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Oct 16, 2018 15:04:13 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 16, 2018 15:04:13 GMT
Hey...What is with the stars on the avatar panel?
Do they actually have ANY meaning?
Specifically, I note that my three orange stars recently changed to two silver stars, while at least two other posters have advanced to five star status.
Will somebody clue me in?
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Oct 16, 2018 15:50:28 GMT
Post by Mari on Oct 16, 2018 15:50:28 GMT
Dunno, but mine became PINK *has a disgusted look*.
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Oct 16, 2018 15:55:40 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 16, 2018 15:55:40 GMT
Were your stars definitely not pink before?
I can't remember if my star(s) were purple until recently.
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Oct 16, 2018 16:14:17 GMT
Post by tangent on Oct 16, 2018 16:14:17 GMT
Mine haven't changed. I feel cheated
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Oct 16, 2018 20:41:12 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 16, 2018 20:41:12 GMT
I've been experimenting with more meaningful combinations. It's very badly designed though. If you are members of certain groups it overwrites the stars and they become meaningless.
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Oct 16, 2018 20:45:37 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 16, 2018 20:45:37 GMT
By default the stars are based on how many posts you have made, but the set provided are very chaotic and almost random in meaning. At present, the top tier is purple stars, the next silver and the lowest either red or black (the scheme seems to interfere with it, too).
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Oct 16, 2018 22:05:35 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 16, 2018 22:05:35 GMT
I've been experimenting with more meaningful combinations. It's very badly designed though. If you are members of certain groups it overwrites the stars and they become meaningless. Aha! We found the culprit! So, some of the senior ladies like their pink stars and some vehemently object. Whatcha gonna do about that?
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Oct 16, 2018 22:10:31 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 16, 2018 22:10:31 GMT
Make the stars green? Seems the groups take precedence over the post count. Looks like the forum system is designed to have a greater ratio of non-privilaged users. we have a number of special groups that most users are in, making a lot of it meaningless.
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Oct 16, 2018 22:11:09 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 16, 2018 22:11:09 GMT
I did ask permission to make changes first. Better than asking Moose to change things or we might have no forum any more!
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Oct 16, 2018 22:14:52 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 16, 2018 22:14:52 GMT
Hey, I don't mind my 'silver' stars, but I can't help but wonder why it is I dropped from three orange stars to only two silver ones....
And, when the pink and purple stars arrived, suddenly, there were stars everywhere. Most had five.
Just me....*sniff*...and my two widdow pale stars....
*draws circles with his pointed left foot*
So...Silver stars are worth how many other colored stars? What is the exchange rate?
Is that it? Silver stars are like gold-plated latinum bars aren't they?
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Oct 16, 2018 23:15:26 GMT
Post by Moose on Oct 16, 2018 23:15:26 GMT
Yeah Why does Kelly only have two stars? Aside from Ladies forum and Admin there's nothing he has no access to
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Oct 17, 2018 0:44:19 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 17, 2018 0:44:19 GMT
I bet it is because I have so many....what are they, now...oh, yeah...infractions (two, that is no, only one...the other went to JoeP)?
And, while we are diddling around here, can somebody change that "Senile member" tag on my avatar panel to "Turgid Member"? It won't let me change it.
An alternate would be "Butthead".
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Oct 17, 2018 0:59:14 GMT
Post by Moose on Oct 17, 2018 0:59:14 GMT
I have no idea how to do so But I will alert Col .
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Oct 17, 2018 3:01:23 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 17, 2018 3:01:23 GMT
Hyper-active?
Where did that come from?
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Oct 17, 2018 7:01:48 GMT
Post by Mari on Oct 17, 2018 7:01:48 GMT
*chuckles* Must have been the *widdow* and foot turning you did a couple of posts up That said: I'll take your silver stars if you take my pink ones?
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Oct 17, 2018 14:10:00 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 17, 2018 14:10:00 GMT
I am doing my best to fix things, but I'm finding lots of bugs and issues with the strange way the stars work (or rather don't).
I would note that 2 silver stars are higher than 5 orange ones though. No demotions made!
The main reason I was looking at them is that many users are way over the post count required for what was the highest ranking. The moose's count is over three times that.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:36:59 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 17, 2018 14:36:59 GMT
Silver stars ARE the star equivalent to gold-plated latinum bars!
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Oct 17, 2018 14:50:13 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 17, 2018 14:50:13 GMT
The main reason I was looking at them is that many users are way over the post count required for what was the highest ranking. The moose's count is over three times that. So one option would be to delete some of her posts.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:51:29 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 17, 2018 14:51:29 GMT
Or wait, hear me out, don't just say we've tried this before: we could delete the entire forum and start again.
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Oct 17, 2018 14:55:50 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 17, 2018 14:55:50 GMT
"Senile member" was one of of the post rankings as well as a group name. I think it's a lack of forward planning when the forum was first set up. The nearby rankings were "something-active" so I changed it to fit in.
It took me a while to find out why some people have ranking stars and others have stars to indicate the group they are in. Seems there is a choice in your user settings.
Profile -> Edit Profile -> Settings -> Display Group
If you set it to "None" the special stars go back to a normal rank. I have done it on mine and you can now see I'm actually a 3-silver-star user, which I personally think is better than a meaningless, static rank. I think its purpose is when you have a lot of members on a forum and want to point out admins, but because of the small user count it's not as useful as it could be.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:02:34 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 17, 2018 15:02:34 GMT
So...I don't get my "Turgid Member" descriptor?
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Oct 17, 2018 15:07:22 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 17, 2018 15:07:22 GMT
That text there is a rank/group description. Your user description is the one in the bottom-left that says "Butthead"
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Oct 17, 2018 15:09:54 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 17, 2018 15:09:54 GMT
I take it back, there's yet another option...
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Oct 17, 2018 15:12:02 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 17, 2018 15:12:02 GMT
Mine haven't changed. I feel cheated If you go into the option I mentioned above, you'll find the setting that says to show your group, which is why it's stuck on the same thing.
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Oct 17, 2018 16:17:04 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 17, 2018 16:17:04 GMT
I feel we are close to breaking the board. Is everyone wearing their PPE?
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Oct 17, 2018 17:01:29 GMT
Post by whollygoats on Oct 17, 2018 17:01:29 GMT
PPE?
I know nutink....
And, just for good measure:
It wasn't me! I wasn't there!
HONEST!
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Oct 17, 2018 17:06:02 GMT
Post by Mari on Oct 17, 2018 17:06:02 GMT
Yay! No more pink! And isn't it interesting how our moose managed to find a fiance who also breaks forums?
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Oct 17, 2018 19:27:37 GMT
Post by Alvamiga on Oct 17, 2018 19:27:37 GMT
It's not broken, just differently modified. It was already a complicated tangle, it was just that everyone was used to it.
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Oct 17, 2018 19:48:19 GMT
Post by JoeP on Oct 17, 2018 19:48:19 GMT
Aha: I'm now an honorary psychotic potato. Presumably having reached 9,000 posts!
I do hope Strax returns.
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Oct 17, 2018 19:51:02 GMT
Post by Moose on Oct 17, 2018 19:51:02 GMT
Hey! I am the only psychotic potato around here!
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