Mikhaila Burnett (Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 01:51 PM

Question 1: The dot after subjects on messageboards. What is it? How does it behave the way it does?

Hypothesis: The dot is added when you comment/create a thread, and vanishes after so many posts pass without you commenting it.

Question 2: How does one get labeled a 'superscriber'?

Hypothesis: Subscribe to EVERYTHING that has a subscription associated with it.

Am I even close?

Tessius (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 01:54 PM

Mikhaila Burnett wrote:

Question 1: The dot after subjects on messageboards. What is it? How does it behave the way it does?

Hypothesis: The dot is added when you comment/create a thread, and vanishes after so many posts pass without you commenting it.

Question 2: How does one get labeled a 'superscriber'?

Hypothesis: Subscribe to EVERYTHING that has a subscription associated with it.

Am I even close?

1. The dot is put next to threads you post in.

2. The superscriber tag is applied when you subscribe to all the subscriptions in a product line.

ok now I need to find what I'm missing in the PFRPG line to not have it...

Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 01:54 PM

Yep.

The dot: It tasks you; it tasks you.

Can I Call My Guy Drizzt?, Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 01:59 PM

Mikhaila Burnett wrote:

Question 1: The dot after subjects on messageboards. What is it? How does it behave the way it does?

Hypothesis: The dot is added when you comment/create a thread, and vanishes after so many posts pass without you commenting it.

Question 2: How does one get labeled a 'superscriber'?

Hypothesis: Subscribe to EVERYTHING that has a subscription associated with it.

Am I even close?

I wonder if the dot disappearing from some threads you've posted in has anything to do with multiple aliases? I just noticed it started doing this today after I made a new one.

Tessius (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 02:02 PM

Can I Call My Guy Drizzt? wrote:

Mikhaila Burnett wrote:

Question 1: The dot after subjects on messageboards. What is it? How does it behave the way it does?

Hypothesis: The dot is added when you comment/create a thread, and vanishes after so many posts pass without you commenting it.

Question 2: How does one get labeled a 'superscriber'?

Hypothesis: Subscribe to EVERYTHING that has a subscription associated with it.

Am I even close?

I wonder if the dot disappearing from some threads you've posted in has anything to do with multiple aliases? I just noticed it started doing this today after I made a new one.

Might be something Gary's set up after a certain amount of time w/o posting. Or it could be the "...of Forums are way too long" threads are eating them to survive. BTW dont feed the "forums are way too long" threads after midnight...

Gary Teter (PostMonster General), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 02:05 PM

If you create the thread, you get a dot. If you post in a thread, you get a dot, but that dot will go away in 7 days or if the thread has had more than two new pages of posts since you posted.

Also, some dots may also temporarily not show up if the dots subsystem is particularly busy at the moment, but should appear properly within a few minutes.

hogarth, Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 02:06 PM

See this post for dot details:
http://paizo.com/paizo/messageboards/paizo/websiteFeedback/noDotsInTheArchi ves&page=1#3

EDIT: Oops...ninja'ed by the big cheese.

Gary Teter (PostMonster General), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 02:07 PM

Also, the forums are way too long thread doesn't decrease the number of available dots. Though I am considering turning it into a möbius strip at some point...

yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 02:14 PM

Dots go away after a certain number of posts have passed since your last post on the thread. You see (x new) on any old thread that you have visited. Clicking on the (x new) link will take you to the last post you read.

As for getting the Superscriber tag, you can be two kinds of superscriber:

1) Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber - Adventure Path, Chronciles, Companion, Modules

2) Pazio Superscriber - All the above, RPG, Maps, Cards, Planet Stories

If you have all of (1) but just parts of (2), you'll have a tag like me, which lists one superscription and then all the individual subs that don't quite get you to (2).

Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 02:20 PM

Only the people with the purple frames know true happiness, I hear.

Vic Wertz (Technical Director), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 03:06 PM

yoda8myhead wrote:

As for getting the Superscriber tag, you can be two kinds of superscriber:

1) Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber - Adventure Path, Chronciles, Companion, Modules

2) Paizo Superscriber - All the above, RPG, Maps, Cards, Planet Stories

As Yoda said to Obi-Wan, "There is another." If you subscribe to all of the GameMastery subs—currently GameMastery Maps and GameMastery Cards—that makes you a GameMastery Superscriber.

yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 03:09 PM

Vic Wertz wrote:

As Yoda said to Obi-Wan, "There is another." If you subscribe to all of the GameMastery subs—currently GameMastery Maps and GameMastery Cards—that makes you a GameMastery Superscriber.

Oh, I don't subscribe to those. I have to get something from my FLGS, after all.

Wolf Munroe (Pathfinder Chronicles Superscriber; GameMastery Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 08:42 PM

yoda8myhead wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

As Yoda said to Obi-Wan, "There is another." If you subscribe to all of the GameMastery subs—currently GameMastery Maps and GameMastery Cards—that makes you a GameMastery Superscriber.

Oh, I don't subscribe to those. I have to get something from my FLGS, after all.

You could subscribe to those and get D&D minis at your FLGS? Or get your second (or third?) decks of item cards at the FLGS?

I can't wait until I'm able to put the rest of my subscriptions back.

TriOmegaZero (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 09:03 PM

Gary Teter wrote:

If you create the thread, you get a dot. If you post in a thread, you get a dot, but that dot will go away in 7 days or if the thread has had more than two new pages of posts since you posted.

7 days huh?

