Add age/gender to our profile?

Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:31 pm

I know many other forums enable users to include their age and gender in their profile (I don't mean the profile page, I mean the part on your post. I don't know what that thing is called, forgive me.), and it'd be nice to be able to do the same here. It would, of course, be optional. So far as I know there isn't any sort of difficult or tedious coding involved...Is this possible to add?

Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:17 pm

I don't like the idea of an age option. It's one thing to state it in a thread, but it's another thing to have it as a field that everyone can see in every post you make (even if it is optional.)

Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:46 pm

Age = Bad. Many many reasons for that, which I won't go into.

The gender thing is added on with a hack/mod - it was on the other forum, but I don't think you'll see it here. Basically since it takes time to do, and there's no real point since these are only "Stand-In" forums.

Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:27 am

My guess it that they'll wait untill the status of the backup database is confirmed -- it would be no point adding stuff to the temp forums if it would only last a week untill the backup is restored.

Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:32 am

Yeah, I noticed that too... *is already missing miniscule gender icons*

But age? No. Simply for personal privacy and safety.

thewanderer wrote:My guess it that they'll wait untill the status of the backup database is confirmed -- it would be no point adding stuff to the temp forums if it would only last a week untill the backup is restored.

One week...yeaz, that's what the evil paymaster says *shifty looks*

Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:12 pm

Alex wrote:Age = Bad. Many many reasons for that, which I won't go into.

The gender thing is added on with a hack/mod - it was on the other forum, but I don't think you'll see it here. Basically since it takes time to do, and there's no real point since these are only "Stand-In" forums.

Bah. Right on. I keep forgetting these are temp forums.

Sun Jun 20, 2004 6:00 pm

uniquelyput wrote:
Alex wrote:Age = Bad. Many many reasons for that, which I won't go into.

The gender thing is added on with a hack/mod - it was on the other forum, but I don't think you'll see it here. Basically since it takes time to do, and there's no real point since these are only "Stand-In" forums.

Bah. Right on. I keep forgetting these are temp forums.

Well looks like the gender thing has been added after all.

Now all you need to do now to see your gender on the Temp Forums is:

Note: This step by step guide is for anyone who doesn't know how to and wants to change their gender from None Specified to whatever gender they are.

1: Click Profile. This will allow you edit your Profile

2: Scroll down to Gender: and click Male or Female(Depending on what gender you of course) but be warned you will not be able to select None Specified(if you don't want tell everyone on the Temp Forums after you select your gender.

3: Finally hit the Submit button (Now the Temp Forums will show your gender when you or someone else views your profile and it will be above the date you joined on when you or someone else view your post in a topic.)

Sun Jun 20, 2004 8:00 pm

*ticks gender mod off list*

Now, all thats left is USERGROUPS *runs off to find Yukio*

They also re-added the Online/Offline (see below posts next to the profile button)

Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:40 pm

But...does this mean...the real forums are never coming back?

*goes off into a corner to cry*

*comes out 30 years later and realizes that nobody else cared*

*feels stupid*

Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:51 am

Robin, have you been egging Yukio on?

I really want the old forums back. But I've said that three times in the last two days, so I'll shut up until next week. ^__^

On the other hand, if usergroups are implemented, I have a word to say about Outkasts.

Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:58 am

I'd like the usergroups back too. A few of them I'm not fussed about, but I'd like a couple of them that I posted in reguarlly (eg. Divas).

Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:03 pm

Robin wrote:...they also re-added the Online/Offline (see below posts next to the profile button)

Yeah, I spotted that...it's a bit different to the old forums though, isn't it? I remember the online/offline button being in the same column as the avatar was...

Alex wrote:I'd like the usergroups back too. A few of them I'm not fussed about, but I'd like a couple of them that I posted in reguarlly (eg. Divas).

Yeah, having the Divas back would be great...I posted there a lot too.

Wed Jun 23, 2004 5:49 pm

Haha, the main reason that I'm kinda nostalgic about the old forums is that I've forgotten to save all of my usergroup rules- including Battle of the Sexes (but I don't know whether that'll be started up again or not). ><

Since it's pretty unlikely that the old forum'll come back (I'm already used to this one anyways), looks like I'll have to rewrite a few. It's all good though, I'd still like having the Guys group back.

I'm just wondering now whether the subforum hack'll be back or not. The only public forums that used it were the BD (war forum, but the war's over) and WG&C (split games and contests into two).

Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:10 pm

I like the gender idea but age. . .some of us perfer NOT to tell our age! :battar:

Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:17 pm

Gender is in there already, Age is not going to happen.