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Lenny · 31-01-2002 11:37pm #1

I was just thinking there,
Is there anyway you can do this on a VBulletion, like you know in IRC you can do on the topic "Hey welcome to here $nick enjoy your stay" and the person with the nick see's their name, is it possible to do that on a VBulletion?

EX. If someone did it, and I was lookign at "afterhours" I'd see the topic "look OJ!"
Or if dev was looking, he'd see "look DeVore!"

get my point?
must be some way to be able to do it with the cookies or somethin..

DeVore · 31-01-2002 11:38pm

the scope for muppetry with that has just temporarily stunned me

um, in the perl we could, but I dunno about the public doing it.

DeV.

Lenny · 31-01-2002 11:40pm

How about just letting Admins & Mods do it then?
that idea has been on my head for weeks now, been trin lotsa things on it for boards and thinking of what it could be, lol

Celt · 31-01-2002 11:44pm

Originally posted by OJ
How about just letting Admins & Mods do it then?
that idea has been on my head for weeks now, been trin lotsa things on it for boards and thinking of what it could be, lol

Why should you be allowed do it?

Lenny · 31-01-2002 11:48pm

Orgionally posted by DeVore
but I dunno about the public doing it.

Because maybe the Mods & Admins have a 'little' more trust than the public?

I don't know, maybe because I am discrimating against the people who don't hvae special access.

Celt · 31-01-2002 11:56pm

Originally posted by OJ

Because maybe the Mods & Admins have a 'little' more trust than the public?

I don't know, maybe because I am discrimating against the people who don't hvae special access.

Admins - yes
Mods - no

DeVore · 03-02-2002 2:46pm

why would we want to?

DeV.

Lenny · 03-02-2002 2:51pm

want to what?

amp · 03-02-2002 6:55pm

I don't understand this thread.

Slydice · 03-02-2002 7:01pm

amp test

also I don't understand what oj is saying

OJ LAY OFF THE BLOW MAN!

Lenny · 03-02-2002 7:09pm

Bah, you are n00bs.

peterd · 03-02-2002 7:39pm

Like showing your new PM's @ the top of each page ? or else I'm lost

Lucifer · 04-02-2002 6:02pm

i think what he means it, say i go into Afterhours etc. he wants to be able to have the thread title as "look here Lucifer.POD" etc or "look at this [nick]".

correct me if i'm wrong oj

Lenny · 04-02-2002 10:21pm

That's exzactly what I mean.

Like, when I visit boards.ie it says "Welcome back OJ"

peterd · 04-02-2002 10:36pm

To answer your question...

Is there anyway you can do this on a VBulletion...

Not that I know of at present. I think a model of the PM's would work, except structured so that you can click on someone's $nick where "Users Browsing this Forum: $nick" would lead to a page where you can send a temp. PM. This PM would be shown at the top of each forum they browse. If the user's session expires without them viewing the PM, it would be deleted.

Lucifer · 04-02-2002 11:57pm

Originally posted by peterd
To answer your question...

Not that I know of at present. I think a model of the PM's would work, except structured so that you can click on someone's $nick where "Users Browsing this Forum: $nick" would lead to a page where you can send a temp. PM. This PM would be shown at the top of each forum they browse. If the user's session expires without them viewing the PM, it would be deleted.

i dont see where PM came into the idea. its about thread titles etc so for example the title if i am logged in would be Read This Lucifer.POD or if someone else was logged in it would say read this (or look at this etc) [nick]

could be good for announcements etc

Lucifer · 05-02-2002 8:46am

it would prob be possible using the code used for the main page welcome note

EDIT what is wrong with the image tags????

Saruman · 08-02-2002 4:55pm

When you log onto boards it does say on the main screen Welcome (username) etc.. unless this has just been put in recently?

Lucifer · 09-02-2002 10:40am

that is there ages now Saruman, i think he wants to be able to use that code for the title of a thread etc

Lenny · 09-02-2002 11:05am

Yes, I'd like to be able to add it for my announcement in my forum
ie. "Welcome to the Travel/Holidays (name)"

FatB · 11-02-2002 6:19pm

but then you will also have ''quest's'' surfing through and finding your $nick thingy and ....... it'll say what???

Lucifer · 11-02-2002 7:12pm

this could be easily resolved by just having "Welcome Guest" etc.

The same way we manage on the main page with a quest... it doesnt have a $nick.

DS · 23-02-2002 3:42pm

Well this would be a good debut for Worst Idea of the Month...
How is "Read this [nick]" more informative than "Read this"? The problem with it is that it probably won't be used for that at all, more for such inspired titles as "[nick] is gay!!!" etc. etc. At best, it'd be a nice personalised little feature, but in reality it has no practical use whatsoever.
Incidentally, it'd be reasonably easy to implement.

Lenny · 23-02-2002 4:12pm

Worst idea of the month eh,?
píss off

DS · 23-02-2002 5:25pm

Sorry, don't take it personally, just had to be said :P

Lucifer · 23-02-2002 6:02pm

Originally posted by Discharger Snake
The problem with it is that it probably won't be used for that at all, more for such inspired titles as "[nick] is gay!!!" etc. etc.

well this is what moderators are for on boards, to control muppetry like this. its the same as someone posting (name) is gay etc. no matter what, with or without this idea, you will always get this sort of thing.

DS · 23-02-2002 7:13pm

The option to show everybody their own name merely encourages such behaviour, and as ever, prevention is better than cure.

azezil · 23-02-2002 7:34pm

actually i like this idea! person in your' buddies list logs in... get a pop up "bla bla" is online... line msn or sumtin.... is that what your talking about???

DS · 23-02-2002 10:19pm

Sorry mate, that's the most spectacular misunderstanding I've seen in quite a while

Try actually reading the topic...

azezil · 24-02-2002 11:37am

pfffff* read the topic :rolleyes: , well ok how about my idea then?

DS · 24-02-2002 6:45pm

Yeah your idea is quite good in comparison, it deserves its own topic.

Lucifer · 24-02-2002 10:04pm

azezil i quite like your idea, i wonder is it possible to do?

Lenny · 24-02-2002 10:32pm

lol, good idea, don't know how you got it mixed up though

Lucifer · 24-02-2002 11:00pm

coding would hav to be enabled in titles to use the first idea, not sure bout the second how it would be done

DS · 24-02-2002 11:50pm

Well it's quite simple really. Say you just a have a list of your online buddies at the bottom of each page. It'd be identical to the active users list, only the script would filter out anyone who is not on your buddies list.
Then you pop up a window with some PHP generated JavaScript for each of your buddies whenever they become active (minus the ones that are already there when you log on, else you'd get 5 pop-ups in a row...), then set a cookie to make sure you're not alerted a second time to that buddy being active.

Lucifer · 24-02-2002 11:58pm

i understand all that part of it, not sure how the java as you said would go down? could be problems with that? not sure. anyway, i think its a good idea

azezil · 25-02-2002 2:01pm

oh right... ya ur idea sux ass lets go with mine!

rofl

DS · 25-02-2002 6:26pm

Originally posted by Lucifer
not sure how the java as you said would go down? could be problems with that? not sure.

Not Java, JavaScript, just to pup up the window :rolleyes:

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