So CA goes offline for a sec.... [thanks and groans update thread]

[Jason Rainville]

then I start noticing something neato.... we have a thanks feature! Getting pretty excited, looks like all these techno-goodies for 4.0 are just around the corner :}

[davi]

heh, hope you guys like it. Was just about to put in the announcement but, this will do just fine.

[Jason Rainville]

heh, hope you guys like it. Was just about to put in the announcement but, this will do just fine.

Whoops. :bashful:

EDIT: Ha, just realized I should bump some of Yverloc's paintover threads to see how quick he'll hit the 1000 thanks mark.

[Ellingsworth]

This is awesome! Can't wait to see all the new features/new site.

[davi]

this feature should be a great way to see who is really pulling their weight on the forums. If you see someone that has a ton of thanks and a sketchbook, go give them a nice pat on their back, they obviously deserve it :}

[chobomaster]

awesome, great way to inspire better critiquing!

[JL.Alfaro]

This sounds like a great idea, the people who need the most recognition will definitely get it now.

any digi-awards when you reach a certain thanks times?

-JL

[Jason Manley]

first one to a hundred thanks gets a soap in the sock blanket party!

we will not be having good behavior around here if I can help it dammit!!!

[Leari_79790]

Pretty cool, I mean it's better than having a whole bunch of 'Inappropriate tags' by your name, assuming I get thanked it'll be a pleasant and welcome change for me..here here!

[Whyatt Thrash]

Great idea!

But at the moment I only see a "thanks" in the original post, shouldn't it be enabled in the replies as well? At least the original poster should be able to "thank" replies... I was gonna thank a bunch of people and realized that I can't.

[Noë]

Wow :) this is a really cool feature!

Just one thing I'm wondering: you can only thank the poster of a thread? You cant thank a post that is like a reply posted in the critique center as a crit?
I'm finding that most of the time the posts I want to thank are the replies to my sketchbook.
teehee :) I think if that was the case I'd be thanking half the people who stop by in my sketchbook :teeth: that would be cool :)
EDIT; I just saw that Whyatt Thrash noticed it too.. Agreed ^^

Love
Marleen

EDIT; ah :) it's been fixed.. And w00t! I got thanked by Jason :bashful:

[Jason Manley]

All fixed. We have a bunch more goodies to add over the next month or so. I just shared the new gallery backend to Davi tonight and am waiting on a couple fixes before we open it up for the featured artists first for testing. Progress on the galleries and new database organization is going well. More to do...much more. Just a few more weeks.

[Noë]

Thanks Jason! (And Davi... :teeth:)

I'm having trouble figuring who to thank.. I mean, I can thank half my sketchbook for the helpful posts.. But there are also posts that really stand out with the crits so maybe I should only thank those.. :P But then I feel sorry for all the other good posts that don't get a thank you..

Or maybe I'm just whining.. :/

Love
Marleen.

[davi]

you can thank us both :}

i actually added this script along time ago, but the phpfox community garbage broke some of our forum so it didnt work, so after Jason got that removed, it was time to try it again.

hopefully it isnt abused, i have a feeling though that some people are going to get into the millions of thanks and the script will go insane :}

[Matt Dixon]

What a very good idea. Thanks, chaps!

[ciots]

I'm gonna try and thank myself!
I RULE

edit- no i dont :(

[davi]

-1 thanks for you

[Lohan]

yea shouldnt there be a fuck off button or something

[Whyatt Thrash]

.........

[Meli Hitchcock]

Silly me just noticed this new feature this morning. XD But yeah I was wondering if that was all brand spankin new.

[Seedling]

Aww shit. . . the numbers. . . they go up. . . *twitchtwitch*. . . :^^;:

Seedling hastily attempts to squelch her inner power-gamer.

[chaosrocks]

I still haven't figured out how it works.
<is having a fit of "stupid" this morning
just another arena for Seedling to beat me at I guess

seems liike a nice feature
chaos

[Seedling]

I still haven't figured out how it works.
<is having a fit of "stupid" this morning
just another arena for Seedling to beat me at I guess

seems liike a nice feature
chaos

Bottom-right corner of each post. . . there's a button that says "thanks". . . press it, ding! Numbers go up! twitch twitch twitch twitch

[m@.]

[portal]
^
that's the best update :D :D

[Moai]

I randomly thanked some posts here just because the posters are good, inspiring, informative members of the site. I promise I won't abuse this feature elsewhere!

Edit: Not to be greedy, but now there needs to be a way to more easily find our own thanked posts. I don't want to be egocentric or anything, but I'd like to see what the heck I did that people found useful.

[Stark]

Just adding this feature is going to kill time. There are a lot of people I thanked in the past for crits, comments, just posting artwork, showing steps, etc. Now I'm gonna have to find all 60 something SBs I'm subscribed to and g thank them the proper way...you know what I mean! HEH?! HEH!?