Paul Ryan (Paizo Charter Superscriber), Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 09:42 PM

My observation is that it sticks around a lot longer than just seven days for me. There's one for me on the discussion thread for Book of the Damned I, and I posted there in April. It hasn't passed the two pages since I posted limit though, so I don't know if the dot will vanish after that. Yet.

Lanx (Paizo Superscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 04:40 AM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Only the people with the purple frames know true happiness, I hear.

So true.

Set, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 04:44 AM

Gary Teter wrote:

Also, some dots may also temporarily not show up if the dots subsystem is particularly busy at the moment, but should appear properly within a few minutes.

When I first post to a new PBP under an alias, the dot usually doesn't appear. I fool the dot by posting as myself, then deleting the post after the dot appears. My dot remains, but I have vanished like smoke.

hogarth, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 05:11 AM

Paul Ryan wrote:

My observation is that it sticks around a lot longer than just seven days for me. There's one for me on the discussion thread for Book of the Damned I, and I posted there in April. It hasn't passed the two pages since I posted limit though, so I don't know if the dot will vanish after that. Yet.

According to the link I posted above, it also matters if you posted in the first 100 posts of a thread.

Saint_Meerkat (Paizo Superscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 05:43 AM

Gary Teter wrote:

Also, some dots may also temporarily not show up if the dots subsystem is particularly busy at the moment, but should appear properly within a few minutes.

Do not, I repeat, DO NOT suggest to anyone at Paizo that the dots are being lazy.

Joshua J. Frost (Events Manager), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:12 AM

Happy Fun Dot!

Spoiler:

Mouthy Upstart, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:25 AM

When is Super Happy Fun Dot coming out? Happy Fun Dot changed too much while at the same time not changing enough of Fun Dot. It is Epicfailurebroken.

TriOmegaZero (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:26 AM

*taunts Happy Fun Dot*

Gary Teter (PostMonster General), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:41 AM

•

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:43 AM

That's a BIG dot.

The Computer (Technological Overlord), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:46 AM

LOAD PROCESS 423987A
TARGET: TriOmegaZero
ENGAGE

Joshua J. Frost (Events Manager), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:47 AM

Hahahahahaha! Good one, Happy Fun Dot!

Spoiler:

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:48 AM

The Computer wrote:

LOAD PROCESS 423987A
TARGET: TriOmegaZero
ENGAGE

Mommy?

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:56 AM

Hello? Anybody?

TriOmegaZero (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:57 AM

Your mother was a comma, and your father smelt of participles!

Gary Teter (PostMonster General), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 10:59 AM

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Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:00 AM

TriOmegaZero wrote:

Your mother was a comma, and your father smelt of participles!

Brother?

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:00 AM

Holy crap! It moves! The Dot lives!

Tarren Dei (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:00 AM

Gary Teter wrote:

dot

What?

That is so unfair. Teter gets a great big dot but we all got small ones?!

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:01 AM

Gary Teter wrote:

super happy fun dot

Will it still move if I reply?

Edit: nope.

Tarren Dei (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:01 AM

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun wrote:

Holy crap! It moves! The Dot lives!

His dot moves!! Noooooo!

Tarren Dei (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:02 AM

dot

Tarren Dei (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:02 AM

super happy fun dot

Tarren Dei (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:02 AM

smurf

EDIT: Well, at least I have that to fall back on.

Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:02 AM

Now you've done it, TriOmegaZero.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

TriOmegaZero (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:03 AM

Tarren Dei wrote:

Gary Teter wrote:

dot

What?

That is so unfair. Teter gets a great big dot but we all got small ones?!

Have dot envy, do you?

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:03 AM

Tarren Dei wrote:

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun wrote:

Holy crap! It moves! The Dot lives!

His dot moves!! Noooooo!

When you cry, Teter collects the tears and drinks them before going to bed.

Tarren Dei (RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:05 AM

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun wrote:

Tarren Dei wrote:

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun wrote:

Holy crap! It moves! The Dot lives!

His dot moves!! Noooooo!

When you cry, Teter collects the tears and drinks them before going to bed.

I heard Teter never sleeps.

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:07 AM

Tarren Dei wrote:

I heard Teter never sleeps.

I hear that all he does is stare at the computer and the code re-arranges itself to whatever he wants.

TriOmegaZero (Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:07 AM

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Now you've done it, TriOmegaZero.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Hooray for Wisdom penalties! :D

Mairkurion {tm} (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:07 AM

From Happy Fun Dot to The Terrible Tetering Dot.

Yknaps the Lesserprechaun, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:09 AM

Teter's dot makes all the other dots cry for their mommas

Charlie Bell (Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Pathfinder Adventure Path, Pathfinder Chronicles, Pathfinder Companion Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 11:23 AM

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Happy Fun Dot!

** spoiler omitted **

Hmm... seems like some other happy fun dots I've heard of that cause hallucinations, hearing colors, smelling sounds, and flashbacks....

Callous Jack (Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 12:15 PM

Gary Teter wrote:

super happy fun dot

It's a Sphere of Annihilation, come to destroy us all!

yoda8myhead (Pathfinder Chronicles Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Subscriber), Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 02:03 PM

Gary Teter wrote:

super happy fun dot

Don't you have real work to be doing? Boy, you Paizos sure are lazy these days.

Charles Evans 25, Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 02:03 PM

Gary Teter wrote:

super happy fun dot

Well, looking at the above quoted post with internet explorer, I'm just seeing a great big blank area, so the purported super happy fun dot seems to be just an invisible dot as far as I'm concerned....

Edit:
I have flagged the quoted post and this one for display problem, on the basis of a dot that is not there on some browsers may well have a problem with display... :)