I would like if the hover popup included post per day, even better if it was not just the averange in total but just the last month or week.
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Originally posted by StriderHeh, well the line has to be drawn somewhere. I could put the entire profile in the hover easily enough, but I think there comes a point where you just need to click on the profile button if you want the info that badly 😉
I would like if the hover popup included post per day, even better if it was not just the averange in total but just the last month or week.
Very cool Thats all I need to say
Cool, little crystals for the fourth year? Neato.
Well the profile does not say how active you have been lately.
And what about making that forum suggestion section I said in GCC?
it's got posts per day average and you can click to view the person's most recent posts. i think that give you a good idea of how active someone is 😉
Well just as easy as deviding, by hand, the post count with days joined in the forum to get the PPD. But still posts last month or something would be nice.
I noticed when you do the 'preview signature' feature in User CP, it still uses the stars instead of the new year-based icons. Just thought I'd point that out.
i like new thingss
I like the changes. ecspecially that crystal one. that would be cool to have.
Very sweet. :thumbsup: and oh great, my sig is gone. 😞
Oo! Very pimp
Guess that preview post thing should be fixed...or not! It may make people a little nolgestic, or whateverthehellitis.
Hmm... It seems that my little round stars (jewels, I suppose) have transformed into pointy little stars. What has transpired? I'm only a first-year. If you changed it, then, thanks, I suppose.
EDIT: Ah, upon seeing this post, it seems that the above is only true while viewing PM's. Good to know, I guess.
How about using the color change for posts per day? 0-1 ppd=green, 1-2=yellow and so on.
Sb, awesome hack. It's really neat.
I'll have my stars still for alittle while, less than a month, and then they'll be gone.
Why not have a post# display showing the exact number of posts by a person?
Not such a bad idea, but it isn't much work to hover over their icons. :/
Originally posted by Myth
Why not have a post# display showing the exact number of posts by a person?
We had that once, but it was disabled after the Great Pruning, presumably because post count shouldn't matter to your respect on the boards.
If that's true, then why don't we just scrap the whole postcount system?
Because despite what some people may say, post count at AGN - as in all other message boards - is an integral part of the social caste system.
Be quiet, though... no need to give Shadowblazer any evil ideas.
Members may just post for competition...if we eliminated it, the spam rate may go down logically, wouldn't it? The gamefaqs board is popular and it doesn't have postcount.
testing my stars 😊
Originally posted by System Error
Members may just post for competition...if we eliminated it, the spam rate may go down logically, wouldn't it? The gamefaqs board is popular and it doesn't have postcount.
But it has Karma. Yes, Karma is different from Post Count, but it nevertheless serves the same purpose.
The "Spam Rate" on AGN should supposedly be 0, since the moderators here do quite a good job banning spammers.
You're right on that one...perhaps almost too good of a job. And you can only gain one Karma a day, and there are "Free Karma" topics there which the mods at gamefaqs never bother to shut down.
Post count is tracked because it does matter, as a statistic. It shows how active a member is and how much they've contributed to the boards, discussion-wise. In that regard, it is a valuable guage of a person's standing in the community, or at the very least their notoriety 😉 A member with a high post count is obviously vocal and well-known.
Problems arise, however, when people take it beyond the "statistic" level and become obsessed with raising their count just for the sake of raising it, as if it's some sort of game and by raising that number, they can "win". The way I see it, if a member starts replying to threads not to add to the discussion, but because they want to make that little number go up, then their post count has essentially become worthless. It's no longer displaying how active that person has been in the community, merely how many times they've managed to click on the Reply or New Thread buttons without spamming themselves into a ban.
Well today alot of members hired their rank and knocked me down a bit. I don't think it was because if lots and lots of posting I think it was the fact they all posted a few more times which knocked me down a bit. There will soon be two people with 4 stars. I think he/she has around 9,600 posts.
Good job SB, I love the new system.
ah i just noticed when u hovered over it you get post # :P thx system. Yea i like this idea of stars/colours/and the like. It makes it more of a community where people understand what they stand for and mean. I doubt people would spam if their wasnt a post count but that is no reason to get rid of the post count entirely.
Nice set up. I love my grey stars.