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09 Jul 2014 17:55 #22
by pacamom
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LOL wrote:
pacamom wrote:
LOL wrote: Ditto on the Karma Pacamom. Here ya go, have another!
Thank you Sir, may I please have another?
Hmmmm, someone keeps cancelling them out. THATS IT!!!!
You mean there are people who don't like me?
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09 Jul 2014 18:19 - 09 Jul 2014 18:20 #23
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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Come to Elevation Celebration Saturday and I can at least get you free beer!LOL wrote:
ScienceChic wrote: ... We always welcome feedback and suggestions because this site is here for you and we want you to enjoy participating here!
When are we going to get free Beer and Bacon?
I am NOT touching that with a 10' pole...HEARTLESS wrote: Can the word Karma be replaced with Carmel and I'd like mine to say Spank You instead of Thank You.
pacamom wrote:
Because I've had some private communications expressing concern that the karma system is going to be used as a popularity contest, I need to emphasize this: karma is NOT for Liking your friends and Smiting those you Dislike. It is for rating posts. Even VL had some kick-a** posts that made us all laugh and deserved kudos, despite the fact that he was driving most of us up a wall the majority of the time, and pushing the limits of acceptable behavior just for the sake of getting a reaction. We want to reward good posts, not our favorite members, so as to improve the quality of content on the site, not run people off or turn this into a high school clique. If the system becomes abused in such a way, we can, and will, turn it off.LOL wrote:
pacamom wrote:
LOL wrote: Ditto on the Karma Pacamom. Here ya go, have another!
Thank you Sir, may I please have another?
Hmmmm, someone keeps cancelling them out. THATS IT!!!!
You mean there are people who don't like me?
ScienceChic wrote: The concept behind them is for each member to be able to give their own input to other members in a way that's trackable (because when you reply to a post with a Dislike emoticon, there's no official "rating" of that post you Disliked). The goal is to reward good posts and discourage drive-by, shotgun trollish posts/insults (except where appropriate)/etc, not to have a popularity contest and artificially inflate your friends, or smite those you don't like personally. The result is that with you the members rating the quality of the posts themselves, regardless of who posted it, you are encouraging other members to improve their posting content and make this forum more enjoyable for guests and members alike based on peer review. Does that make sense, or am I explaining it weird?
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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10 Jul 2014 00:43 - 10 Jul 2014 00:51 #27
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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Time: noticed that myself today (it's not just PMs, but the time stamps on the Home Page Active Topics doesn't match up with when the posts were made either) and already sent a note off to the developer to address that. We had issues with the old forum not talking to the rest of the site on simple things like that and we had to monkey around with settings in the back end to get it to work before (remember when we couldn't get it to stop resetting back to Greenwich Mean Time every time you logged in - yeah, that. For the record I'd like to state that phpBB sucks and I'm happy to be done with it!). Now that we've removed the foreign forum software, we forgot to go back in and reset those things we'd changed. Should be fixed tomorrow.
Email notifications: ah-ha, something I can help with right away!
I don't know why, but the default in the back end is for there to be no email notifications for PM's you receive, and I can't find where to change that. But, you all have the ability to choose to receive them by going to your Profile Page (click on Profile in the menu bar above the forums, or click 'My Profile' under the 'Community' top menu item drop-down list.
Next click on 'Your Messages' and select either Show Private Inbox or Show Private Outbox, doesn't matter which.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the list of messages, there's an unobtrusive, yet important link titled 'Settings' - click that.
That opens up the box in which you can select which level of notifications to receive:
If you choose Email notifications when offline only, there are 3 ways to see if you have new Private Messages:
1. Go to any page other than the forums, and you will see under your avatar on the top right-hand corner the message underneath that says "You have X new messages". Click that to access your Private Messages.
2. Click My Messages underneath the 'Community' menu item.
3. Click the Private Messages quick link at the top right corner of the forum.
Positive feedback, questions, and suggestions for improvement are never griping! Keep 'em coming!
Email notifications: ah-ha, something I can help with right away!
I don't know why, but the default in the back end is for there to be no email notifications for PM's you receive, and I can't find where to change that. But, you all have the ability to choose to receive them by going to your Profile Page (click on Profile in the menu bar above the forums, or click 'My Profile' under the 'Community' top menu item drop-down list.
Next click on 'Your Messages' and select either Show Private Inbox or Show Private Outbox, doesn't matter which.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the list of messages, there's an unobtrusive, yet important link titled 'Settings' - click that.
That opens up the box in which you can select which level of notifications to receive:
- None
- Email notification when offline only
- Email Notifications of New Messages.
If you choose Email notifications when offline only, there are 3 ways to see if you have new Private Messages:
1. Go to any page other than the forums, and you will see under your avatar on the top right-hand corner the message underneath that says "You have X new messages". Click that to access your Private Messages.
2. Click My Messages underneath the 'Community' menu item.
3. Click the Private Messages quick link at the top right corner of the forum.
Positive feedback, questions, and suggestions for improvement are never griping! Keep 'em coming!
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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10 Jul 2014 07:16 #28
by pacamom
Replied by pacamom on topic New Template
ScienceChic wrote:
Come to Elevation Celebration Saturday and I can at least get you free beer!LOL wrote:
ScienceChic wrote: ... We always welcome feedback and suggestions because this site is here for you and we want you to enjoy participating here!
When are we going to get free Beer and Bacon?
I am NOT touching that with a 10' pole...HEARTLESS wrote: Can the word Karma be replaced with Carmel and I'd like mine to say Spank You instead of Thank You.
pacamom wrote:
Because I've had some private communications expressing concern that the karma system is going to be used as a popularity contest, I need to emphasize this: karma is NOT for Liking your friends and Smiting those you Dislike. It is for rating posts. Even VL had some kick-a** posts that made us all laugh and deserved kudos, despite the fact that he was driving most of us up a wall the majority of the time, and pushing the limits of acceptable behavior just for the sake of getting a reaction. We want to reward good posts, not our favorite members, so as to improve the quality of content on the site, not run people off or turn this into a high school clique. If the system becomes abused in such a way, we can, and will, turn it off.LOL wrote:
pacamom wrote:
LOL wrote: Ditto on the Karma Pacamom. Here ya go, have another!
Thank you Sir, may I please have another?
Hmmmm, someone keeps cancelling them out. THATS IT!!!!
You mean there are people who don't like me?
ScienceChic wrote: The concept behind them is for each member to be able to give their own input to other members in a way that's trackable (because when you reply to a post with a Dislike emoticon, there's no official "rating" of that post you Disliked). The goal is to reward good posts and discourage drive-by, shotgun trollish posts/insults (except where appropriate)/etc, not to have a popularity contest and artificially inflate your friends, or smite those you don't like personally. The result is that with you the members rating the quality of the posts themselves, regardless of who posted it, you are encouraging other members to improve their posting content and make this forum more enjoyable for guests and members alike based on peer review. Does that make sense, or am I explaining it weird?
So then what is the difference between Karma and Thank you? If they are both to rate posts, why two different ways?
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