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insanctus · #1 06-05-2003, 12:20 PM

I was thinking it would be cool if users could send secret admirer pms.

Yet have some way for the admin to know who sent them incase it was used to flame a member.

Kriek · #2 06-05-2003, 01:10 PM

Hahah! That's a great proposal, which is essentially quite uncomplicated and easy to implement, though I'm afraid I won't have a great deal of time to spend developing it this week, so have it ladies and gentlemen.

insanctus · #3 06-05-2003, 01:16 PM

Ty

What can I say I am a romantic at heart.... ~ Whipes a tear vampires need love too.

gmarik · #4 06-05-2003, 01:20 PM

One of the greates ideas. Thumbs up!

insanctus · #5 06-05-2003, 02:29 PM

Ya sort of bring sense of mystery to things. And people can play and what not.

Have where they can respond. Yet not know who responding to. The admirer sees they responded.

Could make for lively games and ever make people post about it. Bring some adventure to a board.

filburt1 · #6 06-05-2003, 02:32 PM

Nice in concept, but not so nice in reality considering you have no idea how the person reacts in real time, let alone what they look like.

insanctus · #7 06-05-2003, 02:35 PM

Well depends on the board as well. Could also add a thing if the user does not wish to get a secret admirer pm then they can turn it off.

The person sending gets a screen saying the user is not interested in participating.

Another spin off would be secret poster. Have where someone can post and people try to figure out who they are.

Hobbes · #8 06-05-2003, 06:06 PM

wow...this sounds liek a really wicked awesome i would totally love this!!!

too bad i suck at php and could never do such a thing....! *cries*

wolfe · #9 06-05-2003, 08:29 PM

i will take on the challenge when i finish my Jokes Factory v2.0 hack

insanctus · #10 06-06-2003, 12:51 AM

Very cool Ty wolfe. I know on my board it will end up being a fun hack.

buro9 · #11 06-18-2003, 02:39 PM

I also need this and will help if someone needs me to. I am a developer in my job, though PHP is not what I work in, so it will take a short while to get up to speed.

Given that we are so close to VB3, I would like this in that ASAP... but as I believe I'll be on VB2.3 for the next few > 6 months I would like to start with this version and do a VB3 one once VB3 goes gold.

The way in which I envision it working is thus:

A button is on the profile page to nominate that you have a crush on person X.

This is registered in the database that Y fancies X and an email/PM is sent to X letting them know that someone has a crush on them and that they should use the profile pages to nominate someone they have a crush on to see if they get paired up.

If X then nominates Y an email/PM is sent to both parties letting them know they are matched and who the other person is... else the process continues until matches are made.

One database table will be required of two columns (that form a composite primary key - no duplicates)...
userid, fancies_userid
Or something like that.

Lastly, a little chunk should be offered within the user control panel to be able to manage these... i.e. to remove the people that you fancy when they offend you!

We're pretty much running a manual version of this at the moment... hence my knowing what needs doing

Cheers

David K

filburt1 · #12 06-18-2003, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Today at 11:39 AM buro9 said this in Post #11
Given that we are so close to VB3, I would like this in that ASAP... but as I believe I'll be on VB2.3 for the next few > 6 months I would like to start with this version and do a VB3 one once VB3 goes gold.

Because releasing vB3 hacks is presently against the rules (vB3 is still beta), only a vB2 hack can be publicly released

buro9 · #13 06-18-2003, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Today at 04:41 PM filburt1 said this in Post #12
Because releasing vB3 hacks is presently against the rules (vB3 is still beta), only a vB2 hack can be publicly released

Well, that's ok, because I did say that we should start with VB2.3 now and then start on a VB3 one when it was gold.

Besides... we could start a VB3 hack now... just couldn't release it now. Certainly this should be encouraged since a lot of functionality provided by hacks in VB2.3 won't be there when VB3 does go gold, and thus to receive widespread support of VB3 and the continuity of user experience on these boards from the outset... hack makers should be encouraged to start thinking about such things and converting. If you want an example of when this sort of thing happened in the past, just think of the WinAmp debacle. WinAmp3 lacked skins, plugins, etc and this was a considerable factor in everyone I know staying with what they were comfortable with.

Either way... whilst I would need continuity (a hack I have in VB2.3 to exist for VB3 immediately after it went gold) I still actually said that we should do a VB2.3 one now, and thus this isn't the place for such a discussion or debate.

insanctus · #14 06-22-2003, 09:33 PM

Anyone started on this hack?

I wish I had the skills to do it but I am still not that good with php to be hacking it all up from scratch

buro9 · #15 06-27-2003, 05:15 AM

I shall be starting on this next week. I have in my mind how it will work, which is outlined above.

Any suggestions should be made over the next few days and will be considered when I properly design the functions and logic flow.

Cheers

David K

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