[Brendan N]

haha awesome feature dudes, ima go thank me some peeps now!

[Jason Rainville]

I randomly thanked some posts here just because the posters are good, inspiring, informative members of the site. I promise I won't abuse this feature elsewhere!

(psst, go spam-thank conceptart 101, no one will notice :teeth:)

[Meli Hitchcock]

Hey do we also have an attachment limit now? Or did we always have that and now we get notified of it in the attachment upload window?

[Seedling]

(psst, go spam-thank conceptart 101, no one will notice :teeth:)

I'll notice! :D

[Seedling]

Hey do we also have an attachment limit now? Or did we always have that and now we get notified of it in the attachment upload window?

The limit has always been there. It was visible somewhere in the User CP, but not in the upload window, which is new and spiffy.

I fear the day that I run out of room. . .

[Meli Hitchcock]

Ah ok cool! :) Wasn't sure if we did, but that's handy to have the counter there!

[Mark Bot]

i was wondering where that feature came from....

run away before you get thanked! Hahahahaaaaa.....

[Moai]

MeliHitchcock and Seedling, and not seeing that attachment counter thing that you're talking about. Is it a limit to the total amount of files you can have uploaded on CA, or just a limit to how many files you can upload in one post, or what?

[Seedling]

MeliHitchcock and Seedling, and not seeing that attachment counter thing that you're talking about. Is it a limit to the total amount of files you can have uploaded on CA, or just a limit to how many files you can upload in one post, or what?

Try posting a reply and pressing the "Manage Attachments" button. You'll see the counter on the top of that pop-up window showing how much of your available space you have used.

Holy cow! I have a lot more space for attachments than I did yesterday! Yay, no more worrying about having to delete old art!

[Lone Wolf]

Very interesting idea guys. Good job.

[Whyatt Thrash]

Where is this elusive "counter" you speak of? :)

[Seedling]

Right here. [edit]Maybe there are browser issues to be ironed out.

[m@.]

And by the way, I sincerely hope the thank system won't be abused, and only be used on useful posts.
If so, the "find all thanked posts by..." feature in the profile, will be very cool. If not, and if everyone just thanks random posts to get thanked in return and start a sort of popularity contest, this feature will be totally useless :\

[Whyatt Thrash]

Seedling: Not visible in Firefox nor Safari. So I'm guessing the code's not W3C compliant...

m@.: Yeah, I was just thinking the same thing. "Thanks" needs to maintain some sort of value, otherwise they risk turning into something "deviantarty". Maybe to have a limited amount of "thanks" per timeframe for threads not started by you..

[Slash]

I noticed you thanked every post in this thread Artzealot.. I don't think thats what Jason meant when he said "first to 100 thanks" dude.. ;)


Anyways.. good feature davi. Now play tf2 with me!

[davi]

If you haven't been paying attention we added a "Thanks" button to the forum a few days ago.

Just today I've added a "Groan" button.

If someone you think is a bit of an idiot, you can groan them instead of flipping out and posting a distracting message in their thread.


These options will give users who are now familiar with your name, a chance to see if your posts are generally enjoyed by the community.

abusers of these options can be banned from the thanks/groan system and have all their thanks/groan wiped from the system.

I truly hope these new additions to the forum bring about more thoughtful posts and puts light on the posters who's word is truly worth paying attention to.

----------

Groans will not show up in the lounge, since its all gibberish for the most part anyways

[Meli Hitchcock]

Whipped? Like sweet butter cream? I like cream... Hey you all need a drool or salivate emote. :[

I just hope good will come about this feature, but for some reason I think this has too much potential for bad.

[S.C. Watson]

Can I groan and thank someone simultaneously? Does the Groan cancel out the Thank? Or vice versa?

I was going to try it with you, but figured that would finally get me banned, so I didn't :P

"Thanks" davi :teeth:

PS - you *know* you've been here a while when you type your smilies in... :nohope:

[S.C. Watson]

Groans will not show up in the lounge, since its all gibberish for the most part anyways

But this is where they are most needed!

Okay, I'll shut up now.

[Jason Manley]

there is also a groan feature but not here in the lounge. abusers will be rightfully PUNISHED! :)

[Ellingsworth]

Good idea, Davi. Thanks for the heads up. I like the new features, I just hope people don't abuse it.

[AlexC]

imho, the whole groan/thank idea is only going to lead to abuse and further problems.
Personally I would feel pretty bad if I got a groan, and the "thanks" option seems pretty useless

[davi]

well, if you see someone with a ton of thanks and hardly any posts gives you a critic, and someone with alot of posts and no critics.... who do you think is putting a little more time into their care? Of course it depends on the context of the critics, but you can get a general feel for the person whom is criticing you.

if someone is a spamming asshole and gets a ton of groans.. its alot easier for me to keep an eye on him.

