Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Suggestions Box => Topic started by: The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers on May 22, 2003, 03:55:17 PM
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UBB's nicest feature (and nearly the only one I can find that YaBB doesn't have, and usually better implemented) is a "Today's Active Topics" link where it searches and displays liniks to all threads that have been posted to taht day. The closest YaBB has that I can find is a "10 Most Recent" link. So if I know there have been posts on more than 10 different threads, I have to do a search, which isn't so bad, but isn't convenient. just thought I'd throw that out to see if someone wants to code it.
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Why don't you just check the threads with the little *new* tag on them?
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I think SE has taken the concept of laziness a bit far there ;)
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That requires going to each forum to see what's there. I want something that I can hit once and see at a glance if there's something I want to investigate
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Cry me a river.
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Ya, I definately have to say that that would be the greatestly coolest function around for such things. So ya.
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Hey, you SOLICITED suggestions. I made one. You don't have to get whiney and make excuses. There may even already be a mod for it for YaBB.
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I suspect SE is right about that. And I have to agree it could be handy.
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Handy indeed.
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ah... vindication, thou art so yummy.
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EUOL was the one that solicited ideas not Tage.
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Still, Tage needs to have better customer service skills.
You say you will do it, then you conveniently forget about it.
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? From my perspective, he's generally very up-front about the fact that he's probably not going to do any of the things everybody wants him to.
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He must work in a corporate IT department.
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EUOL, having once had the miserable job of working in customer service. Many people in that field prefer to make promises and then not follow through with them than tell the customer what they don't want to hear.
Also, in many corparate jobs outside of IT, you don't get the option of telling people no. Don't you read Dilbert?
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I have worked in technical support and customer service for the past 5 years, so I know what its like to be very hesitant to tell a customer "no" or "its not going to work" or "I can't help you." In fact, more often than not responses like that will only get you in trouble with your superiors. You have to lie outright and convince the customer that, despite their extreme stupidity and the fact that their computer is 10 years old, there is indeed a chance of getting everything on their computer working perfectly again.
But in many corporate IT departments, you can actively solicit requests for fixing things, and then deny said requests without any logical explanation, and spend the time you'd otherwise be spending on fixing that problem watching a movie or ordering pizza. Which you can afford, since you get paid more than the price of the pizza during the time it takes you to eat it.
This isn't the case with all IT departments, of course, so if you work in IT and this description doesn't apply to you, then good for you. And I offer my condolances.
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Also, the difference between being upfront and being callous, is quite tenuous.
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Also, the difference between being upfront and being callous, is quite tenuous.
Only if you're bitter and don't care about the feelings of others. Like me.
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I don't recall implying that I was going to do something and then not do it. Although you could have just been making a general case, but I couldn't tell exactly. Either way, as I've said before, I won't be working on the current forum at all as I plan on writing one specifically for play-by-post games.
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If anyone's going to make wild promises and then not follow up on them, it's me. And you're all getting a brand new pony.
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See, that's good customer service on Fell's part.