"GENERIC"

[Tsyr]

Sadly, I liked the boards better just without the tags at all.

Would it be possible to get a variation of stealth mode that is the usual black/grey/gold color scheme, but without tags?

 

[Michael Morris]

Sadly, I liked the boards better just without the tags at all.

Would it be possible to get a variation of stealth mode that is the usual black/grey/gold color scheme, but without tags?

Yes.

But I don't want to do it just yet. Implementing the Generic tag is Russ' idea, and if I designed a theme to dodge the icons he would be rightly miffed. BTW, in Stealth you can't select icons (they aren't there to be selected).

 

[MerakSpielman]

Bah.

I can read all the thread titles on the front page in a few seconds. What do I need a lousy tag for? If you want to use them, go ahead and use them. I'm not arguing for them to go away, I just don't care for them enough to bother with another mental process. Maybe I'm just lazy.

 

[Michael Morris]

Bah.

I can read all the thread titles on the front page in a few seconds. What do I need a lousy tag for? If you want to use them, go ahead and use them. I'm not arguing for them to go away, I just don't care for them enough to bother with another mental process. Maybe I'm just lazy.

It's possible to sort posts by icon, which is faster than running a search and often more effective than other means of sorting. But for that sorting to work the posts have to have icons.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Please kill the GENERIC tag. I can't think of anything I've seen lately that is visually more obnoxious (except, perhaps, if you made it flashing). Especially since, like a virus, it seems to clone itself to every reply.

I'd much prefer that generic posts simply have no icon. I'd really prefer no icons (or at least, to have a way to turn them off like sigs and avatars) -- but I realize that's probably too retro for some folks.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I've switched to Stealth mode, which solves my problem, but I miss the friendly EN World gold-on-black. Ah, well, can't have everything, I suppose.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I'd much prefer that generic posts simply have no icon.

Heh. I popped into Meta when it started to get too much... I guess I shouldn't be surprised two pages of posts beat me to it

I'm strongly in the "Generic icon should be blank, or all-but-unnoticeable" camp.

-Hyp.

 

[BryonD]

Ok, I'm in stealth mode.

Why is it called "stealth"?

As has been said several times before, the GENERIC tag will go away once people start USING the correct tags.

Effective identical statement: 70% of threads will say GENERIC until the admins give in.

As has been said several times before, the GENERIC tag will go away once pigs start flying.

As has been said several times before, the GENERIC tag will go away once it gets cold in hell.

 

[Michael Morris]

Ok, I'm in stealth mode.

Why is it called "stealth"?



Effective identical statement: 70% of threads will say GENERIC until the admins give in.

As has been said several times before, the GENERIC tag will go away once pigs start flying.

As has been said several times before, the GENERIC tag will go away once it gets cold in hell.

I dunno. That was the name it shipped with. Stealth is one of the two themes that VBulletin has when you first install it.

 

[BryonD]

To further the argument of every post having an icon:

If 70% of the threads don't have icons, it defeats the purpose of having them in the first place.

Actually, they pretty strongly furthers the argument that they are not needed. We've done quite nicely for four years now.

And, as I said in my first post, I don't care a lick about change. But I am annoyed by pointless damage to a perfectly functional system.

Heck, "stealth" mode is a pretty heavy change. And honestly, it is ugly. But I don't really care.
I got my functionality back.

Stealth = Change = no big
GENERIC = eye pain and hard to read thread titles = Bad

Thanks for the answer Michael