NickRW Posted October 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2010 None of the hand diagrams have the vulnerability shown it seems. Apparently, so I am told in another thread, the state of the vulnerability is shown by the NSEW being red or white. I didn't find it obvious - was expecting it to be shown in a similar manner to problems in books - i.e. say it in writing - and, indeed, the way we used to do it in these forums. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 You can now make up to 10 positive votes for any post each day. There are no plans to enable negative votes at the moment. My first vote (and the forum's first!) goes to the Bridge Personality one. :) More to come as we get more familiar with the new look.I think negative votes would be a good thing for the forum. It could seriously cut down on flames when the flamers realize it's not just one person who dislikes their posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TylerE Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 I think negative votes would be a good thing for the forum. It could seriously cut down on flames when the flamers realize it's not just one person who dislikes their posts. Plus without negatives the "karma" system becomes a simple popularity contest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Why not give us a few "-" votes too? What's a rose without its thorns? What is daylight without night? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 In unrelated news, it would be nicer if in the mobile "New content" section the thread creator would also appear. It takes almost a minute to load the thread together with the hand etc, I'd like to remember which thread is which. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 You can now make up to 10 positive votes for any post each day. There are no plans to enable negative votes at the moment. My first vote (and the forum's first!) goes to the Bridge Personality one. :) More to come as we get more familiar with the new look.Can you explain how this voting works? I can't seem to find the facility anywhere, and it's not mentioned in the help file. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 It seems to me that negative votes will just provide an anonymous way to "LOL" people. Don't we already have more than enough of that? Personally, I don't have a problem with bad or nonsensical postings. If it's from someone who always posts nonsense, I wouldn't have read it anyway. If it's from someone who's usually sensible, then someone else will point out what's wrong with it, and the original poster will either defend their views of concede that they were wrong. That is, we have a conversation. If we have negative votes, we'll get this:- Poster A posts an opinion- Widely respected Poster B disagrees- An invisible horde of sycophants award negative votes to Poster A- Poster A feels stupid and stops posting, or (even worse) he starts trying to post views that he thinks the majority will agree with, instead of telling us what he actually thinks. I think that would be bad. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diana_eva Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Can you explain how this voting works? I can't seem to find the facility anywhere, and it's not mentioned in the help file. There are two buttons in the bottom right corner of each post - one green with a plus sign on it (if you mouse over it the explanation "vote this post up" appears)- one red with a minus sign ("vote this post down")Immediately next to them is a "reputation" counter. At the moment reputation is 0 for almost all posts, since the feature is brand new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWO4BRIDGE Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 I'd give Andy's last post a "+" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 There are two buttons in the bottom right corner of each post - one green with a plus sign on it (if you mouse over it the explanation "vote this post up" appears)- one red with a minus sign ("vote this post down")Immediately next to them is a "reputation" counter. At the moment reputation is 0 for almost all posts, since the feature is brand new.Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums.They work for me in Firefox. I realise that this information is of no use to you whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 There are two buttons in the bottom right corner of each post - one green with a plus sign on it (if you mouse over it the explanation "vote this post up" appears)- one red with a minus sign ("vote this post down")Immediately next to them is a "reputation" counter. At the moment reputation is 0 for almost all posts, since the feature is brand new. Oddly, I have such buttons for most posts, but not all. (I'm using Firefox.) Diana_eva's post being one of the posts for which there is no "+/-". Edit: I'm guessing it is a yellow/admin thing -- no voting up or down on the the officials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerardo Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums. Are you using TylerE's skin? It does not show these buttons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 It seems to me that negative votes will just provide an anonymous way to "LOL" people. Don't we already have more than enough of that? Personally, I don't have a problem with bad or nonsensical postings. If it's from someone who always posts nonsense, I wouldn't have read it anyway. If it's from someone who's usually sensible, then someone else will point out what's wrong with it, and the original poster will either defend their views of concede that they were wrong. That is, we have a conversation. If we have negative votes, we'll get this:- Poster A posts an opinion- Widely respected Poster B disagrees- An invisible horde of sycophants award negative votes to Poster A- Poster A feels stupid and stops posting, or (even worse) he starts trying to post views that he thinks the majority will agree with, instead of telling us what he actually thinks. I think that would be bad.If there are a few negative votes available per week, I don't think people would waste them on posts they disagree with. Rather, they would be used for posts that are off-topic or insulting or outrageous in other ways. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordontd Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Are you using TylerE's skin? It does not show these buttons.Ah, that's the explanation. Still, it's worth the tradeoff. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickRW Posted October 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Thanks for this. Yet another Firefox problem for me - I don't have the buttons. I can see them if I go over to Safari, which it seems is what I'll have to do when reading the forums. They appear on the left for me. I'm using an old version of Firefox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooltuna Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Can you explain how this voting works? I can't seem to find the facility anywhere, and it's not mentioned in the help file. look over to the right I just voted on your post :) except you have to look at your post not my reply :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>>> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 I reached my + quota quite quickly, thanks, that was fun. I misclicked on a post though, I wonder if it was possible to implement cancelling a + vote? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Cancellation of a vote is not possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 I reached my + quota quite quickly, thanks, that was fun. I misclicked on a post though, I wonder if it was possible to implement cancelling a + vote?I still have all of my votes. Would you like to buy them? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Who cares about all these +-+-+-+-? I think anybody who is for the while in BBF has his own reputation ranking and it's enough or?Anyway I give my annual contingent of (+)'s in advance on several experts who answer in B/I forum any question (even so trivial sometimes like mine) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 although forum passwords are case sensitive and BBO ones are not. Uhhuh... this implies a major security issue with the way BBO handles passwords. I would like to strongly encourage you to stop storing plaintext passwords ASAP, if that is what you are currently doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgoetze Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 The CSS data is no longer inline. Sorry. No problem, thanks for fixing it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimG Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 I think someone said there is now an "ignore" feature. How does it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted October 30, 2010 Report Share Posted October 30, 2010 I think someone said there is now an "ignore" feature. How does it work?If you click on your name at the top right position of the page, you get a list of options, the last one is the ignore list.You can enter the name of the poster you don't what to see, and i guess you no longer see his posts ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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