Butane Wrote:

MikeV Wrote:Why do you hate me Butane.

I dont?

That's not what you said about him last week.

Butane Wrote:i bet mike's not even with the airforce. He's probably a coast guard. Those guys are afraid to go out of sight of the coastline. Damn puddle skippers. And what's up with the name Mike? Most common generic name of all time. Be more original and use some creativity.

peteyM3 Wrote:

Butane Wrote:

MikeV Wrote:Why do you hate me Butane.

I dont?

That's not what you said about him last week.

Butane Wrote:i bet mike's not even with the airforce. He's probably a coast guard. Those guys are afraid to go out of sight of the coastline. Damn puddle skippers. And what's up with the name Mike? Most common generic name of all time. Be more original and use some creativity.

not me, to lazy to use apostrophes

Hope it stops fake sop rep threads.

zzuubb Wrote:Hope it stops fake sop rep threads.

probably not, they will simply copy the new site.

Another bright idea:
hopefully morons will check links to make sure they are on the real site in the first place.

Butane Wrote:Another bright idea:
hopefully morons will check links to make sure they are on the real site in the first place.

Ehh, sourceop vs. soucreop vs. sourecop are all very similar, and a lot of ppl (especially those with dyslexia cant tell them apart.)

Smeothing you hvae to keep in mnid, a peorsn can read an etnire pargaraph wtih raletive esae as long as the first and last lerttes are in the rgiht spot.

djdwosk97 Wrote:

Butane Wrote:Another bright idea:
hopefully morons will check links to make sure they are on the real site in the first place.

Ehh, sourceop vs. soucreop vs. sourecop are all very similar, and a lot of ppl (especially those with dyslexia cant tell them apart.)

Smeothing you hvae to keep in mnid, a peorsn can read an etnire pargaraph wtih raletive esae as long as the first and last lerttes are in the rgiht spot.

I still don't think that exucses people from actaully chceking the URLs, not everyone who gets scammed has dyslexia. It should be standrad to anyone in trading as part of backrgound chceking those you trade with.

Butane Wrote:

djdwosk97 Wrote:

Butane Wrote:Another bright idea:
hopefully morons will check links to make sure they are on the real site in the first place.

Ehh, sourceop vs. soucreop vs. sourecop are all very similar, and a lot of ppl (especially those with dyslexia cant tell them apart.)

Smeothing you hvae to keep in mnid, a peorsn can read an etnire pargaraph wtih raletive esae as long as the first and last lerttes are in the rgiht spot.

I still do not think that exucses people from actaully chceking the URLs

no, it doesnt, but its still understandable how someone could get mixed up. Honestly, when i first saw soucreop.com i had to read it 5 or so times b4 i realized it.

What started out as a "talk about the new forum" becomes a fukin flame fest. Must be the weekend.

Anyway, in the suggestion forum I been all over the age of this forum. Glad to see it come into the 21st century.

I hope Tapatalk gets integrated and the online now list in alphabetical order will be a plus.

Ability to bump threads without actually posting a reply to do so? +1

Ability to start a conversation with a member or members without using the PM function. +1

Login using "Steam" like every other Steam forum. +1

Backpack, Steam Profile & Steam Rep icons under our avatars would be nice. +1
[Steam Profile] [TF2 Inventory (TF2B)] [Steam Inventory] [Steamrep]

Ability to lock our own threads when a trade is done or open it back up when we are selling again. +1

Irish Wrote:What started out as a "talk about the new forum" becomes a fukin flame fest. Must be the weekend.

Anyway, in the suggestion forum I been all over the age of this forum. Glad to see it come into the 21st century.

I hope Tapatalk gets integrated and the online now list in alphabetical order will be a plus.

Ability to bump threads without actually posting a reply to do so? +1

Ability to start a conversation with a member or members without using the PM function. +1

Login using "Steam" like every other Steam forum. +1

Backpack, Steam Profile & Steam Rep icons under our avatars would be nice. +1
[Steam Profile] [TF2 Inventory (TF2B)] [Steam Inventory] [Steamrep]

Ability to lock our own threads when a trade is done or open it back up when we are selling again. +1

I agree. I'm only watching this thread to participate in the discussion of the new forums, nothing else. I encourage more people to make suggestions and or comments / predictions like this. As it only helps the community and forums......



I've heard a lot about tapatalk, and it does support vBulletin, but I'm not sure about how much it would actually be helpful. Maybe you could clue me into why you are so interested in it?

In my opinion, bumping without posting would be more of a pain than it would be useful. The speed at which threads would get off the front page would be far too fast, and there would be way too many thread forgotten about. That is unless they would only auto bump for a set amount of time / days. ( I do like your creativity though. )

Login from steam is a must. Eliminates profile confirmations via email etc, and eliminates spam bots completely.

Avatar, Tf2items Backpack, and SteamRep would be very useful I agree.
(My only complaint is that you have to only have a link, not a live SteamRep status that shows scammer tag, because currently SR's servers are too slow to handle the flow. Not speaking negatively, just from previous experience.)

Ability to lock your own thread is GREAT also. Greatly reduces the stress and work load on moderators.



EDIT: To prevent fake sites, all you have to do is use the Steam Login. If they link you to a wrong website, you will have to sign back in as you have never visited their site before. On the sign in it will list the name of the website that is requesting the login from the steam web api. This would be a red flag that it indeed is not the correct website.

Tapatalk takes allot of the loading out of the forum for phone users. Instead of rendering a site it only shows the threads. All the splash is out making it a true just "type" forum on the phone and not a webpage.

The bump function IMO wouldn't be no different than the guys that wait 2 hours every 2 hours just bump with a smiley post. I'm almost completely sure in the admin portal you can tell the forum how long it takes before a poster could actually bump their thread. Here I would expect 2 hours and then their "bump" button would be visible to them. Only the thread starter can bump the thread unless someone posts to it during the course of the day.

I hear you about the SR forums. Takes forever for the reply to come back. I still think the link is fine....Your just going to have to wait a bit for that page to render. Yes link only. The tag can be seen once your on their site. No need to link the tag info.

I had a few forums in the past. Vbulletin is nice because if you have the cash they can help maintain a site. When I used phpBB forums in the past you can get help from help forums but to get someone to actually do the maintenance you would have to find someone and not only pay them but give them full control of your site to upgrade and make changes. At least with vbulletin they are employees of vbulletin. Less likely to nuke your site.