I think it would be nice if the user's actual post number were labeled right there in the user info of a post and it stayed that number, instead of being updated each time the user makes another post. I don't imagine it would be all that difficult to implement... Just convert the number directly into a string, put it to the page, update the post count number accordingly, and then don't mess with the old number on the page. It'd prolly make the website easier to manage as well, since it doesn;t have to change every page's post counts when its loaded, though I guess it's a real-time generated stat anyway. THus, the feature I suggested would lead to more storage being necessary for the site... --> pitfall.

Maybe you could do the best of both worlds, say something like this:

Username
crazy status
This post is users # whatever
User's total nuber of posts to date
blah and foo to the end

I personally, kinda of enjoy seeing a users progress. It gives me twisted kicks... And then, it also irks me when I see a post that says "It's my 500th post" and the topic is only like two days old, yet the post count is up to 900 already... I'm like "Geez! Liar!" Then i see the person is a veritable Jackleg reincarnated... SO be it, thrash my idea around

11/13/2002 10:11:52 AM

no,
first of all that information isn't in the database now and
would be nearly impossible, or just plain to resource intensive
to go back through the 91835813598 threads and change them all

second,
it's a gay idea.

11/13/2002 1:11:01 PM

i like the idea but it seems like something that would have had to have been implemented from the very beginning instead of attempting an overhaul now.

11/13/2002 1:35:02 PM

Not doable, and completely pointless


Jason Smith
Student Media Authority Representative emeritus
North Carolina State University

11/13/2002 2:46:25 PM

oh, i'm not suggesting they go back and change all the other posts... just start up w/ my idea now and have it affect future posts and threads. but, if that's no possible, i understand

11/13/2002 8:49:17 PM

I like the idea, but yah it's probably not feasible.

11/13/2002 11:27:14 PM

really, how hard is it to implement for the FUTURE, not the past? You simply add a line of code between where it currently prints the number of posts for the user. This line is simply a string saying "this post is user's#" (or something to that effect) and then you cast the integer number of posts into a string, and you never update that line. It just stays the same, like the post content(assuming monkey bone doesn't change his post )
I don't knowwhat language this thing is written in, but I do know the text from the post has to be archived... So, you can archive the post number w/ the text. It REALLY isn't that hard to do, but only for the FUTURE, and not the past. Jeez folks, I could prolly do it right now, given the right tools.

11/14/2002 12:29:09 AM

Why do you assume that you know how the wolf web works? And how can you not know what language it is with the very obvious .aspx extensions? Oh yeah, what exactly are the "right" tools for programming? I think Jake said he wrote (at least at first) in Notepad. I'm not going to pretend like I know how this site works, even though I have a good idea of how based on posts by Jake and Joe (posts telling people to stop telling them how to run their site) but I seriously doubt that there will be any string casting or whatnot.

11/14/2002 3:59:02 AM

I like what I hear

11/14/2002 5:42:35 AM