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 Posted: 16 September 2007 at 10:44pm |
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Oppsssssss... i just noticed this topic is posted in the Support sector and not the Modifications sector. Ok well yeah, Borg does look through these for sure.
I thought it was posted in the Modifications forum, that why i suggested sending him a PM.
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dj air
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Posted: 16 September 2007 at 11:07pm |
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check the page encodings , and make sure the fies arent corrupt.
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Posted: 17 September 2007 at 10:19am |
 Nick-V wrote:
Sorry to jump in but why does the email notification for this post look like this:
If a user want´s to know who´s is who, and looking for such an example all the mods, how do they find them?
There´s is no special colors for mods or admin? No special links to show them. Have I missed anything when I made the install? Hope anyone can answer it. Is there a MOD? |
The reason is that this user is using a character in an encoding different to your email client, if you change your email cleint to utf-8 which is used for the forum the character should display correctly.
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Nick-V
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Posted: 17 September 2007 at 11:04am |
Yes that appears to be the cause but after doing a few minutes research I am stuck for an appropriate solution and suspect a forum issue.
For info, I use Outlook 2003 set up as standard. I have just learnt how to change the encoding on a specific message (only this forum needs me to do that) and this fixes the display but I cannot seem to change the default format for incoming messages (only outgoing). I guess the encoding is supposed to be determined by an indicator within the message anyway?
Interestingly, emails from this forum seem to be recognised as Western European (ISO) as are CNN's messages...however messages from Skype are being recognised as Unicode UTF-8. Is the UTF-8 indicator missing from forum emails?
Bottom line, is there something wrong with the forum emails or my Outlook setup or are we expecting everyone to make some not very obvious changes withing their email client perhaps on every forum message received?
Let me know if I need to try something or help by providing further info.
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billd3
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Posted: 17 September 2007 at 4:14pm |
Miwa wrote:
If a user want´s to know who´s is who, and looking for such an example all the mods, how do they find them?
There´s is no special colors for mods or admin? No special links to show them. Have I missed anything when I made the install? Hope anyone can answer it. Is there a MOD? |
You mean like YABB and some others do. I like that feature. I suspect someone who is good at mods could create that pretty easily based on group membership, put in the text/tags to color their name/link. To others - the idea here is NOT to force the user to make 5 clicks, look up users, etc. but to see WHO is online that is either a mod or administrator. We want to see their names in another colour in the online list at the bottom - not to have to look through the member list and figure it out. People often visit a forum and use that feature in other boards to see if there are moderators online or the admin online (and some use that as a "there's never a moderator or admin online when you need them" sorts of statements...........) It also allows one to easily contact a moderator or the admin by seeing they are a different colour, clicking their name in the online list, then sending them a PM. VERY nice and handy feature of some boards. Editorial: It's amazing to note in this thread the question is asked, then it degrades into a totally other topic that IMO should have its own thread.......... and the original question is lost and not answered..... OK, so it's MONDAY here.
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Miwa
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Posted: 17 September 2007 at 7:25pm |
billd3 wrote:
Miwa wrote:
If a user want´s to know who´s is who, and looking for such an example all the mods, how do they find them?
There´s is no special colors for mods or admin? No special links to show them. Have I missed anything when I made the install? Hope anyone can answer it. Is there a MOD? |
You mean like YABB and some others do. I like that feature.
I suspect someone who is good at mods could create that pretty easily based on group membership, put in the text/tags to color their name/link.
To others - the idea here is NOT to force the user to make 5 clicks, look up users, etc. but to see WHO is online that is either a mod or administrator. We want to see their names in another colour in the online list at the bottom - not to have to look through the member list and figure it out.
People often visit a forum and use that feature in other boards to see if there are moderators online or the admin online (and some use that as a "there's never a moderator or admin online when you need them" sorts of statements...........)
It also allows one to easily contact a moderator or the admin by seeing they are a different colour, clicking their name in the online list, then sending them a PM. VERY nice and handy feature of some boards.
Editorial: It's amazing to note in this thread the question is asked, then it degrades into a totally other topic that IMO should have its own thread.......... and the original question is lost and not answered..... OK, so it's MONDAY here.
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Yes, just like that. Anyone who want's to make this MOD?
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Nick-V
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Posted: 17 September 2007 at 7:33pm |
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Not only can you sort members by group as mentioned above, but you can choose the number of stars displayed for a group. I suspect you could replace the 4 start icon too if you wanted....would this do it?
Edited by Nick-V - 17 September 2007 at 7:36pm
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Posted: 18 September 2007 at 4:04am |
Sorry, that still misses the point in that you must search for them and find out if they are online. Our point is to see if/when they are online with a glance. So no, that would not do it.
Take a look at http://amccars.net/cgi/yabb2/YaBB.pl or for that matter any yabb board and other boards like it (I've seen other bbs's do this too). We want to know from the list of current online members which is a mod or an admin, not to have to look at some membership list, or as you suggest, posts by a given member to discern if they are a mod or admin.
The point - have their name show up a different color in the list of currently logged in users so one can tell at a glance. Not to have to look at their profile, posts, etc. There are a number of reasons members wish to do this.
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