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now I realise it was probably a hack in the old setup, BUT the way a post would 'Flash' when it had been hit with AP's was a visual representation that a comment had attracted attention - good or bad
just wondering, that seeing as we still use AP's here, if the functionality could be re-inserted?
A similiar option is available, it's called "Rate Thread" more gold stars means better topic, less stars means possible not a good thread.
And yes the old feature was indeed a custom job. Personally because we already have a similiar feature already then there's really no need to add a 2nd when the default option works just fine.
Wasn't there also a feature that would make a thread flash if it was several months/years old? Not that it really helped much with people posting to old threads...
No there was no feature in which your describing westin.
Most the time when old threads are dugg up and posted into, usually we just move the post into it's own new topic, and manually add an link to the existing older topic as reference.
It's not an occurance that happens often, so when such happenings do occur we usually sort it within the hour.
Hi,
Yes, there was some sort of hack that did that, although I cannot remember the exact details. If you either opened an old thread or tried to post to one(???) the date was either highlighted or flashed.............. I think that the threshold was around 3 months.Quote:
Wasn't there also a feature that would make a thread flash if it was several months/years old? Not that it really helped much with people posting to old threads...
Like you say westin, it didn't seem to help much :D
cheers for that
just seen the stars on this thread now :D
What? The ads and general design hasn't melted your eyeballs yet?
Years of viewing the Blazing Yellow eventually gave me color blindness. :sadwin:
Seriously though, If your want AO's Design/Layout to be "Better" - "Different" then feel free to submit a few Demo Graphic Layout Changes.
I eagerly await to see your submissions. :)
Hah! the yellow and grey............
Those were the colours of the Confederacy sir!
:D:drink:
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I give up
HOW / WHERE are the rate thread options located :D
Aahh that reminds me. It was infact disabled awhile back for a bug issue.
I'll send of a request to have it looked into.
Thought it was re-enabled for the different usergroups again, as it enabled for mod/admins atm.
http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/ed6f5edc.png
cheers
and so you think this thread is only AVERAGE :eek: :P :D
It's neither Positive or Negative.
It will never work because it has been designed like a market research questionnaire and is monodimensional.
If I had been obliged to design it in this format, and after "their throats had been prised from my cold dead hands" (sorry Mr. Jefferson) I would have had 3 green stars, three red stars, and one grey star as the default value.
At the moment, a thread that has been rated as garbage looks better than one that hasn't been rated at all. With my method you would immediately know that grey was unrated, green was above average and red was below average.
There used to be a paperback called "The Use and Abuse of Statistics" (Penguin or Pelican) that dealt with all this sort of thing very clearly.
Personally, I don't think that rating a thread is that valuable, as it is very much dependent on your interest in the subject. To me rating individual posts would be more useful.
Whilst I would admit to being a rabid hater of hacking proprietary software, I have to say that some of the old system's hacks were rather clever and well thought out, in terms of functionality and user appeal.
New feature: If a user is banned the site should automaticly display their username, email, password, what pages they've visited here, what browser they used, ect...
This way users here can abuse this information for trolling purposes. For example, checking if the forum's passwords also work on their email addresses.
At the very least people could use it as a shared blacklist on their own sites.
We should also have a web based proxy up. Then remove the ads and put it there instead.
Thirdly, web based tools to scan for vulnerabilities on other sites. The results are logged and displayed here. Aggregate findings and exploits the way exploit-db does. We should also mirror defacements.
Most importantly, we need to get rid of all reference to snake-oil security related products. All downloads should somehow aid people in intrusions... not make half-assed attempts to prevent them.