Free voice thread.. say anything you want.

It has been talked about and bitched about since the change happened. I have no clue why anyone would change it now and not months ago as it is about a 30 second fix (just edit the css sheet), but hey, what do I know.

 

New colours look okay, jus too bad the icons (well okay SOME of them) have white background too, and the border of this fancy text input widget-thingie is still standard gray too

All in all it looks good, just takes getting used to

 

I just recently figured out how to make my own custom theme in Firefox, so everything's all good here. I forced the browser to show everything I visit with a black background and white text, btw.

Funny thing happened to Firefox for me the other day though. I close a window on some flash painting program, my computer instantly restarts and FireFox has erased all my bookmarks and add-ons when it is back on. I was not a happy camper. The fact that 2.0 won't work for some themes, sucks, too. (I prefer BlackJapan because its minimal and I love the icons.)

 

I think we should start a new Ebay thread - it is over 50 pages and nearly at 1000 posts......

 

Is it possible for only moderators to see partially-deleted posts/threads? I tend to delete and repost a lot at times to prevent doubleposting (ex: My 'WTB: Sonic Adventure proto' thread).

 

is it possible to get a picture of Yakumo breaking a SEGA saturn? (A cold day in hell if ever!)

 

I m not sure if a forum on mods would be an ideal thing, mostly due to the stigma attached to the word mod. We wouldn't want joe public, in search of installing his new mod chip to play pirates, to barge in here with high hopes. We ve got enough legal greys as it is!

Now if we named it "The Enhancements and Improvements" forum, it would sound more classy and less associated with piracy in my view (and ears )

 

Yeah I know it exists, but heck, take a look at the RULES forum section:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=41

 

Someone sort out the underlining links issue. PLEASE.

 

All one needs to do is open the 'black' CSS template file and change this:

Code:

a:link
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover, a:active
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

to

Code:

a:link
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
a:hover, a:active
{
    color: #FFFFFF;
    text-decoration: underline;
}

And open both the 'hazylazyblue' & 'hazylazyblue100%' CSS template files and change this:

Code:

a:link
{
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited
{
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover, a:active
{
    color: #0000FF;
    text-decoration: underline;

to

Code:

a:link
{
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
a:visited
{
    color: #000000;
    text-decoration: underline;
}
a:hover, a:active
{
    color: #0000FF;
    text-decoration: underline;

 

That varies from board software to board software. The issue is more that it is not standard web design and can make it difficult to spot links, especially if you are looking back through posts when you think you remember seeing a link to something.

 

I don't mean to be rude, but that's complete nonsense. Standard forum behaviour is for links to be underlined. Standard website behaviour is to identify the link in some way - be it by making link text bold, underlined, or a different colour (typically blue). This forum doesn't do any of these and it's a pain. It's also a 3-second fix, as Mark has demonstrated.

C'mon Assem! Make it happen.

 

What you can see deleted posts? I thought only moderators could...

 

Nope, lol. We've been seeing them since the forums were upgraded. It's most likely a 'permissions' option in the vBulletin admin panel.

 

I have PM'ed Dot50Cal with a more personal message. However, he suggested I post here, so I will.

I am not at all pleased with his posting or moderating. Many of his posts seem arrogant and egotistical, and apparently others have felt the same.

This is not just based on the recently closed "Weed...Now Smokeless" thread, although it is an interesting example. While I do not agree with Tachikoma's post, he had the decency to leave the thread open. Dot50Cal chimed in with the next post. Saying things like "this thread is going places" and locking it when there was no conflict says a lot about the type of moderator he is.

I respect moderators and the work they do when it is done in a respectful manner. However, this was clearly a case of "I don't like what this thread is saying and I am going to close it," without giving anyone a chance for a calm rebuttal. Closing threads when there is a conflict is understandable and respectable. Closing threads when something is said that you do not agree with is an abuse of power.

I have spoken with other people (including a few former members) that agree, however I will not state their names here. If they want, they will let their opinions be known.

 

As tachi already said this topic was discussed on the Legalize It thread and that ended on a rather sour note. Being a fellow moderator who agreed that this topic was not going to good places I went ahead and locked it as a precaution.

The thread was already degenerating into a pro drug vs anti drug skirmish which we've already had on this board. I'm sure you know no good comes from these topics, just like political chat. Everyone has their own viewpoints and noones going to budge on them.

Anyway since your calling my moderation into question we almost never get to use it. 99% of the time its spent deleting spam or informing people who make sale threads of the rules. Very rarely do we ever have to close a topic such as this so I dont know why you would call into question my moderating history.

 

You know the skin I would love to see again:
http://www.extremepixels.com/forum/index.php?styleid=83

:dance: