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Chris K
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There should be something to stop people changing they're name too often, like only once a month.



I say "people", I mean "Mattman"

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Richard Davey
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Chris - not a bad idea. Perhaps they become "User X, previously known as Y" (etc etc etc).

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Posted: 22nd Dec 2003 18:27 Edited at: 22nd Dec 2003 18:27
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I would suggest one more thing :
In The 20 Line Challenge and Code Snippets, you should click a checkbox to say if it's DBC or DBP. Then it will be displayed in front of the thread, so you can see for what system it's meant to be.

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Mattman
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no, you wouldn't do that, would you

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maybe lifetime bans for anyone that changes name more than twice in a month j/k

looks like you done a great deal of work rich its going to be pretty cool, me thinks


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Wik
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There's a thread in the teachers forum called pizza is cool and it seems to be deleted but since it was the last replyed to you can still look at it from the forum list thing.

[edit] you can still reply to it


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Hamish McHaggis
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But what if you change your name with a spelling mistake? Then you'll end up with a wrong name for a month.

Do you bite your thumb at me sir?

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You could request one of the mods to change your name properly for you.
Also, saying that, somewhere where you can request things directly from the mods would be nice, the only problem you might get with that is spamming though.

I would be unstoppable if I could just get started...
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Rob K
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Hi Rich,

It makes sense that only you can ban users, however I think it would be useful if mods had the ability to stop users posting / replying to posts for say half an hour or so - it should deter people from spamming or flaming.

(As you can guess, I'm in the middle of deleting many posts from a certain user, who shall remain nameless).


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Posted: 28th Dec 2003 07:37 Edited at: 28th Dec 2003 07:38
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Quote: "who shall remain nameless"


Nameless by your part - the rest of us know it's Geri, haha.


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Rob K
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Spoke with Rich on MSN, all users will be able to muffle (ignore) people in future, so this is no longer an issue.


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i have a suggestion for the
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you sould be able to type in [code = "name"] and instead of saying "CODE" on it, it would say "name", that way, if you have a question on your function delcaration and where you call, you could just type [code = "function"] and then [code = "call"] or something like that. i think that would eventually become usefull

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Quote: "...all users will be able to muffle (ignore) people in future..."


(starts to worry)

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Chris K
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 01:02 Edited at: 30th Dec 2003 01:03
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Did someone say something? All I hear is muffled worrying.

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What I think should be added to the site is a list where all people on the forums status of availablilty is posted whether they are looking to work in a team or are currently busy in another. The person should be able to edit their status.

[href]www.vapournet.com/~flyer[/href]
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Quote: "What I think should be added to the site is a list where all people on the forums status of availablilty is posted whether they are looking to work in a team or are currently busy in another. The person should be able to edit their status."


i second that

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when you click the B U and I buttons all at the same time (so it gives you [b}[u}[i} tags) then you want to close b it closes all of em and if you want to close U it closes U and I but its fine with the I

oh, wait. when you close a tag (using the buttons) it closes all of the tags to the right.

im using MOZILLA btw

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Rob K
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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 22:35 Edited at: 30th Dec 2003 22:36
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Another suggestion: The ability for the link text to be something other than the URL, eg by typing in

[href=www.mysite.com]Click Here to Go To MySite[/ href]


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Posted: 30th Dec 2003 22:44 Edited at: 30th Dec 2003 22:46
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yes, that would be nice too.

does it do what i last posted to anyone else?

hrm weird, it now does the same thing (buttons) but it closes all the ones to the LEFT

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Chris K
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Posted: 31st Dec 2003 00:45 Edited at: 31st Dec 2003 00:45
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@ Rob K

You mean like this?



You can also do it with images (like my signatures)

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JoelJ
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haha, i knew there was a way...just couldnt remember how...

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Posted: 31st Dec 2003 09:19 Edited at: 31st Dec 2003 09:19
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Dang Chris, I was just looking for that today.

Thanks

Quote: " "What I think should be added to the site is a list where all people on the forums status of availablilty is posted whether they are looking to work in a team or are currently busy in another. The person should be able to edit their status.""


I third that. There is a post in the team request section, but I think it should be mandatory that all users have to at least fill out "looking for job yes/no" at simpliest.

At garage games, they go as far as letting you right your own skills, and summary of experience.

According to rich, we're suppose to all be getting some small amount of space in our accounts though(500 kb?) to host a couple pictures and have a developer diares. Perhaps that looking for work and "List portfolio" option could be there. Might also wanna go as far as adding how many code base entries you've added as well.

Personally, I get even more excited each day as we near 2004. This place truly is gonna be booming with all the alienware entries, physics engine,Update6, and the advancements to the forum.



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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 31st Dec 2003 15:56 Edited at: 31st Dec 2003 15:56
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How about editing the quote box so you can do something like

[ quote="Hamish" ]Hello[ /quote ]

Then it'd come up with something like...

