The Blue Elephant Brigade

Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5076

Due to popular support, several BEB members will be working together to help design and flesh out a fictional world setting. These forums are hidden and can only be accessed by members of the World Builders usergroup. Membership is open to anyone who applies. These forums are hidden because not everyone would want to participate in something like this nor would they want to have extra forums cluttering up their screen. All the previous topics relating to this have been moved to these forums.
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Ryrra · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:04 am Post subject:

Thanks Glistam for keeping the rest of us in mind with less cluter. I appricate it. Razz

Mongolio · Brigadier Elite Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 4976

On a related note, is it possible to make all forums "subscribable"? I never have any reason to visit the FFXI or Anime forums. I'd like the ability to not be subscribed to those.

Not precisely a priority, obviously, but it would just be nice to not be distracted by the "New Post" icons in front of them.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5076

The problem with hiding the other forums like that will make it near impossible to have new people visit the boards to access those parts of the board. While I understand that you, personally may not be inviting other people here, in FFXI we try to send people here all the time. If the forums are all "subscription only" then these new people would see nothing, and leave.
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Immyls · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

just so i know, for down the line, is it possible to make a read only forum? or rather, one that everyone can read, but only certain people can write? specifically, i was thinking that once the world is really going well, maybe we could do a show and tell for a week, just to see if other people want to join in, once they see what we are about. it would involve unhiding the world forum(i figure the admin one wouldn't need to be seen), and letting others read it.

also, on the subject of subscribable forums, could we make a poll that automatically subscribes you to applicable groups? you know, what online games do you play? and your answer adds you to the appropriate groups. hell, for that matter, we could make a questionare part of the application process(i think i remember having to apply), and only subscribe people to the areas that they show interest in. if we can do that. i'm not sure. and it would involve doing it manually for all of the current members, though you could group PM them the same questionare. just some thoughts.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5076

Immyls · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 7:04 am Post subject:

thats a good point. perhaps we could do the opposite, though. make all the forums (including world building) visible to all, but through a subscription to all of them. then, if you didn't want one of them to show up, you could unsubscribe from it, and still see all the others. i'm not sure how much work this would take, but its an idea that lets us keep our openness while allowing individuals to tailor shown threads to those they want.

bear in mind that i have no vested intrest in this. i'm just exploring the possiblities as a sort of informal education in what php is capable of doing. so if you don't want to do this, don't feel obligated by me. i'm just thinking of options.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5076

That's interesting, and could work. It'll involve having a separate group for each forum though. I'll look into it, and see what the options for this are. I may have to change how I've been doing groups, moderators and such in order to make this happen though.
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Mojobacca · Brigadier Commando Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 2789

My question regarding the questionaire thingy is this: "Aren't we isolationists, or at least elitist, with regards to who we admit?"

If someone googles us and comes here, do we really want him here? I thought everyone who came here was invited by one of us. I could be wrong, considering the number of members we are getting lately, but I thought selectivity we maintain in who gets honored with an invite to our boards is the same thing as the questionaire. If the average Joe don't wanna stick around, fine by me.
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SPyder · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject:

Madhatte · Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 1:51 pm Post subject:

Elitist Elite.

Lee?
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Leedon · Moderator Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1478

We are the Elitest Elites, but being as good as we are also means that we have a bit of something to share and a responsibility to gather others that are worth while. Our rules state "don't be an asshole", not "you can't post here". Postiing in a forum with people you don't know and being a Brigadier are two totally different things.
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Madhatte · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:

Indeed.
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We are going to have to stick a pin in a map, set fire to something and carry on until the earth looks flat! -- RandyMac

I could teach you to how file a washer to make it worth a nickel but if you really want to make big bucks just take a penny and drill a hole in it and it becomes a washer and is worth a dime. -- Art Martin, Old-Time Logger

SPyder · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:43 pm Post subject:

Madhatte · Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 4:49 am Post subject:

"You don't want to be with a guy like me, Dot. I'm a rebel. A loner."

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We live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots. -- Louis CK

We are going to have to stick a pin in a map, set fire to something and carry on until the earth looks flat! -- RandyMac

I could teach you to how file a washer to make it worth a nickel but if you really want to make big bucks just take a penny and drill a hole in it and it becomes a washer and is worth a dime. -- Art Martin, Old-Time Logger

Glimmersby · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 3:12 pm Post subject:

all very good ideas. as for the world forum... I like the idea of only showing the read only and leaving the admin to the writers only... Nobody publishes their brainstorming notes until the book stops selling and they are desperate for cash
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Mishlai · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject:

Glistam, is it possible to simply provide options to hide certain forums? Cookies could remember your settings, and if you wanted to see all of the forums or to show one of them, you would just unhide it or "show all"

If something like that could be added to the user interface, it would require no admin involvement once set up.

Of course, the boards probably don't allow such a thing...

A close second would be to allow registered users to unsubscribe. Guests would see everything. We'd have a welcome mat for the rest of the intertron, but users could remove clutter from their version of the board.

I personally just scroll past the stuff i don't want to read, but who am I to get in the way of another Elephant's convenience?
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Immyls · Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2005 8:39 pm Post subject:

actually, we looked into this when we set up the world builer, but it didn't prove to be easy to implement.
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Glistam · I plead the Third Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 5076

Immyls is right. But, if a phpbb mod exists that will allow that to happen, let me know and I'll look into it and see about implimenting it.
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Emo_Cat · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:

just kuz im kinda slow, what is this "world" thing?
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