One thing I've been noticing more and more frequently happen lately is whenever I goto vote on a movie, someone with the same ISP has already voted on it, I'm sure me and many other members get this problem a lot, and apparently because of proxies, I'm not so sure, but PintClock said there could be a way to fix this sort of problem, if the problem is proxies.

He said using this code could help the problem maybe.

if (getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP") && strcasecmp(getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP"), "unknown"))
$ip = getenv("HTTP_CLIENT_IP");
else if (getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR") && strcasecmp(getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"), "unknown"))
$ip = getenv("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR");
else if (getenv("REMOTE_ADDR") && strcasecmp(getenv("REMOTE_ADDR"), "unknown"))
$ip = getenv("REMOTE_ADDR");
else if (isset($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) && $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] && strcasecmp($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'], "unknown"))
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
else
$ip = "unknown";
return($ip);

Would using this code be good for the portal? Or the servers? I'm not sure but would it help the system?

Would it be possible to see all of the threads made by a person, instead of all the posts made by a person? Like after searching for a person, have the option to only view threads made by that person. That way, if we wanted to find a thread somebody made long ago, we wouldn't have to go through all their old posts/the entire section to find it.

Just pondering. :)

Can I be kindly pointed to why so many posts are being deleted? :|

At 7/16/05 01:00 AM, arab_freak wrote: Can I be kindly pointed to why so many posts are being deleted? :|

To quote what was on the very first post of this topic.

Posts that do not follow these guidelines will probably be deleted:

1) Only post here if you have an unique idea for NG's improvement. In an attempt to keep the thread concise, discussion of ideas is no longer encouraged. Posted suggestions will occasionally be reviewed by liljim - whether or not an idea will be implemented is entirely up to him and the other admins.

2) DO NOT SPAM OR WHINE. This is not the place for you to complain about things you don’t like about NG, just for constructive advice and ideas for the future.

3) READ the posts in the thread, to make sure that you are not simply rehashing a previous post.

4) Take the time to consider whether your idea is practical and useful, or frivolous and inefficient:

--- a. How much bandwidth or server load will it cost?

--- b. What level of user demand for this idea would there be?

--- c. Does it serve a purpose, or would it merely, “be nice to have?”

--- d. Is there something else NG does that already takes care of this?

--- e. Is there something awaiting implementation that covers this?

--- f. Include your reasoning in your post.

5) Keep in mind that this is neither a list of demands, nor a slate of what WILL be put into place. This is merely a thread to allow the users to express and refine their ideas for what they would like to see done with NG. The final decision, as always, rests with the admins.

I have a small idea, maybe there can be a reccomendation system for the audio? Like how you can email someone or AIM someone about a flash.

At 7/16/05 01:00 AM, arab_freak wrote: Can I be kindly pointed to why so many posts are being deleted? :|

Its either the fact that liljims post pruner is in working order, OR, us mods are getting better at our job >:D

There should be a thing in your profile or on your groundsgold menu that says " 'x' people have viewed this/your profile." So it would be like how many 'hits' does your profile get.
OR
you could have the average amount of people per day that view your profile.

I'm sorry for wasting your time.

At 7/16/05 05:39 PM, brainface wrote: There should be a thing in your profile or on your groundsgold menu that says " 'x' people have viewed this/your profile." So it would be like how many 'hits' does your profile get.
OR
you could have the average amount of people per day that view your profile.

There used to be a profile stat called Popularity, which was removed because people abused it by tricking other users (by various means, including spamming the BBS) into viewing their profile. If your idea was implemented, exactly the same thing would happen.

At 7/16/05 01:00 AM, arab_freak wrote: Can I be kindly pointed to why so many posts are being deleted? :|

Because they were superfluous to the heart of this thread. We're trying to distill all the thoughts and suggestions down into a concise and easily readable form, so liljim doesn't have to spend ages reading through irrelevant crap to get to the raw ideas.

I have a small idea, there could be a "Reccomend for frontpage" button, if you see a flash you really think Tom would like or think deserves frontpage you can click something that can help bring Tom or Wades attention to it. :)

Of course, there would be limitations.

