Bunch of new smilies & thread prefix icons

[Morrus]

Seriously, though. I'd like to know how to remove these things from my own threads, if some sort of "block" option isn't going to be made available.

Just so we understand each other, SotS, we're not going to never add anything to EN World; I understand that you object to every change or addition, from XP to statuses, and now thread prefixes. I'm sorry you feel that way, and I sympathise with you, but EN World is not going to remain the same for ever - and things will get changed or added. And we can't make an opt-out option for every single thing we do; some of it, I'm afraid, you will just have to accept.

I will take it as advised, though, that any change made in future is strongly objected to by you; saves you having to object to every one individually. Your thesaurus will run out of words soon, and you'll have to start repeating "hideous" and "accursed" and "aberrations" and other words!

these things are ugly and stupid

But, despite my joke above, let's cut down on the hyperbole, eh? "I don't like them" more than adequately communicates your position without all the repeated epithets.

 

[Morrus]

The second issue I have is with the Living Pathfinder (frequently abbreviated LPF) threads: regular Pathfinder tags have been added to them. While they are Pathfinder games there is a subtle difference and it may be a bit confusing to have those games lumped in with the same tag as other Pathfinder games. Would it be possible (since I presume these are here to stay), if we provide an image, for us to have a specific Living Pathfinder tag?

I'll think about it; but there's only so far we can drill down into minor variants. For example, we only have one Mutants & Masterminds tag, despite various iterations of that game. If we start getting into subtle differences, we're going to end up with a list of a thousand tags.

That's not a no; but it's not a yes, either.

 

[GlassEye]

I understand. Figured it couldn't hurt to ask. Thanks.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

But, despite my joke above, let's cut down on the hyperbole, eh? "I don't like them" more than adequately communicates your position without all the repeated epithets.

Fine, but looking at the mass of them piling up in front of thread titles in general, I do find them to be a genuine eyesore.

 

[Morrus]

The overall idea is to eventually make the prefixes sortable. So you can pull out all the Dark Sun threads, for example, or all the threads about Gen Con or the DDI Character Builder.

 

[Morrus]

Fine, but looking at the mass of them piling up in front of thread titles in general, I do find them to be a genuine eyesore.

I'd figured that out. It is noted.

 

[RangerWickett]

I'm fine with them. However, how feasible would it be to create a forum skin that didn't display them?

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

The overall idea is to eventually make the prefixes sortable. So you can pull out all the Dark Sun threads, for example, or all the threads about Gen Con or the DDI Character Builder.

I like that idea! I don't see the need to have the visuals for a system like that rather than text pre-fixes, though.

 

[Morrus]

Got it - you can now click on a prefix icon within a forum. The site will then return all threads with that prefix icon within that forum. Of course, it only works if people use the thread icon!

Slight problem in that they now all have a blue box around them, but I'm working on that.

 

[drothgery]

Just as an icon design note - these would really look better if they all either have a border or a transparent background; the no-border/white (or red) background look is kind of odd on the black default forum skin, I think.