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No such thing as a "phantom" LOL...

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TrudeTrude Frets: 889
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I'm not sure if this is common knowledge, but I've never seen it mentioned.  On the other hand I've seen a fair few complaints about "phantom lollers", so I thought I'd share:

If you're on a desktop browser, you can hover your mouse over any fret-count and see the individual user names of the people who Lolled / Wowed / Wiz'd.  It works on anybody's posts, not just your own.

If you appreciate this post, feel free to fret me any way you like - I'll know who you are!!
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    Oh do keep up at the back there pleeeeease...
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    Well, I'm a fairly casual member here, but had never heard about this before - meanwhile I've seen a lot of comments over time implying that lollers are anonymous!  Was this a recent-ish change then?
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  • ThorpyFXThorpyFX Frets: 6038
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    left you a cheeky lol for yesterdays news.
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    That's fine - where did I miss it?
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 25239
    Trude said:
    That's fine - where did I miss it?
    Here you go :)

    https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/184998/fair-warning-lol-wow-wis-changes/p1
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    ThorpyFX said:
    left you a cheeky lol for yesterdays news.
    This thread needs some fish and chips in the old news paper :D
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    edited August 2020
    Thanks!

    So I missed a thread that had a three-day lifespan in a forum I rarely look at!  Yeah, I guess I must be out of touch  D

    [EDIT]  I meant I rarely look at Off Topic, not TFB as a whole, of course!
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    Trude said:
    Thanks!

    So I missed a thread that had a three-day lifespan in a forum I rarely look at!  Yeah, I guess I must be out of touch  D

    [EDIT]  I meant I rarely look at Off Topic, not TFB as a whole, of course!
    It was announced - so if you popped into "discussions" or "recent discussions" you'd have spotted it ;)
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    I thought announcements were, you know... Announcements.  Meaning tagged as announcements, and hence pinned at the top of the page?  I never look at "recent discussions".  I may not even have been on the forum at all between the first post and when it dropped off page one of Off Topic.

    To give myself some credit, I did poke around the Help & Feedback section before posting looking for an update to see if this was something new.  There are a whole load of other sticky announcements there about various forum changes, but nothing on this.  You'd think that something identified as having the potential to cause arguments (as per the post) should be pinned for visibility!  
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    Trude said:
    I thought announcements were, you know... Announcements.  Meaning tagged as announcements, and hence pinned at the top of the page?  I never look at "recent discussions".  I may not even have been on the forum at all between the first post and when it dropped off page one of Off Topic.

    To give myself some credit, I did poke around the Help & Feedback section before posting looking for an update to see if this was something new.  There are a whole load of other sticky announcements there about various forum changes, but nothing on this.  You'd think that something identified as having the potential to cause arguments (as per the post) should be pinned for visibility!  
    Its not a problem :)

    Announcements do stick - but only in their subforum. 
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 25239
    Trude said:
    I thought announcements were, you know... Announcements.  Meaning tagged as announcements, and hence pinned at the top of the page?  I never look at "recent discussions".  I may not even have been on the forum at all between the first post and when it dropped off page one of Off Topic.

    To give myself some credit, I did poke around the Help & Feedback section before posting looking for an update to see if this was something new.  There are a whole load of other sticky announcements there about various forum changes, but nothing on this.  You'd think that something identified as having the potential to cause arguments (as per the post) should be pinned for visibility!  
    Yeah, it's a problem - things like this are posted in Off Topic, because that's the part of the forum with the most traffic. Unfortunately, the software doesn't allow us to pin threads in multiple categories.
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  • vizviz Frets: 10211
    Have phantom-wowed you. :)
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889

    Yeah, it's a problem - things like this are posted in Off Topic, because that's the part of the forum with the most traffic. Unfortunately, the software doesn't allow us to pin threads in multiple categories.
    Could it not be pinned just in OT, like the announcement about BCD?  Or do you mean it's already pinned somewhere else?
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  • WiresDreamDisastersWiresDreamDisasters Frets: 16661
    I lol'd you and I was dressed up as a spooky ghost, so it's still a phantom lol.

    Bye!

