SRL Archive - Senior News and General

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I got admin yesterday and immediately fixed a few things i had noticed were wrong a while ago already. Then JAD pointed me to polls that needed to be sorted out. Then Zeph pointed out a couple forums that were misplaced.

Has anyone else noticed any other thing of the kind? Or does anyone have any ideas in mind for any sort of project, etc?

~RM

Letting us edit our own thread titles would be awesome. Then we could put our own asterisks on suggestions that need granting.

Edit: Also your cup revamping system always sounded cool. I don't know if you would know how to implement that though.

Breaking news on the home page. Has been bothing me for a LONG time, I want to almost punch my computer screen everytime I see it!!

'SRL #35 has been released!'

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!


Also, I just noticed. Is the calendar on the home page off by 24 hours too? I just noticed that it says it is Friday but really it is Thursday.

From: HyperSecret
Breaking news on the home page. Has been bothing me for a LONG time, I want to almost punch my computer screen everytime I see it!!

'SRL #35 has been released!'

AAAAHHHHHH!!!!


Also, I just noticed. Is the calendar on the home page off by 24 hours too? I just noticed that it says it is Friday but really it is Thursday.

No Need to punch anymore ;)

About the time…. the forums would have to be closed. I just simply adjusted my GMT :p Instead of my usual GMT i set it to GMT - 7

~RM

From: Rasta Magician
No Need to punch anymore ;)

About the time…. the forums would have to be closed. I just simply adjusted my GMT :p Instead of my usual GMT i set it to GMT - 7

~RM

There is no GMT -15/16 for me. :(

No not the time. I have the time adjusted for me but it is a whole day off. Right now my clock says 10:18am, when I post this it will be stamped with 10:18am. Today is Thursday, August 13th. The calendar shows (red squared around the date), Friday, August 14th. It says that is today.

I do have the option for GMT + 8 (to set the time correctly) but no one with the option of (GMT + 8) - 24 to revert back a whole day… :)

comprende?

From: HyperSecret
No not the time. I have the time adjusted for me but it is a whole day off. Right now my clock says 10:18am, when I post this it will be stamped with 10:18am. Today is Thursday, August 13th. The calendar shows (red squared around the date), Friday, August 14th. It says that is today.

I do have the option for GMT + 8 (to set the time correctly) but no one with the option of (GMT + 8) - 24 to revert back a whole day… :)

comprende?

Shows just fine for me;

It's something related with the time, therefore, the forums would have to be closed down for a day for this issue to be fixed. It's been discussed before and disregarded :p We'd rather have the wrong date by one day than going one day without SRL. :p

~RM

From: Rasta Magician
Shows just fine for me;

It's something related with the time, therefore, the forums would have to be closed down for a day for this issue to be fixed. It's been discussed before and disregarded :p We'd rather have the wrong date by one day than going one day without SRL. :p

~RM

:cartman: ok, didn't know it was related to the time issue.

btw, gj on the rev number, saved me from going into insanity

Are things like the Longevity/Activity bars in your power to fix?

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the 'Time Online' statistic that was formerly on our Profile has disappeared (Since the move, maybe). Would be nice to have it back.

Any chance on bringing any of that back? :)

EDIT: I'm not sure if this helps but

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=177366

Seems like that's for 3.7, and here is 3.8… Don't see the same Add On for 3.8 :cartman:

From: Tad
Are things like the Longevity/Activity bars in your power to fix?

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the 'Time Online' statistic that was formerly on our Profile has disappeared (Since the move, maybe). Would be nice to have it back.

Any chance on bringing any of that back? :)

EDIT: I'm not sure if this helps but

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=177366

Seems like that's for 3.7, and here is 3.8… Don't see the same Add On for 3.8 :cartman:

+1 tbh. :)

I only want the longevity bars back, otherwise we'll experience a new wave of spam, especially from juniors and below. I've even seen people openly admit on the forums that they would spam 5 posts a day just to get their 5 points.

From: EvilChicken!
I only want the longevity bars back, otherwise we'll experience a new wave of spam, especially from juniors and below. I've even seen people openly admit on the forums that they would spam 5 posts a day just to get their 5 points.

Hmm…

I think that EvilChicken! is right about the activity bar. Bringing back the longevity bar would be pretty cool though.

From: EvilChicken!
I only want the longevity bars back, otherwise we'll experience a new wave of spam, especially from juniors and below. I've even seen people openly admit on the forums that they would spam 5 posts a day just to get their 5 points.

From: JAD
Hmm…

I think that EvilChicken! is right about the activity bar. Bringing back the longevity bar would be pretty cool though.

I don't know much about vB, but it seems as if that add on includes both (first thing's first – Would that even work on 3.8 :cartman:?) the activity and longevity bars. Unless somebody here would be able to modify that add on (might be easy, I wouldn't know), bringing just one back might not be possible.

EDIT: Oh something else you can do -

Explain :p

Integrated cup nominations and

Reflection Tutorials
All you could every want to know on reflection!

Letting me edit my own polls would be great, I vote for more dev powerz!

From: JAD
Letting us edit our own thread titles would be awesome. Then we could put our own asterisks on suggestions that need granting.

Edit: Also your cup revamping system always sounded cool. I don't know if you would know how to implement that though.

