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Kittydreamer

01-07-09 07:27 PM

It was so awesome!

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Originally Posted by Bronkster (Post 9182274)

Thanks, but I've been scuttled :sad:

It's ok, Bronk. I saw it and it was AWESOME. :D

crazyronin

01-07-09 08:11 PM

What are you looking at? The post is down and to the left.

What's all this then?

whotony

01-07-09 09:16 PM

Can't wait to see the rest

Quote:

Originally Posted by IB-Dick (Post 9181841)

*sigh*

IB you have unintentionally made dvdtalk the must funnest place on the intranents
thank you so much.

argh923

01-07-09 10:42 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

This is so silly.

#1.) It's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it's dumb, but for those complaining about clutter...don't look at it. It's on the far right of the post. It's making a mountain out of a molehill.

#2.) On the flipside, it seems really, really silly to implement something like this to artificially create more Google hits on a search.

mnementh

01-08-09 06:31 AM

Code:

&lt;!-- icon and title --&gt;

&lt;div class="smallfont"&gt;

        

        &lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;!-- google_ad_section_start --&gt;.egnahc reaf eW&lt;!-- google_ad_section_end --&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;hr size="1" style="color:#D1D1E1; background-color:#D1D1E1" /&gt;

&lt;!-- / icon and title --&gt;

The hr in every post is tacky. How about underlining the titles instead?

Also, why the nested divs? <div class="posttitle"> would be more efficient and would let me have my own stylesheet to hide the damn things. ;)

mnementh

01-08-09 06:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by abrg923 (Post 9182657)

#2.) On the flipside, it seems really, really silly to implement something like this to artificially create more Google hits on a search.

According to Google,

Quote:

In order to properly implement this feature, you'll need to include a significant amount of content within the section targeting tags. Including insufficient content may result in less relevant ads or PSAs.

One-line titles don't seem like a significant amount of content.

Th0r S1mpson

01-08-09 09:17 AM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by abrg923 (Post 9182657)

Perhaps you should realize that this thread is responsible for it being on the far right of the post, unbolded, whereas initially it was a bold line at the start of every post. It's been much improved and less of an eyesore.

I agree that removing the hr tag and using a simple underline would be a great final step to de-cluttering, if possible.

VinVega

01-08-09 09:30 AM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

IB-Dick, I hope they told you that you'd earn your money with managing this site. :lol:

Numes

01-08-09 09:38 AM

If you hate these automatic titles, go to the feedback forum and say so!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thor Simpson (Post 9183142)

Eh, I have to disagree. I think it is still a huge eyesore and a source for a vast amount of unneeded clutter. In some ways it is actually more distracting to me that it is right justified because my eyes want to see what is on the right side of the message. Changing it to the right and not bolding it may have appeased a few people, but IB is apparantly fine with not addressing the root cause of the negative feedback by just changing a couple things and think it's all ok now.

And I'm not just complaining for complaining sake. I do like the icon change for threads that you have posted in.

Quote:

Originally Posted by abrg923

#1.)It's not that big of a deal. Yeah, it's dumb, but for those complaining about clutter...don't look at it. It's on the far right of the post. It's making a mountain out of a molehill.

I couldn't disagree more. With clutter like this, the thing one can't do is not look at it. How can I not look at something that is right there in my face? It's incredibly annoying and it is not trivial to me.

mnementh

01-08-09 09:43 AM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Thor Simpson (Post 9183142)

If you click on the "go advanced" button on the bottom of the page, the titles return to being bold lines at the start of every post.

Kittydreamer

01-08-09 02:03 PM

Vinnie's funny

Quote:

Originally Posted by VinVega (Post 9183182)

IB-Dick, I hope they told you that you'd earn your money with managing this site. :lol:

for real! :lol:

Dr Mabuse

01-08-09 05:01 PM

Re: Steep learning curve ahead for IB-Dick

Quote:

Originally Posted by IB-Dick (Post 9181841)

*sigh*

:lol:

That banana thing Bronk did was teh cool.

