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Forum Changes...
A few things...
POST COUNTS: I am playing with a way to keep user titles but stop displaying post counts in the postbit, because of all the recent silliness about them. I may remove it from the members list as well if there's more silliness. SKINS: As I've mentioned before, they are not set up properly here at all in the parent-child style that we really need in order to do some easy modding. I've trimmed those down to the top five that y'all voted on a while back (IMPORTANT POLL: What skin do you use? - Front Office Football Central. This will be helpful going forward. DELETING THREADS: Non-mods can no longer do this, again due to the recent silliness. (It's fairly likely that I left off one or more of the "side" groups, but I can address that as it comes up.) ASSHATTERY: While I was working on these changes, a few of you chose to act like asshats by abusing signatures and post reporting. As a result, you are facing temporary sanctions (one day).
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09-03-2008, 06:22 PM | #2 |
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09-03-2008, 06:23 PM | #3 |
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You know, you've overblown situations in the past, but this just looks kinda stupid Ben.
The only thing I agree with here is the deleting threads bit, never should have been available to joe-user. The rest is irrelevent and/or assinine. take your pick, whichever view makes you warm and fuzzy. |
09-03-2008, 06:24 PM | #4 |
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YOU ARE MEEN!
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09-03-2008, 06:25 PM | #5 |
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09-03-2008, 06:28 PM | #6 | |
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09-03-2008, 06:28 PM | #7 |
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I gotta say that if your post count showing by your name means so much to you, you need to get out more.
I don't put my FOFC title on my business card, FWIW. Maybe just me, but who cares? |
09-03-2008, 06:28 PM | #8 | |
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09-03-2008, 06:29 PM | #9 | |
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see...thats the difference...i just got new business cards printed...what the hell am i supposed to do with 1,000 cards that say "College Benchwarmer" |
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09-03-2008, 06:35 PM | #10 | |
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Wait a few years. I'm sure in a few years that the thresholds for titles will change and if you just lurk here and don't post you'll be back to College Benchwarmer. All you need is a little discipline. C'mon, what's more important to you? |
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09-03-2008, 06:43 PM | #11 |
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Haha, everyone lost posts (kind of). I love it.
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09-03-2008, 06:47 PM | #12 | |
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if they would just give me the custom title i want, i wouldnt have to worry about it? |
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09-03-2008, 06:53 PM | #13 |
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What's worse?
People caring about post counts or Skydog caring about people caring about post counts? Now I will never see 3000. |
09-03-2008, 07:04 PM | #14 |
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This is a positive change. Long overdue.
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09-03-2008, 07:05 PM | #15 | |
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If you check your profile or the member list you will. That is why Ben said...
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09-03-2008, 07:09 PM | #16 |
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i'm having Hell Atlantic in my sig.
if you don't like it then ban me. that's as simple as it's gonna get. hut one, hut two, hut three hut! ole dirty bastard live and uncut style's unshakable shatterproof to my young youth you wanna get guns? shoot. Last edited by Anthony : 09-03-2008 at 07:10 PM. |
09-03-2008, 07:10 PM | #17 |
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09-03-2008, 07:10 PM | #18 |
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To be clear, I don't particularly care that people care. I care that they are bugging the mods and me about it.
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09-03-2008, 07:14 PM | #19 |
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I'm just happy that this will stop people deleting old threads.
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09-03-2008, 07:18 PM | #20 | |
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09-03-2008, 07:20 PM | #21 |
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Has anyone refused to accept a ban?
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09-03-2008, 07:26 PM | #22 |
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09-03-2008, 07:27 PM | #23 |
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09-03-2008, 07:28 PM | #24 |
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*finishes painting the swastikas over the FOFC logos....*
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09-03-2008, 07:28 PM | #25 |
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09-03-2008, 07:40 PM | #26 |
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i miss post counts
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09-03-2008, 07:42 PM | #27 |
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09-03-2008, 07:42 PM | #28 |
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So basically we have two people who posted threads about nearing a post count "landmark" and then people who started deleting threads and what appear to be mods who started childishly screwing with the numbers. The solution is to take away post numbers and slap people on the wrist who objected, much of it jokingly? That's some REALLY messed up logic.
