Community Veteran ! Ha !

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Hello new Liam

On this new forum version what does add a tag do and what's it used for ?

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That'll be added to the FAQ shortly. However they are able to be tagged to allow ease of searching for similar issues.

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Thanks for that Chris

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John_Essex wrote:

Shame that the little (bright spark) graphic I designed all those years ago that showed a positive and negative wires moving together then sparking as they met is no longer used 

Still it did last through the last two versions of the forums.

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@John_Essex I just noticed the graphic is back

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Brilliant

I'm still amaze that that something I did for a bit of fun all those years ago is still going strong

I assume that also means that the problem with animated gif files has been sorted?

I'll upload my Avatar again and see if it works this time. I had to resort to using a link to it from my PlusNet web space to make it work properly.

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@Oldjim wrote:

@shutter

How about stirrer in chief

I approve of that, in fact I'd recommend it

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shutter wrote:

Only stirring I do is in my tea cup ! 

Yeah right

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I think I would rather be called "community old git".... and then graduate to "community grumpy old git"  if I stayed around long enough ! 

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Good to see so many old gits veterans kicking about this place and @John_Essex Good to see you sir.

What's this, forum number 3? (4 if you include usenet)

Mark

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This version is forum number 4.

Number one was a very simple thing and there was no moderators as such just PlusNet staff looking after it. and broadband then was 250Kb down at best. It seemed fast though after dial up at less than 56Kb

Then came the second version  based on Bulletin Board software and that's when they started using Moderators. That lasted for about 7 years or so and I served as a moderator during that time.

Number 3 is the one that has just been replaced and at that time I decided that I had done my stint and hung my moderating hat.

Now we are on number 4 (if it can be made to work properly) 

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@Chris wrote:

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We won't be sharing the criteria for progressing through the ranks publicly

Can I ask why? - You're trying to be more transparent than ever by allowing non subscribers to sign up and yet being secretive about things like forum ranks. Where is the logic here?

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I guess to stop people trying to manipulate posts / thanks etc. and rank up

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As dvorak has said, & as I have mentioned in another post recently round these boards somewhere, and as Chris has previously mentioned (also elsewhere), it's to stop people trying to manipulate the rankings.

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Good to see so many old gits veterans kicking about this place and @John_Essex Good to see you sir.

What's this, forum number 3? (4 if you include usenet)

Posting just so that I can *wave*  at some familiar names.  

I'm afraid I don't seem to have achieved the veteran ranking, but I've sure been around a while and worn John's bright spark gif when it was shiny and new.  

I think my post count may be low,  as I swapped to using 'kitz' rather than my PN username at one point.  But I have well over 4k of posts from my time at the usergroup too.

I can recall the move to SMF1 from was it phpbb?
I'm quite certain that that  most of the comments about it at the time where complimentary.  The most major gripe was "Oooh its pink" as most of us were so used to the familiar orange & purple.  SMF1 did OK,  it must have lasted about 10 years...  they should have really have updated it to SMF2 years ago.

Anways this was just a 'hi' post and I'll leave you old farts veterans to your pipes and slippers.

/me makes a quick exit