Good morning, TTB readers! A few changes have made their way to this here website just this morning after a couple weeks of thought, coding, testing, etc.
Comment counts: When you make a comment at the site, your total number of comments displays itself underneath your avatar. Naturally, frequent commenters will have more comments, whereas infrequent commenters or new additions to the site will start with zero (or one, since it won’t show up until you comment at least once). I’m at 641. The prize for being #1 is glorious, let me tell you. Glorious.
Signup dates: Also displayed underneath your avatar is the date you signed up for the site. This is self-explanatory. I hope. If you want your own fancy avatar rather than a site-generated one, here’s a post to explain how to get one (LINK).
Upvotes and downvotes: Two buttons have been added to the bottom of comments. You may upvote each post or downvote each post. An upvote will turn the arrow green for you once you have voted, and a downvote will make it red. There is also a count next to each arrow for viewers to see the total number of upvotes or downvotes. Right now a small window pops up next to the arrow when you click, but I should be able to turn that off in the near future when another tweak or two occurs behind the scenes. These votes will not affect your comment totals, so posbanging and negbanging will be confined to affecting each individual post.
Please let me know your thoughts and feelings on the tweaks in the comments section.
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Nicely done. I like the upvote and downvote options. It is a nice way to see if anyone cares what I think or not….
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I don’t see the upvote/downvote arrows. Am I missing something?
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You should see a light blue up arrow and down arrow directly below each comment.
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Weird. I still don’t have them. I am using Chrome. I just sent you an email with a screen capture to show you what I am seeing.
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That’s very strange. I’m using Chrome and I also tested it on Safari, and it showed up on both browsers. Is anyone else having this issue?
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Firefox = I see arrows
Chrome = I see arrows
Kindle Silk = I see arrows
Internet Explorer = I see arrows
I wonder if it’s a Javascript blocking thing?
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Thanks for doing some legwork, DonAZ.
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Do I get 50,000 bonus TTBpoints? 🙂
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I gave you an upvote, DonAZ. So there’s that.
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Well, it must be blocked at work but I can see it from home.
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I’m glad you can see it at home. Perhaps it’s blocked at work because of the social media aspect of the plugin.
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216 comments since August.
What I just learned here is that I have way too much time on my hands.
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If nothing else we’ll find out where we stand in our TTB community. Even when I don’t personally comment, I read, assimilate and learn.
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Thank you for making the board more interactive.
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You’re welcome.
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Hmmm!
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You have a nice site, Thunder … and the enhancements are good.
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I’m just posting to see what my numbers are like….lolol
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I have been visiting this site for a while and I like the new interactivity. I upvoted a couple people just because I can.
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Thanks!
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@Thunder –
Suggestion would be to block upvotes/downvotes by those that are NOT logged in. I wasn’t logged in and was able to upvote/downvote.
-BOliver46
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I thought about that, but I wonder what the advantage would be of making that stipulation. I would be interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
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I see the arrows on all posts, including those of steweiler. I’ll revisit some of my previous posts and see if the arrows are on display. Using firefox. Will let you know, of courseonly if they are not present. Agree with DonAZ, very nice site. Mixed bag. Good for the owner but when small in numbers posters tend to be on best behavior most of the time and disagreements don’t escalate into feuds. As said in email of earlier tonight, I think site will expand rapidly.
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One very small suggestion/question. Is it possible now, and I am not seeing it or will it be possible to edit in the future? I type extremely fast and have way too much faith in my abilities and forget often about certain keys that have a tendency to stick. Guess I could always do what we did way before spell check and auto correct. Proof reading. Thought it was a thing of the past.
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I have also wondered about an edit feature.
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I will check into an edit feature. I think I will have to install an additional plugin, but it should be manageable.
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An edit feature would be great, especially for a jarhead with a DPSE!
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