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At 2/24/05 10:21 PM, phileeguy wrote: Make forum specific stickies.

I like that idea. I emailed Wade like forever ago with an idea like that, for removable 'BBS News' stickies. Like orange tanks, or summat. But it would be for admins to post stuff about things pertaining only to the forums (like the rash of 'I am new mod' topics that crop up.)

On the topic of long posts, I made a little text counting page in Javascript for someone a while ago. If anyone wants to use that page or save it to their computer, the address is http://pieoncar.com/counter.html . It comes in handy every once in a while.

At 2/25/05 12:04 AM, phileeguy wrote:

At 2/24/05 11:57 PM, Master_Inuyasha wrote: Eh, not too bad. It sucks that HT52 is the only one with those nude pics of Tom though.

Not even he has those. He is still a good 11k+ experience from that nice little prize.

The secret doesn't exsist. Both HumanTarget some of the lvl 29s got enough exp to reach it and it was just an empty page. I think it was Shrapnel that made a thread stating his anger at this. Anyways, soon afterwards they increased the required amount to reach it. It's just a joke.

At 2/25/05 12:07 AM, Maus wrote: I like that idea. I emailed Wade like forever ago with an idea like that, for removable 'BBS News' stickies.

I don't think that's needed. Any news threads posted always have enough traffic to keep them on the front page untill its use has passed. Also, I don't want NG to look like every other forum. The system is fine as is.

But does anyone know if Dobio ever posted up the winners of the BBS awards? I remember being around for the voting and all but I never actually saw the results.

At 2/25/05 12:21 AM, pieoncar wrote: On the topic of long posts, I made a little text counting page in Javascript for someone a while ago. If anyone wants to use that page or save it to their computer, the address is http://pieoncar.com/counter.html . It comes in handy every once in a while.

I don't think it's really helpful for Newgrounds but it is pretty nifty.

[Note: you can always just use Word]

At 2/24/05 11:57 PM, Master_Inuyasha wrote:

At 2/24/05 11:15 PM, GiantYellowSock wrote: Your thoughts?

Eh, not too bad. It sucks that HT52 is the only one with those nude pics of Tom though. :/ But more secrets would be awsome.

There are no nudes of Tom. Each time a user gets closer and closer to that target of experience points... Tom then raises the required experience points for that. He does it because he believes it motivates the users to continue to deposit. But anyway... Cash for Voting Regular users too? what is this newgrounds community coming too? How come Tom isn't keeping all of his profits from the sales of his game? I bought Alien hominid by the way... i've only played it 3 times. The game would be better if it were 3D I think.... But that's just my opinion.

At 2/25/05 12:55 AM, YoinK_VineS wrote: Cash for Voting Regular users too?

How about creating a Depositer of the Day award, like UOTD? Just pick out a random person who deposited in the last 24 hours. You could post the user and profile link on P-Bot's posts, and award 20 bonus exp points or some other little prize. It'd help encourage depositing, and it'd be free, too.

Or rearrange the chat to follow the same topics as the BBS (General, Flash, Politics, WIHT, etc..) Might encourage more people to use the chat.

At 2/25/05 03:50 PM, IllustriousPotentate wrote: How about creating a Depositer of the Day award, like UOTD? Just pick out a random person who deposited in the last 24 hours. You could post the user and profile link on P-Bot's posts, and award 20 bonus exp points or some other little prize. It'd help encourage depositing, and it'd be free, too.

That's redundent. I think 100 bucks is enough to encourage people to deposit.

Or rearrange the chat to follow the same topics as the BBS (General, Flash, Politics, WIHT, etc..) Might encourage more people to use the chat.

There are only about 8 people in chat at any given time. We don't need to split them further.

At 2/27/05 08:41 AM, liljim wrote: I actually wrote something similar for one of the pages in NG Maga while back, too. I should just put the same sort of thing into the bbs posts page.

That would be handy indeed. They've used that system on SSla. And that was really handy. I still don't know why they've deleted that.

So when you think this will be done? :)

I was fiddling around with a Post Previewer VB app a couple of weeks ago, but it's on hold because a) I ran into problems with auto-linking URLs and b) I don't think many people would use it simply for the fact that it's another window to have open. I fire it up occasionally to check LONG posts for spelling etc. It works by creating a html file on the fly, and previewing that within the program.
While playing with it, I set the formatting stuff (bold, italics, etc) to apply to the SELECTED text (ie, put the appropriate tags at both ends of it). I don't know if that's possible to do on NG, with the way the post page is coded, but it saves some time (once you get used to it)

James alreadt made the characyers remaining feature. Cool.

This topic is pretty good to share ideas. :)

Oh. I didnt even notice this.

Cool topic :D

Let me share an idea then now after the counter thingy's over with: Maybe along with a "Favorite Flashes" and "Favorite Artist" lists, you can have "Favorite series", and when authors submit more than one flash to the portal, they can link them together and it will be able to be selectable under "Other flashes by this author" by "Other series by this author", and you could also mark down a certain series on your favorites. It might clean a lot of things up (sorry of this has been mentioned before)

Let me share an idea then now after the counter thingy's over with: Maybe along with a "Favorite Flashes" and "Favorite Artist" lists, you can have "Favorite series", and when authors submit more than one flash to the portal, they can link them together and it will be able to be selectable under "Other flashes by this author" by "Other series by this author", and you could also mark down a certain series on your favorites. It might clean a lot of things up (sorry of this has been mentioned before)

For example; LegendaryFrog submits "The Adventures of hoohahblahdee" and it's a best seller. It blows the rest of the flashes out of the water, and he wants to make a sequel to it, so that hoohahblahdee has an extended plot. He submits "TAOH 2", and then goes into his list of submissions and links TAOH to TAOH 2, and a box would show up, showing "Other Series by this author: -none-" (until he links more) and there would be an extra button with "Favorite Submission", and you would mark down a series and a favorite episode from it, so when someone goes into your profile to see it, it would bring it to the favorite episode.

