Two questions... AKA: "The Dot, Why Does It Mock Me?"


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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?

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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...


Yep.

The dot: It tasks you; it tasks you.


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.

Liberty's Edge

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...

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

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.


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.

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

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...

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

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).


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

Paizo Employee Chief Technical Officer

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.

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

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.


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.

Grand Lodge

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?


Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Society Subscriber

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.


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories, Starfinder Society Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber
Mairkurion {tm} wrote:
Only the people with the purple frames know true happiness, I hear.

So true.

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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.


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.

Liberty's Edge

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.


Happy Fun Dot!

Spoiler:
* Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Dot.
* Caution: Happy Fun Dot may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
* Happy Fun Dot contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
* Do not use Happy Fun Dot on concrete.
* Discontinue use of Happy Fun Dot if any of the following occurs:
o itching
o vertigo
o dizziness
o tingling in extremities
o loss of balance or coordination
o slurred speech
o temporary blindness
o profuse sweating
o heart palpitations
* If Happy Fun Dot begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
* Happy Fun Dot may stick to certain types of skin.
* When not in use, Happy Fun Dot should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Dot, Paizo Publishing LLC, and its parent company, Global Chemicals Unlimited, of any and all liability.
* Ingredients of Happy Fun Dot include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
* Happy Fun Dot has been shipped to our troops in Afghanistan and is being dropped by our warplanes on the Taliban.
* Do not taunt Happy Fun Dot.
* Happy Fun Dot comes with a lifetime warranty.


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.

Grand Lodge

*taunts Happy Fun Dot*

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

dot


That's a BIG dot.

Technological Overlord

LOAD PROCESS 423987A
TARGET: TriOmegaZero
ENGAGE


Hahahahahaha! Good one, Happy Fun Dot!

Spoiler:
Seriously, stop taunting it! You're only fueling its rage!!!!


The Computer wrote:

LOAD PROCESS 423987A

TARGET: TriOmegaZero
ENGAGE

Mommy?


Hello? Anybody?

Grand Lodge

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

Paizo Employee Senior Software Developer

super happy fun dot


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

Brother?


Holy crap! It moves! The Dot lives!

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Gary Teter wrote:
dot

What?

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


Gary Teter wrote:
super happy fun dot

Will it still move if I reply?

Edit: nope.

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Yknaps the Lesserprechaun wrote:
Holy crap! It moves! The Dot lives!

His dot moves!! Noooooo!

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dot

The Exchange RPG Superstar 2009 Top 8

super happy fun dot

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smurf

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


Now you've done it, TriOmegaZero.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Grand Lodge

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?


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.

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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.


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.

Grand Lodge

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

Now you've done it, TriOmegaZero.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

Hooray for Wisdom penalties! :D


From Happy Fun Dot to The Terrible Tetering Dot.


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

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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....

Sovereign Court

Gary Teter wrote:
super happy fun dot

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

Paizo Employee Director of Brand Strategy

Gary Teter wrote:
super happy fun dot

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


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... :)

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