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Fyron · #1 January 14th, 2002, 08:16 PM

Hey, I just discovered a way that you get get this BB to say that you have made a huge number of Posts. If you delete a post, then the tally doesn't add -1 post, it remains the same. So, you could make a dummy post and then delete it right away. The post wouldn't exist on the BB, but your total number of Posts would increase by one. Just do this as many times as you want, and you could have as many Posts as you want. Personnaly, I would never do this. I discovered it when I made an accidental double post and then deleted it.

Skulky · #2 January 15th, 2002, 05:04 AM

yeah, that would be a little shady. You probably shouldn't have said that as someone is bound to try that soon.

Puke · #3 January 15th, 2002, 05:39 AM

my god, what if there were even MORE generals around here, and i was no longer prestigious? oh wait, im already so non-prestigious that people have voted me so low that my stars dont show up. while you are working on ways for people to get themselves promoted on this board, do you have any idea how i can get myself DEMOTED? well, short of getting myself Banned or re-registering?

tesco samoa · #4 January 15th, 2002, 06:23 AM

just gave you the 5 star treatment.

I guess giving a one star would be a face wash.

mac5732 · #5 January 15th, 2002, 06:43 PM

Puke, did you ever ck with Richard to find out why your stars don't show up???, also maybe they should add Brig Gen, Maj Gen, Lt. Gen etc, or maybe Navy ranks since SEIV is a space navy going game.....

just some ideas mac

Baron Munchausen · #6 January 15th, 2002, 08:32 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mac5732:
Puke, did you ever ck with Richard to find out why your stars don't show up???, also maybe they should add Brig Gen, Maj Gen, Lt. Gen etc, or maybe Navy ranks since SEIV is a space navy going game.....

just some ideas mac

There are profile settings that can control whether your stars appear and maybe whether your rank appears. I haven't looked lately. It's not all that important to me.

[ 15 January 2002: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

Puke · #7 January 16th, 2002, 04:26 AM

i did check with Richard, but never got an answer. for some reason, i think he thought i was a wiseass. my profile settings were the first thing i checked, and it has always (still is) set to make my rating publicly viewable.

Whats even WORSE is that for some godawful reason, im up to 2.95 which is rounding to three stars! i guess i will have to use explitives more #$%^ing often so that people will vote me down again. (not like it would make a difference since my rating isnt showing up)

maybe they made it invisible on purpose so they would not be encouraging me.

Fyron · #8 January 16th, 2002, 05:00 AM

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while you are working on ways for people to get themselves promoted on this board, do you have any idea how i can get myself DEMOTED?

I was NOT working on ways for people to have self-promotions. I discovered it accidentally. I posted it so that maybe some Shrapnel tech guy will see it and figure out some way to solve it. Maybe deleting a post should lower your # of Posts by 1. Or, maybe you could be allowed to make a free post-deletion once or twice a month, so that people that need to legitimately delete a post can do so.

And Puke, I'll give you a 1 star rating.

Puke · #9 January 16th, 2002, 06:51 AM

right on, Imperator. Thanks!

i dont think shrapnel has a whole lot of control over how the board handles Posts, and if they did its probably not a big priority for them. since its just some canned software from infopop, they might not have access to the code. if they do, i can imagine that writing the next 'sarge' article and publishing the next Airborne 101 scenario are a touch more significant than helping us enforce our imaginary little ranks

its a good idea though, maybe somebody should email the infopop guys about fixing it in the next Version of UBB. everyone and their grandmother uses this software for web Boards, im sure they would appreciate the suggestion. besides, im sure that there is a community out there somewhere, where they actually have to wory about people pulling the very trick you describe.

Fyron · #10 January 16th, 2002, 07:18 AM

I wasn't really worried about people here doing that, I just thought people would like to know about it. The ranks don't really mean sqwuat anyways.

If I could give you more 1's, I'd do it. Hey, I just thought of a circuitous and rather dishonest way of getting your rank average lower. You could create a lot of dummy Users and have each of them rank you with a 1. Not that you, or anybody, should do that. I am just trying to come up with ways to get you that crappy ranking you deserve.

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Apparently, somebody thinks I am a good contributor and ranked me with a 5 in the past hour or so, cause my average rank rose by 0.3.
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[ 16 January 2002: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]