Blah blah blah yada yada yada - take a look...
 

Every time I find a thread about a hack I'd like to read, I have to sift through piles of crap to get to the real stuff. How about a global include for all this tripe and save some space and bandwidth?

When a hack comes out:

[global_include]

Ohhhhhh this is just what i wanted!! Thanks alot!!!

Thanks for the mod but can I get a screenshot of it in action?

btw is there a hack like this for vb2?!?

Great haxk - just what I needed.

I've had this hack for VB2, and I've been waiting for this. Thankx.

Thanks for this hack.

Neat hack - Installed

very nice I will install this tommorrow.

Thanks, That Worked Out Good.

give us some demo or gifs

Ohhhhhh this is just what i wanted!! Thanks alot!!!

Thanks for the mod but can I get a screenshot of it in action?

btw is there a hack like this for vb2?!?

Great haxk - just what I needed.

I've had this hack for VB2, and I've been waiting for this. Thankx.

Thanks for this hack.

Neat hack - Installed

very nice I will install this tommorrow.

Thanks, That Worked Out Good.

give us some demo or gifs

Ohhhhhh this is just what i wanted!! Thanks alot!!!

Thanks for the mod but can I get a screenshot of it in action?

btw is there a hack like this for vb2?!?

Great haxk - just what I needed.

I've had this hack for VB2, and I've been waiting for this. Thankx.

Thanks for this hack.

Neat hack - Installed

very nice I will install this tommorrow.

Thanks, That Worked Out Good.

give us some demo or gifs

Ohhhhhh this is just what i wanted!! Thanks alot!!!

Thanks for the mod but can I get a screenshot of it in action?

btw is there a hack like this for vb2?!?

Great haxk - just what I needed.

I've had this hack for VB2, and I've been waiting for this. Thankx.

Thanks for this hack.

Neat hack - Installed

very nice I will install this tommorrow.

Thanks, That Worked Out Good.

give us some demo or gifs

[/global_include]

LoL :)

If only it was possible to "seperate" the threads, taking all the a$$ kissing (:p) into a seperate "part" of the thread, and all bug reports in another, this would let unsupported hacks to become much more attractible. Users could "select" the mode, View Problems and View A$$kissing XD
Either do that or create a new forum, dupe to the current coding forums, and have it dupe all new hacks and use one for bugs and one for a$$kissing.

Im not too bothered by all the yappin in threads though, but I do see how it is a problem with unsupported hacks.


//peace

such kind of subthreads was planned once, but Logician never found the time to finish his idea i think :(

yep sorry about it!

Yeah these replies do get kind of tedious at times. I spoke to Stefan about a solution a couple of weeks ago. I have some free time this weekend so I'll see what I can draw up on paper :)

I thought the hack authors would appreciate some praise for their hard work, it doesn't seem so?

You have to see, some authors prefer that people reply saying they like or installed their mod, it makes them realise their work is appreciated.

I don't think their phased, whatsoever, about the posts you need to go through.

It's not that modification author's don't apprecaite thanks. We do! But, imagine it from a new-user here. They install a modification and get an error, and then have to look through 20 pages of thanks and replies like above to find a solution :)

or your hack gets no replies at all like the one in my sig, lol.

it's all good, i had fun doing it and plan on learning more php like i have learned html

Quoted For Truth

All the time I get people asking me about an rpg error that is answered on every page, its just sometimes hard to see when swarmed in other replies ;)

maybe adding on a bug/support add-on like vbulletin.com for each hack:) so it would be easier to sort through actual technical posts and posts of praise;)

How does an FAQ system sound whereby authors can submit a series of questions and answers for their modification and have them displayed on a seperate page. We could then place perhaps a message in the quick reply box and newreply.php within the hack forums that says please be sure to check the FAQ (linked) before posting a question :)?

Sounds good to me. If it really aggrivates members, then it should be fixed someway. :)

Of course, anyone who publishes their prized work for everyone to see and use deserves reward. Unfortunately, the type of follow-up posts that caused my initial outburst are far from reward, but clutter in the way of access to the publisher's works.

Perhaps an eBay style feedback forum where you get to post comments on an author only if you click install for the published hack. This way, the author gets a rating, plus you can lavish the author with your one-liner praises or otherwise.

At a minimum, all bug reports and revisions should be summarized and set sticky at the top of the pile. And, by the way, thank you for this forum. It has done well to get me going in my now five week successful adventure of moving eight years of WebBBS posts to vBulletin.

I think a simple way to implement the FAQ qould be to allow authors / co-developers to mark any post in a thread as "useful" in terms of solving problems, or being applicable to the questions users might have?

Or, as is evidenced in AN-Net's Journal hack, add bugfixes/important posts to the first post in the thread, with links and explanations.

As we see the first post on every page now, that would be an excellent quick-ref point for people.

Now, if only we could trust everyone to
a) search the thread using the tool provided or
b) read the first post

Then all would be well...I remember when I needed to ask stupid questions, and although I may look at many many posts and think 'Duh! If you can't see the hack on your non-default templates, obviously you need to edit those too you moron!', we were all (well most of us anyway) at that stage in the beginning. :)

Four years later and nothing has changed. I still have to sift through a big pileup just to get to that one precious tidbit of information required to update a hack or make it work.

Please regard this as constructive, but I also needed to make the observation. :(

LOL - I think the authors like the praise - it's just part of the system = DEAL WITH IT :P
Seriously though - perhaps vB.org can install the post-thankyou hack LOL
But this is funny right here:
btw is there a hack like this for vb2?!? = Muuuuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaahahahahaaaa! https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Jacquii.

Hmmmm. Install the POST THANKS hack. Yup! :rolleyes:

Also flags on the threads to denote UPDATED (just like they already do with INSTALLED or DOWNLOADED). There has to be an easier way than searching through the pile to get to the gold. :erm:

Updated mods are already flagged as "Updated".

Um - did you just sidestep my gallant & mahvelous suggestion PAUL? You know - the one about installing the Post Thankyou hack? Tehehehehehe :D

Jacquii.

;)

Not going to happen. :)

If people communicating with each other is so tiring to you, perhaps online communities just aren't your thing.

I couldn't say it better Sir :up:

Here's a thought. If people posting their appreciation bothers enough folks(I'm not one of them), maybe y'all could talk the Admin to installing This Mod and restricting the posts in the threads to support requests.

(Looks like I wasn't the first to have this sarcastic thought process. I should read more thoroughly in the future.)

LOL - It's not a sarcastic thought process at all IMO - I suggested it and I still think it's a nice suggestion. It's a nice modification as well - I have it installed on my Forum. But I'd just assume (naturally) that a site like vB.org would have it's own elite type modification in place if it were to ever have anything remotely similar.

Jacquii.