Upgrade Completed 4.1.17 \ Leaderboard Added

[munchmemory]

Hi Max.  Although the directions in "Signature" say that you may add up to four lines of text, the system never allows me to do this.  Other than my aging mental faculties, what is the problem.  Thanks.

[Bombdirt]

I feel like I should chime in here and clear up a few things about myself and what Bombdirt (Who?) spends his visits doing here.  

1. Most of the regular posters around here know who I am (or are at least aware of me). I've been a member for almost five years, and lurking for a long time before that. Those who only visit the football forum are probably not as familiar, as I don't post in here much during the Jets' down-years--and it's been a while since we haven't had a down-year--and honestly it just bums me out more. That said, I still visit the football forum every day to keep informed of all the new and depressing facets of our beloved team. 

2. The 100k thread, over the course of several years, has become a mini-community of its own, similar to the Mafia forum. It is the largest and most-viewed thread on the site (by a very, very wide margin), and I am proud of that. The reason I keep it going is to try and bring a little joy to my fellow Jets fans, and joy has been in something of a short supply in recent years. The thread is not "soft-core pornography"; if you'd care to look at my posts, you'd see that I mix in a healthy amount of funny or interesting pictures and gifs alongside the images of pretty girls (which I am always vigilant about keeping tasteful and adhering to the site's guidelines for posting). 

3. I like the new leaderboard, and I like seeing my name on it. There's nothing "artificial" about me being up there; I earn my reputation points just like anyone else, regardless of whether or not my posts are football-related. There are several longtime posters here who only visit the Mafia forum; should their reputations be discounted as well since they're not spouting some redundancy about Fitzpatrick's turnover ratio? The beauty of JetNation is that it's a diverse community that features a handful of different niche areas. We're all here because we're Jets fans, but we're able to express ourselves differently within these boundaries as well. 

4. Go Jets. 

[SAR I]

2 hours ago, Bombdirt said:

I feel like I should chime in here and clear up a few things about myself and what Bombdirt (Who?) spends his visits doing here. 

First off, nice to meet you.  Second, I have no beef with off-topic conversation whatsoever, I've been posting in forums since 1994 and the old alt.football.pro.ny-jets days, plenty of OT stuff going on there.

But when it comes to what's best for the site, if this is a Jets forum and the best purpose of the Leaderboard is to highlight and motivate top Jets content producers who other posters may find interesting, the softcore porn and comedy gif's interfere with that.

If Max does not have the capability to separate the off-topic tracking from the on-topic tracking and therefore cannot create two distinct Leaderboards, the question then becomes what purpose does a merged Leaderboard have?   Hey, if it's just there to make posters feel good, I drop my case, who cares.  But if its purpose is to drive traffic, build natural search results, add new users, stimulate dialog, create debate, and ultimately make more money for site ownership, well, one can get softcore porn and comedy gif's everywhere, your content is an internet redundancy.  What we're good at on JN is creating Jets discussion, that's the key to the site's survival, the Leaderboard can assist in that regard, it becomes a wasted tool without the proper focus.

SAR I

[Bombdirt]

4 hours ago, SAR I said:

First off, nice to meet you.  Second, I have no beef with off-topic conversation whatsoever, I've been posting in forums since 1994 and the old alt.football.pro.ny-jets days, plenty of OT stuff going on there.

But when it comes to what's best for the site, if this is a Jets forum and the best purpose of the Leaderboard is to highlight and motivate top Jets content producers who other posters may find interesting, the softcore porn and comedy gif's interfere with that.

If Max does not have the capability to separate the off-topic tracking from the on-topic tracking and therefore cannot create two distinct Leaderboards, the question then becomes what purpose does a merged Leaderboard have?   Hey, if it's just there to make posters feel good, I drop my case, who cares.  But if its purpose is to drive traffic, build natural search results, add new users, stimulate dialog, create debate, and ultimately make more money for site ownership, well, one can get softcore porn and comedy gif's everywhere, your content is an internet redundancy.  What we're good at on JN is creating Jets discussion, that's the key to the site's survival, the Leaderboard can assist in that regard, it becomes a wasted tool without the proper focus.

SAR I

Nice to meet you as well. I feel like I'm fairly familiar with you already from reading your posts; you seem like a pretty thoughtful guy and you've made me chuckle on more than one occasion. 

I totally get what you're saying--this is, after all, a football site, and that's where the focus should ultimately be. And I do agree with you that ideally the Leaderboard would be most effective with some type of filter that would allow it to be viewed by each individual forum. I don't know if that's feasible or not, but it would be interesting and would solve any glaring discrepancies. 

I realize my spam-posting style kind of throws a wrench into any accurate comparisons of rep and daily post counts, but believe me I do it out of love for my fellow beleaguered Jets fans. The 100k thread has become something of a pet project for me in recent years, and it's been fun watching the post count (almost 62 thousand) and the thread views (over 3.5 million) inch upward. Just doing my part to get those clicks and ad revenue built up so Max can buy himself a yacht.  

[SAR I]

2 hours ago, Bombdirt said:

Nice to meet you as well. I feel like I'm fairly familiar with you already from reading your posts; you seem like a pretty thoughtful guy and you've made me chuckle on more than one occasion. 

I totally get what you're saying--this is, after all, a football site, and that's where the focus should ultimately be. And I do agree with you that ideally the Leaderboard would be most effective with some type of filter that would allow it to be viewed by each individual forum. I don't know if that's feasible or not, but it would be interesting and would solve any glaring discrepancies. 

I realize my spam-posting style kind of throws a wrench into any accurate comparisons of rep and daily post counts, but believe me I do it out of love for my fellow beleaguered Jets fans. The 100k thread has become something of a pet project for me in recent years, and it's been fun watching the post count (almost 62 thousand) and the thread views (over 3.5 million) inch upward. Just doing my part to get those clicks and ad revenue built up so Max can buy himself a yacht.  

Great post, looking forward to reading you and participating in the 100K thread.

SAR I

[The Crusher]

18 hours ago, SAR I said:

Great post, looking forward to reading you and participating in the 100K thread.

SAR I

I look forward to slamming you with much rep for your contributions.  Oh yea.  Where the heck is this leade rboard ?

[SAR I]

38 minutes ago, The Crusher said:

I look forward to slamming you with much rep for your contributions.  Oh yea.  Where the heck is this leade rboard ?

Go to the header.  Click on Activity.  The Leaderboard is the second link from the left.

There is the ability to sort by date and other variables off to the right side of that page.

SAR I

[The Crusher]

13 minutes ago, SAR I said:

Go to the header.  Click on Activity.  The Leaderboard is the second link from the left.

There is the ability to sort by date and other variables off to the right side of that page.

SAR I

Woah. Sounds confusing. Can you just update me on my standings from time to time?

[Maxman]

On 12/14/2016 at 8:41 AM, munchmemory said:

Hi Max.  Although the directions in "Signature" say that you may add up to four lines of text, the system never allows me to do this.  Other than my aging mental faculties, what is the problem.  Thanks.

It was set to 4 but it says  This setting affects the number of new lines the user can create in a signature. A long line of text will automatically break (the point at which the text breaks depends on the width of the user's browser that is viewing the signature), and this is not affected by this setting.

I changed it to 5 to be safe.

[munchmemory]

12 hours ago, Maxman said:

It was set to 4 but it says  This setting affects the number of new lines the user can create in a signature. A long line of text will automatically break (the point at which the text breaks depends on the width of the user's browser that is viewing the signature), and this is not affected by this setting.

I changed it to 5 to be safe.

Thanks, Max.  I'll give it a try later and let you know the result.  Have a great weekend.