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#227 Jun 27 2011 at 8:35 PM Rating: Good
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ALSO: Return the report button radiation symbol.

The ! is more appropriate to it's usage in that a report is an alert to an admin, not that you can necessarily get a post nuked.
I have always thought it a label of toxicity rather than a request for destruction (in the forum context).
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Can we get clarification on why Zam chose to add stars 5-7?

Although we know some users were attached to the idea of us replacing stars with this text at a point, it's one of the things that can make our forums look unprofessional or confusing to new users. We are keeping 10k titles though, and there may also be more stars than 7...


Is that really a good enough reason to get rid of it? I doubt new users were so unable to understand the system that it was an issue. And, I'll admit, I don't see how it makes it unprofessional in a negative way. I mean, if the goal is to make everything professional, there's really no good reason for avatars. Or forum skins. Or emoticons. Etc.

At the end of the day, this is still a gaming forum.
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Changes of the site for material gain for ZAM.com is fine. Erasing unique site features and homogenizing us, not so fine.
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#228 Jun 28 2011 at 6:53 AM Rating: Good
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Mobile breadcrumbs are still borked as of this morning.
#229 Jun 28 2011 at 11:51 AM Rating: Excellent
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Ashonmytomatoes name is still dropping the last s to the second line.
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I'll see what I can do about reattaching your s.

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You can youtube in signatures.

Fixed.

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Don't know if this is an old Premium issue or completely trivial, but I just love getting a 'watched thread' notification for my own post that I just made in said thread.

The follow feature hasn't been changed in this update.

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Mobile breadcrumbs are still borked as of this morning.

Fixed.
#230 Jun 28 2011 at 11:52 AM Rating: Good
I dunno if this is a glitch or not, but bullets on the zam.com skin are in the blue part where your name and avatar are, not in the white body of the post.

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  • #231 Jun 28 2011 at 12:11 PM Rating: Good
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    Thanks for handling these issues with haste, and for letting us know what is going on.
    #232 Jun 28 2011 at 12:26 PM Rating: Good
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    I don't know how many people this affects, but reading posts today on my blackberry, if someone quotes another user, you don't get any visual separation of the quote and the new text.

    It will say for example:

    BadLarry wrote:
    Happy Friday. I've posted in a couple of threads recently asking for advice on how to get caught up after being away from the game for awhile and I really appreciate you guys' help.
    Also bear in mind doin this will net you lvl 90 and then you can spend a loooong tim capping your skills back up.


    Without memorizing the original post when you first saw it, you'd have no idea that "Also bear in mind" is the beginning of the reply.

    Also, more of a space between the rate up/rate down arrows would be nice, as another post I saw mentioned.
    #233 Jun 28 2011 at 12:58 PM Rating: Good
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    Belkira the Tulip wrote:
    I dunno if this is a glitch or not, but bullets on the zam.com skin are in the blue part where your name and avatar are, not in the white body of the post.

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  • It looks more like the difference between List and List Item, and not an actual glitch.

    Edited, Jun 28th 2011 2:58pm by lolgaxe
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    #234 Jun 28 2011 at 1:37 PM Rating: Good
    lolgaxe wrote:
    Belkira the Tulip wrote:
    I dunno if this is a glitch or not, but bullets on the zam.com skin are in the blue part where your name and avatar are, not in the white body of the post.

  • List Item1
  • List Item2
  • List Item3
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  • It looks more like the difference between List and List Item, and not an actual glitch.

    Edited, Jun 28th 2011 2:58pm by lolgaxe


    I have no idea what you mean. Smiley: frown
    #235 Jun 28 2011 at 1:39 PM Rating: Good
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    #236 Jun 28 2011 at 1:42 PM Rating: Good
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    Belkira the Tulip wrote:
    lolgaxe wrote:
    Belkira the Tulip wrote:
    I dunno if this is a glitch or not, but bullets on the zam.com skin are in the blue part where your name and avatar are, not in the white body of the post.

  • List Item1
  • List Item2
  • List Item3
  • List Item4
  • It looks more like the difference between List and List Item, and not an actual glitch.
    I have no idea what you mean. Smiley: frown
    No problem.
    Screenshot

    As you can see, there are two options, one that says List, and the other List Item. If you press List first, you get the necessary code to correctly place ... the list. I wanted that to sound smarter. The other button, List Item, just adds the code to add another item in the list you already made. So it should look like:

    [ul]
    [li]Item 1[/li]
    [li]Item 2[/li]
    [li]Item 3[/li]
    [/ul]

    for List, and:

    [li]List Item[/li]

    for List Item. Combined, and without the code to show the necessary pieces:
    • Item 1
    • Item 2
    • Item 3
    • List Item


    Edited, Jun 28th 2011 3:45pm by lolgaxe
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    #237 Jun 28 2011 at 2:43 PM Rating: Good
    lolgaxe wrote:
    Belkira the Tulip wrote:
    lolgaxe wrote:
    Belkira the Tulip wrote:
    I dunno if this is a glitch or not, but bullets on the zam.com skin are in the blue part where your name and avatar are, not in the white body of the post.

