Mods/Admins, great idea for the forums!


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Hiya,

Just an idea. There is this thing that when you run over the topic of a post a little yellow box comes up giving you like the first paragraph of a post, which is very handy and saves time going through useless posts.

They use it over HEREif you want to take a look.

What does everyone think? just an idea...

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This had been asked before. Basically, the new requests made to the server to accomplish this would put a huge strain on our resources.

I totaly agree, i think its just too much, just open the thread and just read the first post and then scim the others. It sounds like a good tool, but would be too much for as many things on this forum.

(Goten)

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I thought about the same. But the problems is as what silly_walk said. Each time you place your mouse over a thread in the forum index, a request is made to the server to get some text from the actual thread. There are more than 40 000 Neowin members and if nearly every member come here, it would send the servers working very hard to perform tasks for everyone.

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It is a good thing but silly_walk explained it all;);)

-Couch Potato?

Ps. Goten posting in color aswell are y:p? :p

Do you hvae some sort of an option set, or do you use the tags for EVERY post!?

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I open with [ color=darkred] and end with [/ color], I wish I could have an option. It got used to typing like this anyways. I auto add the color tags to every post I make. :)

-Couch Potato?

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I thought about the same. But the problems is as what silly_walk said. Each time you place your mouse over a thread in the forum index, a request is made to the server to get some text from the actual thread. There are more than 40 000 Neowin members and if nearly every member come here, it would send the servers working very hard to perform tasks for everyone.

Actually, it's normally handled a bit differently than that. When building the topic list, if the feature is on, it joins in data from the post table. Since the post table is huge, it adds to an already complex query on the board. The post table is pretty huge, and to join from it is a big operation. So, it's wise to not do so, especially on big boards where it's a heavily accessed table already.

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Colours are stupid

That is what you think. I think they are handy. People reconigse my posts without having to look at my nickname. In my birthday thread someone named me the "Official Dark Red Poster" or something like that and this shows that I do get remembered by using the color. As long as it is allowed I will be using it. :)

-Couch Potato?

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That is what you think. I think they are handy. People reconigse my posts without having to look at my nickname. In my birthday thread someone named me the "Official Dark Red Poster" or something like that and this shows that I do get remembered by using the color. As long as it is allowed I will be using it:):)

-Couch Potato?

but sticking out also makes you look like a spammer

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Frankly your Avatar is supposed to be what people remember you by, its what is supposed to stick out and make it easy for you to remember. Honestly the only thing I remember you for is because your post distract me from other peoples posts.

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I am sorry for making your life hard. I have posted in the other thread, and I am not stopping to use the dark red font color. I came to Neowin not intending to be reconigsed as an annoyance or spammer. I hereby offer you my apologies and I will stop using the darkred font color. :)

-Couch Potato?

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I am sorry for making your life hard. I have posted in the other thread, and I am not stopping to use the dark red font color. I came to Neowin not intending to be reconigsed as an annoyance or spammer. I hereby offer you my apologies and I will stop using the darkred font color:):)

-Couch Potato?

i dont mind ur dark red posts

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Thank you Sparkler. :) As you may have noticied I am posting in darkred again. Couch Potato? is known for the darkred font color and will remain to keep it:):)

-Couch Potato?

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