Welcome back... - July 11, 2004 02:33 PM
Sorry for the abrupt halt in posting & the General forum being down. We left tech up and searchable for the weekend DIYers to minimize impact instead of just leaving the 'we're down' page. We had multiple issues that occured in a short span of time neither myself nor Greg had time to deal with completely the past few days. We discovered a few members being extremely disrespectful to Greg, and the rest of the forum by abusing the Vote to Delete function and a security problem shortly afterward. Security is fixed & VTD is slightly revamped... but will undergo some more changes as time allows to avoid this sort of abuse in the future.
Again, we appologize for the limited access, that was the best we could do in the amount of time available. Thank you to the people questions/concerns/kind words about what's going on. Please understand we didn't have time to answer all of them as we were trying to get this thing back on track instead.
Also, to reitereate Greg's message from Friday: We are halting all U.S. vs. Canada and vice-versa banter. It was funny at first but has become annoying and serves no purpose in furthering the community. All messages of that nature will be deleted.
Written by Dallas DamonZ
POLLS Forum debut! (and other functions) - June 18, 2004 12:01 AM
To commemorate the 2nd Annual TwinTurbo.NET Banquet at the Queen Mary, we decided to get busy and get some new functions added to be unveiled during dinner.
At this point, everybody at the banquet has just had a demonstration of the new functions and they are now open to the public.
First and foremost, we have added a POLLS FORUM!!
This forum is dedicated to poll questions and allows you to post up to 10 choices for a poll question. Members can vote on their choice and write replies just like a normal thread. Threads in this forum will be alive for 60 days unlike the other forums.
The second change, based on a recommendation I received from Kenny a few days ago is Editable descriptions on bookmarks. When you view your bookmarks page you will now see a new item next to the [X] as a [C] (for Change). This will be replaced by a graphic at a later date. For any bookmark, click the C and enter your own description for the bookmark. This new description will replace the default message subject in your list.If you ever wish to revert to the original message subject, just click the [C], leave the description blank, and hit OK.
Thanks Kenny for the suggestion!!
We hope you enjoy the new polls forum and bookmark feature.
Written by Greg (Dallas)
n00bs! - November 14, 2003 11:18 PM
So, by now you've probably seen the '00bs!' thing now and are wondering what we're up to. Well, it's something experimental we want to try. It seems being a n00b (newbie, or new member to the site) is becoming more and more difficult. The veterans of the site have nothing better to do then give new members a hard time... so we're starting a 'newbie protection program'. Newbies posting messages will be denoted with a next to their name. Veterans are expected (read: we'll just delete your nonsense, and delete your post-deletion whining about why your post got deleted, rinse, repeat...) to either simply answer the newbie's question without a bunch of BS, or just ignore them if the post is just too... uhm, newbieish or has been covered 132,452 times already. We'll probably develop some 'How to graduate from n00bdom' type classes to get newbies to learn about search and the FAQ/Auto-FAQ system for their own safety.
We've had the system up and running in the background for a few days, and it's pretty shocking to see how well things actually work and how things can work better for all of us once you see who's 'new' to the tt.NET community and who's a veteran.
For those new members that want to buck the n00b protection plan. Don't bother running up accesses or whatever. We've come up with a decently complex system for determining n00b status. So just enjoy it for the time you have it... we want you to get a handle on how things work around here instead of just jumping in and typically getting torn apart by the vets. Everyone show some respect both ways and we *all* will get along just fine.
On the other hand, if this idea sucks... we'll just drop it. But we think it will be a benefit to the community in the long run. So in short: Posters with next to their names are going to be 'protected' as best as possible by the moderators to ease the transisition into the often very deep water of tt.NET life... and vets can just ease off them a bit because you'll know who's new. Who knows you just might learn something along the way because just because they aren't a vet here doesn't mean they don't know anything about our beloved Z car.
Added support for some UBB tags - November 14, 2003 01:11 AM
I've seen several people attempt to use these recently to no avail. As we've all seen Windows beat UNIX and VHS beat Beta, even the mighty tt.NET must succumb somewhat to the bubblegum popcorn Hello Kitty! that is UBB. :-/
We now support the bold, italic, image, and url UBB style tags in messages and will parse and translate them appropriately. Example:
[ url=http://whatever]My Link[/url]
Without the space between the [ and url.
Image pop-up previews! - November 13, 2003 09:09 AM
Based on a kick-ass idea from Damon I implemented a preview popup for images. If you have Show Tool Tip Message Previews turned OFF in your profile then you will not see them.
To activate, simply roll over any image icon beside a message. The first image in the message will pop up for previewing.
Enjoy!
Events viewing problems have been fixed - October 25, 2003 11:57 PM
Anyone who has had trouble getting a blank page in Events when you are logged in, should notice that this problem has gone away.
Please don't post certain images 'inline'. - September 06, 2003 11:40 AM
We would prefer to not see anymore 'service manual' images inline (posted visibly on this site) or 'parts diagram' images (unless it's one from our own Docs section). If you want to link to the page or image, that's OK. We just don't want to see them inline in messages anymore.
Multiple ads in Classifieds will be deleted - May 13, 2003 10:20 AM
There are a lot of people lately that just post as many classified ads as they please. As a courtesy to everyone else that uses the Classifieds section, please consolidate your ads down to at least 2 (TWO), not 12, not 5, not 3, but TWO a day. Most of them can be done in 1... I usually send a nice little admin message explaining the rules that are stated at the top of the Classifieds posting page about only doing 2 at a time. I'm tired of that, so just expect your posts to get deleted. If you persistantly do it, then I'll just ban you. Simple.
Carfax requests will be deleted - May 06, 2003 08:51 AM
Greg had a sticky message posted, I figured I'd make it permanent over here in NEWS. Repeating, Carfax requests will be deleted.
Modification to a new feature - April 21, 2003 11:11 PM
Many of you have seen the new 'tool tip' message preview on all of the main forum pages. While I think it's pretty neat, and a lot of others do too, we're all about personal choice around here :-)
So... the tool tip message preview is now a profile setting. Go to Members->Edit Profile and scroll down towards the bottom and you will see a Yes/No setting for it. If you wish to turn it off, just set it to No and save your profile. By default, everybody is set to Yes.