TomOpus

01-08-09 05:37 PM

Re: Steep learning curve ahead for IB-Dick

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse (Post 9184455)

:lol:

That banana thing Bronk did was teh cool.

If he had a nickel everytime he heard that....

crazyronin

01-08-09 06:54 PM

Jump into the swamp of dumb. The water's fine.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TomOpus (Post 9184529)

If he had a nickel everytime he heard that....

Well, he was quite famous down in Tiajuana back in the day.

IB-Dick

01-08-09 07:04 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by mnementh (Post 9182911)

If we remove the hr, then the title inside the content box with no clear separation.

I don't see how including it in a div is more efficient. It would be more flexable, but it would be less efficient.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mnementh (Post 9182915)

According to Google,

That quote is concerning adsense, which as stated earlier has nothing to do with the reason for doing this.

Quote:

Originally Posted by VinVega (Post 9183182)

IB-Dick, I hope they told you that you'd earn your money with managing this site. :lol:

You guys are a walk in the park compared to some other communities. Believe it or not, I actually like the jokes. Only think that sucks about them is having to read 7 pages of jokes to find the on-topic posts. (And that only sucks when I'm strapped for time)

Quote:

Originally Posted by mnementh (Post 9183215)

If you click on the "go advanced" button on the bottom of the page, the titles return to being bold lines at the start of every post.

That's because the right aligning and unbolding was a template change. Since vB 3.8 was just released and 4.0 is soon to follow, We'd like to do the least number of template modifications as possible. Changing it there too would just be one more issue down the road.

Kittydreamer

01-08-09 07:07 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

^^That's so wrong. :lol: :lol:

whotony

01-08-09 07:08 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by IB-Dick (Post 9184703)

You guys are a walk in the park compared to some other communities. Believe it or not, I actually like the jokes. Only think that sucks about them is having to read 7 pages of jokes to find the on-topic posts. (And that only sucks when I'm strapped for time)

.

OK, you guys know what this means.

Kevin M. Dean

01-08-09 07:58 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by IB-Dick (Post 9184703)

If we remove the hr, then the title inside the content box with no clear separation.

But we said to put an under or bottom border just under the title text. That would provide clear separation. Some of us just don't think the hr bar needs to extend all the way across the screen. Leave it just under the length of the title text.

Dr Mabuse

01-08-09 08:15 PM

Re: Teenage girls naked and ready for action

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kevin M. Dean (Post 9184799)

Some of us just don't think the hr bar needs to extend all the way across the screen.

Damn straight.

I know I speak for most of us when I say you should put the title on a marquee scroll in every post, with the dancing bananas on either side as bookends.

That would rock!!!

kilcher

01-08-09 08:49 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

IB-Dick - Just a suggestion... I realize you probably can't fully blend the text color because it might be perceived as deceitful by the search engines but how about changing the text color so that it's just slightly darker than the background - still visible but not standing out so much.

Th0r S1mpson

01-08-09 09:17 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

I don't think they need to be lighter or harder to read. They actually serve a mild purpose as they are. The HR is still silly though.

lordwow

01-08-09 09:23 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by kilcher (Post 9184905)

If they were worried about it being perceived as deceitful, they probably wouldn't have the same thing posted 22 times on one page.

IB-Dick

01-09-09 01:18 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by lordwow (Post 9184968)

If they were worried about it being perceived as deceitful, they probably wouldn't have the same thing posted 22 times on one page.

How is that deceitful? This page is about "automatic titles in posts" so having that title in the contents 20 times is deceitful how? This is a setting that's turned on by default with vBulletin that was at some point turned off. It's not like this is the only site that does it and it's not like we're trying to rank for terms that aren't relevant to the content of the page.

Kittydreamer

01-09-09 01:50 PM

Meat! Meat! Meat! Meat!

Quote:

Originally Posted by whotony (Post 9184711)

OK, you guys know what this means.

Muahahahahahahaha!!! He's going down. :lol:

IB-Dick

01-09-09 02:43 PM

Re: What's with the automatic titles in posts?

Quote:

Originally Posted by whotony (Post 9184711)

OK, you guys know what this means.

Yeah... that was NOT a challenge.

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