  • List Item1
  • List Item2
  • List Item3
  • List Item4
  • It looks more like the difference between List and List Item, and not an actual glitch.
    I have no idea what you mean. Smiley: frown
    No problem.
    Screenshot

    As you can see, there are two options, one that says List, and the other List Item. If you press List first, you get the necessary code to correctly place ... the list. I wanted that to sound smarter. The other button, List Item, just adds the code to add another item in the list you already made. So it should look like:

    [ul]
    [li]Item 1[/li]
    [li]Item 2[/li]
    [li]Item 3[/li]
    [/ul]

    for List, and:

    [li]List Item[/li]

    for List Item. Combined, and without the code to show the necessary pieces:
    • Item 1
    • Item 2
    • Item 3
    • List Item


    Edited, Jun 28th 2011 3:45pm by lolgaxe


    Ah. So you need both buttons to make the code work without running to far to the left. That seems extraneous.
    #238 Jun 28 2011 at 2:51 PM Rating: Excellent
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    Jerek wrote:
    idiggory wrote:
    Can we get clarification on why Zam chose to add stars 5-7?

    Although we know some users were attached to the idea of us replacing stars with this text at a point, it's one of the things that can make our forums look unprofessional or confusing to new users. We are keeping 10k titles though, and there may also be more stars than 7...


    Smiley: dubious

    "There is no fifth star" is confusing to new users? Are we talking about the same new users that managed to spam the WoW General Forum with "can haz beta key?" some two months after the giveaway stopped? The same new users who were unable to comprehend the difference between "Reply to thread" and "Create new thread"?

    The claim that a meme spanning years, games and guilds on this site makes it look unprofessional is ridiculous. It's just a completely unnecessary change that does nothing but upset some of the regular posters. Do you think R. Tard McMoron is going to suddenly understand how the forums work because I have six stars instead of some text telling Mr. McMoron that there is no sixth star?

    What's next, removing the Asylum and OOT because they make the site look unprofessional and the jargon is confusing? Luls.

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    #239 Jun 28 2011 at 5:08 PM Rating: Good
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    Something that was brought to my attention here, but could the Job forums be added to the list of links in the breadcrumbs for the games that have specific job forums? Obviously not all the forums themselves, but the generic gateway like this?
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    #240 Jun 28 2011 at 7:22 PM Rating: Good
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    I thought you couldn't rate in this forum >.>
    #241 Jun 28 2011 at 10:27 PM Rating: Decent
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    Page numbers at the end of topic titles might need a little better definition.
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    #242 Jun 29 2011 at 9:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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    AshOnMyTomatoes wrote:
    I thought you couldn't rate in this forum >.>


    I believe admins still can.
    #243 Jun 29 2011 at 2:13 PM Rating: Good
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    We should be able to rate Admins up or down when they are posting in a non-Administrative capacity.

    Posts should have a counter showing a score of how many rates it's gotten. +1 for a rate up, -1 for a rate down. Sometimes when a post is marked Excellent, I want to know just how excellent it is.
    #244 Jun 29 2011 at 2:22 PM Rating: Good
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    Something I noticed...

    When you hit "Reply" to a post - you enter the "writing screen" (Normal so far)

    Then you can scroll down and see the post you replied to. (normal so far)

    But you can't see all the other posts. (Not normal - aka - Not how it used to be.)

    Example:

    OP writes post.
    Reply 1
    Reply 2
    Reply 3
    Reply n

    You press the reply button to the OP Post. While writing the reply you want to reference something someone said in "Reply 3". (They made a good point and you want to reference it...) You now can't see that. You only see the OP Post beacuse you replied to that post.

    In the previous version you could see all the posts... It was helpful....


    Not a big deal, just a change that I don't understand.


    Other than that - I like everything.
    #245 Jun 29 2011 at 2:24 PM Rating: Excellent
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    #246 Jun 29 2011 at 2:27 PM Rating: Good
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    Borsuk wrote:
    But you can't see all the other posts. (Not normal - aka - Not how it used to be.)
    Expand the posts. Press the little + sign next to where it says "Original Thread."
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    #247 Jun 29 2011 at 2:27 PM Rating: Good
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    Borsuk wrote:
    [A bunch of stuff.]


    Underneath "Original Message," which is what you're replying to, There's a little + sign next to the words "Original Thread". Click the plus sign, and it'll expand the thread underneath so you can see all those other posts.
    #248 Jun 29 2011 at 4:31 PM Rating: Good
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    Is there any way to have the original thread option offer a condensed version as well, like last 20 posts?

    Opening that up on a long thread like this can make things choke for a bit.
    #249 Jun 29 2011 at 6:48 PM Rating: Decent
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    Something I noticed that may be on purpose, that I think should be changed: When you rate someone up or down the !Report automatically moves over to the left to where the rating arrows used to be. This is pretty annoying considering I just spam click on the arrows until they disappear, and then end up having to close the report window.
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    #250 Jun 29 2011 at 9:33 PM Rating: Decent
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    Why do you spam click? It's not like it makes them go any faster, and moving the button maintains a better look for the window.
    #251 Jun 29 2011 at 9:49 PM Rating: Excellent
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    Majivo wrote:
    Why do you spam click? It's not like it makes them go any faster, and moving the button maintains a better look for the window.



    Training for admin. You have to have a clicking finger of STEEL to cut it in this industry. those spammers don't rate themselves 40,000,000,000 times an hour you know!
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