Site Changes

[TG]

I've renamed the 'applications' thread to 'clan applications' as some people seem to miss it completely, despite the various messages pointing them at it.

I have moved the threads in 'Newbies' to 'Battlefield 2', and removed the 'Newbies' forum. Nobody uses it, so there's no point keeping it around.

[stoke]

me organises a funeral for the Newbies forum....
You won't really be missed .... but ... hey look - a WAKE !
Parteeeeeee :p

[TG]

'zat Wake Island?

=)

[FeralBanana]

Oh, u only waked up now? :p

[SaintMg]

i only woke up now too

tooooooooo much playing computer can do that to you

[Bass]

Great - agree ... the newbie forum wasn't going anywhere ... :)

[rainy]

Subforum for clannies created

[TG]

Only clan members may post polls now. Normal site users may not. -- If a non-clan member wishes to have a poll in a thread, you may ask a mod (council member) to add one for you.

[Darnit696]

Thank you. Thats a good move. I was a confused as hell when two member apps contained their own polls. :eek:

[TG]

Most obvious change:

Colours! Yeah, you might've noticed that your username is a different colour than normal.

Red = Council Member
Green = Clan Member
Blue = Normal Forum User
Pink = Confused Member :p.

[TG]

LOL!

Nice one. ;)

- If you add three horizontal dashes to your post, it will create a horizontal line. - - - (Without the spaces)

Like so:

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Cool eh?

[gus]

So, do you have any specific member in mind for the pink colour? :D

[TG]

If you do a full refresh of the site, you will notice a new link between the UserCP and the FAQ on the navbar.

Ees Java.

For da laaaaysee

[TG]

Sticky threads are now seperated from normal threads.

[stoke]

Nice TG. Extremely Lekka. Many franks.

[TG]

New stat at the bottom of the index (next to the number of members etc), Average Age!

[FeralBanana]

A couple of things:

1) I'm 11 years below the average age! 0_o
2) AWESOME chat thingy!
3) Can I PLEASE be pink!!! PLEASE!!? :p

SO, in other words: Frankfurters TG!

EDIT: April Changes (life)

[TG]

- If you add three horizontal dashes to your post, it will create a horizontal line. - - - (Without the spaces)

Like so:

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I've removed this - it was causing problems.

[doobiwan]

Darn it TG, now you've crossed the line! :p

Okay, apologies, slow day. I'll go beat myself . . . .

[TG]

Eish!

[SaintMg]

I'll go beat myself . . . .

tooo much detail for me :hurl:

[FeralBanana]

I believe the correct terminology is 'Berate oneself'

But go ahead, beat yourself up about it...

[TG]

I'll go beat myself . . . .

+



tooo much detail for me :hurl:


=



I'll go beat my meat . . . .

[SaintMg]

Berate = To rebuke or scold angrily and at length

naaaa i think it had a bit more physical meaning to it

as in TG is going to smack him black and blue so he best get started in the mean time think of it as effective time management

[FeralBanana]

Tg = Finally flipped :p

[stoke]

Time Management is the biggest load of bull ever.
It's like saying : Ferrari Speeding at brick wall Management.

[FeralBanana]

I vote Hammy the hampster music's gonna win...

PLACE YOUR BETS!

[TG]

Sausage!

[rainy]

:spam:

Scene: A cafe. One table is occupied by a group of Vikings wearing horned helmets. Whenever the word "spam" is repeated, they begin singing and/or chanting. A man and his wife enter.

Man: You sit here, dear.
Wife: All right.
Man: Morning!
Waitress: Morning!
Man: Well, what've you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam;
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam...
Waitress: ...spam spam spam egg and spam; spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam...
Vikings: Spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Wife: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam... (Crescendo through next few lines...)
Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Urgghh!
Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!
Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
Wife: I don't like spam!
Man: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam spam spam spam spam spam spam beaked beans spam spam spam and spam!
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.
Man: Well could I have her spam instead of the baked beans then?
Waitress: You mean spam spam spam spam spam spam... (but it is too late and the Vikings drown her words)
Vikings: Spam spam spam spam. Lovely spam! Wonderful spam! Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam. Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Spam spam spam spam!

[stoke]

If I wanted monty quotes i would have googled for them :p !

[rainy]

Now why woudl you want to do that? I can save you the trouble :D

[stoke]

Nothing like Uber l337 service to make me run like hell and hide ...

[FeralBanana]

Indeed, If i had wanted them I could simply watch one of the many dvds and movies I have around me house... we love MP... get them via swallowcourier... they carry them by the husk..

[TG]

I've added 3 new required profile fields, we would appreciate it if you would set each option appropriately.

Special Forces: Do you own Special Forces?
Euro Force: Do you own Euro Force?
Guild Wars: Do you own Guild Wars?

