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Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Nov 3, 2007.

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  1. Disciple of The Watch

    Disciple of The Watch Preparing The Coming of The New Order Veteran

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    Remove all ads!
    ROTFLMFAO!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

    That's an instant classic! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
     
    Disciple of The Watch, Nov 25, 2007
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  2. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    Yeah...that sounds like the typical Chev post. :shake: :lol: :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Nov 26, 2007
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  3. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG]
    There are threads in them that you've looked at before, but not since they've had new posts. Until you check them, the forum markers will be lit, as there are literally threads there that have been active since you've checked last. This is simply a consequence of views being kept meticulously now; just because you don't look at a thread doesn't mark it as read when you close the boards, as it's worked in the past.

    However, you can easily mark the entire forum read if you're not interested in those threads. On the forum thread listing page, look for the "Forum Tools" dropdown (to the left of "Search this Forum"), and select "Mark This Forum Read".

    You can do it for the entire board at once by using the "Mark Forums Read" link above the Who's Online table on the front page of the boards.

    [Copied here from Whatnots because it's probably a common issue. -Tal]
     
    Taluntain, Nov 27, 2007
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  4. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] And the front page news is back too... and online users displays on the site pages.
     
    Taluntain, Dec 2, 2007
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  5. chevalier

    chevalier Knight of Everfull Chalice ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    I like the new borders! The forums look quite classy now.
     
    chevalier, Dec 2, 2007
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  6. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Those are the Christmas decorations. :lol:
     
    Taluntain, Dec 2, 2007
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  7. Strife Gems: 6/31
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    Hello Tal,

    I just tried a search for "F/M", and I see that vB is still not recognising "/" as a valid character and thus the search string doesn't satisfy the 3-character minimum requirement.

    Not really a big deal, but I guess it's something for you to look into in the future.

    Thanks.
     
    Strife, Dec 11, 2007
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  8. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Yea, I haven't forgotten about that, but it's more complex of an issue than it appears, because / and a bunch of others are characters excluded on the MySQL level. There's not much reliable information on how to include them without an inordinate amount of trouble, unfortunately. I'm still looking into it, though.
     
    Taluntain, Dec 11, 2007
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    Hmm, I'm not really proficient with databases and MySQL, but this site may help:

    http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-syntax.html

    That's for MySQL 5.0, I believe the relevant documentation for 5.1 and 6.0 are in the sidebar to the left.

    Also, if the backend is using a regular expression style search, I'm pretty sure you can escape those special characters by prefixing them with a "\" character, or there should be a way to enter a search string as a raw string where all special metacharacters are ignored.

    Just throwing a few ideas around.
     
    Strife, Dec 13, 2007
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  10. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Nope, that's not it, it's an issue with the Fulltext search, and one that mysql.com isn't much help with.
     
    Taluntain, Dec 13, 2007
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  11. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    I just noticed this - why do I have two green boxes beside my Rep Power of 9 (which I could have sworn was 8), whereas everyone else seems to have only 1 box?
     
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    Splunge, Dec 19, 2007
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  12. Nakia

    Nakia The night is mine Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    You are an accountant, Splunge. :D Maybe because you keep double books you get double boxes?
     
    Nakia, Dec 20, 2007
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  13. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Well, that would make sense, except for the fact that JSBB only has one box.

    But maybe he's not a very good accountant, and gets only one. :p
     
    Splunge, Dec 20, 2007
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  14. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    Or maybe Splunge's services to Bhaal have earned him twice the reputation he used to have. Then again, it could also just be "creative accounting". ;)
     
    Montresor, Dec 20, 2007
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  15. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    As your reputation goes up, so does the number of icons. Apparently your rep is the highest at the moment - congrats! ;)
     
    Taluntain, Dec 20, 2007
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  16. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Holy crap!

    Actually, now I remember. IIRC, it's one rep power for every 100 rep points people give.

    I must say, I'm flattered. :) Of course, it probably helps that I've figured out a way to give myself rep points. :p
     
    Splunge, Dec 20, 2007
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  17. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    How many of those new members are actually clones that Splunge has set up to be his own Reputation Rent a Crowd?
     
    Harbourboy, Dec 21, 2007
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  18. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    You are all figments of my wildly creative (for an accountant) mind.

    :p
     
    Splunge, Dec 21, 2007
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  19. Nakia

    Nakia The night is mine Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    To change the topic from Splunge back to the New Boards now open:

    Tal, are you aware that I can rate a thread as many times as I want or at least more than once.
     
    Nakia, Dec 21, 2007
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  20. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Hmm, interesting. I'll have to check if the subsequent votes actually take.
     
    Taluntain, Dec 21, 2007
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