Also who assesses the winner, and when? What if I say "100 's that the iMac will get a G5", and don't say when? What if I say "100 's says that the iMac has a fan"? I think there is a rumor site that lets you bet on rumors already. If smilies were the units, when you were in a screen you could see how many smilies you had available and when you ran out, no more smokey smilies! 8)
In my system you have to have a taker of the bet, so it will even itself out. noone will take a bet that doesn´t have some kind of end date.
Hmm, a good idea, but what about those of us who never post anything useful?
well, you would still get to award points to other people who posted something useful...
and not only would the poster who wrote the useful post get points... the actual POST would as well... this way you could weed out the useful posts from the crap...
Don't you all worry, i have a backup of the smokey smily, don't think I am so daft.
I think that considering the difficulty and lack of a plug-in for this great idea, it may never come to life. This saddens me, a great deal.
and if you are going to try to kick me in the genitals, I must warn you, I wear a steel/velvet codpiece, it would you more than it would tickle me. I am sorry for that above statement, it shall be STRICKEN from the record.
Nebagakid, you're an odd duck...and I don't mean that in a good way.
People do find me odd. It is because I have poor social skills, and it does not help that I am sometimes a coward, and I hate confrontations. I go to movie's by myself, which some people find odd, but my brothers and father do it as well, so I don't find it odd at all. Some people would believe I have no positive input at all, and yeah if you are talking about polotiks or something of that nature, I won't be any good. YET, I can blast on and on about Macs, or about web design, or about computers, those skills I have. I hate change, can't stand it, yet I latch on to a hobby (Macs) that allows me to withstand dullness because they are ever changing and evolving. Yes, I am an odd duck:
What you may find most odd about me is that I have a pants schedule: Monday/Tuesday: Lightweight Khakis that have dirt stains and hole
Wendsday/Thursday: Brown pants I don't like.
Friday/Saturday: Corduroys that losing their bumps and a hole.
Sunday: Whatever, FREE DAY!
So, would you consider this the behavior of an odd duck?
One of the boards I go to (Ambrosia Software) has a "Karma" system. If you're helpful (or just a kiss ass), mods can give you positive Karma. If you're an ass, they can subtract Karma. Karma can be regained over time as long as you don't continue to be an ass. If your Karma hits -10, your posting privileges are suspended for a while. It's an okay system except some of the mods get a bit power-trippy. Of course, if you say that there, they'll go nuts on you.
Perhaps we can dock one Karma for each inappropriate smokey at the end of Nebagakid's posts? That would be fair, I think
If your Karma hits -10, your posting privileges are suspended for a while. It's an okay system except some of the mods get a bit power-trippy. Of course, if you say that there, they'll go nuts on you.
All sound like good reasons NOT to have that here.
(That makes no comment on the attitudes or ideals of *our* admins and mods)
what's with all these heads attacking Nebaga's smokeys? i think its wonderful, and make more efficient use of screen space. i'm scanning a thread, reading bits, and wondering "who wrote this?" i have to move my eyes all the way to the left, and read the name of the poster for most of you "people". sometimes i even have to scroll a little because the poster name is out of view. it's a big plastic hassle, particularly for people who i haven't figured out their style yet. with Nebagakid, i never have that problem. i see more than one smokey consecutively, then i know it's him. he's our insane elite. and yet, for some ungodly reason, he has told us not only what pants he's wearing, but that he revolves them on a schedule (brown today, i trust). i don't know which part i find more disturbing: that he has a schedule just for his pants, or that he felt it incumbent to tell us. bring on the smokeys.
as for a credit system, i don't like the /. one (well, only because i've been there like a month or something and dont' have any karma). i don't think a betting system will be easy to do. but a way of pushing "good" posters up, and "bad" posters down in some kind of point system would be kind of interesting.
Who was the guy who ALWAYS included a little avatar-type thing after his posts? He made them himself, and they always had his name, were about 30x60 pixels, and had something to do with the subject at hand (I remember one with the Apple logo and another with clouds). Those were always helpful for finding his posts.
maybe the "bad" posters could have text that was really hard to read, like a color that would blend into the background..eh? That is a bad idea.
