• PETITION: Remove Join month from avatar
    83 replies, posted
[QUOTE=Hunterbrute;19456173]Just do what cool people do, if you dont like something on the forums use greasemonkey and remove it. Ive removed ratings and that retarded yellow color showing my post, why not just do the same with the Year/Month under the name?[/QUOTE] Doesn't fix what the OP wants to fix. He wants join date to be invisible to others so they don't judge him for it.
[QUOTE=Treybuchet;19456137]OP thinks petitions do things.[/QUOTE] I chose "petition" because I couldn't think of a better word to describe it, but yes, I believe that if, in the off chance an 80 page thread with 500 agrees on my post happened, garry would probably notice, and at least give it a thought. rated funny, though. [QUOTE=Hunterbrute;19456173]Just do what cool people do, if you dont like something on the forums use greasemonkey and remove it. Ive removed ratings and that retarded yellow color showing my post, why not just do the same with the Year/Month under the name?[/QUOTE] I actually don't know enough greasemonkey to be able to do that; mind sharing with the class?
I don't see much join date elitism anymore anyway, does it really matter? Also, like the others, it helps mods. New members are probably more likely to make silly mistakes.
Weird, I haven't seen a '10 anywhere yet.
There really isn't that much join date elitism anymore, and those who blatantly do it get banned anyway. To be honest, though, join date [i]is[/i] actually often a good indicator of general post quality. I don't often see people from before '09 making really shitty posts, while the majority of shitty posts I see come from '09ers. I'm not being elitist here; that's just what I honestly see. However... [QUOTE=BlueSaint;19455793]Only if smartness comes back.[/QUOTE] I would gladly give up my join date for smartness. I believe that system was pretty fair, and while people who had been around longer and posted more did have higher smartness, it directly rated post quality and people with negative smartness were genuinely shitty posters. I honestly wouldn't mind if FP was strict again like it was in the old days with the ban list, insta-ban, and smartness. It promoted quality.
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[QUOTE=BlueSaint;19455793]Only if smartness comes back.[/QUOTE] I agree.
remove postcount display
This shit just got DENIED
[QUOTE=rofflewoffles;19456802]remove postcount display[/QUOTE] I like the post count where it is.
[QUOTE=Benji;19456833]I like the post count where it is.[/QUOTE] I think it's a bit sad, especially with all the people boasting about their inhumanly high postcount. Only thing worse than postcounts would be "reputation" system, and that's only by a little bit.
It doesn't bother me, but Ive only been here for like 1 day. so my opinion probably doesn't count.
join date is generally a better indication of good or bad posting than postcount [editline]f[/editline] And I think if that post count was removed you would see better posts overall
Only if the smartness thing and rating totals come back
Sometimes I wish Smartness did come back.
[QUOTE=teeheeV2;19456986]Only if the smartness thing and rating totals come back[/QUOTE] Dumb question. What is smartness. is it a rating or something?
[QUOTE=MotherMinge;19455734]Then leave the join-date on for mods. I'm sure mods get access to other information we could only dream about, what the mods need is not necessarily what the "plebs" need.[/QUOTE] then leave it on for everyone so we can make fun of the noobs [editline]06:33PM[/editline] [QUOTE=hehe;19457008]Dumb question. What is smartness. is it a rating or something?[/QUOTE] its your post count +5000 ( i think, its been so long) then you get points subtracted for spelling mistakes
All this would please is those butthurt 09'ers and upcoming 10'ers who say "i am a fp xpert, i am no noob, even tho i post fast threds in gd".
You can consider this my antisignature for the petition.
[QUOTE=rofflewoffles;19456902]I think it's a bit sad, especially with all the people boasting about their inhumanly high postcount. Only thing worse than postcounts would be "reputation" system, and that's only by a little bit.[/QUOTE] As a moderator, post count is important as well as the join date.
[QUOTE=hehe;19457008]Dumb question. What is smartness. is it a rating or something?[/QUOTE] It was a number that went up/down depending on your posts; if you had spelling errors, common grammar mistakes, etc your smartness would go down
I believe we need a petition to bring back ban words...
[QUOTE=chilla0;19457122]I believe we need a petition to bring back ban words...[/QUOTE] Seeing that many had to be unbanned due to banwords being triggered out of context, I don't agree
i have a better idea. replace the time format in the posts. shit like "1 minute ago" and "2 weeks ago" is totally ambiguous. for the 4 years i've been posting here it's always bugged the fuck out of me.
[QUOTE=solid_jake;19455976]I'm surprised, not one 20'10'er posted here. Interesting..[/QUOTE] Im close enough though right? Anyways, from what ive seen, the whole Join date elitism has made me lose respect for certain 05 or 06 veterans. They revert to acting like children when they are questioned about their join dates, or act like tools to everyone else. Ive seen a few 09ers make amazing posts, and on the contrary ive seen downright dimwitted ones by vets who should have been banned by now.
[QUOTE=a2h;19457165]Seeing that many had to be unbanned due to banwords being triggered out of context, I don't agree[/QUOTE] or just make "gayray" a banword
What the hell is removing the month going to do?
It's not our fault you joined in 07'. [img]http://i47.tinypic.com/i2t85g.jpg[/img] no
I have oldest date dur hur. Its getting really old, but we finally have the layout almost perfected and now people ask for another change.
[QUOTE=Kannon;19458405]It's not our fault you joined in 07'. [img]http://i47.tinypic.com/i2t85g.jpg[/img] no[/QUOTE] fucking lol'd
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