They all default to 'no', so if you don't have any of them, you can ignore this. ;)

Edit your profile (http://www.wargeeks.org/profile.php?do=editprofile)

[stoke]

Nice ... now we can use these in the send-email-to-users facility when searching for emails.
Franks TG.

[TG]

No problem

[TG]

An angry fruit threatened to hold my non-existent hampster hostage until I created an Oblivion forum for him. Since I was there, I created the 'Movies' off-topic sub-forum that I've been thinking of adding for awhile.

For use in that forum, I have added a new tag - spoiler.

Then after further threatenings and rumblings from the fruit (probably caused by the fruitflies that constantly hang around his head), I added a tag called spoiler2. You can see samples either in the vbcode link at the bottom of every thread, or in the sticky thread in the Movies forum.

Enjoy.

[FeralBanana]

Ag man! Thats unneccecary! couldnt you have spoilered it? :p :D :rofl: :smileys ftw!!!:

Unneccecary edit just to check out my new signature!


Unneccecary edit2 just to inform you that I realise I cant see my sig on this post, due to the fact that it's on a post above it...!


Unneccecary edit3 just to tell you that my signature actually does appear in this post!

Unnecessary edit4 by TG to tell you that it only appears here cuz you just posted it! It won't appear here if you refresh!

[TG]

I've added a 3rd spoiler tag. Check that thread I mentioned above for details.

[TG]

I have enabled the user reputation facility.
You'll notice some dots underneath your post count, this is your reputation.
I'll be changing the reputation messages to something a bit more meaningful later on.

The rules (according to the software) are as follows:


Default rep: 10 points
For every 30 days you have been registered, you gain 1 point of altering power.
For every 100 posts, you gain 1 point of altering power.
For every 100 rep points, you can 1 point of altering power.
You must have 100 posts for your reputation giving/removing to actually have an effect.
You must have a minimum of 10 rep points (default) for your reputation giving/removing to actually have an effect. - This means that if you lose reputation, then your reputation adding / removing to others will have no effect.
You may only give/take reputation 10 times per day.
You need to spread reputation to 5 users before you can give/remove reputation from the same person.


Altering power is the amount of reputation points you give/remove with a reputation click.

EVERYBODY starts off with 10 points - then the various rules above will take effect.

Admins are exempt from the daily click limit.

BTW: You can adjust reputation by clicking on the 'scales' icon at the top right of a post (just next to the post number)
It looks like this: http://www.wargeeks.org/images/buttons/reputation.gif

[FeralBanana]

EEk!

[FeralBanana]

Executive summary?


Please?

:p


Oh, and if it means what I think it does... I have been a good boy! I promise! And I didn't fail my 1st semester mark report!

Does that do anything for me? :p

[NerdBoyZa]

I have enabled the user reputation facility.
You'll notice some dots underneath your post count, this is your reputation.
I'll be changing the reputation messages to something a bit more meaningful later on.

The rules (according to the software) are as follows:

...SNIP....


...SNIP....

...SNIP....

BTW: You can adjust reputation by clicking on the 'scales' icon at the top right of a post (just next to the post number)
It looks like this: http://www.wargeeks.org/images/buttons/reputation.gif


:eek:

WTF.... This is the Geek gone mad....:D

What does this all mean TG - I'm lost :confused:

Sorry, I'm a noob at forums.... What does my 10 reputation points mean, or give me?

[TG]

From the manual:



vBulletin's user reputation system provides a way of rating users based on the quality of their posts. Users on your forums can add or subtract reputation points from other users by clicking the reputation link in their posts.

User reputations allow the users in your community to tell vBulletin which users are quality and which users are not. And in response to user feedback, vBulletin has the ability to label and reward users for the quality of their posts, as is indicated by their reputation.

User reputation levels work very similar to user titles and user ranks in that they are an indicator of status that are displayed next to names in posts.

[NerdBoyZa]

@TG:

Ok, I get it. So if I post a LOT of rubbish about Brittany Spears underwear etc, peeps will mark me down, but if I post a LOT offering some ZIM$ etc, then I get marked up... Something like that!

:D

Thanks TG, I see what you'd use the thing for now. :p :bow: :sharp:


P.S. I like the comment on your liitle green card: "thisgeek is a respected team leader" :rofl:

[gus]

P.S. I like the comment on your liitle green card: "thisgeek is a respected team leader" :rofl:

I think TG enabled the reputation thing just for that. :D

[FeralBanana]

Definitively...

And me?

...

Well, it's good to know I won't be completely ignored. :p

[TG]

So that the Guild Members (only) feel special, I have created a usergroup for them that shows their username in Orange.