As we discussed the other day, editing our own thread titles (for mod - ) sort of defeats the purpose of a mod adding a * as we could feel tempted to always add it. Also, i did not (yet?) find an option in Admin CP to do so. If I do, i'll take it up with the rest of the staff, although i'd vote no.

My cup revamp system is complex and beyond my powers and (atm) capabilities to add, unfortunately. As we've seen on the latest threads i did in Cups & Suggestions the reported post method does look rather good.

From: Tad

Are things like the Longevity/Activity bars in your power to fix?

I do not have the necessary powers to add VB mods.

From: Tad

EDIT: Oh something else you can do -

RM DumDum / RM Dummy is my test account, for anything (usually permissions related) that i needed and might need to test.

From: LordSaturn

Reflection Tutorials
All you could every want to know on reflection!

-> All you could ever want to know about reflection!

From: Freddy

Letting me edit my own polls would be great, I vote for more dev powerz!

You are able to add / del options from your polls. I see no need for you to be changing votes around, as that would be a mod+ job on request. Also, i feel that devs being Auto-SSRL already have more than enough forum powers. Staff <> Devs.

~RM

You sure non-mods can edit polls? IIRC they couldn't.

From: ZephyrsFury
You sure non-mods can edit polls? IIRC they couldn't.

Tested, can't. But i didn't find a way where you'd be able to edit your own polls without being able to edit the votes too.

Anything else?

~RM

From: JAD
Letting us edit our own thread titles would be awesome. Then we could put our own asterisks on suggestions that need granting.

^ saves us some time changing titles for people.

From: ZephyrsFury
^ saves us some time changing titles for people.

mod rights needed, checked already. Wizzup might be able to do something about that tho.

~RM

Black market shouldn't have subforums for buying/selling. Just sections for what is being traded.

From: R0b0t1
Black market shouldn't have subforums for buying/selling. Just sections for what is being traded.

Humm… Could you try to explain that differently please?

~RM

From: Rasta Magician
Humm… Could you try to explain that differently please?

~RM

I think he means just having general forums, like ones for accounts, gold, and services instead of subforums for buying and selling within each of those. People can put whether they're buying or selling each of those in their topic.

From: R0b0t1
Black market shouldn't have subforums for buying/selling. Just sections for what is being traded.

As in, seperate sections for gold transfer, accounts, etc and not for buying gold, selling gold and so on?

Yeah. Having those sections is rather pointless – for example, someone would simply post a thread in the buying forum instead of looking in the selling forum. People are stupid like that.

I agree with R0bot on changing the forums to that. It makes sense, and considering the Black Market is SRL members only, there won't be so many threads that it becomes difficult to find the type of thread you are looking for (buying, or selling).

Will be done as soon as i have time.

~RM

I was looking at the home page and was surprised to see all of the forum description errors.

Blogs and boring stories

Feel like sharing your day to day activities or having a story that you think someone else would like to read, then here is the place for them…

Change to

Feel like sharing your day to day activities or a story you think someone else would like to read? Then here is the place for them…

Semi Stupid Pictures

Pictures and Graphics we maybe want to see….

Change to:

Pictures and Graphics we may want to see….

Music

\"For those who aren\'t afraid to listen to something new\"

Change to:

For those who aren't afraid to listen to something new

The Bashing Club / BBQ Pit

While we are gentle and profound on all other Forums, The Bashing Club t is a merry exception to this rule. Feel like flaming? spit it all out at the BBQ Pit…

Change to

The Bashing Club / BBQ Pit
While we are gentle and profound on all other Forums, The Bashing Club is a merry exception to this rule. Feel like flaming? spit it all out at the BBQ Pit…

General Dump

Everything that doesn\'t fit in other (sub)forums go here.

Change to:

Everything that doesn't fit in other (sub)forums goes here.

SRL Scripting Competition

Feeling up for a challenge? What to improve your scripting techniques? What to gain great feedback on scripts you make? Enter the SRL Scripting Competition and show us what you are truly made of!

Change to:

SRL Scripting Competition
Feeling up for a challenge? Want to improve your scripting techniques? Want to gain great feedback on scripts you make? Enter the SRL Scripting Competition and show us what you are truly made of!

I was bored :rolleyes:

Fixing up stickies would be a good idea, especially in the Tutorial Island section. Like, for example, sticky

http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47714

Instead of (outdated)

http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17890 and/or http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=400

And this for example appears to be in the wrong section (and is partially outdated, I suppose).

That's one section down, lots to go :p

Removing some unnecessary forums would allow for a cleaner look. Hardware has 0 threads. Game consoles has 7 threads. Couldn't both these just be merged into the non sorted tutorials section? There is both a misc section, and a non sorted tutorial section. Aren't those both for the same thing? Tutorials that don't belong in any other sections?

Both the Archive sections should just be deleted and put into the out dated tutorials section. There are only a few threads in each of them.

That would clean it up a lot, because it would mean 5 less unnecessary forum categories. There's too many sections right now IMO.

From: Tad
Fixing up stickies would be a good idea, especially in the Tutorial Island section. Like, for example, sticky

http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47714

Instead of (outdated)

http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17890 and/or http://www.villavu.com/forum/showthread.php?t=400

And this for example appears to be in the wrong section (and is partially outdated, I suppose).

That's one section down, lots to go :p

Done.

~RM