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Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

Bert — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:42:06 GMT

What does the gray head and shoulders icon mean? It just recently showed up underneath my avatar, it wasn't there before.

I've seen that as a replacement for people's avatars if the page didn't load correctly, and it couldn't get that information, and some others just keep it that way.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

chloe732 — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 05:59:48 GMT

What does the gray head and shoulders icon mean? It just recently showed up underneath my avatar, it wasn't there before.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

JeffB — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:11:36 GMT

Knight_of_BAAWA:

Each person can rate it. Just mouse over the stars and click however many you want.

The points after people's posts comes from how many replies something gets. I believe each reply is worth 15 points, so 1 reply is 20 points (5 points for the initial post + 15 for the reply).

Thanks!

I hadn't noticed those stars before, or if I did I didn't realize what they were for.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

Knight_of_BAAWA — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:16:01 GMT

Each person can rate it. Just mouse over the stars and click however many you want.

The points after people's posts comes from how many replies something gets. I believe each reply is worth 15 points, so 1 reply is 20 points (5 points for the initial post + 15 for the reply).

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

JeffB — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:10:27 GMT

Knight_of_BAAWA:

The stars are ratings for the post (if it has been rated at all).

The bars under your avatar show your bracket position regarding the forum posters wrt # of posts, e.g. top 100, top 50, etc.

How do they get rated and who rates them? The members? The Mods? everybody? I don't see anywhere that I can rate anything, though I use Firefox and maybe it doesn't work for open source browsers, though that would be a shame. Ditto for the points after people's posts. What do they mean and where do they come from?

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

Knight_of_BAAWA — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:00:52 GMT

It means that if you indicate in creating the post that you're asking a question for people to answer, people can suggest responses as answers and you can approve the ones you think are actually answers.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

John DeWitt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:52:42 GMT

I'm new too. What does it mean to "verify" and answer on a discussion forum?

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

Knight_of_BAAWA — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:30 GMT

All you have to do is mouse over them and you'll see.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

mickanomics — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:55:49 GMT

Knight_of_BAAWA:

The stars are ratings for the post (if it has been rated at all).

The bars under your avatar show your bracket position regarding the forum posters wrt # of posts, e.g. top 100, top 50, etc.

Can you remember how you found out this piece of information - surely its all written down somewhere.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

A.L.Pruitt — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:43:05 GMT

Cheers

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

Knight_of_BAAWA — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:29:06 GMT

The stars are ratings for the post (if it has been rated at all).

The bars under your avatar show your bracket position regarding the forum posters wrt # of posts, e.g. top 100, top 50, etc.

Re: Meaning of all the icons etc...

A.L.Pruitt — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:23:16 GMT

mickanomics:

Hi,

maybe I'm being stupid, but I've completely failed to find anywhere on the site which gives an explanation of all the different icons/stars/points etc used on this forum. Can you give me a pointer.

Cheers,

Mick.

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Meaning of all the icons etc...

mickanomics — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:40:56 GMT

Hi,

maybe I'm being stupid, but I've completely failed to find anywhere on the site which gives an explanation of all the different icons/stars/points etc used on this forum. Can you give me a pointer.

Cheers,

Mick.