Please Post Forums Issues - January 2005

[bhavin asokan]

hi,

the symbol for the magical answer Message with a response that solved the author's question.
the symbol is coming even if the question is closed without assigning points .
i think symbol should appear if 8 or more points are assigned to the answer,so that others can refer to the status of question.

regds,

[Fred Ruffet]

Back on the closing thread problem once more ;)

In december's issues thread, an idea was launched that I found really good and which could be of great help on the old post closing coming to top.

The idea was to consider closing as a stop in the point assignments.
Purpose was to avoid frustration many of us have when someone close his thread and we know answer he has is bad (worst is when we know that we gave this bad answer). A closed thread would be a thread were no more points would be assign to knew answers. Original poster could always re-open thread to assign points to a newly posted better answer.
For the "comming on top" problem, I would then suggest that inactive threads for one month would be automatically closed without coming to top. That would avoid those people making cleanup in their profile and sending their durt in the forum.

One other point I will defend here is that closing a thread must offer possibility to affect the bunny. Bunny in front of a thread indicates that it contains a solution for the problem. So, if the closer explain what solution he found that makes him close the thread, he must set a bunny, for others to see this solution.

Regards,

Fred

[Pete Randall]

Or . . . . we could just do away with this thread closing "feature".


Pete

[Stephen Keane]

It would be a nice feature if next to the country field in a member's profile, we could have maybe the timezone too? Knowing a poster comes from say USA is useful, as you wouldn't expect a prompt in the morning(GMT) time, but knowing whether they are also EST, CMT or whatever would also manage expectations a little?

Just a thought.

[Fred Ruffet]

:)
Simple.
Efficient.
So much time we waste thinking, when solution is nearby... Thanks Pete :)

Regards,

Fred

[Jan van den Ende]

To Stuart:


New one though, Procura did his wonderful job again this month with the January stats. I don't think it was intentional that he called it the "Januari" stats though.


Merijn being Dutch, consider it as a first lesson in Dutch language :-)

Another Dutchie

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Gavin Clarke]

Cheryl + Pete,

If there was a new hat for 50,000+ what would it be?

A halo perhaps?

Just a Friday thought really.

[Pete Randall]

I think a halo would be nice but too religious. With the world-wide nature of the forums, there are many different religions represented and I'm sure HP would not want to risk offending any.

If you'll look at the current icons, they tend to be either non-controversial/common-place (ballcap, mortar-board), medieval (wizard's hat, crown), or ancient/mythological (pharaoh's nemes, olympian's wreath). Any future icon will have to be as generically acceptable, yet indicate an increase in status over the current ones. Frankly, I don't see one - I think HP never expected that things would grow to this point and they painted themselves into a corner.

Therefore, I suggest that they start adding little stars under the wreath: a wreath with one star would indicate double-Olympian, two stars equals triple Olympian, etc. It's simple, straightforward, non-offensive, meaningful - what's not to like?

It must be Friday ;^)


Pete

***moderator re-edit as requested***

[Geoff Wild]

I still think we should go the Sci Fi route for the next hat, something like "Kwisatz Haderach" from Frank Herbert's Dune. The Kwisatz Haderach is the super being - one who can be at many places at once.

The ultimate goal of the Bene Gesserit, up to the novel Dune, is the creation of the Kwisatz Haderach, a male Bene Gesserit. This is a being achieved through a massive human breeding program, which the Sisterhood has conducted for countless generations; using careful manipulations of relationships and people in general, the Bene Gesserit have controlled bloodlines through the ages. The Kwisatz Haderach, with access to both male and female lines in Other Memory, will be an overt figure in the Bene Gesserit's manipulations, thrust upon the universe as the Messiah.

Maybe use a "sandworm" as a hat - or the crest or flag of "House Atreides"...

Rgds...Geoff

[Pete Randall]

Could the moderator re-edit, please?

The first "wreath" should be "halo" - the last "halo" should be "wreath": "stars under wreaths".

Thanks,

Pete

[Patrick Wallek]

If I am interpreting the request correctly, I think Nelson's suggestion in this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/postanswer.do?threadid=782243&forumId=1

is a good idea. We've got an LVM section, there probably should be a VxVM section as well.

[Gary Cantwell]

Thanks Pete,

Apologies, done...

Gary

[Mic V.]

Greetings. I'm sure you (HP) are seeing it anyway, but just wanted to point out that there's a request (in the HP-UX) forum for a new category on VxVM/VxFS.

I agree about not popping newly-closed threads to the top of the list. If it's possible to *respond* to a thread, great, send it up, but it's kind of frustrating seeing something appear to which you can't reply. ;-)

Mic

[Eric Antunes]

Is our (mine, Geoff and others) Search Engine improvement request going to be considered?

Thanks,

Eric Antunes

[Steven E. Protter]

Various topics:

Pete's hat idea. I endorse it(means i owe him a beer). Probably a pain to program though.

Bunny w/o bunny points. Its on the enhancement list. The process was broke on that issue because it didn't include the users. This is something HP should think about, getting us involved with a reality check on ideas.

VxVM - good idea, I endorse it.

Search engine - I thinks its only a few lines of html for someone outside hp to try to use google or another search engine to do internal searches. I'm thinking about trying it to see if one of the outside engines that indexes itrc produces better results.

SEP

[Jan van den Ende]

On new hats:

I kinda like Geoff's idea of 'borrowing' from SF.
It would open up a whole new realm of choices.
After some Dune choices, there is eg.
Douglas Adams with the 'Hitchkiker' series.
Some nice pickings available!
And then, how about the Arthur Clarke 'Rama' series. Especially books III & IV offer some option.
I think 'The Eagle' should be the Ultimate Utmost:
Appointed to supervise the Big Bang, and then follow developments of "Intelligent Life' through the eons....

fwiw, just some building upon someone else's ideas...

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Jan van den Ende]

Cheryl, Dan,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=785058

needs moving.

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Cheryl,

An issue with the user thread moved to a different / incorrect category,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=785236

If it should be moved, it should have moved to the servers/9000 category.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=191

Thanks
Sanjay

[Scott Frye_1]

Don't know why this thread got moved to databases...

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=785000

[Steven E. Protter]

Seems like hardware or sysadmin to me.

SEP

[melvyn burnard]

Jan
thread deleted as the uswer had already posted the same question in the correct forum

Scott, no idea why it was moved to databases, but it is now under servers->9000

[Kurt Beyers.]

A post that shouldn't be in the OB/DP forum:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=785538

But where do you place an MP3 player thread ;-)?

Kurt

[Jan van den Ende]

Cheryl or Dan,

another one got lost in the great big angry ITRC forests:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=785517

Proost.

Have one on me.

Jan

[Gary Cantwell]

Kurt & Jan,

both moved...

Cheers,

Gary

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

can anyone remove the email addreses here:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=785182

thanks,

Michael