Salutes, I miss them

Just you all be patient, Rome was made in a day. ha! ha! not quite skip..

 

I miss them too!

 

When I spoke of missing the salutes it did not mean to be anything but a positive note on a feature which I had never seen before and thought was great. Perhaps some felt my post was some kind of complaint, it wasn't. The work by the folks would provide this great site site for us is most appreciated. I wish that I had a great big Salute button to Salute Otto with.

KTK

 

I myself miss being able to "give" them, I don't much care about them otherwise. Salutes were sort of "neat" to give, and a person could share them more often than he/she could with rep points. Or at least that is what it appeared to be for myself. I would go to give somebody some "rep", and get the message that you cannot do so until you spread reputation around. So, I would end up giving a "Salute" when in reality I wished to share more rep points than three.

That is what I miss, but knowing how fast Otto has been working just to get us up and running again I can wait for the "bells and whistles" that were on the former style if need be.

 

If anyone is not aware of the reputation system you can refer to the following thread for additional info.
http://www.ww2f.com/counter-battery-fire/19262-reputation-prestige-system-guide.html

 

:lol::lol::lol: Can we add a Ditto button just for Brad to use? :lol::lol: For me, it would be a "Bump" button :lol::lol:

 

ha ha Carl.. I was just thinking that! lol

 

What?....you mean there is actually and explaination contained within the page and all we have to do is read it for ourselves instead of putting our question in the form of pissing and moaning? That may work over at WW2Talk; but, that is just not the way things are done on this side of the pond. We prefer to have someone devote every waking hour to solving our problems for us so that we, the collective, are not bothered or inconveinienced by change or the creation of a solution.

Next thing your going to tell us is that there is a button that would alleviate duplicate posting, possibly point to the solution of which the best rifle of the war was and give suggestions to threads relevant to our query.*

*Green= Sarcasm

 

Hahahahaha, thats a good one, formerjughead!

Blue= LOL

 

Just thought I'd reply to this thread just to try out the new look forum.

Pointless post I know but it's a fairly pointless whinging thread.

 

Somewhere in this thread is a metaphore for being hung with a new rope

 

First of all let me thank the HQ for the good work, as an IT man I know how hard it is to "move away" from old software versions that have known vulnerabilities but are full of custom code that will get lost in the upgrade.
I understand this is currently very much a work in progress but... when I picked my name I first tried tired old grognard, the page crashed so TOS came out .... and as a grognard it is my right and duty to grumble !!!
So here is my list for what it's worth.
[rant]
- the "latest posts" on the home page was the first thing I looked at, I miss it and hope it will be back.
- salutes are close second as the rep system doesn't really fit my lazy habits
- the current color scheme is too %&%$%$ for words.
- I keep getting caught by the current crazy link at the [home] button .
- Quick navigation to the "free fire zone" ??? as popular as the FFZ is in my very personal opinion it should be to the search page, the most underused function of the site and the one that would most contribute on improving the quality of the info.
- And high on my wish list a spelling checker that actually works.
[end of rant]

 

Give Otto and Co a chance, after all they got life's as well.



My first post as well on the new look. :

 

Most web browsers (like firefox and chrome) have inbuilt spell checkers.

 

I hate them.

 

Here is a link to the one I use and it is very user friendly;

ieSpell - Spell Checker add-on for Internet Explorer

 

We salute you !

 

Thanks, I will give it a try as I'm using IE8 and my "typo rate" is steadily getting worse.
BTW no criticism of Otto & co was intended, I know they are doing their best and do appeciate it, looks like it's not going to be a "simple" upgrade in any sense.

 

Hi Suzie, dare we also suggest that Brad have a accept or a decline button too :lol: