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Jon
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Message 34 of 533 (624185)
07-16-2011 1:32 PM


Ratings & Page Highlights
I am also having the problem of ratings disappearing. When I reload the page, then it will show me the bubbles with my rating selected, but right after selecting the rating disappears.
Also, I noticed that the first page in a thread, where I come when I first click on the topic from the forum page, is no longer highlighted blue in the page lists at the upper right of the screen. All the other pages highlight when I am on them, but not page 1.
It may have always been like that, but I just noticed it recently.
Jon
ABE: Vista w/ Firefox 3.6.15
Edited by Jon, : ABE

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Message 96 of 533 (625203)
07-21-2011 7:50 PM


Picky Links?
Have the URL tags always been so picky?
I just noticed in Bluejay's Message 192 that a space before the URL breaks the link (though it still highlights like a link for some reason).
Has this always been like this, or is it something unique to the recent update?
Jon

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Message 99 of 533 (625219)
07-21-2011 9:05 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by jar
07-21-2011 7:52 PM


Re: Picky Links?
Oh...

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Jon
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Message 134 of 533 (626306)
07-28-2011 11:07 AM


Rating System Equation
Is there something wrong with the equation used for the rating system?
I gave someone with a 3.9 average a 4 rating on one of their messages and it brought their rating down to a 3.8.
That somehow doesn't make sense to me. If the rating given is higher than the user's average, shouldn't that bring up their average by a little bit? If the rating given is the same as the user's average, should that keep their average the same? If it's lower, shouldn't that bring it down?
Right now, though, it seems like anything less than a 5 brings down the average.
Or have I betrayed my mathematical incompetence on this one?
Jon

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Jon
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Message 136 of 533 (626319)
07-28-2011 12:33 PM
Reply to: Message 135 by Wounded King
07-28-2011 12:03 PM


Re: Rating System Equation
It may be that you had given another of their messages a higher rating at some point. That means that you could have lowered your own average rating for that poster and that in turn would lower the overall average.
At least that was how I understood the system worked.
Oh. I didn't know that it worked that way.
That would explain a lot of my confusion.
Jon

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Message 143 of 533 (626827)
07-31-2011 3:01 PM
Reply to: Message 140 by Admin
07-31-2011 1:48 PM


Re: New Message Rating System
Member rating values can range between plus and minus 100.
Does that mean your 66.7 is overall negative or overall positive? They seem to be showing up for me as plus or minus zero.
I'm still confused on the equation Before my rating was about a 3 and I think yours was a 4; now I'm -26.7 and you are +66.7. The relationship of the new ratings seems entirely different than the relationship of the old ratings, even though they are supposed to be based on the old numbers, no?
ABE:
If I select a down rating and then deselect it, the thumbs-down buttons disappear for all the posts on the forums.
It might even disappear after the initial down rating, but I didn't check that when I did the first down rating.
/ABE
Jon
Edited by Jon, : No reason given.

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Message 145 of 533 (626829)
07-31-2011 3:13 PM
Reply to: Message 144 by Admin
07-31-2011 3:09 PM


Re: New Message Rating System
I reset all the member ratings. They'll be recalculated the first time someone votes for one of their messages.
But you should always be able to see message ratings in the form of thumbs-up or thumbs-down icons. For example, if you view Message 316, don't you see three thumbs-up and one thumbs-down?
But the actual number doesn't show up until after we cast a vote. Or is that what you mean when you say they are calculated the first time someone votes for one of their messages?
I cannot see my own rating on the forum; perhaps if someone rates this message, I'll see the rating?
Jon

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Message 146 of 533 (626830)
07-31-2011 3:15 PM
Reply to: Message 145 by Jon
07-31-2011 3:13 PM


Re: New Message Rating System
Edit button just vanished; I guess I can see my own rating; nevermind on that.
But I cannot see anyone else's except who I vote for.

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Jon
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Message 150 of 533 (626860)
07-31-2011 4:55 PM
Reply to: Message 147 by Admin
07-31-2011 3:26 PM


Re: New Message Rating System
Click on refresh/reload so that the latest Javascript and CSS files are loaded. Otherwise the new message rating system will not work properly for you.
It is working well on my other computer now. I will close out my browser and open it back up later to see if that fixes it on the computer I made the original post from; for now a simple refresh doesn't seem to be doing the trick, but the problem is clearly on my side.
ABE:
Clear cache fixed it.
Jon
Edited by Jon, : No reason given.

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Message 154 of 533 (627210)
08-01-2011 12:05 PM
Reply to: Message 153 by cavediver
08-01-2011 11:39 AM


Re: New Message Rating System
Have to say that the thumb icons look appalling and seriously cheapen the look of the site.
I kind of thought the same thing, no offense to Percy. They also seem much too far apart.
Maybe a simple +/- to replace the 'Like/Dislike...' line would provide a more compact and professional look...
Jon

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Message 378 of 533 (747480)
01-15-2015 1:53 PM
Reply to: Message 377 by Admin
01-15-2015 11:17 AM


Re: Improvement to Positioning Messages into View
Works okay.
One thing that has bugged me for a while, though, is that the big white box that you put the reply into seems to have a fixed width instead of a relative width, so it doesn't scale when you make the window smaller.
I know you can manually adjust the size of the box, but that's kind of a hassle especially since the size resets every time you click to preview your message.
What do you think?

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Jon
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Message 381 of 533 (747540)
01-15-2015 8:02 PM


I just realized what buttons you are talking about. I thought you meant the Reply button for replying to a post. Now I see you changed the replies links at the bottom of each message that list everyone who has replied to a post.
That is a very handy change indeed!

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Message 387 of 533 (748362)
01-25-2015 9:55 AM
Reply to: Message 385 by Minnemooseus
01-24-2015 9:48 PM


Re: Specific message links... - Also member rating request
Had no idea the ratings went up to 10. Everyone's rating is less than 4; most people are at about 1 or so.
I've never really like the all-or-nothing rating system, though. I'd be more likely to give more rating of messages if there were something like a 5-star system.

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Jon
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Message 389 of 533 (748481)
01-26-2015 12:23 PM
Reply to: Message 388 by Admin
01-25-2015 10:07 AM


Re: Specific message links... - Also member rating request
Cool.
I just thought of something else that might be useful: the ability to use the [mbrid] tag in the [qs=""] field. Even with [noparse], I can't show the tags without it getting seriously muddled. But if implemented it would allow quick creation of the following:
Jon writes:
Hello World!
Right now you get:" Hello World![/qs] (even with the [noparse] tag).

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Message 394 of 533 (748743)
01-28-2015 10:29 PM
Reply to: Message 393 by Coyote
01-28-2015 9:50 PM


Re: Click and click to open in new tab differences
And if you have a Mac with no left or right clicks??????
... then you buy a computer.

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