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Ammo of Ice

Edgy DC Nov 10 2009 10:32 AM

So, you may not have noticed, but we never had a Bullets of Cool thread for October. I think we all owe a special thanks to our own Sgt. Hulka, Frayed Knot, for compiling our award winners. But that's a lot of heavy lifting for one man. And you may be asking how YOU can help. Well, the answer is in the lower right hand corner of this post, fool. See that red exclamation point? If you see a Bullet, click that punctuation mark and click it good. A form will open asking you why you're flagging that post. Select "Other" from the drop-down menu, and use the Further information: field to specify that you are nominating the post for Bullet of Cool. Feel free to tell us why. Although, with any true bullet, the reasons should be self-evident, we admins aren't going to stop you if you feel an urge to express yourself. Just know that we'll be the only readers. At the end, hit Submit. Feel free to play with your explanation points, just don't Submit. This post is no BoC.

Fman99 Nov 10 2009 10:39 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

Neat idea. I tested it with one of my own BOC-worthy comments. Is there any way to customize the menu to add the BOC as a drop down choice?

Edgy DC Nov 10 2009 10:41 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

Oh, I fogot to mention. Nominating your own work is so lame that I want to cry.

Rockin' Doc Nov 10 2009 07:09 PM Re: Ammo of Ice

[quote="Edgy DC":1ix6vchk]Oh, I fogot to mention. Nominating your own work is so lame that I want to cry.[/quote:1ix6vchk] Yupİ

Benjamin Grimm Nov 11 2009 07:56 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

I'm also not crazy about the resulting big red ego-driven exclamation point that's on the Threesome thread.

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 08:01 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

I think we admins are the only ones that see it. Am I right, posters? We also have the power to unilaterally dismiss the report and make the go away.

Frankenstein Nov 11 2009 08:08 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

Errrrrrr....

Fman99 Nov 11 2009 08:18 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

[quote="Edgy DC"]I think we admins are the only ones that see it. Am I right, posters? We also have the power to unilaterally dismiss the report and make the go away.

Yes, you are right. I see no big exclamation points on the threads so marked.

Frayed Knot Nov 11 2009 09:49 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

[quote="Edgy DC"]I think we admins are the only ones that see it. Am I right, posters? We also have the power to unilaterally dismiss the report and make the go away.

Seems to me that there are several ways you - or whatever committee you put together - can go with this:
- list every nominated post at the end of whatever time-frame you decide (week/month) and either let that stand on it's own, or do that plus pick out a winner among them, or maybe even gold, silver, bronze type awards.
- or take the nominated posts and whittle them down to a top-ten situation (or something along those lines) and only publicize those

Benjamin Grimm Nov 11 2009 09:54 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

When this thread was first opened, I did a search on the keyword "bullet" to see whose posts had been "nominated" by others. Only two came up, and both of them were nominations for posts that I had made, so I decided not to do anything with that info. But maybe all we need to do is, when anyone sees anything "cool", quote the comment and put "BULLET OF COOL" under the quote. At the close of the month, the search feature can expose these nominations.

Frayed Knot Nov 11 2009 09:58 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

Then there's something that I'm not getting. Are you, as an admin, NOT seeing the results of posts that were "reported" by means of clicking the exclamation point?

Benjamin Grimm Nov 11 2009 11:10 AM Re: Ammo of Ice

No, we do see the exclamation point. I just thought that it was kind of distracting. But if it's only distracting the few, and not the many, then I guess it's less bad. But if we use my suggestion, then you don't have to be an admin to administer the bullets of cool. Anyone can search for the "BULLET OF COOL" text.

Frayed Knot Nov 11 2009 02:36 PM Re: Ammo of Ice

Ah, so there's no way to isolate or otherwise have those 'nominated' posts come to the attention of the admins other than to just stumble across them by seeing the enlarged marker?

Edgy DC Nov 11 2009 02:42 PM Re: Ammo of Ice

There probably is, I think. Even if not, it's easy enough to find, as the exclamation points are next to the threads, as well as the posts 'emselves.