There are no special permissions for this group as yet. If we ever need a Guild Only forum, then half the work is already done. :D

PS: If you are a guild member only (ie, not a bf2 clan member), and your username on the forum is not yet orange, it's because Useless hasn't gotten around to you yet. :))

[rainy]

Now can you make a username reflect all the groups the uiser is part of? ;)

[TG]

http://www.wargeeks.org/showgroups.php

It's linked as 'View Forum Leaders' on the index (at the bottom)

But to answer your question, no - only the one. :p

[Ruslan74]

will try my best tonight... maybe try pink on RN to see if it looks good? :p

[SaintMg]

if memory serves me(which it never does) i think it was Ferral who wanted the pink name

[TG]

I've added some additional profile fields for game ownership.

Added:
Battlefield 2 vanilla
BF2 Armored Fury
Guild Wars Factions

Please update your profiles by clicking here (http://www.wargeeks.org/profile.php?do=editprofile).

It is in your best interests to update the fields (they default to NO), as we will use them for sending out info etc.

EG:

Select user [Armored Fury = TRUE]

Dear $user

We are getting together at such a time to play Armored Fury - are you interested?

Much hugs and kisses

A N Admin

[Ruslan74]

aaahhh... much obliged master... will change people to pink from home coz at work my IP is too wobbly. ;)

[TG]

I have also painstakingly added/corrected everybody's BF2 Player PIDs. Please don't break it.

[FeralBanana]

So.... Useless... You home yet?

Neeed... too.... bee..... spesshaall.....

Muss..tt.... ha...v.eee..... piiiii....nkk.....

...

[TG]

If you hover your mouse over somebody's guild wars icon(s), watch the tooltip.

I'm trying to see if I can format it a bit better though.

[gus]

Thanks. That is a nice feature.

[SaintMg]

wicked stuff TG that must have taken a bit of time to do

Thanks buddy is there a place i can add new character name to at a later time

[rainy]

In your profile is a field called 'Guild Wars Character Names'. One per line :D

[TG]

I'm just trying to figure out how to format it better. My attempts at a custom tooltip were a failure, but I'll try it again sometime soon.

I may have to resort to changing the field type, which will bugger up the existing entries. Let's see how it goes tho.

[TG]

I "upgraded" the shoutbox the other day - actually, it was just a couple of security fixes, and I also included a fix for the problem where a shout that had an apostrophe in it was truncated when you tried to edit it.

While doing that, I accidentally reverted a mod I had made to the archive viewer - I had changed the number of shouts per page to 25 from the original 10. I realised this morning that it had been reverted, so I have now changed it to 50 per page.

Let me know if it is too much... I will revert to 25 if a couple of peeps complain about it.

[FeralBanana]

Just out of interest, why does the 'total shouts' thing reset every day or so??

[SaintMg]

so peeps dont spqm it to say on top of the list

bwhaaaa :D

besides good luck beeting the nut :yipes:

[FeralBanana]

:rofl:

I have my good days, my bad days, and there's always spam on there anyway so hey.. :p

[TG]

Just out of interest, why does the 'total shouts' thing reset every day or so??

A script runs every day that wipes out anything older than 48 hours.... otherwise the database would have grown frikkin' huge, and there would be thousands upon thousands of pages of shout archives to go through. *shudder*

[FeralBanana]

Ah... I see ;)

Good enough for me :p

[sss]

meg never shuts up!

[fivel]

TG can you fix the ability to delete shouts..doesnt seem to work anymore.

[TG]

I'll look into it a bit later.

[TG]

Hokay, She-um fixed now.
Joo can edit-um and delete-um posts.

[Megnut3025]

@sss... Nice... Actually if you noticed I haevnt been on top or even in the shout box for quite a while now...And whenever I look there you are :p

[fivel]

Hokay, She-um fixed now.
Joo can edit-um and delete-um posts.

Hokey dokey TeeGee ;) Thanks

[gus]

TG, I see guild wars names are now displayed in the posting header. You might however want to limit how many names you display for Pios. :D It breaks a thread a bit if he posts in it. :)

[TG]

Eh?

Hmm. Did I break something?

Aah bugger, I did. My bad. Will fix it.

[TG]

Fixed.

[TG]

I've put the auto-refresh back in for the shoutbox. It will refresh every 15 seconds.
(You can still manually refresh if you want)

[stoke]

:woot:

[rainy]

Thanks a lot.

[Bass]

Aaarghhh .. is there any possibility of making that configurable TG ???

Please ...


...pleeease ...


PLEEEASSSEEEE TG !!


(I'm begging here)

:p

[TG]

No, it's global unfortunately.


Hmmm... I might be able to make it configurable... I'll look into it later.

