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IT Director  Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002     | |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 | Additional minor update. If someone is banned for a post, that post stays ban flagged (greyed out, minimized) even after the ban itself wears off. Previously, the post would return to normal when the ban ended. This will help keep the staff from banning someone multiple times for the same post, and help make it clear that the content of a certain post was deemed bannable. The change is retroactive, and already in effect. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
And I quote:
This is in the first post of the thread, under the giant red letters that say 'Please read the whole thread, especially this post, before posting something new!". General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 105 Joined: 3 Nov 2008     | regarding search:: |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
You probably had the javascript and CSS files cached - refreshing made your browser download the newest ones. Always try that first ;)
Should be fixed (once the javascript updates)
The forums are not a democracy, and never will be. They're more like a usually-benevolent oligarchy. Bans can be contested using our contact form, which emails several editors to take a look.
The suggestion for a new forum has been noted and is on the consideration list, but to date the editors (who make decisions like new forums) haven't decided to make another one. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
We actually have a design for a type of user reputation system already. But, for the time being, we've decided not to do it.
You can hit the button as many times as you want, it only records one report per user per post. This works the same way as the non-Ajax reporting did. Keeping the state beyond the current page would require more work for the servers, and it's not worth it for a display quirk. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Unfortunately, yes. Some are necessary for the site to function (notably the googleapi and escapistmagazine ones) while others are required for stats packages and ads. Unfortunately, many advertising companies only accept stats from certain sites, which means we have to have several trackers embedded. While I don't enjoy it, ads are how the site can keep running, and I also like having a job, so they have to stay :P General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Both of those badges (and in fact, pretty much any badge that doesn't explain where it came from) are awarded personally by editors. The logic behind them is totally unknown to me - I only debug code, not people. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
I'd love to, but unfortunately none of the gaming services provide this sort of information in a way I can grab it. I can't even link directly to Steam profile pages because your profile page isn't directly linked to your account name (as far as I can tell) Of course, if I'm wrong on this and someone can point me in the right direction, I'm all for it.
Short of you turning off the notifications, not really. The person posting on the forum is triggering the messages as soon as they post. By the time you saw the post, the message was already waiting for you. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
This should hopefully be fixed. One post should now only send one PM to each user quoted. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
Red Guard  Posts: 2402 Joined: 16 Dec 2007    |
As long as they're not making the forums harder to read, I don't see the problem. Also this isn't the place to start a debate, this is a place to suggest or complain about things related to the site. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Should be fixed.
This should be fixed as well.
Will people please stop suggesting ways to help the reporting system? I don't know how much more clear I can make this. The moderation queue is not flooded and confusing for the moderators. The moderation queue is consistently empty. Just click the button, that's all you need to do. The moderators are smart, they can figure out whether or not a post violates the rules on their own. Please, just click the button. Frosk, I'm not singling you out on this, you're just the most recent incident. From now on, I delete any post that tries to help the mod queue without a response.
This is kind of what the Letters to the Editor post is, and that's generally something we leave to the editors to handle :) General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Should be fixed now!
I can't reproduce this - I've been jumping around the forums in IE7 clicking on the quote buttons and it's been working every time. Are you seeing any Javascript errors when the quote doesn't work? It there any particular post you can find or steps that you can take to break it every time? Do you have any scripts, add-ons, or internet security software things running? I believe it's happening, but unless I can make it happen here I don't even know where to start looking to fix it. We're not doing anything fancy with the quote button. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3480 Joined: 18 Dec 2007    |
Yes, I have the same problem. It actually happened when I quoted you, just now. What it seems to do is refresh the page, I actually think of this as a good thing as sometimes it stops me from posting something similar to another person. It seems to be about 33% thing and it never happens when you hit the quote button a second time. It happens at random in all the forums. I don't have any particular scripts or add-ons that I know of but I do have McAfee site advisor running. But as I said before, it really isn't that big of a problem. A big problem that I have though is PM's not coming through and not going out to other people. It's a rare thing, maybe 1 out of every 15-20 messages don't get through but missing out on those few message still sucks. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 719 Joined: 29 May 2008     |
I Don't have any extra scripts or add ons running that I know of, there may be something lurking unseen, and I am using Windows Live One Care for my security system, and I have fiddled with it but I can't find any settings on it that would be causing this. As Fire Daemon said, it only happens on the first time you hit the quote button on a page, and it acts like it refreshes the page. Sometimes the text doesn't show up, and other times, it will appear in the box for a split second and then its like the page refreshes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