Cannot reccommend if under judgement.
Cannot reccommend if score is not green.
Cannot reccommend if too old.
Cannot reccommend if abusive.
Cannot reccommend if is on frontpage (Or maybe you can to say that you'd like it to be on there longer?)
Cannot reccommend if was on frontpage.

A little small idea, on the UOTD display, why not link the person's postcount to their actual posts?

I was reading the guy aboves post and it gave me an idea, It's fairly similar to his it's like this:

Have an option for the front page flashes that allows the users to vote for the flash to be remeoved from the front page and replaced byu another.You would need to have another selection of flashes which have been voted to go onto the front page, these could be voted on again in a similar way to the collections feature. This could possibly be a monthly thing?

Im not saying this should be an automatic thing, all the flashes should have to be approved by Wade or whoever before the can be put of the front page. Just to make sure they are sutable.

To summerise give the users the choice of what gets put on the front page !

I have a idea and i dont know if it has been brought up yet so if it has sorry in advance.

Mu idea is to have a feature and you can type your level in and a page come's up thats shows all on that level l. I for my self like to see who is on the same level as me and see how many points i have to past the other person and etc. I want feebd back either good or bad on this idea,Thank's

At 7/20/05 09:39 AM, Zendra wrote: Indeed a small idea. And I think it's quite nice, because sometimes you're interested in the posts the user post.
It's not needed, but might be a little add-on. :)

Well it would be nice but it ain't hard to open the persons profile then click "View posts". ^_^;

Emoticons are my fwend.

new grounds eveloution ey?
how about... avatars?

you already get avaters smart man, it's your level thingie, read the thing at the start... it says not to suggest the ideas already declined... if I'm not mistaken this was on the list

ANYHOW, small yet VERY IMPORTENT idea (to my opinion at least) for the BBS is the ability to use quotes in the search and search for whole phrases rather then just single words. sometimes I try to find a specific thread whose name I know yet I can't because a million threads containing the word "flash" or "help" have been made but very little threads are called "flash help" or "audio help" or "portal help", see my point?

PROS:

It will not take more BW then the normal search
it's not that hard to implent, I'll script it myself if you'd like... really not a big script
it will prevent a lot of n00bs from posting new threads since they'll be able to find the old ones

has forum specific search already been suggested?

At 7/21/05 12:37 PM, Funkybob2 wrote: How about abilty to deposit more than 10 exp. each day? 10 exp. is ridiculous and the exp. calculator says it will take me 107 years to be lvl. 29.

Thats never going to happen so forget it.

At 7/20/05 04:00 PM, bloo_apple2 wrote: new grounds eveloution ey?
how about... avatars?

You have an avatar, it's a level icon. It's part of the motivation to level up.

I think we should have our birth dates in our profile cuz the public profile in the grounds gold has you type your birthday in. so I thought we should be able to show it in our profiles.

when a submission is blamd there need to be a little game that alows us to kill it in diffrent ways!

At 7/22/05 06:20 PM, HentiaLuver wrote: when a submission is blamd there need to be a little game that alows us to kill it in diffrent ways!

No there doesn't, that would just be a nice thing to have.

The blam animation is perfect as it is.

At 7/25/05 05:39 PM, Funkybob2 wrote: If there are B/P ranks, and Experience ranks, why not have Whistles ranked?

There doesn't need to be, we can't see how many whistle points we have so what good are ranks?

...ALTHOUGH it could encourage people to flag things, but then it could encourage people to try and flash EVERYTHING that enters the portal.

Get up to 15 experience points a day.

At 7/26/05 01:15 AM, jkjtown wrote: Get up to 15 experience points a day.

NO.

At 7/26/05 11:00 AM, Zendra wrote:

At 7/25/05 05:44 PM, FrOzEn_FoX wrote: ...ALTHOUGH it could encourage people to flag things, but then it could encourage people to try and flash EVERYTHING that enters the portal.

Same thing with the BA. It encourage's people to submit more to the Flash portal in the hope it will get a good score and maybe an award.
You have that with a lot of things. Allthough I like the idea I don't think it isn't really needed.

