SIAP: Points are back Posbang
I checked a few pages of board and didn't see anything. Fake internet points have returned at mgoblog!
https://twitter.com/misopogon/status/1129415688387465221?s=21
My body is ready.
The pointless era is behind us. Let's rejoice.
I'm here for the posbang but I'm late for the posbang and now I'm worried that my post will be way down at the bottom and receive far less fake internet points which are after all the entire point of the posbang so what I'm going to do here is post as a reply to this completely unrelated post in order to get more visibility and hopefully more fake internet points even though some may find this disorderly and borderline rude I'm doing it anyway because it's a posbang after all and I'm betting that the default posbang upvotes outweigh those that would downvote for the utter lack of decorum.
Wise decision. I'm late to the party, so I'll piggy back on your wisdom, though extreme tardiness may mitigate my cheating. Just as well, because I mostly want to see if the fix is truly on.
I would rather have a "smite" button available.
I love fake internet points. They are almost as good as money!
To use Every Three Weekly's motto, Better Than Sex, Twice As Often (or in this case, twice as much).
Internet points > bitcoin
Have a free point!
What is the exchange rate of MGoPoints to Schrute Bucks?
I hear the exchange rate is going through the roof!
Check the MGoCatalog. I got two lawn chairs for 5,000 points.
Hot biggety bang bang!
totally disagree; thot diggity dang dang is the only way. this is serious and bangworthy.
- Will we ever again be able to see a highlight for new posts within a thread?
- Will we ever again be able to click on a post within a commenter’s personal list of posts and be immediately directed to that post?
- Will we ever again be able to see how we’ve voted on a post?
- Will we ever again be able to see the number of upvotes and downvotes for a post, instead of the net result of the votes?
Probably not?
Those are very pointed questions.
Points issues that take a lot of work are below much larger site issues. We've been working on a big project crucial to the site staying alive that isn't very user-facing. But to address these individually:
- We put a bunch of resources into this and couldn't get it working so now it's on the backburner while resources go elsewhere.
- Yeah probably. That's a middle priority thing in a large pile of middle priority things.
- No, unless you go to that post. Generating those vote pages was a huge resource hog that was okay when we had 10,000 users but not 100,000 active users or 1,000,000 active users. We'd rather save the database pings for users loading the site. Sorry--cost of growth.
- Maybe one day? When we put in the points we had to build our system off of a module someone else made, and our preference for showing total up and down votes had to give way to save ourselves hundreds of man hours of writing a new module. But maybe one day someone will made a Drupal 9 points module that we can insert instead.
"We've been working on a big project crucial to the site staying alive that isn't very user-facing."
Trying to convince Brian to not sell the site to MLive?
Hi Seth honest question - why didn't you guys just go with a canned site on a host that offers forum services? Seems like it would have been a lot less cost and hassle
1. Brian is a software engineer who prefers to tinker with everything.
2. This allows us to keep our user data localized on one secure server. WAY more security that way.
3. We may use a forum service in the future--it's been talked about--but that would be a lot of work to integrate it and we feel like our message board is functional if imperfect.
I think missing modules from old Drupal are noticeable but all the stuff that's working--like migrating everyone's status from the old site and keeping comment histories--would probably have been missed more.
I've never experienced a real point before, but I bet it feels real good!
Don't believe the hype
Believe the hype. I'm earning free flights, goods and services with my points!
couzens, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you still are pointless (in an mgoblog way, not in a meta way). i even tagged you one and you're still at.....zero.
Well said! LOL
I've lost that euphoric feeling...(sigh). Thanks X.
as if i'm not a big enough jerk already, now i'm raining on peoples' parades. i should self-ban.
Is there anyway to get one point. All I ask is for one point. I can’t go through life being a zero.
Looks like I'll never get pointed. Forever a pointless romantic.
Points of her own sitting way up high...
Those are the kind of points I want
Way up firm n high
I'm being very careful today to avoid Game of thrones spoilers. I am at the end of season 5, I tried to catch up before the finale but it is not really a show I can watch with my kids around!
people die.
What?! No way!
Sorry, had to do it. Also, there are dragons.
Stop watching now. Pretend it's over. You'll be happier that way.
Nice! About time. Restore law and order to this blog.
Ok, not really but I like the points anyway.
Did someone say points?
Lucy: [holds out football]
Ooooh! This must be the day when my points finally start accumulating!
Remember, an upvote today means we can downvote tomorrow. Do your part!
Sorta. What we're going to do is fix all of the users stuck on zero points by giving them points for all the posts they've made, and hope that jogs them into working. Targeting this Friday for it.
The points are cool, imagine the possibilities.
What if we could wager them?
What if we could see what user gave us a thumbs up/down?
What if we could see how many thumbs up and thumbs down instead of just net?
All of those would make this site even better than it is.
Are these ideas possible and or probable?
I would be willing to help the site manager with this.
I traded some of my points for a 2nd round draft pick in the 2022 NBA draft. I need someone to clean cobwebs off of ceilings and the wash the tops of windows that I can't reach.
Fill me with your points!
Is that the same thing as show me your boobs?