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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 25239
    edited August 2020
    Trude said:

    Yeah, it's a problem - things like this are posted in Off Topic, because that's the part of the forum with the most traffic. Unfortunately, the software doesn't allow us to pin threads in multiple categories.
    Could it not be pinned just in OT, like the announcement about BCD?  Or do you mean it's already pinned somewhere else?
    Yes - that's exactly what @Bridgehouse said. It was pinned in OT and at the top of Recent Discussions for about a week. I'm saying that we couldn't also pin it in Help & Feedback.
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    Ah, gotcha.  I clearly blinked and missed it.  
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    WiresDreamDisasters said:
    I lol'd you and I was dressed up as a spooky ghost, so it's still a phantom lol.
    Spooky won't cut it I'm afraid.  I only accept phantom lols from sexy ghosts.
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    edited August 2020
    @digitalscream  ;I guess you've already thought of this, but if you do want to pin a post to more than one subforum, could you not just create a duplicate post with the same original announcement, close it to new replies and include a link to the original post so people can discuss it in that one place if they want to?  Then you can get eyeballs on it in any locations that might make sense.
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    Trude said:
    @digitalscream  ;I guess you've already thought of this, but if you do want to pin a post to more than one subforum, could you not just create a duplicate post with the same original announcement, close it to new replies and include a link to the original post so people can discuss it in that one place if they want to?  Then you can get eyeballs on it in any locations that might make sense.
    You can, but for the recent discussions viewers they would get multiple copies of the same post!
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    Bridgehouse said:
    You can, but for the recent discussions viewers they would get multiple copies of the same post!
    Only initially though, right?  It wouldn't take long for those closed duplicates to dive down to the lower reaches of the recents list.  Looking at it now, each page of recents seems to account for about an hour's worth of posts.  You don't find anything from yesterday till page 6, and the whole list ends at Aug 5th.  
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 5594
    Trude said:
    Ah, gotcha.  I clearly blinked and missed it.  
    There were also a few small discussion threads about Peter Green you might have missed. Suggest you don’t ask about him again...
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  • HattigolHattigol Frets: 8170
    In other Breaking News, Thatcher has just announced we have invaded the Falklands...
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    Trude said:
    Bridgehouse said:
    You can, but for the recent discussions viewers they would get multiple copies of the same post!
    Only initially though, right?  It wouldn't take long for those closed duplicates to dive down to the lower reaches of the recents list.  Looking at it now, each page of recents seems to account for about an hour's worth of posts.  You don't find anything from yesterday till page 6, and the whole list ends at Aug 5th.  
    If they are pinned announcements then they stay at the top until we unpin them...
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    Hattigol said:
    In other Breaking News, Thatcher has just announced we have invaded the Falklands...
    I'm pretty sure that was pinned to the headlines for more than one week, and not just in the readers' letters pages either!  :)
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  • Strat_a_tat_tatStrat_a_tat_tat Frets: 2758
    Hattigol said:
    In other Breaking News, Thatcher has just announced we have invaded the Falklands...
    Is she leading the charge... in that new-fangled boat... The Titanic?
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    Bridgehouse said:
    Trude said:
    Bridgehouse said:
    You can, but for the recent discussions viewers they would get multiple copies of the same post!
    Only initially though, right?  It wouldn't take long for those closed duplicates to dive down to the lower reaches of the recents list.  Looking at it now, each page of recents seems to account for about an hour's worth of posts.  You don't find anything from yesterday till page 6, and the whole list ends at Aug 5th.  
    If they are pinned announcements then they stay at the top until we unpin them...
    But there are lots of pinned announcements in other subforums that aren't also pinned to recents.  It looks like only the Off Topic announcements are there at the mo.  If your duplicate post is pinned to Help & Feedback, it wouldn't automatically get pinned in recents, right?
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  • JalapenoJalapeno Frets: 6284
    Look on the bright-side - you're getting attributable LOLs aplenty ! ;)
    Imagine something sharp and witty here ......

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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 889
    Jalapeno said:
    Look on the bright-side - you're getting attributable LOLs aplenty ! ;)
    There is that.  I think they're all just jealous because I was able to tear myself away from a forum for a whole week and go do something else!  
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24559
    Trude said:
    Bridgehouse said:
    Trude said:
    Bridgehouse said:
    You can, but for the recent discussions viewers they would get multiple copies of the same post!
    Only initially though, right?  It wouldn't take long for those closed duplicates to dive down to the lower reaches of the recents list.  Looking at it now, each page of recents seems to account for about an hour's worth of posts.  You don't find anything from yesterday till page 6, and the whole list ends at Aug 5th.  
    If they are pinned announcements then they stay at the top until we unpin them...
    But there are lots of pinned announcements in other subforums that aren't also pinned to recents.  It looks like only the Off Topic announcements are there at the mo.  If your duplicate post is pinned to Help & Feedback, it wouldn't automatically get pinned in recents, right?
    We get all sorts of options to pin in all sorts of places as modmins... :)
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  • bloodandtearsbloodandtears Frets: 1591
    Trude said:
    Jalapeno said:
    Look on the bright-side - you're getting attributable LOLs aplenty ! ;)
    There is that.  I think they're all just jealous because I was able to tear myself away from a forum for a whole week and go do something else!  

    have a genuine lol, cos it was actually true thus funny
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    is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?

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