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[cider_steve 26]

Getting the message too.

Firefox-user reporting in.

 

Steve: Naw, is good. Guessing you aren't a "heavy" comp user.

 

Heh, I've been 'using' pc's for around 30 years BUT, only for games and looking at the internet. Anything more complex just gives me a nose bleed.

[Stormwing 40]

Steve: Yea, thought so much. Ain't that much of a wiz myself either. Though I'll get my nosebleeds from some other stuff.

 

Hopefully the coding stuff will be solved. Could be useful in those guides and such. Cheers!

 

Oh, btw. How does one earn those rep. points? Just kinda curious...

Edited December 7, 2010 by Stormwing

[Dragon Brother 619]

Oh, btw. How does one earn those rep. points? Just kinda curious...

 

Do you see the little plus button with a number next to it inside a box in the top right of each post? If someone clicks on the plus you get +1 rep and the number goes up one for the post and one for your overall rep. I think schot said we had 3 points per day to assign to others posts like this. I wonder when the timer resets though...

Edited December 7, 2010 by Dragon Brother

[cider_steve 26]

Oh, btw. How does one earn those rep. points? Just kinda curious...

 

Do you see the little plus button with a number next to it inside a box in the top right of each post? If someone clicks on the plus you get +1 rep and the number goes up one for the post and one for your overall rep. I think schot said we had 3 points per day to assign to others posts like this. I wonder when the timer resets though...

 

Interesting. I did wonder myself, and thought that maybe it was something to do with overall post count.

[Stormwing 40]

DB: Thanks. Shoulda known it was something that obvious. That's what you get for not having the "day starting coffeine quota" full

[gogoblender 3,070]

Yah, three points of rep per day

 

Facebook and Reputation on DarkMatters

 

but the hack for this forum isn't as interesting as rep system we've seen elsewhere. Still working on it.

 

 

gogo

[Stormwing 40]

Thanks for clarification, Gogo.

 

Nothing's perfect at the beginning, eh?

I'm quite sure you'll whip up something nice. ^^

Edited December 7, 2010 by Stormwing

[gogoblender 3,070]

reputation is tricky for us. I'm not a fan of using group metrics for our forum regarding "value". We'd always wanted the rep to only be per "action*' a kind of existential metric derived from a member's contribution. On other forums I frequent, this also comes with a field that opens up and lets you instnatly send the person you are sending a personalized comment or message that they can "collect". Instant warm fuzzy feeling.

 

We found a hack that we though would work last night, but when we tried it out, it was buggy. The search goes on!

 

 

gogo

[Stormwing 40]

^ Yep, I see where you're coming from. Too bad none of the other places I've been or am regular had anything as elaborate system I've seen in some places... Might as well snoop around a little, when I look up some stuff. ^^

Little off the current thing; we had a nice roleplay thingie few years ago in some RPG emulation boards. Just a suggestion, when everything else starts to fall in place. It could add a nice flavour.

[cider_steve 26]

 

I'm quite sure you'll whip up something nice. ^^

 

Mmmmm, I hope you mean dessert ?

[Knuckles 904]

I just noticed something today, hopefully I can type the abbreviations cause when I did in a thread it spelled out the long version. I wrote S 2..and it posted Sacred 2 then in another thread today I wrote In q and it posted Inquisitor. Never noticed that before

 

Edit: I had to insert spaces in the red highlighted text or it wouldn't show abbreviations. Even when wrapped in code tags it wanted to spell it out. As much as I like this, is there a way to turn this off if I desired?

[gogoblender 3,070]

We built in abbreviations translate to word because there were so many acronyms, readers were not understanding what the posts were about. Knuckles is there a reason that you want functionality for writing in acronyms? I'm not sure we can have both

 

 

gogo

[Knuckles 904]

No not really at this time...I was more curious if it was a forum or user option. The reason you stated makes more sense than any preference or desire I had. Though I did also notice S1 doesn't spell out to Sacred 1

[gogoblender 3,070]

it's funny, the acronym explosion seemed to happen in Sacred 2...HUGE CA names, I remember trying to wallow through tons of text and not knowing what was going on. Specially with the inqs... out of control

 

 

gogo

[Dragon Brother 619]

I know at some point I was trying to use an abbreviation for something and the forum expanded it or part of it into something that I didnt want...mind you I cannot remember the workd so its not very helpful...