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posted on September 29th, 2002 at 06:27 PM
Unanswered
I see that Andrew is taking care of people's post counts, but there are several unanswered posts in this section.
"Hel-loooo, is there anybody out there?" (Pink Floyd)
Not a criticism, but I really did want some help, and my post is still unanswered 20 days later. Fortunately I bumped into Andrew (vanderaj) in the
chatroom and got my problem sorted.
For future reference, what are the odds that in the future version of the forum software we will be able to add &delete images from within the
edit function, and how soon will we be getting new software?
Otherwise, I find the new forum is great. Sure it has some little idioynchrosies to get used to, but I like it. :thumb
While I'm here, is there some way the moderators may be able to agree on a time to meet in the chatroom to discuss what we should/should not be
doing? There seems to be some uncertainty here, I for one am unsure exactly what I'm supposed to be responsible for...
Comments?
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posted on September 30th, 2002 at 03:15 PM
xmforum 1.6 is old and crufty. I'm hoping the 1.8 will be here soon.
The XMB site currently says "New DNS Back soon" and asks you to log in! Scary stuff for a freeware product - you can almost smell the
orphanage here. XMB has been orphaned once, let's hope it wont happen again.
If it does get orphaned, I'll pony up the $$$ for vBulletin and we'll transition across to it. The schemas are different, but unlike the
last time, we will not lose anything, like logins, posts, etc.
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posted on September 30th, 2002 at 04:22 PM
Well I found some code in cp2.php that looks for attachments and provides a way to delete them. I think it'll take about four hours of hacking
the php code to add this same functionality to post.php (which is where editing takes place). It should be a little simpler as the query will not be
as complicated as this:
$query = $db->query("SELECT a.*, p.*, t.tid, t.subject AS tsubject, f.name AS fname FROM $table_attachments a, $table_posts p, $table_threads
t,
$table_forums f WHERE a.pid=p.pid AND t.tid=a.tid AND f.fid=p.fid $queryforum $querydate $queryauthor $queryname $querysizeless
$querysizemore";
But only hacking at it will tell.
Andrew
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posted on September 30th, 2002 at 09:00 PM
Thank you Andrew, again. I don't know what you said though, was that "Maybe 50/50" and "Soon"?
How about the moderator thing, anyone?
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posted on September 30th, 2002 at 09:26 PM
If XMB 1.8 comes out soon within the month, then yes, we'll see what is fixed. If it's not out or 1.8 is does not fix the remaining issues,
I'll hack on it around the end of October unless it really aggravates people.
If XMBforum.com does not come back by the end of October, we will seriously have to look elsewhere for forum software. I like vBulletin and it will
fix all of the known problems with this software. It should also be a transparent and painless process (and one we can practice with before final
migration).
Are you guys still having trouble moderating the boards you have access to? If so, I'll make you all supermoderators and that should fix it. That
way you can still be listed as a moderator for a forum *and* be able to moderate it!
As for times for an online moderator meeting, I think make a bold claim on say the last Wednesday night every month at 8.30 pm. Once you have > 3
people, scheduling is impossible to get everyone attending, so I wouldn't bother with trying for 100% attendance before starting.
Andrew
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posted on September 30th, 2002 at 11:39 PM
Ok, that makes sense. Thanks Andrew, you're doing a great job. :thumb
I don't know about trouble now, but when I was trying to delete those images, its in a Section that I'm moderator and I STILL couldn't
do it!! There are times when I've wanted to move a post into 'my' section and couldn't because I'm not a moderator of the
section that it is posted in. A fix for that would be nice.
Last Wednesday of every month works for me. That would mean we have to wait a whole month though?
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posted on October 1st, 2002 at 12:03 AM
How about an exception for this Wednesday?
It is the correct behavior - you shouldn't be able to snaffle posts from forums you don't moderate, but all of the moderators that I've
met are clueful, nice people, so dang it, I'll make all moderators supermoderators. You'll still be listed as a moderator for the section,
but you'll be able to moderate any section.
This works for me too as we've had an incident or two recently where it would have been nice if the moderators of a particular section had taken
action earlier. This way you can back each other up.
Lastly, even *I* can't edit or remove images using the web administration tools - the code for that simply doesn't exist in post.php. I can
delete them now using the mysql tool, but that's pretty harsh.
Andrew
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