[Stark]

I find the thanks useful in knowing that what you said to someone or vice versa is appreciated and it raises your self-confidence and capacity to help others. The groan thing is a bit much, but that'll be evaluated I'm sure.

[Jason Manley]

I always find it amusing to see who comes in right away with concerns. Pessimists...all of ya!

:)

The lounge has so much crap that it was best to leave the groans out. the rest of the forums will see it as a useful too eventually. If I catch someone abusing it i will just ban them. Simple as that.

But the thanks...I have no idea how any of you could see that as useless or unnecessary. It is the one thing that we can always show around here when people do good things...appreciation.

It is no different than the stars system...easily abused...but rarely. Except this time I can track it easily.


Jason

[Ellingsworth]

I always find it amusing to see who comes in right away with concerns. Pessimists...all of ya!

:)

The lounge has so much crap that it was best to leave the groans out. the rest of the forums will see it as a useful too eventually. If I catch someone abusing it i will just ban them. Simple as that.

But the thanks...I have no idea how any of you could see that as useless or unnecessary. It is the one thing that we can always show around here when people do good things...appreciation.

It is no different than the stars system...easily abused...but rarely. Except this time I can track it easily.


Jason

This makes sense, well, a lot more now that I read that.

I have a question, though. Say someone joins up, just to spam or be an ass and give out tons of groans, when he is banned will those groans be removed from the person he gave them to? If not other people may see it and think he is a bad member or spamming when really he was just given it for no reason.

Otherwise, keep up the hard work, I can't wait to see the newly designed site, dudes!

[davi]

btw, if you click on your name, and go to your profile, you can click the "find all thanked posts by blahblah"

[stoph]

btw, if you click on your name, and go to your profile, you can click the "find all thanked posts by blahblah"

finally, the 'find all thanked posts' thing makes sense! i've seen it in the drop down menus you get when you click on usernames and also the search option for a couple of months at the least.. or am i going crazy?

[Noë]

Edit: Not to be greedy, but now there needs to be a way to more easily find our own thanked posts. I don't want to be egocentric or anything, but I'd like to see what the heck I did that people found useful.
:P I agree ^^ I just went through my last twenty posts to figure out in which ones and why I got thanked :P
Mostly I didn't deserve it though and it was probably just a thanks at me to try out the thanks feature :( :bashful:

Love
Marleen.

[HunterKiller_]

Yeah I was wondering what the hell the 'find thanked posts' was about.

Hope I don't get groaned at. x.x

[m@.]

you can find the thanked posts in your profile.

[SgtDirtbag]

At first I read "groin" instead of groan and got mildly confused, but still thought: "Hey, this place was founded by Massive Black.... so what". xD

Anyway, I think it is a nice addition to the board.

[Meli Hitchcock]

I always find it amusing to see who comes in right away with concerns. Pessimists...all of ya!


Bah! At least us pessimists get happy surprises! You optimists get let down! :bashful:

Actually, I think the thanks is a nice feature, it was just the groan that I was a little worried about. I can see the regular members using it wisely, but newbies here might see that and be all, "omfgbbq" and start misusing it because most noobs don't read rules.

[Shamagim]

nevermind.......

[Elwell]

If someone you think is a bit of an idiot, you can groan them instead of flipping out and posting a distracting message in their thread.
Damn, there go half my posts! ;)

[chaosrocks]

as if your post count needed augmentation. :P

[Blue Severin]

Who do I thank for making CA.org even more addictive, geezus christ.

[Jason Manley]

Damn, there go half my posts! ;)

fortunately for us, there is no way to automate an "elwell response" button. It would require a much more powerful server than we can afford, to come up with the appropriate and thoughtful smackdowns.

HOWEVER, there is a setting to count the groans as posts, but we have elected to turn it off. :)

carry on sir.

[Jason Manley]

as if your post count needed augmentation. :P

your best post ever.

hahah!!!!!

haha

ha

hahahah!!!

[Sorknes]

Good thing for Sketchbooks. :) Maybe even more people will try to do an effort of C&C.... :)

[Jabo]

What if I start thanking everyone on the boards... like... some kind of non-violent resistance against such useless glorification tools? Do you realize how much of this site's space is taking by features like that? It just keeps growing. The thumbnails on top (which seem to be used by some, actually, unfortunately), star-system that hasn't been any useful because everyone keeps clicking the high-star'd sketchbooks and ignores the non-rated. Now groans and thanks. Everyone I'm thankful to will notice it by a message. Everyone I think of as an idiot will notice, too.

Really, guys. The forum keeps getting fatter and fatter, while people just enjoy slim more. Correct me if I'm wrong (or "groan" if you want.)

[magicgoo]

This is all great and wonderful, davi, but where's the FAP button!!!?

