Life In 19x19

Joaz Banbeck wrote:

lefuet wrote:...
btw, is there a way to lump many identical go server handles together?
e.g.:
KGS,DGS,WBaduk,Tygem: lefuet

Yes. It is easy.
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My impression was that lefuet was talking about having the specific text, based on server name like in his example:

KGS,DGS,WBaduk,Tygem: lefuet

The interesting part about this problem is that some people may only use particular servers, or even have a different name on only one server. For example:

KGS, WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby

The question then becomes, how should the user input this data? My thought on this was to allow for the user input of userid to server remain as it is.

Then, in the backend, before displaying the text in the user profile, we should parse the different go server handles, and see if they contain the same text. If they do, we could group the heading together.

So, in essence, as a user I would enter:
KGS: Kirby
WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby

Then when it is displayed on the page, it'd show up as:
KGS,WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby

Having a "Universal id" entry is interesting, but is not applicable in the example above, since I do not have a universal ID, but I do have an ID that is shared across multiple servers.

Kirby wrote:...
So, in essence, as a user I would enter:
KGS: Kirby
WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby

Then when it is displayed on the page, it'd show up as:
KGS,WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby
...

That may be tricky. I think that phpBB would require you to generate a new field on the fly. Either that, or you define all of the possible fields beforehand: ab, abc, abcd, abcde, bc, bcd ...etc.

Either way it could get into some ugly programming.

Joaz Banbeck wrote:

Kirby wrote:...
So, in essence, as a user I would enter:
KGS: Kirby
WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby

Then when it is displayed on the page, it'd show up as:
KGS,WBaduk: Kirby
Tygem: MrKirby
...

That may be tricky. I think that phpBB would require you to generate a new field on the fly. Either that, or you define all of the possible fields beforehand: ab, abc, abcd, abcde, bc, bcd ...etc.

Either way it could get into some ugly programming.

It is kind of tricky, because you have to edit some files on the server. It doesn't work just going through ACP. But I think it might be feasible, because the "Likes" text is also on the server, and wasn't hard to figure out. If I can get to it, I'll give it a shot.

I want Likes in this format: DELETED

Reasons I explained earlier.

(FWIW, I want also number of posts DELETED. It is another meaningless number. Not to mention Lives in Sente.)

RobertJasiek wrote:I want Likes in this format: DELETED

Reasons I explained earlier.

(FWIW, I want also number of posts DELETED. It is another meaningless number. Not to mention Lives in Sente.)

Hey, Robert. Could you post a link to the explanation of why you want likes deleted? I'm sure this discussion probably happened before, but I don't recall when. I also don't recall the points that were brought up.

RobertJasiek wrote:I want Likes in this format: DELETED

Reasons I explained earlier.

(FWIW, I want also number of posts DELETED. It is another meaningless number. Not to mention Lives in Sente.)

*grumble grumble*

How about liker and likee?

viewtopic.php?p=46759#p46759
and all later messages in that thread.

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3674

BTW, it was very easy to search for this: Keyword "Likes", author: RobertJasiek

RobertJasiek wrote:...

BTW, it was very easy to search for this: Keyword "Likes", author: RobertJasiek

Yep, but I wanted to make sure that I am not guessing on what you meant.

And conveniently, Robert's link also provides a nice set of rebuttals to his arguments, so perhaps this sub-discussion could do without re-warming, unless of course a second like disliker has in the meantime emerged on our forum.

Well, reading the threads that Robert linked to make me feel that a number of people do appreciate the "Like" system, so it's probably not a good idea to do away with it altogether.

I don't see how allowing a user to hide the "Like" section from their profile information could really hurt, though, so I will see if I can figure out a way to do this. It may take a little bit of time, though, because I think I'm going to have to slightly "mod the mod" that's being used.

I'm just amazed that people have strong feelings about this.

As long as "times" is removed I'm happy.

judicata wrote:I'm just amazed that people have strong feelings about this.

People will have strong feelings over anything on the Internet.

judicata wrote:I'm just amazed that people have strong feelings about this.

I have very specific feelings, quite weakly held.

hyperpape wrote:

judicata wrote:I'm just amazed that people have strong feelings about this.

I have very specific feelings, quite weakly held.

I have very specific feelings, quite strongly held, but rarely spoken.

I agree with Araban - whatever way is fine, but remove the "times" from the numbers.

And a special thanks to Kirby for all the hard work!