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Post of the Day

  • 14-10-2008 4:37am
    #1
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭


    An excellent edition to the site. I presume it's based on the most thanks received and it has so far provided a fair few laughs (antodeco's AH post about the bloke who's bird 'has a ld') as well as some general appreciation (the current PotD which is a fantastic photograph from Borderfox).

    Anyway, just wanted to give some feedback and say cheers for implementing it.
    Post edited by Shield on


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Comments

  • #2
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Borderfox's photo is amazing...


  • #3
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    Ponster wrote: »
    Borderfox's photo is amazing...

    god dammit being banmed from photography is killing me....


  • #4
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    You're welcome.

    Planning to do another filter for the first page that lists the most thanked posts in the last 24 hours / 2 days / week / or whatever works.


  • #5
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    On the subject of "thanks", is there a limited amount you can give per day/week.

    When i administer "thanks" i am redirected to the eh.. no access page.


  • #6
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    Think I have it set to 25 / day at the moment.


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  • #7
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    CuLT wrote: »
    Think I have it set to 25 / day at the moment.

    Right, but i have never given that amount of thanks in one day. I was redirected after my first thanks today.

    And I would thank you for that but...


  • #8
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    CuLT wrote: »
    Think I have it set to 25 / day at the moment.
    Thought it was 10?
    Did you up it recently?


  • #9
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    Yep, thought it was 10 also.


  • #10
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    Where would one find this post of the day ?


  • #11
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Jip wrote: »
    Where would one find this post of the day ?

    Top menu -> Boards.ie -> post of the day.


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  • #12
    John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,135 ✭✭✭✭John


    Nice little feature.


  • #13
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    Cheers Steve, I looked for it all over the front page but obviously not under the boards.ie drop down.


  • #14
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    two things

    1 post of the day is from yesterday

    2 a post/thread of the day archive would be cool and get posters into more fora (is it fora ?)


  • #15
    ballroom blitz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 156 ✭✭ballroom blitz


    Is the post of the day icon now missing from the boards.ie drop-down menu for anyone else or just me?


  • #16
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Tigger wrote: »
    1 post of the day is from yesterday

    It couldn't really be from today though cause no post would have more than a few thanks until the afternoon at the very earliest.
    ballroom blitz wrote: »
    Is the post of the day icon now missing from the boards.ie drop-down menu for anyone else or just me?

    Still there for me.


  • #17
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    CuLT wrote: »
    You're welcome.

    Planning to do another filter for the first page that lists the most thanked posts in the last 24 hours / 2 days / week / or whatever works.
    Got around to this today:

    http://www.boards.ie/?filter=thanks

    Accessible from the dropdown filters on the front page. It's cached for an hour at the moment (doesn't change for an hour), just figuring out the dynamics.

    Post of the day isn't available historically yet because it's not actually stored anywhere other than in the menu which is generated and just written to physical disk every night at midnight (I think?). Will get some historical stuff going eventually.


  • #18
    Stabshauptmann
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,885 ✭✭✭Stabshauptmann


    brilliant idea


  • #19
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    CuLT wrote: »
    Post of the day isn't available historically yet because it's not actually stored anywhere other than in the menu which is generated and just written to physical disk every night at midnight (I think?). Will get some historical stuff going eventually.

    Cool. That will be handy. Any chance the filter could be integrated with the advanced search rather than being a separate feature so that you can pick most thanked posts from a particular forum between certain dates and so on? For the stat nerds among us. :o


  • #20
    Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,689 ✭✭✭Vain


    ballroom blitz wrote: »
    Is the post of the day icon now missing from the boards.ie drop-down menu for anyone else or just me?

    Just you.


  • #21
    Hitchhiker's Guide to...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,323 ✭✭✭Hitchhiker's Guide to...


    not sure if this is possible - but would be nice to be able to subscribe to the post of the day in the 'subbed' menu.

    / great idea btw


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  • #22
    Mr. Poker Tilt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭Mr. Poker Tilt


    Captain Obvious wrote: »
    not sure if this is possible - but would be nice to be able to subscribe to the post of the day in the 'subbed' menu.

    / great idea btw


    +1


  • #23
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Merc?


  • #24
    giggsy664
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭giggsy664


    Whats today's potd? I want to know


  • #25
    KevIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,693 ✭✭✭✭KevIRL


    A classic potd today:pac:


  • #26
    One Cold Hand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Out of interest, how is 'thread of the day' decided?

    Just wondering as sometimes they're not the most amazing threads ever (today for example). Or maybe I just have really high expectations of boards!