[Seedling]

Doing my best not to let the giddiness of coming out on top of a popularity contest for the first time in my life taint my opinion. . . I think the new tools are working largely as intended, with an expected amount of fluffy button-pressing to playfully test the system out. I’m loving that I can revisit old respectable posts and leave a marker on them so that they might continue to be read.

I think it is telling that there hasn’t been a rash of groans yet. Has anybody groaned at all?

[m@.]

It would be great if we could also search the posts someone has thanked, and not only the posts they have been thanked for.
Also, I don't know why, but right now there are two iterations of the "find all thanked posts by..." link in the profiles.

[S.C. Watson]

I think it is telling that there hasn’t been a rash of groans yet. Has anybody groaned at all?

I haven't, but have been tempted.

On the whole, I really like the idea of the Thanks and Groans.

For myself, I'm less likely to post a glib reply - not because I'm afraid of getting "groaned" at, but because I'm wanting to make sure that it's a useful post. I've never really been one for the Ass Pats, but I've done my share of "Well Dones" when I can't figure out a crit. However, now I'm thinking of the posts in terms of usefulness, which I'm sure this one doesn't fall into the category of. But I think you get my meaning.

I hope.

Anyway, I do think the new system is a good idea :yayca:

Cheers,
~Oreg.

[Art_Addict]

Cool new features ! Thanks

[Brendan N]

I'm liking it loads ....
though I haven't seen anybody groan yet...

btw, CA 5.0 MUST include a button to generate an Elwell Bitchslappin' Smackdown. Please?

[Justin.]

NOTE: it is not necessary to THANK EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN YOUR SKETCHBOOK! maybe the crits and stuff, but When you say "has thanked 387 people", you know something's off..


Also..

chaos posts more than I do!!!! by .02 ppd

[Stark]

I've been groaned at already. Not sure why, but I have been deemed an idiot. :P I've thanked my fair share of people as of late, not really into running around really old threads looking for specific threads or posts that have been helpful. But yeah, I normally thank in my SB when (if) I update.

[JL.Alfaro]

phew!:^^;: I thought I was going to be the first a-hole to get groaned at...thanks for taking the heat Stark

[Stark]

I do it for the kids JL. It's all for the kids.

Am I an asshole? :(

[ShadowOfTheSun]

that would be an akward situation if jason got enough groans and he had to ban himself :P

[realitychek]

Cool idea, thanks!

[JL.Alfaro]

Stark- no man you are not, nobody who does the things he does for the kids is liable to wear such a tag...on the other hand you were the first to get groaned at in the history of CA,.. but thanks for taking the heat either way..hehe
shadowof the sun: Stop it. stop giving people good ideas that are bad.

[ShadowOfTheSun]

shadowof the sun: Stop it. stop giving people good ideas that are bad.[/QUOTE]

lol sry, i kept thinking about the googling google and shattering time and space idea and i couldnt help myself ;)

[Grief]

crud, i gotta watch my sarcastic quips i leave on some threads, it may rub someone the wrong way.

like this:

what if in the critique center someone draws some scantily clad girl of intense sexy proportions? and i'm all 'wow that just made me groan in pleasure!'

i'm under the fallacy that groans can be good. yeah, real good.

there should be a ">_< dammit Grief, shut up and try to stay on topic" button.

[S.C. Watson]

I *really* think we should ad a "Lounge Lizard" button for just the Lounge.

It would take the place of the "Groan" button here.

~Oreg.

[Dile_]

you can find the thanked posts in your profile.

Thanks ! But where ? :P Isn't the thank you feature pretty useless unless you can find useful posts ?

So to speak, if i see that ( for example! ) slash have 10 thanks in 1 post I'd like to find this post as its probably useful :P

[Jason Manley]

you can...click your username..go in your profile...click thanked posts.

one step ahead of u....


j

[wesburt]

where'd the groan button go?

[pennington]

What happens to the removed thanks. I thanked people in my sb because they commented on my stuff. I was thinking it was a kind of new way to mass thank people instead of responding to everyone who posts in you sb. I feel dumb trying to find ten different ways to say thanks all the time. and then I go and post in their sb to give them respect anyway. so after realizing that the thanks would be more greatly appreciated if used sparingly I removed the thanks. so I guess those are my thoughts about that. any Ideas?

you can find the thanked posts in your profile.

ah-hah thanks! I was really trying to figure out why I was thanked so much already.

[smugbug]

westburt - there's no groans in the lounge.

I do have to say I love Oregano's idea of a "lounge lizard" button here. That'd be puhfect.


ETA:
{hands on hips} awriiiiiight...so whoooo thanked me? Just surprised that I had a couple of posts that were helpful!

[Dile_]

Thanks Jason :)

[Seedling]

I do it for the kids JL. It's all for the kids.

Am I an asshole? :(

I do believe you were groaned at not for being unhelpful, but because it was a groan-worthy comment, in the way a pun is groan-worthy. :)

[Justin.]

westburt - there's no groans in the lounge.


