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That depends. Does it round up?

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There was always hope

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I prefer the Gobi. With larger temprature swings and more potential oil reserves, how can you lose?

-Pufer

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...you can lose if someone beats you?

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When choosing a desert from Pufer Desert Sales, you don't have to worry about nomadic thugs beating you as you will have the full protection of our trained bodyguards at your disposal. I also believe that the Chinese government frowns upon beating on people, so we're covered under the law as well.

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
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Maybe the replacement to these forums will help
This is an trimmed version of a recent ev3 coversation:
Maybe our resident mods can elaborate?

<moki> hehe, Cham added himself as moderator just as I did
<Chamrin> hehe
<Chamrin> yeah
<moki> phpBB is pretty lame, IMHO, Oscar
<Chamrin> I'm assuming all accounts now will be deleted and the old ones used
<Chamrin> so shouldn't matter
<moki> cham, did you see how many options that thing has? It's amazing
<Oscar> so data can be posted directly into the forum by admins of sections of the site
<moki> and set exactly what various moderators can/can't do -- the warn system keeps a record
<Chamrin> yeah, will take me forever to look through it all
<moki> moderators can ban people
<moki> all sorts of wild stuff, and that's just on the admin end
<Chamrin> with the logging, you can let us ban people
<moki> we've set up a few "playgrounds" for the moderators
<Chamrin> not that I've ever banned anyone besides a spammer once
<moki> Cham: look at all of the options... looks amazing
<moki> it also has users and groups, ranks, all sorts of good stuff
<moki> uploading of pictures
<moki> this is a pre-final version of InvisionBB 2.0
<Oscar> Programmability is the big thing for us; and accessibility to the dbase by outside scripts
<moki> Oscar: it's just php and mysql
<Chamrin> Bah!
<Chamrin> it capitalized my words
<moki> you can probably hack it all you want, but that may suck when it comes time to upgrade
<Chamrin> in the topic name
<Oscar> Yeah
<Chamrin> EVIL
<moki> hehehe
<Oscar> hehe
<Chamrin> that MUST be fixed
<Chamrin> ooh, it has "recently read topics"
<Chamrin> no long will I have to go hunting for things I read
<Oscar> heh, ubb's a dinosaur because it lacks things like that
<moki> oh my god, but the moderation options rock
<Oscar> at least, thats what a rank system means on the systems i've used
<Oscar> You get different titles for different ranks
<moki> and it lets you choose how to view the BB -- did you see that, cham?
<Steelix> I think that would cause conflict, and spam.
<Oscar> like 'noob', 'user', 'geek' etc
<Chamrin> where is that?
<Oscar> It hasn't caused any issues other than mild amusement on the boards I use that have ranks.
<moki> the low-fi version is pretty spiff too
<Steelix> Hrm...
<Chamrin> you can track topics/forums
<Myriad> Something new and fancy?
<Chamrin> that's nice too
<moki> ooooh, it lets you change your email address, and IGNORE users
<Oscar> ignore? awesome
<Naman> Oooh. Ignore.
<Steelix> moki: Ignore users?!?!
<Steelix> Excellent!
* Naman drools.
<moki> can set your time zone
<Oscar> steelix, you're so ignored
<fiyin> moki, didn't you say something about it stripping excess punctuation too?
<moki> can choose basically every option you want, on a per-user basis
<moki> fiyin: yep, that too
* fiyin eyes Steelix
<fiyin> :-P
<moki> "Do you wish to view members avatars when reading topics?"
<moki> "Do you wish to view images in posts, such as smilies and posted images?"
<moki> "Do you wish to view members signatures when reading topics?"
<moki> "Number of posts to show for each topic page"
<moki> all sorts of stuff
<moki> you can set your time zone too
<Oscar> moki, does it handle daylight savings?
<Chamrin> Sweet, you can quote multiple replies at once
<Chamrin> just select the ones you want to quote
<Oscar> phpbb doesn't at the current version and it really pisses me off
<Chamrin> and then hit reply
<Chamrin> and it quotes them ALL
<moki> a topic subscription manager
<moki> private messages
<moki> attachments
<moki> yummy
<Oscar> subscription? o.o
<Chamrin> merge posts
* Steelix replaces his pants
<Kirk> Oscar, it's like watching a topic for replies
<Oscar> Does it have split topics?
<moki> yeah cham
<Oscar> That's REALLY handy
<moki> and it lets you have a buddy list
<Oscar> when a topic diverges
<Steelix> Split topics?
<Oscar> YEah, so you can split a topic in half, put certain posts in certain topics...
<Kirk> moki, two words- GET IT
<Chamrin> bah soviet mikee was smarter than me
<Chamrin> he made himself admin
<Kirk> Okay....we are still discussing the new system
<Chamrin> moki, there's an admin option for "Topic Multi-Moderation" looks like you can simplify archiving things
<Chamrin> does multiple actions at once
<moki> Cham, the admin options look plain dreamy
<Chamrin> yeah, it'll be funny when you get drunk
<Chamrin> so much for you to mess with
<moki> heh
<moki> have you figured out how to set the forum view style on a per-user basis?
<moki> or is that something that has to be set on a global level?

<moki> the admin setting seemed to imply you could set a default, but users could override it
<Trah> so, is this new, high-tech board the future of ASW?
<Kirk> Look like it, Trah
<Trah> cool


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We in the U.S. require a new shrubbery.

Yeah, he's been giving the mods playgrounds to mess around with.

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"Its all fun and games until a rampaging robot destroys half of your city."

Playgrounds?

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The "my profile" topic?

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Me: "That's what I'm gonna name my kid. Gloreglabert Zhaschflatishey."
SA: "How about Eimlokkindisttopicnow?"

I meant test boards, the stuff that Trah leaked.

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"Its all fun and games until a rampaging robot destroys half of your city."

That sounds an aweful like the new version of PhpBB. Are they going to replace the forums with that?

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It seems people have a taste for hell in the morning.

My lips are sealed.

But incidentally, if you want to quickly render any message board meaningless, give word censor access to a group of twenty people.

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As andrew said above, it is a "pre-final version of InvisionBB 2.0." From what I've read about it, it sounds good (I hope that it will still work with WebTV in its final ASW incarnation, I'm crossing my fingers).

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa

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If that alone isn't bad enough, give those twenty people admin access.

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"Its all fun and games until a rampaging robot destroys half of your city."

PHPBB is so much better then invision.

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It seems people have a taste for hell in the morning.

Invision's mod features are much cooler than PHPBB. We're testing both. Invision outsocks PHP by a light year.

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"Its all fun and games until a rampaging robot destroys half of your city."

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From what I've seen elsewhere, the exact opposite is true (at least in my opinion). I still, however, prefer the simple dignity of the our little Infopop UBB setup here to anything else, and will miss it when it's gone. Oh well, onward and upward I suppose.

-Pufer

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"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-Frank Zappa

This board is just too inefficent in regards to scalability. I believe it has something to do with the way this board lumps data into a few files, rather than ordering it neatly.

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Yes! I leaked something useful!

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We in the U.S. require a new shrubbery.

You'll pay for that with your life!

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OK here:



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[This message has been edited by Trah (edited 05-12-2004).]

Mmm, Garage band, iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, runs away drooling.

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