[TG]

If you click the Quick Links menu up top of the page, you'll note a new item -> Top Posters List.

Enjoy.

[FeralBanana]

w00t 5th overall!

Congrats darnit on your 1000th!! :D

Gonna have a part-ay?

[TG]

Aaarghhh .. is there any possibility of making that configurable TG ???

Please ...


...pleeease ...


PLEEEASSSEEEE TG !!


(I'm begging here)

:p


Your wish is my command! :D

User CP -> Options, riiiight at the bottom.

You can now switch the auto-refresh on or off, and also configure the timer for the auto-refresh.

[TG]

I have added options below the auto-refresh to switch on/off the display of user's XFire and Game Icons on their postbit. If you switch them off, there will be less to load.
I'll eventually add the same thing for the My System bit, but that's not very intensive.

If you find the XFire status and Game Icons (and My System) are suddenly gone (and you want them back), you may just need to go set the fields to NO, save, and set them back to YES.

[TG]

Ok, done the bit for "My System"

[gus]

TG, I agree, you rock. Thanks for this, especially the shoutbox config.

[stoke]

Frankies lots TG. :)

[FeralBanana]

Uhh, TG? I can no longer find the "My System" thing on ANYONE's post?

What did you do to it?

[TG]

Go switch it OFF then ON again. Did you miss my previous post?

[FeralBanana]

:rofl:

Actually, I completely missed it.. thanks! ;)

[SaintMg]

alllll my stufffss are gone where did they go i thought i was missing something but then i saw this i knew some fing wuz up

:fun:

[TG]

You may have noticed a new category and some new forums: Feeds.

These forums are for our RSS news aggregator robot. It will post new entries from those sites every hour.

If you have any feeds you would like me to add, just give me the feed URL or the main site URL, and I will consider adding it. See this thread.

The RSS Feeds are on a trial basis. If peeps don't like it, I'll remove it.

[TG]

I've disabled search engine indexing for the feed forums, so new posts should no longer appear in the 'new posts' search. As a caveat, you won't be able to search those forums anymore either. Not that I think it's a big deal.

[stoke]

I call the RSS robot "post spam". I don't like it one bit.

[TG]

I call the RSS robot "post spam". I don't like it one bit.

Riight.

There is now 1 forum (Feeds). The bot will pull in a max of 10 posts per feed. It will check every 60 minutes.

The 'Feeds' forum will not be indexed by the search engine, and it will not get included in the 'New Posts' function.

Users will have to manually go check the forums if they want to read the posts.

Happy now?

[rainy]

And the robot is now called Teh Spam Meister.

[stoke]

No matter how you embelish spam - it's still spam.

[TG]

Don't read it then.

I have created a new profile field under Options where you can exclude forums from the 'new posts' feature.

Just enter the forum ID's that you wish to exclude, and you're done.
If you leave the field blank, forum 35 (Feeds) will be automatically excluded.

If you enter a forum ID to exclude, be sure to add 35 as well, otherwise you will find that it is no longer excluded, and you will be subjected to the spam that is the feeds forum.

[stoke]

Nice ... a spam filter ... :woot:
/me stop harassing TG
well ... 4 now ... :p

[SaintMg]

hey tg

how about if you have a thread for each feed

ie thread boing boing, blue news, Gizmo's `n Stuffs and all post from there stay in one thread instead on ten new threads

[TG]

Can't do it Saint, otherwise I might've. It can only post to a forum, not a thread.

[SaintMg]

ok i see there are quite a few interesting ones like the one about "The End of the World 22 Aug 2006" :scared:

[TG]

To find the forum ID of a forum, go to the main index, and hover your cursor over the link to the forum. Your browser status bar should display the link's URL, something like: http://www.wargeeks.org/forumdisplay.php?f=33

The 33 in the above sample is the forum ID.

[FeralBanana]

Thankies TG :D

[TG]

I have removed the RSS feeds. The experiment tanked.

At least we got the 'new posts' exclusion filter out of it.

[FeralBanana]

:rofl: So it WAS good for something..

Nice idea, but generally people who wanted them could get them anyway? surely? :O

Thanks anyway TG...

[TG]

I've just added 337 avatars for general use.

[Alluvium]

FUnny that i just added a SIg for myself

[SaintMg]

:woot: Thanks Tg i enjoyed a few of the feeds. and the post exclusion thing is cool too

:wow: nice one alluvium

[rainy]

As you probably have already noticed, the forum has been restructured a bit. It seeme dlogical to group a bit more by games and bundle forums with the same topic together rathe rthan leaving them all over the place.

If you really really love it, speak up. If you really really hate it, speak up. ;)

[FeralBanana]

I love monkeys!

And the restructurings pretty nifty too... :p