Westburt.. haha, that's a new one too.

It's like the nox thread but this time with wes :D and groaning!
(back to painting..)

[chobomaster]

thanks for thanks. boo to groans!

we can just report spammers anyway

[davi]

This is all great and wonderful, davi, but where's the FAP button!!!?

its installed in the girls only forum!

[chaosrocks]

seedling posts more than i do and is totally prom queen.
sniff.....

oh well
stop hangin out in loung all you lazy bums and go be mentors
..you too jason

you could find time for one worthy person.....

hehehe kidding

[Stark]

Seedling, huh? I was groaned in Texahol's thread for commenting about his pooch painting. Is that so bad? Anyways, back to art.

[bhanu]

I have been thanked 9 times and I dont even know why abd by whom , is there a place where you can know about this??

[entdroid]

Yeah, click on your name and then in "Find all thanked posts by bhanu"

[strych9ine]

This is all great and wonderful, davi, but where's the FAP button!!!?

I'm pressing it right noooooooooooooooow...

[dierat]

Right here. [edit]Maybe there are browser issues to be ironed out.

Oh, that's cool. I'm glad it was placed somewhere obvious where I can see it all the time. (And btw I'm in IE for those who aren't seeing it in their current browser.)

[ICH]

I'm feeling a little stupid, but I can't understand how work the indication:
Thanks: x
Thanked x Times in x Posts...
http://www.ivanovich.it/avatars/emoticons/Scemo.gif

Edit: Uh, ok... now I understand...LOL it's just like "thanks by me" and "thanks to me". http://www.ivanovich.it/avatars/emoticons/Smile2.gif

[Whyatt Thrash]

Not there in IE6 either... I see it in the CP though.

Maybe there's something wrong with my account? O_o

[Duq]

just to take away starks glory ;)

The first one to be groaned at is Ned. Yesterday I did a search for all the groaned posts and only that one showed up. So I guess the one at the top is the newest groan, and the one at the bottom the first.

[portal]

[Stark]

I've been redeemed? Oh thank the art gods!

[chaosrocks]

wasn't ned , like , banned over a year ago?
maybe its a different ned

[sciboy]

I sure as hell hope it is.

[Duq]

Neh its the old Ned, Hyv went all the way back in his SB to groan at him :D

[Rabid]

Damn, there go half my posts! ;)

Ha!

I like the idea, it's a good way for worth to be shown for suggestions. Although, I do have to say....sucks that all those poor level 12-15s members have to start from scratch to get a rep in this section...

P.S. I checked out my profile to see how the groan and thank system works...
I have a recorded number of each but the total still = 0? 0_o

[Jason Manley]

biggest sillyhead of the day shall go unnamed. He groaned at least ten people because they gave crits. I gave him a warning and deleted the crap groans. One of the photographers groaned anyone who disagreed with them, and other than that it has been mostly civil. Not bad for day one. It will settle down I think...and I hope it causes people to be smarter about their posts.

[Jason Manley]

btw...merged the two identical threads...enjoy.

other buttons that might be useful around here.

DRAMA!!!
BAN 'EM!
BEST OF

[GriNGo]

Groans, thanks? i liked it better when things were simpler here.

[SgtDirtbag]

biggest sillyhead of the day is gamermatt ?? He groaned at least ten people because they gave crits. I gave him a warning and deleted the crap groans. One of the photographers groaned anyone who disagreed with them, and other than that it has been mostly civil. Not bad for day one. It will settle down I think...and I hope it causes people to be smarter about their posts.You know what would be great? If we not only could look up the "thanked" posts of other people, but also the "thanks".

I think it would be very interesting to see what posts other people find great and deserving of a "thanks".

btw...merged the two identical threads...enjoy.

other buttons that might be useful around here.

DRAMA!!!
BAN 'EM!
BEST OF
I want an airstrike button! xD

[Blue Severin]

This is all great and wonderful, davi, but where's the FAP button!!!? Didn't we already have that? I could have sworn that's what five stars meant.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

oh dear.... i haven't gotten groaned yet.... its only a matter of time....

so if someone gets like a million groans, what happens? do you cut their bandwidth? ban them or something?
i like giving vicious critiques, but i dont want to be groaned when i give a real (sometimes harsh) critique that someone just "didn't want to hear"... you know the type:
me: you need to study anatomy, his legs are too long and his head is too small
littlebitch: "thats my style, you dont know what you're talking about, he's SUPPOSED to have really long legs and a tiny head..."

[MattGamer]

:'( I got in trouble for the first time in over 4 years of being here on the thread. I learned my lesson, don't mess with certain people (*cough*stark*cough*) or they'll start whining about their rudeness.

[alesoun]

It is no different than the stars system...easily abused...but rarely. Except this time I can track it easily.


