Originally Posted By Support

@ Mark Thanks for pointing out Caroline's lost picture, (@Caroline I'm on it). As to the avatars we are working on our end to re-size them all, so just be patient with us a bit on that. Thanks

Please make Caroline's "trophy" as awful as you can. Otherwise, Caroline starts getting the big head around here and it takes years for us to calm her down. When this happens we have to get her Big Head expensive chocolates, new pirate gear, goddess wear, witches' brooms, and chocolate. Did I say that already? Thanks. Remember: awful.

I would think that you wouldn't be responsible for avatar sizing. Members can do that themselves (my fabulous avatar is only 65 X 65 pixels, sniff) and re-upload.

But on second thought, maybe the board-supplied avatars are doing the same thing: being huge.

Anyway, no prob here. We just have to adapt to this, although I really liked the previous JA Forum look because it was simpler and brighter... more light blue and white backgrounds. Maybe we can change the way the board looks to us; more customized. If not, the default is fine. 

Support, we must warn you that Mark is a merciless tease. 

Now my avatar is sqashed

*edit* New avatar to use until I find a better one. And it is not a grue. 

Originally Posted By Traveller

Support, we must warn you that Mark is a merciless tease. 

He admitted once that he used to pull his little sister's pigtails!)  I'm afraid the old members tend to tease each other and.. - it can look worse than it is.  You know.. as in..  Mark's bark is worse than his bite...   LOL Caroline would love me saying that... but I'm not EVER going to compare Mark with his canine housefellows again.  No Mark, never, ever, because I don't want you disappearing again..    Bah- I wish that smilies page would stand still when I grab a smiley - there must be another way - let's see if copy paste works.   Nope.   Hmmmm...  there it's gone again.  *sigh*  The slippery  smiley page  XD

Can we send him to the Dungeon?

We need to see if it is properly stocked with instruments of torture.

Originally Posted By Traveller

Ivinia!  So happy to see you're still around... we haven't seen you on the foum for ages and ages and ages.  Re Caroline...- if you counted  all her posts in all her incarnations, I'm sure that she'd have even more than 16 000 in total.  ...but I smell favoritism in the air here... I want my old 6 000 + posts back too! 

With the big move over the summer to a new place and a phenominal lady that I have been honored with meeting, things have been busy!  Priorities you know... as much as I love you guys, I'd rather be out and about with her...

Well hmmmm @Lucien21 we do need a first victim for the dungeon so it's a distinct possibility. LOL JK. The Dungeon is indeed stoked with a few things like an iron maiden and a limb stretcher. I wonder what else we might put in there**** Any Ideas****????

@Caroline Apprently the avatar for that level is no where to be found in the old system. could somone point a lowly JA Noob to the correct image because as you'll notice she now has an admin star. I am sure you'd like to keep it, or perhaps not, but anyone know what it's supposed to be or can shoot me the image in an email? 

@Traveller Oh no worries I can take it and watch out everyone I can dish just as good too. 

As for the avatars we forced a resize on all of them so ya'll don't have to be bothered with it from now on.

Thanks for making me feel so welcome in your community thus far guys it's a nice place you have here and we aim to make it nicer as things go along. 

Caroline the Floozie joined the JA site in May 2003 and for a long time I was certainly making around 11 posts a day but that was back in the days when it would take me 2 hours every morning just to read all the traffic in Off Topic. 

My shonky memory recalls definitely three possibly four separate memberships with two of them terminating around the 7,000 mark.  What can I say?  There were others with me - I wasn't talking all that intelligent, scintilating, wonderfully informative stuff to myself you know......

Originally Posted By Ivinia

Originally Posted By Traveller

Ivinia!  So happy to see you're still around... we haven't seen you on the foum for ages and ages and ages.  Re Caroline...- if you counted  all her posts in all her incarnations, I'm sure that she'd have even more than 16 000 in total.  ...but I smell favoritism in the air here... I want my old 6 000 + posts back too! 

 

With the big move over the summer to a new place and a phenominal lady that I have been honored with meeting, things have been busy!  Priorities you know... as much as I love you guys, I'd rather be out and about with her...

Aha!  So that's the reason you've been so scarce!!  Well, it's the best possible reason of course!  ..and here neurotic me have been thinking I should send you an e-mail to ask if you're ok... Obviously you're ok...  heheheheh.    They really should cull that smiley list and put a seperate smaller more managable one out for people who are in a hurry...     or somehow wangle that it doesn't have to be re-loaded every time.

Support, our old forum unfortunately had a little button that the member could click on in our user CM settings, that if you clicked on that darn button, you'd be deleting your account permantly.. kahput...- for keeps.  Caroline had accidentlly (I'm sure) clicked that button about 3 times during her tenure here, and I had the misfortune to do it myself once early last year.  (I'm not used to alcohol, what can I say ...

...so what the other members have been saying, is that when the migration took place, Caroline had only around 9800 posts, so she shouldn't have become an Overseer quite yet.  But then Ivinia has been saying that if you counted all her posts together from all the accounts she's had here since 2003, she would probably have had more than 20 000 posts on her tally.  ...so it's probably ok that she suddenly went from 9 800 post during the current forum migration to 16 000  ..and it would be even more ok if I could get my lost 6 600 posts back too.  Just saying...

