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reply posted on 13-4-2007 @ 06:21 AM by brotherthebig
Hi,

To the moderators,

I followed the information in www.abovetopsecret.com... , but I was not able to find the “At the very top-left of the board menu-bar is a button labeled suggestions”. I thing this www.abovetopsecret.com... is “the board”.

So if you don’t mind I will post here my suggestions.

1 – We could just click and add a friend or foe by mistake because the system do not ask for confirmation, so my suggestion is to add a confirmation window so we could easily check if we are doing the right choice or just confirm if we hadn’t made a wrong click with the mouse.

Something simple to implement but efficient.

2 - The second suggestion is (maybe I am just confuse) to put a link to the suggestion forum (where is that forum?) in the post www.abovetopsecret.com... , this will help everybody, I think.

Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience to put this post here,

brotherthebig.


reply posted on 29-6-2007 @ 06:00 AM by Mechanic 32
Originally posted by SimonGray
Originally posted by Kacen
I have an avatar thats 160x330, and it won't work, yet its under 12.24 KB, and according to the main thread the maximum height of an avatar can be up to 400 pixels if the size is under 50KB. Why is this?


What is the file format?

Also, you say it "won't work". In what way?


The problem isn't about format, at least during my test run here.

It seems that if an image is longer than 320 pixels, it is automatically rejected, regardless if the filesize is less than 50kb or not.

I just ran a test to verify this before posting here.
This is the image I used (plain white .gif):
files.abovetopsecret.com...
A .gif image less than 2kb, 160 pixels wide x 365 pixels high.

But it will not load, although according to the avatar guidelines it should be good to go, since it is much less than 50kb.

What happens after clicking on submit, and after the page refreshes, the avatar url box has been automatically cleared and is empty. As well as no avatar showing up in the members profile.

Hope this clarifies it a little better.



edit to clarify.



[edit on 6/29/2007 by Mechanic 32]



reply posted on 26-7-2007 @ 07:22 AM by thebozeian
Hello,
Why are some moderators being so hardline (selectively) about quote use?

I was fined on my first warning which hardly seems fair. I was genuinely unaware that I was possibly breaching the rules. Whats worse is that while I was admittedly quoting the above post, this is sometimes necessary to continue the flow of conversation. Now what ISN'T fair is that the quote was 2 3/4 lines and depending how you count it, 2-3 short sentences. According to the rules on excessive quoting I was within those guidlines regarding quote length. In fact the rule states that you can be warned(fined) for ANY quote above 4 sentences in length. However I have seen a huge number of other quotes in the same forum area that exceed this. I dont have a problem with anyone doing this, as I stated it is sometimes necessary, I have even seen senior moderators doing it on a previous page of this very thread, but why am I getting hit and so many others not?

Further people are simply getting around this in some long thread arguments by pasting a handful of sentences and rebutting, and then repeatting the process over, sometimes 10 or more times. Is this not still goining to cause page file sizes to increase (By the way I am one of those people on dialup this is supposed to affect)? The real problem I have had with page load times, is the graphical content like avatars and people imbedding pictures, not quotes.

I realise we need rules or the site wont work and as I said in a U2U to the moderator it's a sometimes thankless job, BUT I feel there needs to be a no penalty first warning. Most people are decent enough that if they receive a first warning they will modify what they are doing. And of course all the rules need to be applied and applied equally. There have been instances of other more important rules being broken and nobody seems to be watching or taking action sometimes.

LEE.


reply posted on 18-8-2007 @ 06:04 AM by JAK
reply to post by Wig


Hey Wig,

should you wish clarification over any action taken by staff on the left hand side of your Member Center you should see a Complain/Suggestion button which you could make use of.

Also you are free to reply to the U2U received detailing the matter.

I hope that helps.



reply to post by thebozeian


Hi thebozeian,

Sorry to hear that you felt targeted in such a manner and I agree that any warning with accompanying point deduction for an initial misunderstanding may seem excessive but as mentioned above if you reply to the staff member in question via the reply to the automated U2U then I'm sure matters could be dealt with. I'm not insinuating you would do so but I'd like to remind all here that in such a reply a polite manner would be both more appreciated and more likely to get results than a "WTFOMG ur in mY account steelin' my pointz! You...."

We aren't automatically aware of if a member might have received such a warning before though and therefore if it is there 'first offense' so to speak or they have been notified previously over the matter and are just ignoring staff requests. Saying that, I know I and I'm sure other staff members would be happy to reimburse any point deduction if it was a simple case of a new member being unaware of certain behaviour here.

This covers not only quote warns but any action by staff. I would hope that all members are aware they are free to reply to the automated U2U if they wish

Incidentally thebozeian in your Member Center you can go into ATS Store and 'Turn on low-bandwidth mode' which should help with any page load problems you might be experiencing.

Apologies in the delay in responding.

Also in reply to your suggestion "...rules being broken and nobody seems to be watching or taking action sometimes. " a large part of what the staff manage to achieve on ATS is down to members using the Complain/Suggestion button mentioned above and alerting us to any problem it is felt needs addressing and this is greatly appreciated.



Please note: When any action is taken by a member of staff an automated U2U is sent. Members are welcome to reply and ask the staff member in question for clarification if desired.



Jak

[edit on 18/8/07 by JAK]
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