Jason

I don't understand the stars system. It intimidates me a bit. If somebody has 5 stars, do I know enough to crit them? I usually, with the exceptions of Mindcandyman and Mentler, avoid the 5 starrers. I feel that I can give more worthwhile crits in the posts that have no stars.

When I do look at the 5 star posts, they don't always seem to be the same standard/quality, but that's probably just me.....

[Layil]

can we find a way to have the thanked and groaned indicator lists foldable so that the accumulations dont mess with the reading flow of the posts?

(did that make any sense at all?)

basically, a pile of names thanking any one post will make it a pain in the ass to follow a conversation. (it already gets in the way) ...can they be optional to view? that way people who care can participate and the rest of us can go back to talking about art.....

[mir]

I see I have 1 groans and I have not push any button or at least not on purpose.
Please, can I remove this :( ?

Edit:
Ok,I now see the groan button in other parts of the forum. I think once I hit something instead of the next page button and nothing happened and I was not worried.But this means someone have 1 groaned :(.Could I edit it in some way or could some of the admins fix it?

[Jessica Hook]

I see I have 1 groans and I have not push any button or at least not on purpose.
Please, can I remove this :( ?

Edit:
Ok,I now see the groan button in other parts of the forum. I think once I hit something instead of the next page button and nothing happened and I was not worried.But this means someone have 1 groaned :(.Could I edit it in some way or could some of the admins fix it?

You had accidentally groaned at Steph Laberis :p (hehe, I was wondering about that) Don't worry I erased it, it's all good! White as snow!

[Jason Manley]

good idea Layil...we will put it on the list.

J

[mir]

Yumiko, thank you very much.

[SgtDirtbag]

good idea Layil...we will put it on the list.

JWhat about my idea?

You know what would be great? If we not only could look up the "thanked" posts of other people, but also the "thanks".
I think it would be very interesting to see what posts other people find great and deserving of a "thanks".
Apart from looking up what other people find helpful, I'd really like to keep track of whom I thanked.

[ICH]

IMHO Thanks&Groans can be a nice idea, but like all "tools", it depends on how be used. I hope to be wrong, but I think that this become another way to exchange favour and increase reputation. Looking at this thread, there's still a lot of pleasant thanks, and we are in Lounge area, we are not talking about art. Popular guys will have easily hundreds thanks.

Anyway, it's regular and it's not a too bad thing.

About groans: I thought that groans was just for really useless posts. I have seen a groan gived to the first post to a thread author: it's a correct use?

About the Stars: like I say on another post, I think that the actual system doesn't work well.
Actually a post whit one star is more worse than a post whit no stars, but users do not use stars in this way.
I think that a star system whitout negative feeds can work really better: it's more easy to see that a thread whit no stars have not high level works (*cough* or not pretty popular author *cough*). It's Darwinian.

Anyway this is just my two cents...

[Jason Manley]

well at this point...while there are a host of good ideas presented, we are focused on the major updates to the galleries and the like. This was just a minor little piece we added. the meat of what we are up to is first on the list of things to do at this point.

if one of you are a php programmer who wants to volunteer to help, that is another story. But our meager and talented programming resources are all swallowed up at this time.

jason

[Seedling]

Yet another idea for the heap-of-stuff-that-would-be-nice-given-endless-resources: perhaps some sort of confirmation could be added to thanks and groans, to prevent accidents? I.E., you press the button, and get a pop-up that says “Are you sure you want to groan so-and-so?”

I’m looking forward to seeing what else you guys have been up to, Jason. :)

[Carnifex]

ok,either i'm blind or just dumb,i can't for the life of me find the "find all thanked posts by" thingy.
:(

[ciots]

ok,either i'm blind or just dumb,i can't for the life of me find the "find all thanked posts by" thingy.
:(

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/post_thanks.php?do=findthanks&u=3610

the profiles are back, so click the light bulb next to your name and check on the profile for the thanked posts

[TheDirtSyndicate]

Actually a post whit one star is more worse than a post whit no stars,

nah, i dont see it that way at all. i've seen some really good threads with no stars that nobody had voted on.
besides the whole thing is flawed anyway, i used to have 5 stars on my sketch book, now for some reason its only 4 and the other day i saw a dude with 5 stars that wasn't as good as me... i dont care. its not that big of a deal. i just ignore them now.

i just dont want some little bitch groaning me because i give him a critique he doesn't want to hear.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

ooh, i just had an idea, how about an "agree" button?
you know, if someone gives a really good critique on a piece and you have nothing else to add, instead of saying, "yeah i agree", you just hit the agree button on the other persons post.
:D
the disagree already exists i think... its called the "quote" button. hah
:P

[Jason Manley]

good stuff everyone....we will look at all these suggestions once we get the big update done. I appreciate everyone input, that is for sure.


