Site suggestions/bugs
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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Orpheus on Tue Nov 23rd at 5:27pm 2004


? quoting Crono
He's addressed this before, it's those computers cookie settings. Lower the security or allow the snarkpit through indefinitly.

crono *shakes head sadly* its not getting in that used to be the problem, it was getting out. the logout link borked on me every time. it now seems functional though so i am no longer sure its an issue, or just my other PC's.

follow the bouncy ball ol man

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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Gwil on Wed Nov 24th at 4:00pm 2004


If one attempts to post, and is greeted with the invalid/username password + the body of their post, the "login" link on the top right is a broken link.


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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Crono on Wed Nov 24th at 4:37pm 2004


? quoting Orpheus

? quoting Crono
He's addressed this before, it's those computers cookie settings. Lower the security or allow the snarkpit through indefinitly.
crono *shakes head sadly* its not getting in that used to be the problem, it was getting out. the logout link borked on me every time. it now seems functional though so i am no longer sure its an issue, or just my other PC's.
follow the bouncy ball ol man


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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Hugh on Fri Nov 26th at 3:25am 2004


Hrmm, one more comment about the reviewing system... if a reviewer isn't a moderator, they can't edit their reviews and I imagine that's why the Design and Gameplay boxes are left blank. Go to this for a look of what I mean: http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?map=745 [addsig]



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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Dred_furst on Fri Nov 26th at 5:29pm 2004


an RSS news feed is a nice idea, i accidently forgot about this thread and put it in a new one
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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 29th at 10:13pm 2004


Got this error when trying to view the screenshot of http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?map=1333

Warning: getimagesize(maps/HL2/images/1333_1.jpg: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/leperous/public_html/screenshot.php on line 10

Fixed- Lep.

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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by ReNo on Tue Nov 30th at 1:16am 2004


I don't really know why, but Halo 2 sorta gave me a site idea. How about, in the same vein as snarkmarks, you make an awards type system? Users can gain awards, such as "Teacher" for writing a certain number of tutorials, "Production Line" for having a certain number of maps, "Old Timer" after having been a member for a certain length of time, or "Critic" for having written a certain number of reviews. You could even make special ones for contests or special events. These could be represented as small icons at the bottom of their info stuff on each post.

Perhaps its a bit much but it might encourage some of the newer users to contribute in some site areas in order to gain these awards, as opposed to just raising an arbitary number as with the snarkmarks.
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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Nov 30th at 2:19am 2004


I think it's a good idea Duncan, and probably wouldn't be too hard to code.... for a maths whiz like Lep

An option to display a users real name alongside their photo in the gallery of horror might be a nice addition.




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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Gwil on Tue Nov 30th at 2:54am 2004


Amen. The snarkmarks just encourage people to raise numbers through cruder means (ie post resurrection/1/2 word replies etc) and participation has dropped off of late in critiquing etc (I know I haven't done as much as I could have for one).

We need something to gee up the masses and intergrate our newer members, something along these lines would do it I'd wager..


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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Leperous on Tue Nov 30th at 11:25am 2004


modDB has a similar thing with mods (and ejoop as well?), yeah it's a good idea though I'll have to think of something non-tacky



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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Nov 30th at 2:04pm 2004


? quoting ReNo
I don't really know why, but Halo 2 sorta gave me a site idea. How about, in the same vein as snarkmarks, you make an awards type system? Users can gain awards, such as "Teacher" for writing a certain number of tutorials, "Production Line" for having a certain number of maps, "Old Timer" after having been a member for a certain length of time, or "Critic" for having written a certain number of reviews. You could even make special ones for contests or special events. These could be represented as small icons at the bottom of their info stuff on each post.

Perhaps its a bit much but it might encourage some of the newer users to contribute in some site areas in order to gain these awards, as opposed to just raising an arbitary number as with the snarkmarks.

One problem that I can see is that there would no incentive to keep going once the rewards have been obtained.





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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Gollum on Tue Nov 30th at 2:22pm 2004


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One problem that I can see is that there would no incentive to keep going once the rewards have been obtained.

Not so! Such a system can always be extended, even retrospectively. For example:

Bronze Teacher
Silver Teacher
Gold Teacher

And then you can add more:

Platinum Teacher
Diamond Teacher

And more:

Bronze Star Teacher
Silver Star Teacher
Gold Star Teacher
Platinum Star Teacher
Diamond Star Teacher

And more:

Bronze Shooting-star Teacher
Silver Shooting-star Teacher
Gold Shooting-star Teacher
Platinum Shooting-star Teacher
Diamond Shooting-star Teacher

The possibilities are endless. It could be just like E-bay's feedback system. Oh, the horror.





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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Leperous on Tue Nov 30th at 3:04pm 2004


"Colour-coded comparison bars" could work...



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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Tue Nov 30th at 4:40pm 2004


? quote:

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One problem that I can see is that there would no incentive to keep going once the rewards have been obtained.

And more:

Bronze Shooting-star Teacher
Silver Shooting-star Teacher
Gold Shooting-star Teacher
Platinum Shooting-star Teacher
Diamond Shooting-star Teacher

The possibilities are endless. It could be just like E-bay's feedback system. Oh, the horror.



I can't imagine anyone wanting to obtain a 'shooting-star' award, but ok.




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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Monqui on Tue Nov 30th at 10:07pm 2004


I can't imagine why you wouldn't want to be a shooting star. I mean seriously. They, you know, have tails. And ice! Everybody loves ice!





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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Spartan on Wed Dec 1st at 11:14am 2004


I have been having some trouble with the smiley system on here. Half the time when I go to click on "see all" smileys the little window will pop up but the it minimizes itself right away. I go to maximize it again and it minimizes it again. It's like its playing some kind of hide and seek with more or something. I never had this trouble on any other fourms but they may be because they were all PHP. [addsig]



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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Dec 1st at 6:02pm 2004


this may be another host related issue again, but for the past few weeks i have been having all sorts of issues with slow to no connection here at the pit.

today, the images to the map screens, some load, eventually.. and some don't load at all, but look like they want to as no red x appears to signify a dead link.

i have DSL, very good DSL and sometimes it takes upward of a minute to load one of the forum pages.

i am mostly posting to see if its american issues, world issues or just arkansas ones.

no other site is effected, i can go anywhere else in good time, so it is localized to snarkpit.

*as i press "submit" i anticipate a very long time to upload*

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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Gwil on Wed Dec 1st at 7:35pm 2004


No such problems here Orph, well, every so often it's down for like 5-10 minutes but nothing particularly annoying or consistent.

Check with your fellow Americans


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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by Orpheus on Wed Dec 1st at 8:06pm 2004


Tis time for the Christmas snarks again methinks Lep.. [addsig]



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Re: Site suggestions/bugs
Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Wed Dec 1st at 8:08pm 2004


Dear God no, not this early.





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