I went out of the norm today on my pants, I think I may have to buy new ones. I might also be making a spin-wheel for my pants, because it is something I cannot fight, the schedule. There is something that will always haunt me about it, and not in a good way. (<-- Clicked four times, for two?)
I went out of the norm today on my pants, I think I may have to buy new ones. I might also be making a spin-wheel for my pants, because it is something I cannot fight, the schedule. There is something that will always haunt me about it, and not in a good way. (<-- Clicked four times, for two?)
Nebagakid you crack me up sometimes... fight the pants schedule - if it doesn't kill you, it will just make you stronger!
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Originally posted by cubist
Also who assesses the winner, and when? What if I say "100
In my system you have to have a taker of the bet, so it will even itself out. noone will take a bet that doesn´t have some kind of end date.
Originally posted by Crusader
Hmm, a good idea, but what about those of us who never post anything useful?
well, you would still get to award points to other people who posted something useful...
and not only would the poster who wrote the useful post get points... the actual POST would as well... this way you could weed out the useful posts from the crap...
kinda like slashdot with user ratings...
'Cash mod' for phpBB
Currently slashcode is under GPL so someone has to be ripping-it-off/porting it to other internet related languages.
This would be great... but it may not work... but it would be great!
I think that considering the difficulty and lack of a plug-in for this great idea, it may never come to life.
and if you are going to try to kick me in the genitals, I must warn you, I wear a steel/velvet codpiece, it would you more than it would tickle me. I am sorry for that above statement, it shall be STRICKEN from the record.
Originally posted by CosmoNut
Nebagakid, you're an odd duck...and I don't mean that in a good way.
People do find me odd. It is because I have poor social skills, and it does not help that I am sometimes a coward, and I hate confrontations. I go to movie's by myself, which some people find odd, but my brothers and father do it as well, so I don't find it odd at all. Some people would believe I have no positive input at all, and yeah if you are talking about polotiks or something of that nature, I won't be any good. YET, I can blast on and on about Macs, or about web design, or about computers, those skills I have. I hate change, can't stand it, yet I latch on to a hobby (Macs) that allows me to withstand dullness because they are ever changing and evolving. Yes, I am an odd duck:
What you may find most odd about me is that I have a pants schedule: Monday/Tuesday: Lightweight Khakis that have dirt stains and hole
Wendsday/Thursday: Brown pants I don't like.
Friday/Saturday: Corduroys that losing their bumps and a hole.
Sunday: Whatever, FREE DAY!
So, would you consider this the behavior of an odd duck?
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all of the above are just fine except for those ($*&@)#(^ smileys.
just cut back a few on those and you'll be fine.
Perhaps we can dock one Karma for each inappropriate smokey at the end of Nebagakid's posts? That would be fair, I think
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
If your Karma hits -10, your posting privileges are suspended for a while. It's an okay system except some of the mods get a bit power-trippy. Of course, if you say that there, they'll go nuts on you.
All sound like good reasons NOT to have that here.
(That makes no comment on the attitudes or ideals of *our* admins and mods)
And CosmoNut just got his privileges revoked
Originally posted by Paul
just out of curiosity... do you have "
Well, I hit it a few times, and i probably click 10 times, but it only captures 3 smokeys on average. If I want more, i have to invest time.
as for a credit system, i don't like the /. one (well, only because i've been there like a month or something and dont' have any karma). i don't think a betting system will be easy to do. but a way of pushing "good" posters up, and "bad" posters down in some kind of point system would be kind of interesting.
We know who the good posters are.
I went out of the norm today on my pants, I think I may have to buy new ones. I might also be making a spin-wheel for my pants, because it is something I cannot fight, the schedule. There is something that will always haunt me about it, and not in a good way.
Originally posted by Nebagakid
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I went out of the norm today on my pants, I think I may have to buy new ones. I might also be making a spin-wheel for my pants, because it is something I cannot fight, the schedule. There is something that will always haunt me about it, and not in a good way.
If people think ideas are good, they can say so. If they don't, they can say so, or vote with their feet.