Jason

[JL.Alfaro]

I havent been groaned at yet?...theres something wrong with the button.

edit - never mind

[ICH]

Complete2 I'm not talking about "justice" but just about, IMHO, simple visual organization.
I just think that rating would works better if the bad rate have different icons, like "minus" sign or "thumb down" or something like this, in example:

:star::star: Excellent
:star: Good
:down: Bad
:down::down: Terrible

Average is a regular state when no one rate your thread.

Personally, I not agree whit negative rating whitout arguments, so, something like that:

:star::star::star::star: Excellent
:star::star::star: Good
:star::star: Nice
:star: Ok

would be the best.

I really don't like flooding a post whit large amount of "wow", "cool", "nice!", "kapooooow!" (at me, it's all useless posts, but I can't groan all everyday ;-]) so, star rating it's important for me.

About groans: if someone groan you because don't like your critique, just ignore it, people knows that you are ok http://www.ivanovich.it/avatars/emoticons/Smile2.gif

[kool-ka-lang]

I don't see the groan button on anybody's post. ):

[emily g]

I don't see the groan button on anybody's post. ):

Not in the lounge you won't. It'd be too tempting to abuse it here. :)

[Jessica Hook]

I don't see the groan button on anybody's post. ):

Groans are disabled in the Lounge.

edit- hehe, Emily beat me to it! :)

[ICH]

Little OT but, since we are talking about update suggestion...
At side of every thread there is a little icon to "Go to first new post". It would be useful if there were an icon to "Go to first new post by author", if the icon seem "off" there are not new posts by author.
I hope to speak well.

[SgtDirtbag]

Little OT but, since we are talking about update suggestion...
At side of every thread there is a little icon to "Go to first new post". It would be useful if there were an icon to "Go to first new post by author", if the icon seem "off" there are not new posts by author.
I hope to speak well.Good Idea. : )

That reminds me of an idea I had for the sketchbooksection.
How about a sketchbook only gets pushed to the top when the original author replies?
That way, all the "ooh!" "awesome!" "incredible!!!" posts won't affect the order, only the amount of actual sketchbook updates would.

[kool-ka-lang]

Not in the lounge you won't. It'd be too tempting to abuse it here. :)

ah ok, thanks for letting me know. (I usually lurk around this place more, but I should be lurking around more in other areas...)

[Victor B]

Wow while I don't louge it up tooo often I was pleased to see this new tech implemented . The thanks look like a great idea!
I was a bit shocked to see I'd already been Groaned at and when I looked it was for unabashedly complimenting a Black Frog POST ! Black Frog! in a thread over 2 yrs old?! In a thread where everyone is obviously complimenting him amazed and thanking him for posting I guess my two year old post was too much?!

Anyhow many thanks for Jason Manley and all those involved in the renovations and upgrades trying to make a better community.

[Jessica Hook]

Wow while I don't louge it up tooo often I was pleased to see this new tech implemented . The thanks look like a great idea!
I was a bit shocked to see I'd already been Groaned at and when I looked it was for unabashedly complimenting a Black Frog POST ! Black Frog! in a thread over 2 yrs old?! In a thread where everyone is obviously complimenting him amazed and thanking him for posting I guess my two year old post was too much?!

Anyhow many thanks for Jason Manley and all those involved in the renovations and upgrades trying to make a better community.

Hey, I removed that groan from you. I think it was most likely an accident, you're right, the groan didn't make any sense for being there. Being that your post was the very last one on the page, the person probably went to hit the "next page" button, and accidently hit "groan" instead. It has happened before, and the location of the groan button is a bit awkward for that reason.

I second the suggestion that was made to make a 'confirmation' check on the groan button, like "Are you sure you want to groan this person?" before activating.

[Victor B]

My Hero:^^:

[Dile_]

stupid and unnecessary to groan all new people who doesn't understand the forum as well as we regulars does.

*cough*Complete1*cough*

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Bumping is imho fine as long as the thread isn't like 2 years +...

[Dile_]

Good Idea. : )

That reminds me of an idea I had for the sketchbooksection.
How about a sketchbook only gets pushed to the top when the original author replies?
That way, all the "ooh!" "awesome!" "incredible!!!" posts won't affect the order, only the amount of actual sketchbook updates would.



I hope that happens :)

[Justin.]

I like that idea for sketchbooks, it would decrease the motivation of sending your sketchbook around to have your friends comment, and more on working harder so it's updated more often (I would know...)


and I'm 99% sure I've got the most groans! YAY

Seriously is this a JOKE? Pardon me while I be appalled.

[Blue Severin]

Sgt Dirtbag has a freaking great idea.

[MarkWinters]

and I'm 99% sure I've got the most groans! YAY
Shouldn't count if they're all from the same person! (He got me too?!?:O ) I just witnessed this thing getting a little nasty... Is there a way to report a groaning madman or is that something admins take care of on their own?

I like the SB idea too.

[bluefooted]

I thought at first that the crap going on in the girl's TD thread was a mistake, but WTF?

