PrimalFear Posted February 23, 2012 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Posted February 23, 2012 Hate to give you two of these in two days, but I noticed several people are able to edit their posts, but I'm not able to. It did say I didn't have permission, now the edit button is completely gone. Additionally some very recent topics in the admin section are locked for some reason and I can't reply to them.
JohnnyDos Posted February 23, 2012 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.30 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Posted February 23, 2012 I couldn't edit either.
Cavey Posted February 24, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted February 24, 2012 Yep it's due do to the posts being brought across from the other site. Phantom is going to fix it tonight (UK time).
PrimalFear Posted February 28, 2012 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Author Posted February 28, 2012 I'm not nagging, but I want to report that I keep the "List of XI Game Names" for BF3 up to date, I'm still not able to edit the list. http://www.xtremeidiots.com/index.php?/topic/21527-list-of-xi-game-names/ I was just hoping for an update on this issue, I can be patient, I would just like to know it has not been forgotten. You guys have done a great job with the website and have done well correcting the problems, just looking for an update because my responsibility is falling behind. I hope you know I'm asking this with respectful intentions in mind.
Cavey Posted February 28, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted February 28, 2012 Hi primal. I've looked further into this. Presently this setting is set to 10 minutes. That means 10 minutes after you post, the edit button disappears. The purpose is to people a chance to edit out spelling mistakes, etc. plus for one or two other admin reasons. However I can understand based on your situation, why you would want this changed. I can raise this to the change control team and see if they are happy to make any changes. Though just a suggestion that you could simply create a link to the XI battlelog party group where people could request to join, and would subsequently have access to all these people. Just a thought. I'll come back to you with feedback as soon as possible.
Exe Posted February 28, 2012 Member ID: 2567 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2905 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 985 Achievement Points: 17127 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 06/08/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 14 hours ago Birthday: 12/11/1986 Device: Windows Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) Hi primal. I've looked further into this. Presently this setting is set to 10 minutes. That means 10 minutes after you post, the edit button disappears. The purpose is to people a chance to edit out spelling mistakes, etc. plus for one or two other admin reasons. However I can understand based on your situation, why you would want this changed. I understand why there is a limit but imagine... You post an important announcement, then you go to eat, you come back one hour later and discover a huge big fault of understanding and a few answers after your first post... And you can't edit the main post ? Not cool Edited February 28, 2012 by Exe Awards
GorillaXI Posted February 28, 2012 Member ID: 62 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 73 Topic Count: 480 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 4124 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 1413 Achievement Points: 27905 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 10 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 4, 2015 Birthday: 06/16/1972 Posted February 28, 2012 That is correct Exe, there is a 10 minute time limit to edit a post. If there is something that you need to change after that, it is best to get a hold of a Senior Admin or one of the Webmaster.
Cavey Posted February 28, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted February 28, 2012 Hi primal. I've looked further into this. Presently this setting is set to 10 minutes. That means 10 minutes after you post, the edit button disappears. The purpose is to people a chance to edit out spelling mistakes, etc. plus for one or two other admin reasons. However I can understand based on your situation, why you would want this changed. I understand why there is a limit but imagine... You post an important announcement, then you go to eat, you come back one hour later and discover a huge big fault of understanding and a few answers after your first post... And you can't edit the main post ? Not cool Exe as I said I will bring this up with the Senior Admin team. However if they want to leave it as it presently is, then that's the final answer. I was mainly posting a reply to Primal so he understood it wasn't a bug, but a setting.