Anyway Caroline, it looks like you got lucky.. I guess congratulations are in order for your gain!

I wonder if there are any short commands for all of these smileys. I guess

*edit* Darn, nope

Gosh, Trav.  [Caroline feels the warmth of Trav's post-count jealousy]  Look I promise I'll share the overseer chocolate with you.  How's that?    I think we've lost our kissing smiley. 

edit:   Help!  I've been robbed!  Someone has made off with all my private messages......

It was probably all those chatty PMs that sank old board, Caroline. 

Does anyone know what the actual logo is supposed to be for an overseer? Is anyone else on the site achieved this level?

Originally Posted By Support
Does anyone know what the actual logo is supposed to be for an overseer? Is anyone else on the site achieved this level?

To be frank, it looked somewhat like a cute kitty's... uh, face. Kinda like this.

Ok caroline if that's what you really want. LOL Yeah how about an answer from someone a bit less obnoxious. LOL. Not that I am not obnoxious myself from time to time.

Dear Support..... sweet, kind, obliging person...... no one has ever achieved an overseer icon before.  We used to just have stars before the last reshuffle established the current levels.  There was a suggestion that we ought to be allowed to choose our own icon.   (Actually, I think that was my suggestion)  So.... how about a chocolate bar?  or a cupcake....?  I suppose you want something game related, huh?  Why not offer us a selection to choose from?

Yes, Caroline's sudden bonus increase in post count makes her the first in site history to make that level, and since she had about 200 odd posts to go before she was going to get it before the migration, I guess nobody seriously had thought of it yet.  Caroline, you always said you want to be a mighty pirate - what about a pirate icon?

Support, nobody currently left on the forum is really obnoxious... they just pretend, and we all know it, and enjoy the bit of off-colouredness since these are all (actually - though somtimes you have to use a bit of imagination  )  great people with a great sense of hunor...  honestly.  ..and some, like mois, are just occasionally grumpy or neurotic, but hey, it takes all sorts, right?  We like to believe that we are generally quite a tolreant lot.  I hope the new staff is too.

Risking sounding like a stuck record, I'd like to thank the new staff yet again for bringing back our lost threads!   

@ Caroline How about a Pirate? If you find something adventure related I will do my best to push it through. Just shoot me a PM with an idea or a link. Congrats on being the highest level BTW. Makes me kinda sad I got my star before even posting one thing and I don't get any special levels, I am just a lowly staff. LOL. Seriously what would you like? (Of course Adventure related kinda sorta)

@Traveller Firdt of al I personally cannot take credit for that one, although I did push for it. However I will let the appropriate person know how much his work is appreacited. You of course are very very welcome. And actually you may have gained an obnoxious person in me and I'll bet once things really get cookin Mark and I will feed off each others twisted humor and keep the laughs rolling. I of course meant obnoxious as in playful, fun and witty in character. 

Originally Posted By Support

@ Caroline How about a Pirate?

Sounds great fun to me Support.   

I  of course meant obnoxious as in playful, fun and witty in character. 

You mean there's another meaning? 

Originally Posted By Support

Does anyone know what the actual logo is supposed to be for an overseer? Is anyone else on the site achieved this level?

When I had a look at YaBB's file structure I noticed it was missing.  I'm not sure if it was ever there, as I don't believe any image was defined. 

Originally Posted By Support

Hi guys, I just checked the merge accounts feature and it does appear to be working, so make sure and get all the credit you deserve for your alias posts. 

@Caroline Congrats on the overseer level!!!

 

Support

How does this merge feature work?  

OOOh Yes!   Can I have my old account merged then too, please please pretty please!!!  Not quite fair that only Caroline gets to do it, is it?  My old account name was The Traveller.  The IP address was the same.  Will I perhaps be able to do this myself?  ..and if I can't can one of the staff please do it for me?  ..after all, you guys did it for Caroline...   *Puppy-dog Eyes*  

I'll pay you whatever Caroline paid you..

EDIT: Ok, I tried the merge, but it's not working for me, it seems  Must one use the username you were using for the forum,when it got deleted, or the username to use that you registered with?  For instance, when I re-registered, i used Placeholder as the username to register with, but of course i'm using my "Traveller" name for the forum itself.

Am I dreaming?  I've just seen an avatar next to Terry Penrod's name.  Wow. 

Originally Posted By Caroline

Am I dreaming?  I've just seen an avatar next to Terry Penrod's name.  Wow. 

A new look for the new board?  I seem to recall that Grim Fandango is one of his favorite adventures.

There's something really fishy going on with the post counts: I just realized that I've lost almost exactly 1000. I was at about 5700. InlandAZ has around 5400 and everyone knows that I'm somewhat more of a blabbermouth than he is...

BTW: I don't see anyway to list the members in various ways (or at all for that matter). Is that gone also? While I'm sounding off- I would strongly request that the dark blue motif be changed to something less stark such as light brown, beige or gray. This is awfully hard on the eyes. Switch between this forum and Adventuregamers to see what I'm talking about.