[smugbug]

I've been groaned at twice. Not sure how to take it.


There needs to be a groan smilie. **ETA: no groans they've been dissapeared.

[Gryphon]

I'd actually like to see the SB thing go one step further - how awesome would it be if you could filter the thread so that you only see the posts from the original poster, and only get notified if the original poster updates? At least in some of the SBs I follow, they tend to end up with full pages of "awesome!!!11!" responses, and it would be a lot more interesting to look at if you could see just the updates.

Not sure if it's possible with the forum's programming, but it'd be nice.

[Jessica Hook]

People, if you think there's something wrong with someone else, or something they do, please send them a PM to discuss.

[Elwell]

I'm beginning to have serious second thoughts about the whole Groan thing. Much too passive-aggressive for my tastes.
Internet drama is teh suck.

[smugbug]

I'd actually like to see the SB thing go one step further - how awesome would it be if you could filter the thread so that you only see the posts from the original poster, and only get notified if the original poster updates? At least in some of the SBs I follow, they tend to end up with full pages of "awesome!!!11!" responses, and it would be a lot more interesting to look at if you could see just the updates.

Not sure if it's possible with the forum's programming, but it'd be nice.

Weeelllll, I take part in another forum that isn't at all art related, but fitness/training/nutrition related. There are two subforums for training journals there. One is an "open" journal section where others can comment; the other is "private" where it's only the journal's author who can update.

It IS handy, btw.

[MidgardSerpent]

I'm beginning to have serious second thoughts about the whole Groan thing. Much too passive-aggressive for my tastes.
Internet drama is teh suck.
Yeah, I agree. I've already seen it used for that exact purpose, I think it might make it too easy for people to take a cheap shot at someone.

I think the 'thanks' button is pretty useful through. Sometimes there's no need to respond with an obligatory 'thank you' post to someone's reply so you can just use the 'thanks' button and keep the topic clean.

[Jessica Hook]

I'm beginning to have serious second thoughts about the whole Groan thing. Much too passive-aggressive for my tastes.
Internet drama is teh suck.

Jason has disabled groans. :)

[Jason Manley]

I am seriously disappointed. however, the thanks will stay.

but i am now in ban mode since so much time was wasted on drama today...admin window's open...so if anyone is up for a perma-ban please feel free to try me.


jason

[Aardvarkphil]

Can someone tell me why I can't post any more images on CA. Have I really hit my limit or is there a fault with my account?

[emily g]

I'm really sorry Aardvarkphil :( ...I've checked your account and the only thing I see out of the ordinary about it is that you are in SteveKim's Mentor Class.

Is anyone else in this group having the same problem that you are? I changed the attachment permissions for this group. Let me know if it made a difference.

I also pm'd Davi about this yesterday (I think it was yesterday).

[Ilaekae]

That won't help. Davi's drunk and hanging by his heels in the basement...

[S.C. Watson]

That won't help. Davi's drunk and hanging by his heels in the basement...
Jesus Ilaekae, can't we trust you with *anyone?* :x :P

[Elwell]

Is anyone else in this group having the same problem that you are? I changed the attachment permissions for this group. Let me know if it made a difference.

I also pm'd Davi about this yesterday (I think it was yesterday).

I've had the same problem for about a week now. When I use the attachment manager, there's a full red bar at the top, and it says I've used X of Xmb. I can attach stuff to other people's posts when I edit them no problem, but can't do anything with my own.

[HunterKiller_]

Complete2 I'm not talking about "justice" but just about, IMHO, simple visual organization.
I just think that rating would works better if the bad rate have different icons, like "minus" sign or "thumb down" or something like this, in example:

:star::star: Excellent
:star: Good
:down: Bad
:down::down: Terrible

Average is a regular state when no one rate your thread.

Personally, I not agree whit negative rating whitout arguments, so, something like that:

:star::star::star::star: Excellent
:star::star::star: Good
:star::star: Nice
:star: Ok

would be the best.

I agree that something along this line is better than the current rating system.
One and two star ratings are pretty much useless, if a sketchbook isn't amazing, it's just going sink to the bottom of the forum, nobody is going to bother rating it.

[emily g]

I've had the same problem for about a week now. When I use the attachment manager, there's a full red bar at the top, and it says I've used X of Xmb. I can attach stuff to other people's posts when I edit them no problem, but can't do anything with my own.
Elwell, I checked all the groups you belong to and made a change to one of them. Let me know if this does anything.

[Elwell]

Fixed!
231439

[emily g]

Woohoo!!!! I'm so glad it worked! Awesome. :)

[Aardvarkphil]

I can post images again too.

Emily G you are my hero.

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much.

Phil

[stoph]

I am seriously disappointed. however, the thanks will stay.

but i am now in ban mode since so much time was wasted on drama today...admin window's open...so if anyone is up for a perma-ban please feel free to try me.


jason

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