HarryWeezer Posted February 28, 2012 Member ID: 20166 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.14 Content Count: 7655 Content Per Day: 1.79 Reputation: 7232 Achievement Points: 53682 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 17 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Posted February 28, 2012 Thanks Cavey: didn't seem to be a problem at the old site and probably saved a few folks some embarassment, or some problems by being able to remove posts made in haste or anger. Hope the seniors allow any poster to at any time, be able to remove content he or she places in the forums. Awards
PrimalFear Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Author Posted February 29, 2012 Hi primal. I've looked further into this. Presently this setting is set to 10 minutes. That means 10 minutes after you post, the edit button disappears. The purpose is to people a chance to edit out spelling mistakes, etc. plus for one or two other admin reasons. However I can understand based on your situation, why you would want this changed. I can raise this to the change control team and see if they are happy to make any changes. Though just a suggestion that you could simply create a link to the XI battlelog party group where people could request to join, and would subsequently have access to all these people. Just a thought. I'll come back to you with feedback as soon as possible. Please do that, and in this particular case it is not limited to just members being able to contact admins through Origin as well as find other team members, that list will be used to add members to the BF3 VIP slot list, which will give members priority on the servers when the server is full, when operational, essentially what it would do is kick someone not on the VIP list to make room for one that is. If a member is not on that list, that member could be kicked to make room for another. Additionally, it's not just adding people to the list, people change their names and that information also needs to be updated. Thank you for the speedy reply Thanks Cavey: didn't seem to be a problem at the old site and probably saved a few folks some embarassment, or some problems by being able to remove posts made in haste or anger. Hope the seniors allow any poster to at any time, be able to remove content he or she places in the forums. +1 I thought this was an adult clan. Why should a person not be permitted to edit their post at any time? I see no benefit to this at all, if someone posted something that needed admin attention and it was edited or deleted that would only assist the admins in not having to respond to it at all. Please change this for all the reasons listed, we should be able to edit or delete our own posts at will. Many of the pages on this site in the past have required edits, like tourney update info, schedules, etc without having to go through 100 posts to get the relevant information. Pharticus 1
Ph4nt0m Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Posted February 29, 2012 Thanks Cavey: didn't seem to be a problem at the old site and probably saved a few folks some embarassment, or some problems by being able to remove posts made in haste or anger. Hope the seniors allow any poster to at any time, be able to remove content he or she places in the forums. Sorry Harry but your wrong, This was a huge issue on the old platform, consider the issue that we had we when a post called "Who wants to be a post whore" was deleted by the topic starter, the topic was in place on the site for near on 6 months, lots of users had contributed posts to this topic however short or silly they may have been, some users made over 200 replies to this topic, when the topic started deleted the topic, this also deleted ALL replies made to that topic so some users post counts went down by over 200 posts which is certainly an issue, This is the reason that this platform has been configured to allow a time frame where a started topic or a reply post can be edited before it becomes none editable, I personally have no problem with increasing this time frame if need be but I actually think that to save the integrity and content that our members contribute, this is actually a good idea, In the cases of topics like the "Game Names" topic, there is no reason why we can't add whatever game name or xfire name or steam name you want as a field in users profiles, we can create any number of custom fields in a users profile so threads like these really no longer need to be posted in the forums, just make a request in the Website Discussion forums and any field you want can be added.
PrimalFear Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Author Posted February 29, 2012 Thanks Cavey: didn't seem to be a problem at the old site and probably saved a few folks some embarassment, or some problems by being able to remove posts made in haste or anger. Hope the seniors allow any poster to at any time, be able to remove content he or she places in the forums. Sorry Harry but your wrong, This was a huge issue on the old platform, consider the issue that we had we when a post called "Who wants to be a post whore" was deleted by the topic starter, the topic was in place on the site for near on 6 months, lots of users had contributed posts to this topic however short or silly they may have been, some users made over 200 replies to this topic, when the topic started deleted the topic, this also deleted ALL replies made to that topic so some users post counts went down by over 200 posts which is certainly an issue, This is the reason that this platform has been configured to allow a time frame where a started topic or a reply post can be edited before it becomes none editable, I personally have no problem with increasing this time frame if need be but I actually think that to save the integrity and content that our members contribute, this is actually a good idea, In the cases of topics like the "Game Names" topic, there is no reason why we can't add whatever game name or xfire name or steam name you want as a field in users profiles, we can create any number of custom fields in a users profile so threads like these really no longer need to be posted in the forums, just make a request in the Website Discussion forums and any field you want can be added. Editing and Deleting are two different issues. The current list has over 70 members listed, and at last count that I saw we had over 400 members, are you suggesting that I go through all 400 members weekly to verify if they changed their names or recently added one by purchasing BF3 because of a post whore medal?
