>
> Exactly. If the code told the browser to jump before it had everything loaded
> the loading images would cause the page to appear to scroll upwards while the
> last images get loaded. This is why the jump-script only jumps when all images
> etc has been loaded.
>
> Later on there will be a feature that cuts large threads into pages - this
> will reduce the amount of images that need to be loaded, and thus reduce the
> amount of waiting time for the jump to occour...
>

Will the code know to bump me to the appropriate page?

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The only problem I see with this Filter System is it's allowing people to just run around and give anybody they don't like a Negative Vote irrelevant to what they posted just to be giving the person a Negative Vote...

I haven't been posting much here lately but I already see some of my posts with a -6 or -7 rating when there was absolutely nothing wrong with the post...IMO

I see the same thing on other peoples post when I see nothing wrong with their post either, so all the Filter system is doing is letting people run amok and give people -votes...

Just ignore this! There have to be more then -25 (default),so that your post will disappear. Nevertheless I hope this situation will change soon because it's not fair. But what is in our times fairness?

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WARR - Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Raketentechnik und Raumfahrt
(WARR - scientific working group for rocket technology and space travel)

But now an other question. Have my advatar exactly to be 100x100 Pixelsor are also 70x100 allowed?

> But now an other question. Have my advatar exactly to be 100x100 Pixelsor are
> also 70x100 allowed?
>
>
>
It is better if you make your avitar exactly 100x100 or the avitar will be stretched or shrunk to make it 100x100 by the seti server also I found it handles the colour better if it is saved as a png file.

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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1 GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

> The only problem I see with this Filter System is it's allowing people to just
> run around and give anybody they don't like a Negative Vote irrelevant to what
> they posted just to be giving the person a Negative Vote...

The idea behind these rating systems (used on sites like /. for years, btw) is that in general people won't do that. If you have two people who can't stand you running around and voting you down, then you get a -2... but if your post is worthwhile, ten or fifteen people might rate your post *up*.

If I see a post I like, I rate it up. If I see a post I dislike, I rate it down. If it's Guido, I rate it down.

IMHO, it would be nice, Janus, if clicking the + or the - didn't cause a new page to be loaded; I don't know if you could get away with that or not. At the very least, just have it load the same page again, same spot, perhaps with notice at the top of the page that the input was accepted? IMHO, having to make the extra click to come back to the thread will discourage people from regularly using the rating system.

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Rob

The idea behind these rating systems (used on sites like /. for years, btw) is that in general people won't do that. If you have two people who can't stand you running around and voting you down, then you get a -2... but if your post is worthwhile, ten or fifteen people might rate your post *up*.
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From what I have seen in Forums with this general type of Rating system is most people won't take the time to give anybody a Plus Rating but if they don't like somebody they will go out of their way to make sure they give the person a minus rating ...

> From what I have seen in Forums with this general type of Rating system is
> most people won't take the time to give anybody a Plus Rating but if they
> don't like somebody they will go out of their way to make sure they give the
> person a minus rating ...

IME, that isn't the case... but perhaps we travel in different circles.

Regardless, though, it would take a *lot* of people rating you poorly everywhere before it had any kind of an impact on anything.

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Rob

@ Janus,

With the new features it is not possbile any more to edit the signature in a post you made already. When you go to the edit feature of your own post, the signature in that post is not present.

With the older version this was possible.

Any possibilty to turn this on again ?

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Best greetings, Thierry

> @ Janus,
>
> With the new features it is not possbile any more to edit the signature in a
> post you made already. When you go to the edit feature of your own post, the
> signature in that post is not present.
>
> With the older version this was possible.
>
> Any possibilty to turn this on again ?
>
Now when you edit your signature it is updated on all posts.

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BOINCing since 2002/12/8

> The only problem I see with this Filter System is it's allowing people to
> just run around and give anybody they don't like a Negative Vote irrelevant
> to what they posted just to be giving the person a Negative Vote...

Some people will do this, yes.

> [...]
> I see the same thing on other peoples post when I see nothing wrong with
> their post either, so all the Filter system is doing is letting people
> run amok and give people -votes...

Whenever you see a post that you feel has been voted below (or above) what it should have been you should simply contra-vote - if enough people feel like you it will stabilize. Even slightly negatively rated posts may contain points of interest.
If it is a personal attack you will have to have quite a lot of enemies to get a negative rating of -25, and if your post indeed does contain usefull material then I am pretty sure that people will start to contra-vote as soon as it starts to reach -10 or so without any clear reason.

> From what I have seen in Forums with this general type of Rating system
> is most people won't take the time to give anybody a Plus Rating but if
> they don't like somebody they will go out of their way to make sure they
> give the person a minus rating ...

The system default is a negative limit of 25 and a positive limit of 5 exactly to compensate for this kind of behaviour. As always: people are free to adjust these limits to what they like. They seem to work fine for me at the moment.

> IMHO, it would be nice, Janus, if clicking the + or the - didn't cause a
> new page to be loaded;

Noted - and a very important point. If it is not easy enough to use it won't be used.

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> The only problem I see with this Filter System is it's allowing people to
> just run around and give anybody they don't like a Negative Vote irrelevant
> to what they posted just to be giving the person a Negative Vote...

Some people will do this, yes.
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@ Janus

I was mistaken on some of the posts as they where actually plus vote & not negative votes....My Mistake, but the way it's set up when I see something like 1 - rate: +/- I just took that as a negative vote. I went into my preferences & changed them to 1 vote plus & 50 for negative that way green ! will show right up if it's a plus and not minus vote ...

> > @ Janus,
> >
> > With the new features it is not possbile any more to edit the signature
> in a
> > post you made already. When you go to the edit feature of your own post,
> the
> > signature in that post is not present.
> >
> > With the older version this was possible.
> >
> > Any possibilty to turn this on again ?
> >
> Now when you edit your signature it is updated on all posts.

Yes I know, but what I want to do is using a different signature on the helpdesk compared to the one I want to use in the forums.

With the old features, editing the signature in the post could be done, but now with the new features is not possible anymore.