THE TIMESTAMP WAR

[Chojin]

Okay guys we have three options here for post timestamps:

1. Full Timestamp
Format: January 29th, 2007 8:17 PM
This is how it was on the old boards and how it is right now.

2. Relative Timestamp
Format: 5 minutes ago
This is how it was when the vb boards started today. It reverts to the full timestamp after 24 hours. I personally prefer this as it makes the forums feel more active.

3. Combo Timestamp
Format: Today 8:19 PM
This is a 3rd option, it'd put 'today' or 'yesterday' behind the time, and a full timestamp if the post was before that.

VOTE.

[Pub Lover]

When I first logged on I thought option 1. but option 2. has really grown on me so I vote 2.

[Emu]

If you click the numbers it tells you who voted where

Fathom Zero you faggot

[Chojin]

Pub, you need to actually vote. Dork.

[Esuohlim]

Haha Fathom you fag.

:(

It really doesn't matter, but before I requested the change it still said "1 week ago" for old threads, and I didn't like that one bit no sir.

[Pub Lover]

Pub, you need to actually vote. Dork.

The poll wasn't there when I responded to the thread, honest. :(

[Emu]

Am I the only one here who enjoys combos?

http://www.candydirect.com/cleanimages/novelty/combos.jpg

[Fathom Zero]

Goddamn, I'm gay.

[executioneer]

oh man is there any way to fix the polls so they're anonymous, at least to non-mods :( NOT LIKE I DONT STAND BY MY OPIONION OR ANYTHING :x

[Jixby Phillips]

Hey why come cant i have it say my OLD joindate like chojin has it?? WHY COME?

The earliest posts of mine that I could find on the ezboard were from August 2000, I'd guess I started posting earlier that summer maybe june or july, CHOJIN FIIIIX IT FIXXX IT

actually don't fix it, the idea of posting somehwere for more than half a decade is kind of sad. I'm sad! Don't you think I'm sad?

[Esuohlim]

Am I the only one that checked some old poll threads hoping they wouldn't be anonymous :eek

[liquidstatik]

relative timestamp<3

[Emu]

i knew i could count on you jixby

[Chojin]

Hey why come cant i have it say my OLD joindate like chojin has it?? WHY COME?

The earliest posts of mine that I could find on the ezboard were from August 2000, I'd guess I started posting earlier that summer maybe june or july, CHOJIN FIIIIX IT FIXXX IT

actually don't fix it, the idea of posting somehwere for more than half a decade is kind of sad. I'm sad! Don't you think I'm sad?
jix, there's a thread about this - 'the glory of the past...' if you can provide some links I can restore postcounts.

[Chojin]

oh man is there any way to fix the polls so they're anonymous, at least to non-mods :( NOT LIKE I DONT STAND BY MY OPIONION OR ANYTHING :x
the default is anonymous polling, I just wanted to see what it looked like as CANDID POLLING

[sadie]

polls suck. :(

[Jixby Phillips]

Thanks Chojin thank you so much

I am in the thing you know, the thing

the other thread

[noob3]

i want my original join date :x

[executioneer]

polls suck. :(
i do still hate you polls >: ;)

[Black Flag]

i wanted to put combo but i really don't want relative to win :(

it's like an election :(

[Jixby Phillips]

Yeah, I voted combo for a sense of fairness but I really favor full over relative

[GADZOOKS]

Combo is that terrible Boxer from Killer Instinct, so I picked relative because I like my relatives.

[Emu]

Actually isn't there some way you can set it up so each person can choose which display mode is used? It seems weird that you'd have to set the entire forum to see it one way.

[DuFresne]

hey emu can i be cool now to?

[Esuohlim]

cool now to what?

[Chojin]

RELATIVE TIMESTAMPS IS ONE VOTE SHY OF A MANDATE, GUYS :picklehat

[Esuohlim]

Chojin you went into this knowing full well that mentioning your preference right off the bat would skew the popular opinion

[noob3]

let's just do combo :x

[Black Flag]

for real, then everyone will be happy

[Chojin]

Chojin you went into this knowing full well that mentioning your preference right off the bat would skew the popular opinion
AH HA HA! AH HA HA! AH HA HA HA!

[noob3]

man this imockery administration is crooked dudes we better rebel against them

[GADZOOKS]

Can we have NO TIMESTAMPS and everything will be like mysterious.

[liquidstatik]

whens this poll gonna be over? ;o

relative is tottally winning

[Chojin]

it's set to 2 weeks.

[Emu]

I feel that this thread is important enough to be a sticky

[Juttin]

lol @ bad grammer manipulation

[Emu]

grammAr

[Jixby Phillips]

Question: Does relative timestamps fade after a certain ammount of time? Like I hate the idea of every post that happened 12-23 months ago would say ONE YEAR AGO on it. Like there are honestly times when I have to track down the date of something and I wind up using message board posts and stuff to gage that. Would I be able to get the actual date of a post by clicking the time stamp or something?

[Emu]

All the posts have dates attached to them regardless of what kind of time stamp you have. Ideally though the combo timestamp would explire after two days and regress into a full timestamp after that period. I really don't get why people would want one or the other when you have both.

[Black Flag]

honestly there is no reason not to do the combo

[Emu]

Srsly.

[Chojin]

Except the combo doesn't tell you a relative time, it just says 'yesterday' or 'today' or nothing next to a full timestamp. IDEALLY, we should have a full timestamp with (5 minutes ago) or something after it, but there's no option for that because that would be great.

Also Jix it's my understanding that the relative timestamp goes to a full after 24 hours, but i know fo sho it goes to a full one after a month or two.

[Esuohlim]

As I mentioned before, this board started off with relative timestamps and I seriously saw "1 week ago" for all the threads at the bottom of General Blabber's page one.

You're making a big mistake here!

[Chojin]

Well it was, wasn't it

[zeldasbiggestfan]

Cant you just let us pick in our profile like how many posts per page?

[sadie]

okay, well, zelda, this thread isn't about how many posts per page. moron.

and polls still suck, and who cares about timestamps anyway? what's the big deal?

[DuFresne]

Question: Does relative timestamps fade after a certain ammount of time? Like I hate the idea of every post that happened 12-23 months ago would say ONE YEAR AGO on it. Like there are honestly times when I have to track down the date of something and I wind up using message board posts and stuff to gage that. Would I be able to get the actual date of a post by clicking the time stamp or something?

I think he makes a good point.