  • #27
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,919 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    That's just generated randomly.


  • #28
    One Cold Hand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭One Cold Hand


    Ah okay. I was just comparing it with Pighead's cracker under 'POTD'.


  • #29
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    One Cold Hand wrote: »
    Ah okay. I was just comparing it with Pighead's cracker under 'POTD'.

    Aye, that was a great one :)
    The thread of the day just doesn't compare at all.


  • #30
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    how many threads would be on boards.ie as a whole. just wondering the odds for thread of the day... i know, i know


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  • #31
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    queen-mise wrote: »
    how many threads would be on boards.ie as a whole. just wondering the odds for thread of the day... i know, i know
    A million.



    ... seriously, just over a million. Maybe 1.2 off the top of my head.


  • #32
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    CuLT wrote: »
    A million.

    ... seriously, just over a million. Maybe 1.2 off the top of my head.

    please say you are joking, is boards.ie really that big... bloody heck


  • #33
    CuLT
    Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    queen-mise wrote: »
    please say you are joking, is boards.ie really that big... bloody heck
    Looks like the actual stats are a little different, from the front page:
    Threads: 841,568, Posts: 10,908,803, Members: 188,560

    There's about a million records in the actual database, that would include deleted threads etc, which don't show as part of the "official" stats.


  • #34
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Hmmm Todays POTD is on a forum I dont have access to / are banned from.
    Poor ole Ruu doesnt get the recognition he deserves.


  • #35
    Mr Magnolia
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,440 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Poor ole Ruu doesnt get the recognition he deserves.

    Couldn't be further from the truth :)


  • #36
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Hmmm Todays POTD is on a forum I dont have access to / are banned from.
    Poor ole Ruu doesnt get the recognition he deserves.

    A post thanked by 60 people no less.


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  • #37
    Ponster
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,912 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ponster


    all mods who don't thank that thread get their mod status removed :)


  • #38
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    any chance of someone copying post so we can read it, i have no access to forum either


  • #39
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    queen-mise wrote: »
    any chance of someone copying post so we can read it, i have no access to forum either

    No chance at all. Its about *you.








    *Not true.


  • #40
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    I assume it's about Ruu giving up his SModship.


  • #41
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    javaboy wrote: »
    I assume it's about Ruu giving up his SModship.

    Where did you hear that? He's still listed as an smod?


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  • #42
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    6th wrote: »
    Where did you hear that? He's still listed as an smod?

    I haxored into the mainframe and filtered the posts on the front page by thanks. There was a post by Ruu in a thread entitled stepping down as SMod so I took a stab in the dark. :)


  • #43
    Ron DMC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Ponster wrote: »
    all mods who don't thank that thread get their mod status removed :)

    But I've never thanked any post. Ever. Do I have to change my ways now especially?


  • #44
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    javaboy wrote: »
    I haxored into the mainframe and filtered the posts on the front page by thanks. There was a post by Ruu in a thread entitled stepping down as SMod so I took a stab in the dark. :)

    Not bad.


  • #45
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    javaboy wrote: »
    I assume it's about Ruu giving up his SModship.

    Yeah he's giving it to me for a while.


  • #46
    Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    brianthebard wrote: »
    Yeah he's giving it to me for a while.

    Interesting news, explains the lack of free time but who's getting the modship?


  • #47
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    I've got a suggestion with regards Thread of the Day...

    Is there any way to make thread of the day a thread that has the most topics and/or views of that day ? So it's then a "most popular thread of the day" ?

    I quite like the post of the day and I've been checking it daily. There's a good mix of it being a sober post shedding some level headedness to a topic and it just being something funny


  • #48
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Interesting news, explains the lack of free time but who's getting the modship?
    Pighead.


  • #49
    Red Sleeping Beauty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭Red Sleeping Beauty


    The post of the day hasn't changed since Monday.
    I vote this post for Post of the Day.


  • #50
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    alan dunne 27 wrote: »
    The post of the day hasn't changed since Monday.
    I vote this post for Post of the Day.

    :confused:

    On Monday it was Ruu's post on Sunday in the mods forum.
    On Tuesday it was Biker.ie's soft porn gallery.
    It will update in a little while for Wednesday. It doesn't seem to change over bang on midnight anymore.


  • #51
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    javaboy wrote: »
    :confused:

    On Monday it was Ruu's post on Sunday in the mods forum.
    On Tuesday it was Biker.ie's soft porn gallery.
    It will update in a little while for Wednesday. It doesn't seem to change over bang on midnight anymore.

    I was robbed btw.


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