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Woof · 22 Jun 2003, 13:02

Can you not make proprer [spoiler][/spoiler] tags?
They seem to be used more and more recently, like the Harry Potter thread and the Matrix.

So how about it?

Chojin · 22 Jun 2003, 13:13

I'd actually like them to add this to their smiley database.

Kurashima · 22 Jun 2003, 13:16

Quote:

Originally posted by Chojin
I'd actually like them to add this to their smiley database.

OH
GOD
NO

I can already see 300 threads dedicated to Nod & Jakiri with just that smiley.

LHC · 22 Jun 2003, 13:20

Quote:

Originally posted by Woof
Can you not make proprer [spoiler][/spoiler] tags?
They seem to be used more and more recently, like the Harry Potter thread and the Matrix.

So how about it?

vB tags don't work in thread titles

Also, what was actually done that was different with the debating forum?

Deffeh · 22 Jun 2003, 13:30

nothing, thats why it sucked <3

Anything other than the basic smilies suck.

LHC · 22 Jun 2003, 13:33

Strange how it took several months to 'code' then.

Woof · 22 Jun 2003, 13:33

Quote:

Originally posted by LHC
vB tags don't work in thread titles

Also, what was actually done that was different with the debating forum?

Not for the thread title, but the reply section of the thread.
So all text between [spoiler] and [/spolier] is transparent, and to read it you have to highlight the text, like you were going to copy and paste.

22 Jun 2003, 13:47

won't work very easily - as the text in all the styles is different, we have no way of making one generic transparent colour short of making all the styles have the same text which would be rather ****ty

this make sense?

pablissimo · 22 Jun 2003, 13:54

22 Jun 2003, 13:56

for what i am told (off vbulletin.org) if the required statement to pick the style isn't available in replacement variables without manually coding it
which.. i don't have access to do atm

22 Jun 2003, 13:57

Quote:

Originally posted by Flavius
oh, and dont you people own the copy of vbulletin?

as such, cant u go to vbulletin.org and use the hacks and changes they made and apply it here?

no access to the code.

22 Jun 2003, 13:58

On a side note. i will put something in the new rnd10 forums

Androme · 22 Jun 2003, 14:01

this smilie Karmulian?

http://www.villagephotos.com/image.asp?id_=3217475

pablissimo · 22 Jun 2003, 14:06

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Originally posted by Androme2
this smilie Karmulian?

http://www.villagephotos.com/image.asp?id_=3217475

Use from this location denied. Referrer is HTTP://PIRATE.PLANETARION.COM/SHOWTH...77#POST2453777

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Radical Edward · 22 Jun 2003, 14:54

Quote:

Originally posted by Woof
Can you not make proprer [spoiler][/spoiler] tags?
They seem to be used more and more recently, like the Harry Potter thread and the Matrix.

So how about it?

even more simply than coding tags is:

DON'T READ IT!

you bed wetting pansy

pablissimo · 22 Jun 2003, 14:56

Quote:

Originally posted by Radical Edward
you bed wetting pansy

This is less amusing than WorkMonkey's 'your mom' comments, which are often original, at least.

Snurx · 22 Jun 2003, 15:09

Karm Karmy Karmullian \o/

Anyways, that had been kinda fun, to have in future forums or something.

These shores will be lost to us when round 10 starts?

Mirai · 22 Jun 2003, 19:14

I'm sure kura would hate this one

Ragnarak · 22 Jun 2003, 19:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Karmulian
won't work very easily - as the text in all the styles is different, we have no way of making one generic transparent colour short of making all the styles have the same text which would be rather ****ty

this make sense?

black

ok it's not transparent like the SA but other forums have a black box over the text and the text in black too, so that you have to highlight to see the text

it would work

queball · 22 Jun 2003, 19:27

Quote:

Originally posted by pablissimo
<font style="color: transparent"></font>

How about:
<div style="background: white; color: white"></div>
Or maybe pretty it up to look more like quote.

[edit]too slow[/edit]

Starbucks · 22 Jun 2003, 22:07

pretty simple really
do this in the VBCode section
[spoiler]: <font color={post[bgcolor])}>{param}</font>

job done.

next thread

Starbucks · 22 Jun 2003, 22:09

Quote:

Originally posted by Karmulian
On a side note. i will put something in the new rnd10 forums

will this have VB3

ive got hold of the Beta, its quite nifty, i will be using it on the site update i intend for October

clarencetheclockworkcake · 22 Jun 2003, 22:19

one another forum,they had a thingy saying reveal text,so you could reveal it without higlighting it. it was the win

Starbucks · 22 Jun 2003, 22:20

Quote:

Originally posted by clarencetheclockworkcake
one another forum,they had a thingy saying reveal text,so you could reveal it without higlighting it. it was the win

possible to do in Javascript

22 Jun 2003, 22:49

ok reasons behind not currently doing it

1) I cannot actually be arsed, as i don't technically work for the forums anymore - if JJ wishes to his choice

2) I don't see the friggin point, if it says spoiler in the title - JUST DON'T LOOK

3) Too busy working on Rnd10 forums(Vb3) - I may consider putting [spoiler] on there but its something JJ and i will have to discuss first

PS- On a seperate note, yes these current forums will be wiped from the face of the earth to be replaced with a new set of forums running vb3

PPS - to starbucks, yup running vb3 on test server atm

Chojin · 23 Jun 2003, 02:12

???

pablissimo · 23 Jun 2003, 02:14

I'm going to lose my Apr 2000 reg date.

