What ever happened to the smiley implementation?

[veenuisthebest]

I was just wondering if adding smilies is such a big deal that it has been divided into stages and all. Some bigger decissions in this world are faster than this. 'Board of the Month' converted into "Board of Two Months" was not a good decission, IMO.

If the current staff doesn't have the time to take on a task as simple as adding some smilies, it would clearly be in their best interest to keep their customers happy by installing a new support team that has the time to put into a site as busy, and essential to their product's popularity, as the one that drives it's modding community.

Its my 1 year today since I joined vborg but did not see any elections kind of thing. If this is a community run by volunteers than I think new deserving people should get a chance.

Handling things at this level is surely not as easy as it seems, and a lot of behind the scenes discussion have to happen. I think the current staff is good enough, but if there are others who think can handle this better and can give enough time, so +1.

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

Reported posts, code checking (exploits, copyright, etc.), and regular moderating duties all in addition to our lives

ok, first, sorry for the post reports, i will calm myself and stop reporting posts, so you will have a rest...

and for code checking, sorry there too, but it's not in your task list (i don't care if Paul bring up the "you do not know if it is" argument)... it was obvious by many discussions with the admins that nobody in the staff had the time to check any release to see if there was exploits or copyright infrigements... strangely you are telling us the opposite of what Marco and Princeton are always giving as argument to not install a real trader engine... or i suppose you're talking about some other site?!

the only viable argument is "real life"... i don't like when people stress over because it takes time... everybody here have lives, kids, parents, friends, jobs... having one or two hours per day on this site is enough to make anybody crazy, so it's good to have a life!

[Lynne]

Originally Posted by nexialys

and for code checking, sorry there too, but it's not in your task list (i don't care if Paul bring up the "you do not know if it is" argument)... it was obvious by many discussions with the admins that nobody in the staff had the time to check any release to see if there was exploits or copyright infrigements... strangely you are telling us the opposite of what Marco and Princeton are always giving as argument to not install a real trader engine... or i suppose you're talking about some other site?!

When we get a report that there is a security problem with a modification, it is up to us to work with the author to 'fix' the problem. We don't go looking for them, that is true, but if it is brought to our attention, then we need to check the code along with the author for problems and make sure they get fixed before the mod is back to being available for the users to download. That is what Jeremy is talking about.



And yes, my site is up today, thank you for asking.

I'd vote for you for president, Lynne. <3

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Thats right - its been deliberately prolonged, in fact its been specially drawn out just to see how long it would take for certain members to come up with some conspiricy about it being prolonged.

Of course, it could just be that all the staff have lives outside of vb.org, so we havent got round to the next step yet, but the truth is just so much more boring. :erm:

Thanks for the reply paul. I'm looking forward in seeing the creations and I'm sure they are wonderfull and well worth the wait. Thanks for your time in making the reply and look forward for the upcoming announcement.

Originally Posted by Paul M

Thats right - its been deliberately prolonged, in fact its been specially drawn out just to see how long it would take for certain members to come up with some conspiricy about it being prolonged.

I knew it... all of that conspiracy is true... party breaker... tsssss

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

Thanks for the reply paul. I'm looking forward in seeing the creations and I'm sure they are wonderfull and well worth the wait. Thanks for your time in making the reply and look forward for the upcoming announcement.

You'll be thoroughly surprised.

[Paul M]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

I'm looking forward in seeing the creations and I'm sure they are wonderfull and well worth the wait.

Im thinking maybe you havent quite understood some part of this, we are not creating any smilies, we will be asking members to submit them.

[Shelley_c]

Originally Posted by King Kovifor

You'll be thoroughly surprised.

Originally Posted by Paul M

Im thinking maybe you havent quite understood some part of this, we are not creating any smilies, we will be asking members to submit them.

I know. They are still creations created by someone.

If your accepting smilies from members wouldn't you be accepting sets that aren't in theme with one another? I ask because not so long ago the volunteers stated on numerous occaisons that they wanted to keep the smilies in theme and consistent with one another with regards to design.

Or maybe your accepting full set submissions from members? in which case this would explain keeping the consistency you and others stated a while back. Either way, from KK comment I wasn't quite sure why he said I would be surprised when he doesn't know himself what kind of sets the members will submit unless you've already made your mind up on a shortlist of people your accepting from.

Eitherway, there just seemed a conflict in what KK said and what you just said and I tend to believe in what you say being in the administration team and actually know what's going on.

Anyway. Thanks again paul.

[King Kovifor]

Originally Posted by Shelley_c

I know. They are still creations created by someone.

If your accepting smilies from members wouldn't you be accepting sets that aren't in theme with one another? I ask because not so long ago the volunteers stated on numerous occaisons that they wanted to keep the smilies in theme and consistent with one another with regards to design.

Or maybe your accepting full set submissions from members? in which case this would explain keeping the consistency you and others stated a while back. Either way, from KK comment I wasn't quite sure why he said I would be surprised when he doesn't know himself what kind of sets the members will submit unless you've already made your mind up on a shortlist of people your accepting from.

Eitherway, there just seemed a conflict in what KK said and what you just said and I tend to believe in what you say being in the administration team and actually know what's going on.

Anyway. Thanks again paul.

I guess I missed the sentence in the thread (or you did) that mentioned members making it. So I was going to say you'll be thoroughly surprised by what "we" come up with because the members would be making them. That's where my comment was coming from. And it is going to be 1 complete set for consistency, I believe.