Of course, when there are stats to be had, people will try to be the best.
And then with so many people, and so many of them being complete idiots, they don't realise they're doing the opposite of what they need to do.

You have to be careful with things when it involves LARGE groups of people.

I got a small idea would could be of some use to voters.

Voting history.

You could check out your grounds gold menu and find your voting history, see what you voted on, and what impact it had. You can see how many times you voted for a movie, when you voted, what you voted, ya know?

i was thinking mayb have new characters on the rating bar. for example

ratings of 0-1. mabye a character from like the behemoths next game or dad 'n me
ratings of 2-3. alien hominid
ratings of 4 or 5 - keep with pico

At 7/27/05 10:27 PM, Prellz wrote: i was thinking mayb have new characters on the rating bar. for example

ratings of 0-1. mabye a character from like the behemoths next game or dad 'n me
ratings of 2-3. alien hominid
ratings of 4 or 5 - keep with pico

Fuck no. Read the first post.
That'd only be nice to have, and even then I don't think that'd look right at all! Keep Pico dammit!

Hmm, I have an idea about the voting bar actually, not a nice thing to have but something that could help cut down on abusive reviews.

Often people are like "BLAM THIS SHIT" in their reviews, thinking that they can actually delete something after it has pasted judgement.

WELL, as Pico says when you vote 0, "BLAM THIS PIECE OF CRAP", that might be encouraging users into thinking you can blam something past judgement, if you changed the text you could maybe cut down on the abusive reviews...

At 7/30/05 12:14 AM, FrOzEn_FoX wrote: WELL, as Pico says when you vote 0, "BLAM THIS PIECE OF CRAP", that might be encouraging users into thinking you can blam something past judgement, if you changed the text you could maybe cut down on the abusive reviews...

Nah, sometimes I get pissed at crappy flash, and I channel my anger through that little guy's face. :P

This thread was my idea. it would only be nice to have, but if it got more publicty, it would attract more people. it could be a something to recject, but it would be cool. i'm sure more than plenty of ng fans would do this for free, so it wouldn't cost any money for artwork, but would cost about a little more for bandwith. maybe a few slectable skins would be good if a person got this as a reward for making a grounds gold account and profile. and i think the, upload ur own lv. would be too costly though, so i don't like that. i hope this survives.

At 7/30/05 10:53 AM, arab_freak wrote: Nah, sometimes I get pissed at crappy flash, and I channel my anger through that little guy's face. :P

The face is great, but the text could still change.

At 7/30/05 03:11 PM, FrOzEn_FoX wrote:

At 7/30/05 10:53 AM, arab_freak wrote: Nah, sometimes I get pissed at crappy flash, and I channel my anger through that little guy's face. :P

The face is great, but the text could still change.

But...it's priceless. Would you rather have "I HATE THIS MOVIE!!"?

Well, I got a new idea.

First off, let me just say right off the bat thank you for putting the extra decimal places in the "Portal Submissions" link in the profile. Really came in handy in my opinion.

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Anyway, back to topic. So, my idea is somewhat farfetched but I believe it could be pulled off. Yes this idea would be space consuming, BUT, I believe a lot more quality animations/games will appear.

My idea is to have one short period of time (anywhere from 1 day to 1 week) in which the maximum file size limit for a flash is doubled (Or at least increased to 7.5MB). There are, Im sure, many flashes which are asked to be manually submitted because it exceeds the filesize limit. Some flashes I can think of off the top of my head (that are grade A quality) would be Decline of Video Gaming 3 and Pico Unloaded.

I realize there will probably be many crappy flashes that have a large file size that is a waste, but it will be blammed. I just think this will give many authors a chance to not worry about file size for that one short period of the year, not having to worry about deleting scenes from their movie so it would fit.

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Meh, the idea isnt the greatest, but I believe it has potential. I personally believe one weekend a year would be just plain awesome. Of course, it should be announced way ahead of time to give authors a good heads up, rather than a week before.

So... thats my idea, and hopefully it goes over well. Thank you very much in advance for your time.