Exe Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 2567 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2905 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 985 Achievement Points: 17127 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 06/08/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 14 hours ago Birthday: 12/11/1986 Device: Windows Posted February 29, 2012 Agree with PrimalFear about Editing/Deleting, 2 different things. About the old topic 'who wants to be a post whore', I remember that you were the starter of this topic no? That means an other guy than the owner has deleted this topic? Anyway, increase the time frame could be a good idea! Awards
Ruggerxi Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 6 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 190 Topic Count: 2832 Topics Per Day: 0.49 Content Count: 12322 Content Per Day: 2.13 Reputation: 13669 Achievement Points: 107768 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 140 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 32 minutes ago Birthday: 08/25/1976 Device: Windows Posted February 29, 2012 It really sounded like a great idea and it does have its pluses, but I can certainly see how its a problem. Give me a couple to think this over PrimalFear and NightmareXI 2 Awards
ROCKAPE Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 4 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 172 Topic Count: 1108 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 5192 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 3203 Achievement Points: 44036 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 33 minutes ago Birthday: 08/16/1967 Device: Windows Posted February 29, 2012 Everyone that posts have to be accountable for their posts this was not about a post whore medal.We have had posters on the forums from all website status (registered users,clan members,adms etc) posting in haste then deleting or editing their post after they have given thought to what they have said. Seniors have been called up to view a post in the past and the poster has removed or edited it,not accepting responsibility for their actions so at present the system we have in place is beneficial to all those who have self control and personal discipline. I believe this is a better feature of this website and ultimately better for clan members. Awards
Ph4nt0m Posted February 29, 2012 Member ID: 1 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 39 Topic Count: 162 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1909 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 121 Achievement Points: 11489 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/06/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 4, 2020 Birthday: 06/28/1975 Posted February 29, 2012 The current list has over 70 members listed, and at last count that I saw we had over 400 members, are you suggesting that I go through all 400 members weekly to verify if they changed their names or recently added one by purchasing BF3 because of a post whore medal? Ok, I may be missing something here but what exactly is the list for?
PrimalFear Posted March 1, 2012 Member ID: 159 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 76 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 855 Content Per Day: 0.15 Reputation: 93 Achievement Points: 5145 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 9, 2012 Birthday: 09/21/1971 Author Posted March 1, 2012 (edited) The current list has over 70 members listed, and at last count that I saw we had over 400 members, are you suggesting that I go through all 400 members weekly to verify if they changed their names or recently added one by purchasing BF3 because of a post whore medal? Ok, I may be missing something here but what exactly is the list for? Well it's kind of 3 things in one but I think you found a solution that I only realized after I was able to think about it more (alot going on right now) which is typical of you, I can't even count the number of times you just post a solution that is way better than the alternative for me. Anyway to answer what the list does: 1 - look up BF3 admins (xfire problems with BF3 makes Origin a useful alternative to contacting an admin) 2 - add members to join up with 3 - I have been working on a solution to the BF3 VIP system, when that system is functional, I was going to use that list to add all the members to it. The list would make it so that any person on that list trying to enter one of our servers, would automatically enter the server even if it was full, it would kick someone not on that list to make room, which would make it easier for members to enter the server without having to request an admin's help to make room for them. It would do that automatically based on their Origin ID. But your suggestion is way better than it currently is for all this, if an Origin ID could be placed in the members profile and a separate page with a consolidated list of those Origin ID's, similar to the xFire page we had on the other site existed, then it would be updated by each member instead of just me. That would mean far less work for me comparing ID's in Origin and matching them up on that list, while still accomplishing all 3 tasks. Members would still be able to find admins and other members. Brilliant! So your suggestion is a brilliant solution to this, I didn't even know that it was an option, I still would like to be able to edit and delete my own posts but at least this alternative not only solves the problem, it would create a superior condition. Thank you very much, sorry, it took me a bit to consider it further than I had when I first read it. I'll make a separate thread requesting this. Edited March 1, 2012 by PrimalFear
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