The all new: Ask a moderator about the forum & rules

[W0lle 1050]

Send the PM with your question or whatever to Dwarden and ask him to forward it. I'm not sure if Ivan has time to answer PMs these days.

[mr burns 132]

I´m searching for the "Your signature is too big" signature, is there any way to get a link for it w/o using a too big signature myself?

[Zipper5 74]

Here you go:

[mr burns 132]

Thanks alot :)

[abs 2]

Here you go:

[OMG]http://forums.bistudio.com/images/avatars/Correct_Signature.png[/img]

Zipper5, your signature is in violation of forum rules. :butbut:

Abs

[JdB 151]

I mentioned this to Placebo once when he had an oversized signature, he told me it was required for his job :butbut:

[W0lle 1050]

Who said that rules apply to moderators? :p :cool:

[Gunter Severloh 4051]

Zipper5, your signature is in violation of forum rules

I dont see any rules broken. The size of his sig is roughly the same as Wolle's

55.14 KB

550px × 140px

and the rules are:

Total maximum signature size is 600x150 px (text and/or images combined). Total maximum image size is 100KB.

Question for the moderators,

this has been on the back of my mind for some time nothing urgent or anything but the rule:

§13) Write in English

Shouldn't this say:

§13) Type in English vs §13) Write in English

I mean we are really typing in the forum, I'm trying to understand how writing translates or can mean the same as typing in the forum context,

could you guys clear this up for me?

[abs 2]

I dont see any rules broken. The size of his sig is roughly the same as Wolle's

55.14 KB

550px × 140px

and the rules are:

Total maximum signature size is 600x150 px (text and/or images combined). Total maximum image size is 100KB.

See for yourself.

Question for the moderators,

this has been on the back of my mind for some time nothing urgent or anything but the rule:

§13) Write in English

Shouldn't this say:

§13) Type in English vs §13) Write in English

I mean we are really typing in the forum, I'm trying to understand how writing translates or can mean the same as typing in the forum context,

could you guys clear this up for me?

Writing is the act of creating a written work. Typing is the method. Simple.

Abs

[Gunter Severloh 4051]

Writing is the act of creating a written work. Typing is the method.

Makes sense, and somehow I already knew that, but thanks for clearing that up.

As for the sig I go by right clicking the sig and looking at the numbers, as you can have a sig that meets the size but not the file size which can exceed 100kb.

[mr burns 132]

§13) Write in English

Shouldn't this say:

§13) Type in English vs §13) Write in English

I mean we are really typing in the forum, I'm trying to understand how writing translates or can mean the same as typing in the forum context,

could you guys clear this up for me?

That gives you a headache?

There´s been times when it said: "Write in english (or klingon)" :p

[W0lle 1050]

I dont see any rules broken. The size of his sig is roughly the same as Wolle's

55.14 KB

550px × 140px

and the rules are:

Total maximum signature size is 600x150 px (text and/or images combined). Total maximum image size is 100KB.

Mine is 550 x 215 px :cool:

Question for the moderators,

this has been on the back of my mind for some time nothing urgent or anything but the rule:

§13) Write in English

Shouldn't this say:

§13) Type in English vs §13) Write in English

I mean we are really typing in the forum, I'm trying to understand how writing translates or can mean the same as typing in the forum context,

could you guys clear this up for me?

Nitpicking, you type the texts here or not?

That gives you a headache?

There´s been times when it said: "Write in english (or klingon)" :p

Yes but we dropped it as no one ever used klingon at all. :D

[Gunter Severloh 4051]

That gives you a headache?

Did I say it gives me a headache? Am I you? you may understand it fine but I didn't and it was just something

I was pondering one day while looking through the rules I was in doubt and it didn't seem correct to me.

Nitpicking, you type the texts here or not?

Nitpicking? No, my reasons are above.

[Placebo 29]

I think if we try really, really hard we can find something more important to worry about ;)

[Lonestar 11]

Every forum I use is the same default, start changing it now and you'll confuse the world, if you can't use a search properly should should sell your internetz and become Amish ;)

I can't believe you thought it was a personal request :eek:

I know how to perform a search properly, thank you. I always use Advanced Search and Search Titles Only (I changed the search preferences).

There's a lot of multiple threads asking the same thing and very often people are asked to search.

I tried to put myself in the shoes of a new user (which btw everybody should do from time to time) and realized the default search is not optimal.

As it seems you don't want to take this seriously, let's take an example:

Keyword: Zeus AI (the user is looking for the official Zeus AI thread)

Results:

• Default search (Entire Posts): result #58
  
• Advanced Search (with Search Titles Only): result #2
  

Now do you get my point?

Edited March 2, 2011 by Lonestar

[.kju 3244]

@ LoneStar

I think 'Entire Posts' as default is a lot more meaningful - why have something to return less hits?

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Can you please fix the BIKI feed finally. It is broken for two+ weeks now:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
^

It seems the width settings were broken too: Bis wiki pages toooooo...oooo wide

[Lonestar 11]

@ LoneStar

I think 'Entire Posts' as default is a lot more meaningful - why have something to return less hits?

Why? Isn't it obvious? There are less results but they are more relevant.

What is the point of getting 500 results if half is useless?

Edited March 2, 2011 by Lonestar

[.kju 3244]

A header is not always more relevant - in fact it solely depends on the search topic.

[Lonestar 11]

Ok, we're getting somewhere.

Let's take another example:

Keyword: performance problem (rather common request)

• Default search (Entire Posts): 4 relevant hits on first page (500 results)
  
• Advanced Search (with Search Titles Only): 9 relevant hits (9 results)
  

With the first option, getting specific relevant answers is a game of chance among 500 results. Anyway who would search through 20 pages of results?

[Placebo 29]

I know how to perform a search properly, thank you.

It was you in a general sense, not you specifically.

Edited March 2, 2011 by Placebo

[RKDmitriyev 0]

May I start a thread in OFFTOPIC about hypothetical nuclear war scenarios? I searched and didn't find any recent threads. I wanted to kick off discussion by talking about this.

[W0lle 1050]

I don't see any reason why you shouldn't. There's more spam in there than that. :)

[abs 2]

Hello,

This is a question about the rules, as inspired by the thread where some guy asks someone to email him some addons.

I know that you are not supposed to sell addons, and I get that. I would hate having to buy, for example, a single airplane or a bicycle, or whatever.

Would it be okay to sell a mod on DVD and ship it to people? The cost would in theory only be for shipping and handling, plus any packaging expenses. In addition to that, in order not to violate any license agreements, the mod would still be available for free for download. This is more for those who like to have boxes for their stuff.

So...thoughts?

Abs

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

The idea would be for somebody to set up a paypal account so people could send him however much $ is needed to pay for the price of 1 CD/DVD + envelope (normally free) + stamps.

This person would load the CD full of addons and send it to the person, who would most likely be in a situation where they don't have a fast internet connection, or any internet connection (Like me. :)) (This could also apply to people who are deployed and have arma on a laptop/whatever.)

[abs 2]

I get that idea, and my question while inspired from it is not asking about it specifically.

I'm talking if mod teams (ie: FDF, IceBreakr's islands and units, even PRACS, etc) could sell their own packaging to their own mods, and ship it to people, while still having it available online. So I would send FDF $10 (or whatever) for shipping and handling, plus costs, and in return I would get a DVD case, with printed DVD, of their mod.

I realize this wasn't clear in my original post. Let me know if I'm still not communicating my idea clearly.

Abs