We're not likely to have multiple skins for the site. We've tried it, it just doesn't work out that well for us to have to support them over time. But, here's a quick fix for you: http://userstyles.org/styles/13236 Install that plugin and that CSS, and the text in the forum threads should be white on dark. Use at your own risk - I don't know enough about how that plugin works to support it. I don't guarantee it works (though it did for me). I don't guarantee it will continue to work as we upgrade the forums and the site. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 3480 Joined: 18 Dec 2007 | I've noticed a strange thing with the Probation and the banned tag on a persons post. It seems like the banned link and probation link has gotten mixed up, when you click on a "so and so has been put on probation in X thread" link your taken to their post but instead of them being on probation their banned. The same thing happens in the reverse, when you try and see what someone was banned for you find out their only on Probation. |
On the Record  Posts: 5356 Joined: 10 Mar 2008    | I love my HP Potion badge from you guys, thanks! Though that brings me to my question, I remember reading that the badges could potentially have some sort of value for something. Like the badges being used as currency for something. Are there any plans for something similar like that? |
BANNED  Posts: 3535 Joined: 11 Oct 2008    |
Exact answer. :) User was banned for: FUN FORUM GAME THX FO PLAYIN :3. (Permanent) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 871 Joined: 18 Jun 2008     | AS far as suggestions go, I've been noticing how tiny the "send-user-a-message" button. It's a tiny little twenty pixel box next to the name. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3783 Joined: 14 Oct 2007  | The idea of thread tags was mentioned in the "I've searched it!" thread. I think this would work quite well, if you just have a checklist of things. Below are a few suggestions. -Television Discussion on all things from the Great Glass Teat. EDIT: added some detail. Second edit: Perhaps it would be worth having different tags for different sections. Gaming Discussion should have platform/genre tags. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 69 Joined: 21 Jul 2008  | I'll keep it quick please read. 1. A bookmarking feature that updates 2.A "dude on your favorite dude and dudet list made a new thread go check it message" feature. 3.A muti-select report feature |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Whoops! That was a mistake. Mods/Admins don't see the normal report button, so I totally missed that. Fixed now. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
Arial, 9pt
You've found the magic of MS Word "Smart Quotes" - while I try to strip them out in several ways, there's so many different ways stuff can come in depending on your browser, OS language, and character encoding settings that I just can't catch them all. They're generally just not web-friendly. Here's some more info: http://ic.ucsc.edu/tutorials/smartquotes.php If you want to be safe, use a good text editor instead of Word for writing 'web stuff' - I use TextPad for just about everything. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
The PM is sent at the time the post is made, and will include the text you deleted from the forum post. It can't be updated later - it's kind of like sending an email. The link in the PM goes to the forum post, not the quote, so it will still work even if the quote is removed. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
Muckraker  Posts: 299 Joined: 24 Feb 2008   | Ease-up on "Troll" labeling. Just because someone starts a topic (mearly stating their opinion) That you find upsetting or outrageous doesn't necessarily make them a troll. just leave no comment and their topic will eventually fall off the list. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
We already have the code to do text-only signatures as well. It's not a matter of the work involved, we just don't want them.
Infinitely unlikely. There is an [ audio={url}] tag you can use if you really want to embed a player for something you've already uploaded elsewhere though. General Reminder: Read the first post in the thread before posting. If your suggestion has already been made, please don't post it again. We don't need reminders, bumping, or votes. |
On the Record  Posts: 6849 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 |
Huh. My fooling around with taking screenshots of the forums and editing text for miscellaneous and not evil reasons had me figure out it was 12.5pt. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 94 Joined: 7 Jan 2009 | Mmm... I still think it sucks, but what the hell, I'll get over it. |
IT Director Posts: 1378 Joined: 13 Jun 2002 |
It's coming some time in the future. Most of the code is there (which is what we're using for the quotes) we just need to build the interfaces for it. It's on the list ;) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 850 Joined: 23 Sep 2008    | iPhone app? just a suggestion, but i dont know how to make one so mabye you cant |
BANNED  Posts: 2499 Joined: 19 Aug 2008   | Well this isn't really a problem, just something that kinda seems out of place. On some peoples profiles it says something like "Last Active: 31 Dec 1969 2:00 pm" It seems like that can't be true since the Escapist isn't nearly that old and because the internet isn't nearly that old :P example User was banned for: Poll: Round 5 - Field of Four - (1) Turbine vs (1) Nintendo. (Permanent) |
Red Guard Posts: 2402 Joined: 16 Dec 2007 |
We've updated the forum guidelines recently, I think you'll find your suggestion is already in there. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 958 Joined: 25 Sep 2008    | I've noticed quite a few threads with "No text", followed by 10 or so replies "LOL NOTHING TO SEE HERE, REPORT MOVE ON" and "Ooh, you're right! I totally agree with your NoText", and other silly comments. Isn't it possible to generate an error, or whatever, if you attempt to post a thread with no content (other than a title)? |
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This is done, and should also resolve the problem with the report function going to the first page of the thread.
Both of these are complete as well!
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