"Favorite Submission"

*Favorite series

My mind took a joy ride

Have it so that when you've highlighted some text in the post box, and click the bold (or whatever) button, it puts tags around that instead of asking you to enter some text.

Ugh.

Does this happen to anyone else? When you press enter it leave a blue cursor mark.

It's not a big deal, but it's slightly annoying.

Is there any chance of getting the input box extended horizontally, James? Or would it fuck up tables and stuff?

OOH! IDEA!

Maybe a little box that says how big your file is before you send it.
like so:

At 2/27/05 02:31 PM, scottmale24 wrote: OOH! IDEA!

Maybe a little box that says how big your file is before you send it.
like so:

Also maybe the dimensions in there

For a non BBS idea,
I think people co-authored to films should be able to respond to reviews,

At 2/24/05 10:33 PM, TheJoe324 wrote: Or that could just be in the rules, since you should search before creating ANY new topic.

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/forum.php?id=2

Peopel still would listen to them, but I do agree I would like What Ozcar and Dobio eitehr sticked or copied and psoted by G bot.

At 2/27/05 12:47 PM, liljim wrote: The problem with this is that I haven't (yet) found a reliable way of doing that stuff in Firefox.

James, if you can take care of the IE half, I've got the Firefox part working fine: http://pieoncar.com/hilite.html . But you'll have to rearrange the code a little bit, and integrate it with what you already have... I'm not going to do the work that you presumably get paid for :P

I just modified what I'm working on for a site of mine... I was inserting text at a point, not tags around anything, but this one is working fine now with inserting tags around the highlighted area.

At 2/27/05 12:48 PM, liljim wrote:

At 2/27/05 12:21 PM, lolwut wrote: Ugh.

Does this happen to anyone else? When you press enter it leave a blue cursor mark.

Sounds like your shift key could be sticking.

This is just a rendering error in Firefox, it happens all the time here. I don't notice it anywhere else (but I don't type in nearly as many forms anywhere else), so it might have something to do with the background image, but who can say.

At 2/27/05 02:31 PM, scottmale24 wrote: OOH! IDEA!

Maybe a little box that says how big your file is before you send it.
like so:

Javascript shouldn't be able to access files on a users' computer at all; otherwise, I could hypothetically make a page that scanned a user's hard drive for something, stored passwords in specific files maybe, and then use a form to send the information to my server.

On Windows XP, when you're selecting which file to upload, you should be able to click it once and hover your mouse over it, then it will tell you the dimensions and filesize.

At 2/27/05 05:04 PM, pieoncar wrote: James, if you can take care of the IE half, I've got the Firefox part working fine: http://pieoncar.com/hilite.html . But you'll have to rearrange the code a little bit, and integrate it with what you already have... I'm not going to do the work that you presumably get paid for :P

Nice, I think that way of formatting is so much smoother. Maybe Tom could pay you a one-off fee to slip your code in James' pocket ;)

At 2/27/05 12:21 PM, lolwut wrote: Does this happen to anyone else? When you press enter it leave a blue cursor mark.

This is just a rendering error in Firefox, it happens all the time here. I don't notice it anywhere else (but I don't type in nearly as many forms anywhere else), so it might have something to do with the background image, but who can say.

I have to admit, I am suffering from this problem (on Firefox) too, but only since the char count was implemented. It doesn't really bother me, but it might other people

At 2/27/05 12:47 PM, liljim wrote:

Though, at the moment, I'm tempted to think, "Fuck Opera" and move on.

Heh, can't say I blame you. The new wider Post input box is a joy to behold, I (and I'm sure many others) really appreciate the change.
Nice job James

At 2/27/05 05:21 PM, Denvish wrote:

At 2/27/05 12:47 PM, liljim wrote:

Though, at the moment, I'm tempted to think, "Fuck Opera" and move on.

Heh, can't say I blame you. The new wider Post input box is a joy to behold, I (and I'm sure many others) really appreciate the change.
Nice job James

Yeag its nice and beutyfull, iThis has been a great day for the forums

At 2/27/05 05:21 PM, Denvish wrote:

At 2/27/05 12:47 PM, liljim wrote:

Though, at the moment, I'm tempted to think, "Fuck Opera" and move on.

Heh, can't say I blame you. The new wider Post input box is a joy to behold, I (and I'm sure many others) really appreciate the change.
Nice job James

Yes, I certainly do. God knows I could've done with this back when I ran the Muffin Clan... but still, all these efforts to make our experience on NGBBS better are much appreciated. ^^

I think we should be able to but newgrounds shirts with our user names on it, so if we see a fellow newgrounder someday we can tell who he or she is. To prevent people by shirts with popular usernames on it, you have to put your user name and password in while filling out info about state and address. What do you guys think of my idea?