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rickey939 · Feb 4, 2007, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by Weezer

Again, any response on green stars at 1,000 and multi-colored at 10,000?

That will not be changed.

Weezer · Feb 4, 2007, 04:41 PM

why not? Whats the argument against it?

Kevin · Feb 4, 2007, 04:43 PM

I guess there goes my white stars.

Or bday cake or candles showing up on people's bday.

No baseballs either!

ohwell.wav

Rumor · Feb 4, 2007, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Weezer

why not? Whats the argument against it?

Because there is a new ranking structure in place.

Person Man · Feb 4, 2007, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by gorgonzola

It can be done. In fact, mods and admins see them while others don't. But the problem with your idea is that it completely defeats the purpose of disabling them.

That's what I wanted to know. Thank you.

The only reason to remove them was that we wanted to recognize people's posts while discouraging post whoring. If it's just an option, all the post whores will turn it on and it'll be the same as before. There is an argument to be made that this does not really discourage post whoring, and I am not opposed to turning them back on, but I think this new system could achieve a good balance of having clear status ranks (more stars = more posts) but also not having people's numbers go up for every single post they make.

I don't know. One can still find out how many posts someone has by clicking on the user info for that person. I'm not sure how giving people the option to display them for everyone or not would encourage post whoring any more than the way things stand now. It could be made an option, with the option turned off by default, and the post whores wouldn't have any idea who had them on or off.

What I will probably do is just leave it this way for a few weeks (so people can try this out) and then run a poll to see how many people really care about post counts being so visible.

Will your poll make the distinction between turning them on for everybody or making it a user option as to whether to show them or not?

Person Man · Feb 4, 2007, 05:06 PM

On another note, I see that the "view post" option is gone for people on ignore lists.

As it stands now, if I want to view an ignored poster's post (and keep them on ignore), I have to take them off the ignored list, view the post, and then put them back on.

One could make the argument that it defeats the purpose of having someone on ignore, but when I put someone on ignore, I intend to be able to see what they are saying on occasion.

Kevin · Feb 4, 2007, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by Person Man

On another note, I see that the "view post" option is gone for people on ignore lists.

As it stands now, if I want to view an ignored poster's post (and keep them on ignore), I have to take them off the ignored list, view the post, and then put them back on.

One could make the argument that it defeats the purpose of having someone on ignore, but when I put someone on ignore, I intend to be able to see what they are saying on occasion.

analogika · Feb 4, 2007, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Person Man

On another note, I see that the "view post" option is gone for people on ignore lists.

As it stands now, if I want to view an ignored poster's post (and keep them on ignore), I have to take them off the ignored list, view the post, and then put them back on.

One could make the argument that it defeats the purpose of having someone on ignore, but when I put someone on ignore, I intend to be able to see what they are saying on occasion.

True.

I'm not sure though whether that's merely annoying, or whether it actually builds character.

- - e r i k - - · Feb 4, 2007, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Weezer

why not? Whats the argument against it?

Originally Posted by gorgonzola

I don't think colors are a good idea for normal user levels, because the moderator/admin colors should really stand out. Addicted and Clinical already dilute that a bit, but more than that would be too much, I think. (And there are far fewer users who are Addicted/Clinical.)

(from the Beta testing forum)

Eug · Feb 4, 2007, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Weezer

Again, any response on green stars at 1,000 and multi-colored at 10,000?

I still don't see the fascination of this.

Personally, I'd be happy if everyone over 500 posts had the exact same rating.

Kevin · Feb 4, 2007, 06:33 PM

Ah so basically no colors cause the admin wanna stand out.

Buncha showey mofos.

houstonmacbro · Feb 4, 2007, 06:53 PM

I like it ... was pleasantly surprised when I came back after a week or so.

Question, what happened to the number of posts for a user. I am not seeing that any more...? Or am I just not looking in the right places?

analogika · Feb 4, 2007, 06:59 PM

The latter.

The right place to start looking would be in this thread.

zac4mac · 07:03 PM

definitely cleaner... let's see what this looks like

Z

Ouch "senior user"? That'll teach me to post my age...

houstonmacbro · Feb 4, 2007, 07:01 PM

Was that a trick answer? I am serious. I do not see where a user's number of posts is. It used to be quite visible.

houstonmacbro · Feb 4, 2007, 07:03 PM

I'm also finding that some of the links don't work (FF 2.0) when you click on a user's information link. The box appears, but clicking on the link yields nothing.

analogika · Feb 4, 2007, 07:12 PM

There is nothing "trick answer" about telling you that your question has been answered several times in this very thread.

You have a post count of 388, btw.

It's in your profile.

C.A.T.S. CEO · Feb 4, 2007, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by houstonmacbro

I'm also finding that some of the links don't work (FF 2.0) when you click on a user's information link. The box appears, but clicking on the link yields nothing.

I'm not having a problem with it

houstonmacbro · Feb 4, 2007, 07:17 PM

Gotcha. I guess it is HOW you click. If I click 'hard' it goes to the links. If I click 'softly' (I am not on drugs here...) it doesn't.

Also, what was the rationale behind changing the number of posts a user makes to not display at or near the post. I am not seeing why it was a bad thing to have it easily visible?

analogika · Feb 4, 2007, 07:19 PM

READ. THE. ****ING. THREAD.

(no, seriously - there *might* have been discussion