Quote from Hamish: Hello

Just a small thing.

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Quote: ""What I think should be added to the site is a list where all people on the forums status of availablilty is posted whether they are looking to work in a team or are currently busy in another. The person should be able to edit their status.""

i am another one suporting this idea.

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I got 2 ideas

1. I think is very important. My local time is actually 13 hours ahead of the server time. Could you please change it?

2. I think there should be a FAQ section, and so the mods or someone (maybe eddie from the time-space continum) could put all the very common posts in it.

1st one more important

I was going to put some kind of geek joke, but i can't remember how it goes...

...something about a 12ft butch lesbian.
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1. you can change that in your forum settings. and are you 13 hrs ahead or 11 behind?

Quote: "What I think should be added to the site is a list where all people on the forums status of availablilty is posted whether they are looking to work in a team or are currently busy in another. The person should be able to edit their status"

yes, and you could have a button under your post (like the Profile, email, MSN, AIM, Yahoo buttons) so people can click it, and it would say (if your looking for someone on your team) what positions you need open, and (if your looking for a team to work with) what position you are looking for.

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I think that in the team requests the rules should be big and at the top with a flashing banner.


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@Wik: No, that will be very annoying. How about redirecting the person to the rules thread on his first few visits to the team requests board instead?

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Is there any chance of a 'Search within threads' function?

I have just spent half an hour looking for a post which I had previously read. Iknew it was in RobK's thread about his GUI plugin but it is 8 pages and I had to read all of it until I found what I was looking for.

Also, on a similar topic: The page numbering system for a thread seems to be counter intuative. This one for example is currently Page 6 of 6 but it is the second 6 that you have to change if ou want to change page - surely it should be the first one.

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@Darwin and Rich

I am +8 GMT, and the server is (well, seems to be) -4 GMT (in America, i assume).

You should be able to adjust it to 8 less than the server, and 16 more than the server.

I was going to put some kind of geek joke, but i can't remember how it goes...

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That was sort of a joke, but it would be a bit better if it was a little bigger than the rest of the threads.


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how about a DROPPED PROJECT FORUM this is not my idea and belongs to someone else so im not taking credit but you could post uncomplete projects and...

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Quote: "@Wik: No, that will be very annoying. How about redirecting the person to the rules thread on his first few visits to the team requests board instead?"


Perhaps it should show you the rules when you go to post a new topic.

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yeah, when you go to post your 10 (lets say) first posts, it shows you the rulls above it until you have 10 posts (or something)

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We should be able to get some posts away from "my threads", because they are not of use anymore.
Or at least, have some special notification, so some come on the top and the others at the end.

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I think the Team Request forum should be locked, until you're a member for more than 2 weeks. Even two weeks is ridiculously short, but I do understand some people come with sufficient knowledge of dbc on there first day.(A very rare few)That would also stop people from asking questions in the Team Request board also.

Team Request boards are really out of control right now, and I think that needs to be addressed. Just not sure how the best way to do it would be.



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Um, maybe just image attatchments. Thats the only thing I could think of we need. And adding the rules to the top wouldnt really do much cause I doubt anyone will actually read them.

Maybe like a Point system. Each post per day gets you 1 point and when you get, say 300 points you get extra features and a secret board or something? I dunno.

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no. I admit about 80% of my posts are useless and if I got a point for every post I would have 2560+ points, when I deserve about 500, thats how many useful one's i have (estimated)

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No you get 1 point a day if you post on that day. Not one point for each post! OMG!

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that's a daft system, it enchourages people to post more often and hence increases spam and useless posts

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unless you mean that you have to have been posting for 300 days to post in a section eg the team requests

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How about for every locked thread you get a strike. 3 strikes in 1 month and you get banned from team requests for a month.


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I am working on a test for people to go on to the team requests forum (gonna send it to rich in a .php file. HE likes php )

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Just a question that goes something like:
Show two ways to display hello world in the top left corner of the screen.

Would catch most of the people who don't know what they're doing.


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What if on the team request forum there was a template you have to follow; where you tell an app how many possitions are availible, what the possition(s) are, and a short description about it. Also there should be a bunch of annoying message boxes that come up if you don't show screen shots With image uploading there will be no excusses


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*Notices EVERYONES complaining about Team Requests*


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I also noticed that lol.

Quote: "Why not just get some unlucky individual to be a mod of the team requests forum and be very unforgiving towards the offending threads."


That's basically what RPGamer's been doing his whole life.

Anyway, about the 'Muffing' system, maybe we should be notified who's ignoring our posts to save someone arguing to someone else that can't read what they're saying lol.


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Hey don't you ignore me!!!!

What? You're too scared to reply?!

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image uploading = the


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Quote: "Why not just get some unlucky individual to be a mod of the team requests forum and be very unforgiving towards the offending threads. I'm sure mattman would be a good candidate for this lol"


i addressed that in RPGs post complaining about the TR forum

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