should not show up on topic list or hierarchy, leave blank if you don't want any ignored |
| topics_sectional_weight | Minimum weight for sectional stories |
| topic_popup_defaultweight | Default weight for new topics in the popup menu (should probably match default for topic_parents.min_weight) |
| topic_popup_open | Expand all topics by default, or not |
| topic_popup_weights | The dividing lines etc. for the topic select box in the story editor |
| topic_tree_draw | Draw the images/topic_tree.png? (turned off by default to avoid making GraphViz a Slash requirement) |
| topic_tree_draw_fontname | Name of font used for labels in the topic tree |
| topic_tree_draw_fontsize | Size of font used for labels in the topic tree |
| topic_tree_lastchange | Unix timestamp of last change to the topic tree |
| topic_tree_lastdraw | Unix timestamp of last time topic_tree_draw.pl redrew images/topic_tree.png |
| top_sid | The sid of the most recent story on the homepage |
| totalComments | Total number of comments posted |
| totalhits | Total number of hits the site has had thus far |
| uncommonstorywords_maxlen | Maximum length of the uncommon words list |
| uncommonstoryword_minlen | Minimum length of the words in the uncommon words list |
| uncommonstoryword_thresh | Words occurring more often than once every this-many days are considered common |
| uncommon_weight_bodytext | Relative weight for uncommon words found in bodytext of stories |
| uncommon_weight_introtext | Relative weight for uncommon words found in introtext of stories |
| uncommon_weight_title | Relative weight for uncommon words found in titles of stories |
| url_checker_user_agent | user Agent to use for url checking task, empty string results in lwp user agent being used |
| users_bio_length | Length allowed for user bio |
| users_count | (Approximate) number of users registered on this slash site |
| users_menu_no_display | Hide users menu? |
| users_show_info_seclev | Minimum seclev to view a users info |
| users_speed_limit | How fast a user can change their prefs |
| user_comments_force_index | Give user comments query hint to use specific index? |
| user_comment_display_default | Number of comments to display on user's info page |
| user_submitter_display_default | Number of stories to display on user's info page |
| use_dept | use "dept." field |
| use_prev_next_link | Boolean where to use next/prev links for articles |
| use_prev_next_link_section | Boolean where to use next/prev links for articles in a section |
| use_prev_next_link_series | Boolean where to use next/prev links for articles in a series (topic) |
| writestatus | Simple Boolean to determine if homepage needs rewriting |
| xhtml | Boolean for whether we are using XHTML |
| zoo_timer | Last time the Zoo task ran. |