This saddens me.

Although, given reports of fake reg dates previously, I guess I'll just head to i17 and buy Karm a pint or seventeen.

LHC · 23 Jun 2003, 10:37

But Starbucks considers these forums to be ****.

Popeye · 23 Jun 2003, 10:39

thats because the people incharge dont want to make it better

so put sb incharge and its win win?

23 Jun 2003, 21:07

actually am trying to make it better

just don't see alot of point in implementing thingson here
when these forums will be gone in 2-3 months and replace with brand spaning new ones

Deffeh · 23 Jun 2003, 21:48

Quote:

Originally posted by ItotheDtotheI
will these new forums be tied into the game, so only people with game accounts can use them?

also will all the previous posts and users be deleted?

also who is making it? or is it not in development yet?

Integrated forums would be hilarious, fear the tumbleweed.

Also, if all the previous posts were deleted, Kura wouldnt have to do it manually this time, hoho

23 Jun 2003, 22:45

Flavius - that is being coded in

all current threads and users from these forums will be lost

and the forums will be linked to game accounts

BUT!! - that does not mean that people who don't play the game can't have accounts.. they still can.. its just that those that play the game will receive benefits

Costa · 23 Sep 2003, 12:56

so, this was stickied....

Proteus · 23 Sep 2003, 13:14

Quote:

Originally posted by Flavius
Pre-registration of forum regulars should be made to prevent people (shai) from stealing other people's nicknames (nodrog)

Quote:

Originally posted by Karmulian
Flavius - that is being coded in

Quoted for emphasis!

Costa · 23 Sep 2003, 13:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Proteus

Quote:

Originally posted by Flavius

Pre-registration of forum regulars should be made to prevent people (shai) from stealing other people's nicknames (nodrog)

Quote:

Originally posted by Karmulian

Flavius - that is being coded in

Quoted for emphasis!

Quoted the quoting for extra-spiffy empasis!

A2 · 23 Sep 2003, 13:20

Before this goes too far can I point out a couple of things:

1) Until this was stickied for the purposes of bumping it was last posted in on 23rd June 2003

2) This thread is initially nothing to do with any new forums, passport or anything like that.

3) The Passport was lauched in late August - With 2 months lead time it is reasonable to expect certain things to change.

4) It was NOT announced anywhere on the PA Announcements section, nor in any forum-wide announcement that there would be any form of reservation system for nicknames. One old thread that mentions it does not constitute a guarantee.

MrL_JaKiri · 23 Sep 2003, 13:21

That's beside the point; statements by officials are official statements.

You should have, when the situation changed, made updates to what people knew, instead of jumping on them 5 days before launch which is, in many cases, too late.

Costa · 23 Sep 2003, 13:24

i will say this once, and once only

IT ISNT THAT HARD TO DO WHAT YOU SAID YOU WOULD DO!!!

so why didnt you? lazyness? complacency? just too damn ignorant?

Well im sure that you havent pissed anyone off, only a ex-mod and a current mod so far

good work!

MrL_JaKiri · 23 Sep 2003, 13:25

Two ex mods.

Costa · 23 Sep 2003, 13:35

Quote:

Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
Two ex mods.

yeah, well that was then and this is now

MrL_JaKiri · 23 Sep 2003, 14:40

Part of the problem is that the portal accounts ARE the forum accounts.

Proteus · 23 Sep 2003, 15:40

Quote:

Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
Part of the problem is that the portal accounts ARE the forum accounts.

I don't see that as a problem.

Our names should have been reserved, so whoever has them at the moment should never have got them in the first place, and so changing them to "Marilyn Manson 2", "W 2", "Proteus 2", etc, isn't particularly unfair.

MrL_JaKiri · 23 Sep 2003, 15:44

That's the thing you see, the forums are seperate from the portal in the sense of who runs them. You can't just do a solution.

Houston, we have beaurocracy.

sayonara · 23 Sep 2003, 15:45

Quote:

Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
Part of the problem is that the portal accounts ARE the forum accounts.

Works for TSA.

Or it did before I gutted the code and replaced it with new stuff - two way forum integration is coming back though.

However, the difference here is that I make sensible policy decisions based on the factors involved, including the requirements of the users and the suitability and applicability of the technology. I don't see any evidence of that here.

You don't force your customers to reshape their expectations just so they meet your artificial requirements - they'll just go elsewhere.

Products and services are supposed to provide something people want or need, not just 'exist' despite the nuisance of customers.

Proteus · 23 Sep 2003, 15:48

Quote:

Originally posted by MrL_JaKiri
That's the thing you see, the forums are seperate from the portal in the sense of who runs them. You can't just do a solution.

Houston, we have beaurocracy.

If they are completely separate and run by completely different people, whose brilliant idea was it to amalgamate the accounts?

MrL_JaKiri · 23 Sep 2003, 15:49

Quote:

Originally posted by Proteus
If they are completely separate and run by completely different people, whose brilliant idea was it to amalgamate the accounts?

Creators, Jolt or similar I presume.