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Originally posted by saralk
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
What I find important is the usefull information, the info which, when put together, could give an idea of what the person knows or what his background is and how much he/she is familiar with the forum. This is a support forum in the first place, so I find such info more important than knowing from which country he/she came or what their gender is. Such info includes postcount, time of joining(!), rep, and maybe age.... All the rest is just 'interesting'...
I can sort of understand where you're coming from with time of joining, but I still think that the reputation is a far better indicator of the user's helpfulness rather than the time of joining.
Yeah, I understand... but I think one thing isn't more important than the other thing. It is putting the things together which gives the proper information.
A reputation on its own doesn't say much. A postcount on its own doesn't say much either. The same with the joining date. But putting everything together and you get a somewhat 'usefull' information about a person. Leaving something out and that 'picture' gets unclear.
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Originally posted by saralk
I still think that we should get rid of the stars, they are completely redundant, and potentially dangerous as new member might think they are related to how helpful a user is. As you said, this is a support forum and so people just looking for help might think it has something to do with their seniority in the forum.
Hmmm... dunno, I think I don't agree with this. Not about removing the stars, but about _why_ they should be removed.
I think it is fairly clear what the stars are _not_, as there is a clear reputation field. If the reputation field wasn't there I would have agreed with the 'potentially dangerous for newbies' reasoning.
This said, the stars are (almost!) the same as the user title, so yeah, it's (almost!) double information which could maybe be removed.
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Originally posted by Discrate
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Originally posted by alex
Now that the "Status: Offline" is gone, does it really need to say "Status: Online"? Why not just "Online" or "Away"? =p
Geeze dont get picky! all it needs i think is the flag down the bottom of the info,instead of the middle.
No... Things have been removed (like the IP) to preserve space, adding the flag to the bottom is just going to enlarge everything again.
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Originally posted by alex
Now that the "Status: Offline" is gone, does it really need to say "Status: Online"? Why not just "Online" or "Away"? =p
Because it also says "joined:", "reputation:", "posts:", etc.... ? consistancy....
(removing it wouldn't save space either)
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Atm, it looks extremely well...
WDZ
(although, why do some flags have a black border, some a '3D' border and some no border at all. eg: I think the Germany flag looks a bit too much '3D'... compare it the UK flag for example which doesn't have a black border, or even japan........nitpicking I know 
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