Scratch

ProgramCAT wrote:

Liru wrote:

Can we at least have it more Scratch themed?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif

I agree.

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Last edited by scimonster (2012-02-17 05:58:52)

Liru wrote:

Can we atleast have it more Scratch themed?


http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif

That'd just look messy, in my opinion 

Liru wrote:

Can we atleast have it more Scratch themed?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif

That's a cool idea!
I think it would clash / stand out a bit too much in the current forum design, which, unfortunately, has never been very Scratchy. (It's more or less plain old FluxBB with a few features hacked onto it).  However, we're going to be doing more design work on the Scratch 2.0 forums to make them match the rest of the site. So I think this could be a really nice way of doing it in the 2.0 forums.

scimonster wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Liru wrote:

Can we atleast have it more Scratch themed?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3723997/fss.gif

That's a cool idea!
I think it would clash / stand out a bit too much in the current forum design, which, unfortunately, has never been very Scratchy. (It's more or less plain old FluxBB with a few features hacked onto it).  However, we're going to be doing more design work on the Scratch 2.0 forums to make them match the rest of the site. So I think this could be a really nice way of doing it in the 2.0 forums.

Speaking of that... I was going to make a userscript to change the style of the forums to be more Scratchy. 

What would you program in?

I wonder what rank I am...

EDIT: Does this apply to the TBG forums too?

Last edited by NeilWest (2012-02-17 14:43:04)

This could just cause more spam! New Scratchers would spam up the "questions about Scratch" forums with "How do I get the > in my post count?" and people will put things like "aweiejhgutop" and "spammy Spam SPAM!!" and "cool idea bro" and ";alkhj" and " " and more just to get the >1000. Besides, couldn't you just post your post count everywhere? Besides, this isn't really distinguishing someone who just puts things like "alkulk" all the time and they have 1001 posts that are all spam against someone who had like 68 posts, but were very helpful and constructive in there posts? First you disable [IMG] tags. Next you archive Misc. and replace it with forums that get spammed even worse. And now, you make the post counts to >100, >500, and >1000. I don't mind [IMG] tags being off, but I still start to get    when I scroll down past where Misc. used to be and see the other forums. And now, I get really annoyed when trying to see my exact post number and see just a >500 thing! I admit, that I did spam a bit when trying to get the >500 rank *blush*. But some people actually worked to get their 10,000 posts, and now they aren't any differently distinguished than someone who just typed smilies and things like "wauirytpu9a" to get their post count to 10,000! If you made 100 spammy posts a day, you'd already get to >1000 in 10 days!
Your Weekly Post forecast:
Forums looking extra spammy! Watch out for posts containing, but not limited to, "alkdfgao", " ", "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm", "akfj;l", "spammy", "hai i am spamming", and "                   ".
None of these things helped, because everyone was and still will be affected by some [naughty word] spammers!   
I at least think that we should show the exact amount once you pass the 10000 mark. People who work for years to get past 10000 should at least have people see their achievements!

Whoa, long post. 

Last edited by Mokat (2012-02-18 13:17:06)

KyleK7 wrote:

werdna123 wrote:

I suppose it's good but I kind of liked the competitiveness of the old system. 

+1

GLaDOS2 wrote:

Haiming wrote:

I think there should also be more than 200, 300, 400, etc. until it gets to 1,000, then in would be the same way as before.

I still don't see how this would stop spammers though. 

Honestly, they've gone a bit too far on anti-spamming the site.. -_-"

Tell me about it.

Lightnin wrote:

Hardmath123 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

Interesting!
To test this out, I just right clicked on post count on a random post and selected "inspect element" (this is in chrome). Then I changed the value by clicking on it in the window the pops up at the bottom of the screen.

Here's what it looks like:
http://imgclean.com/?p=1315

Check it out and see what you think. You can also try other things -- I think someone suggested "1000+" earlier. It'd be interesting to see how that looks in context.

By the way - if you've ever dreamed of getting to a massive post count, this is quite an easy way to see what that would be like.

Yeah, I love inspect-elementing stats (on an online school quiz, I inspect-elemented myself a 100%).

I love the way 1,000+ looks, but here are some other ideas as to how different presentations could look:
http://www.imgpaste.com/fY4u.png
http://www.imgpaste.com/Hwq3.png
http://www.imgpaste.com/OVJc.png
I think a comma in 1,000 might be nice, since it's a pre-generated figure.

I'm liking the 1000+ look the best as well. Let's give some others time to chime in and suggest alternatives. But if others dig this one, I'd say we should do it. 

Veggie's point about not all countries using "," in "1,000" is a good one, so we should probably just keep it simple.

Awaiting chime-ins... 

Paddle2See wrote:

I vote for the 1,000+

Seriously? With the comma? First time I've seen you and Lightnin disagree! 

If you're not smart enough to see 1000 as onethousand then you shouldn't be programming 

Really though, 1000 is easy enough to tell apart from 100 or 10.

Hardmath123 wrote:

Paddle2See wrote:

I vote for the 1,000+

Seriously? With the comma? First time I've seen you and Lightnin disagree! 

Now that I think about it more...doesn't a lot of Europe use the dot notation instead of the comma notation?  That might be more confusing.  I guess just a simple "1000+" is best.