Personally I think the mods who started screwing with the numbers to inflame the situation should be the ones facing some sort of penalty. They (or this person if it was just one) clearly abused their power just to be asshats. |
09-03-2008, 07:43 PM | #29 |
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I don't give a crap about post counts or join date.
It's about the content of the post more than it is about the number of of inane post bolsters. I think this is a good thing. I love FOFC, not my stature here.
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09-03-2008, 07:50 PM | #30 |
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Posting to see if I was banned. No? Ok.
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09-03-2008, 07:50 PM | #31 | |
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09-03-2008, 07:55 PM | #32 |
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Now we ALL know how it must feel to be a werewolf.
ARROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo! |
09-03-2008, 07:55 PM | #33 | |
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So, bottom line: it was multiple rebuilds of post counts by me, not some rogue mod screwing around, that probably caused a lot of variance in post counts today.
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09-03-2008, 07:57 PM | #34 |
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The opening post is a good example.
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09-03-2008, 08:07 PM | #36 | |
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It seemed odd that only RendeR's post counts were being drastically altered during this time period. It was obvious in the thread that only his were being drastically changed. Everyone was getting some flux but while other dropped just a couple hundred he dropped to near 0. Overall the biggest problem here was people messing around and deleting threads. In the overall scheme of things how much does it matter that Lathum hit 10,000 or RendeR hit 6,000? Personally I kind of like the post counts. I only know the major players on here for the most part and sometimes I have seen post from someone and not realized just how active they have been (though I had missed what they had been posting entirely) and see that someone who I though was just a lurker was actual an active member that I hadn't noticed. |
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09-03-2008, 08:15 PM | #37 |
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09-03-2008, 08:16 PM | #38 |
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it would appear that there are a couple thousand of my posts that were not being counted for whatever reason to begin with. I was at 6000 when this got started, but when I search for posts by this user I get the number above. Whyso? |
09-03-2008, 08:17 PM | #39 | |
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I have seen you reference this twice now. I just want to point out that there have been a number of "milestone" posts and I fully expected a thread to be deleted knocking me down. But IMO the second and third time it happened it crosses into asshatery. |
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09-03-2008, 08:17 PM | #40 |
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So EF, i suppose it doesn't matter that its not always visible, one can always find one's post count if one were to wish to find one's post count. |
09-03-2008, 08:18 PM | #41 | |
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Agree on the deleted threads. It's almost a "tradition" now that it happens when someone starts one of those threads. I'd never really thought about it, but when I did, I couldn't think of a compelling reason to let users delete threads. It can be a royal pain to find and restore them if they pick the right ones. (I'm pretty sure that some are in effect lost forever just because we're not likely to find them.) It's quite uncommon for someone to double-post a thread, and even more uncommon for someone to regret a thread shortly after it's posted and want to delete it. In either case, they can PM me or any mod and we'll just take care of it.
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09-03-2008, 08:18 PM | #42 |
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The WW posts were skewed, that is probably why Renders seems screwey, mine were and I know Saldanas were also
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09-03-2008, 08:20 PM | #43 | |
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If that then solved the problem, why all the rest of the changes? why overkill? |
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09-03-2008, 08:21 PM | #44 |
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7979 now according to the members list. Why would the membership listing and the search function return different results?
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09-03-2008, 08:22 PM | #45 |
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I went from 0 to 30, and i thought i was cool before!
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09-03-2008, 08:26 PM | #46 |
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Ah, I thought the entire post count was wiped out, didn't realize I can still find it, just need to click the user's ID (sorry, was too lazy to do that other click before ).
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09-03-2008, 08:27 PM | #47 |
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Was going to post an over/under on RendeR ending up in the box, I guess that contest was over before it started...
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09-03-2008, 08:28 PM | #48 |
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hlly crap. 2700........
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09-03-2008, 08:30 PM | #49 |
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Yes. It would be a royal pain to remove it from everywhere that it exists in vbulletin. As many things that can be turned on and off in vbulletin via the control panel, it's a bit surprising that this isn't one of them. It requires removing the HTML and code that generates it in the various places. *shurg*
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09-03-2008, 08:31 PM | #50 |
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