CAKE99 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Are SQUAD Staff required to have a KSP forum account? (I'm asking because of @nestor) (This is a question specifically for @sal_vager) What does Quality Assurance do? Also what differences are there between the regular UI and the Moderator UI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) 13 minutes ago, CAKE99 said: (This is a question specifically for @sal_vager) What does Quality Assurance do? Everyone on the QA team gets certain features to test out in certain ways. Any issues get reported, etc. sal_vager will have a much better explanation though. 13 minutes ago, CAKE99 said: Also what differences are there between the regular UI and the Moderator UI? Well, I'm not a moderator on these forums (duh) but I am an admin for another IPS board. The majority of the difference is a dropdown menu at the top of topics which allow for quick moderation. There's also a moderator control panel which allows you to see everything at a glance: Edit: depending on permissions, it is possible to see the IP address right next to where the share button is. Disclaimer: I'm not a moderator, and I have none of those permissions on these forums. Edited June 13, 2016 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WinkAllKerb'' Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) 18 minutes ago, CAKE99 said: What does Quality Assurance do? basically you run into serious headache all day whatever ; ) http://www.iso.org/iso/home.html technically ... more headaches (mostly process for control and feeback and improvement [insert endless loop here], kinda what iso and QA are all about) &+1 sal_vager will have a much better explanation though. Edited June 13, 2016 by WinkAllKerb'' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Actually Ted can explain better than I can. QA concentrates on focused testing on specific areas, such as new features, but also sees the game at its most broken state, which can be very broken indeed (see 1.1+) QA helps to get KSP into a state that can be tested by the Experimentals team, where more general play testing takes place to try to find all those edge cases you guys like to bring up in the tech support and General section jk we take them all seriously Some of you may prefer another term, Alpha and Beta teams, as the development of each update mirrors the more traditional alpha, beta, gold development paradigm but on a smaller scale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Quote Also what differences are there between the regular UI and the Moderator UI? Ours has a cupholder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 1 minute ago, Vanamonde said: Ours has a cupholder. Now that's funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted June 15, 2016 Author Share Posted June 15, 2016 This is how it looked back on the old forum. I don't know how it looks now.. On 6/1/2015 at 4:28 PM, technicalfool said: Between 5 and 30 points, usually. The checkboxes are to reduce the infraction to a zero-points notice. Useful for reminding someone of rules or getting them to chill out without swinging the banhammer around like a toy. And also how it looked on the old forums. On 6/1/2015 at 10:28 PM, technicalfool said: Administrative: "Inline Mod": For selecting the post (for then doing something with like deleting, unapproving, moving, spam-o-matic-ing...), and to get the IP address the post came from, respectively. Fault Vault is, others aren't. Good question, don't know. Discretion and discussion. Not a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snark Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 9 hours ago, Dman979 said: This is how it looked back on the old forum. I don't know how it looks now.. It looks a fair bit different than that in the new IPS software, but the basic idea is still the same. Probably the best place to get a feel for what it looks like is to just check out Invision's website, where they show off their features: https://invisionpower.com/features/moderation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Does anyone know what happened to the promised Forum feature where we could stop specific threads from sending "you were mentioned" notifications? Would save me the trouble of having to ignore a whole bunch of people in the "Guess Who We'll Harass Next?" thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snark Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, Kuzzter said: Does anyone know what happened to the promised Forum feature where we could stop specific threads from sending "you were mentioned" notifications? Would save me the trouble of having to ignore a whole bunch of people in the "Guess Who We'll Harass Next?" thread AFAIK, there's nothing for specific threads, just for global settings for the whole forum: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/notifications/options/ Yes, that thread can get a bit... tiresome at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 (edited) Thanks @Snark, price of fame, I know, I know. I guess I must have misread this part of Kasper's announcement of the recent Forum downtime: Quote Users can now choose to ignore notifications for being mentioned in posts by particular users. So maybe now instead of ignoring all the content of those particular users, I can just ignore when they ping harass mention me? Will try it... Edited June 15, 2016 by Kuzzter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RA3236 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 8 minutes ago, Kuzzter said: Does anyone know what happened to the promised Forum feature where we could stop specific threads from sending "you were mentioned" notifications? Would save me the trouble of having to ignore a whole bunch of people in the "Guess Who We'll Harass Next?" thread Sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 2 minutes ago, RA3236 said: Sorry Not a problem--it's just when it becomes repetitive, as it looked like it was going to there. Really, it's supposed to be guess who will reply next, not let's see who we can make reply next. So anyway I just checked, and yes indeed the new feature works to block "so-and-so mentioned you in a topic" notifications from specific users. You hover over the user avatar, then click "ignore user" when that dialogue comes up, then check "mentions". Before this, the only way to not get pings was to ignore a user entirely. Much better. Am wondering whether this change was driven by all the pings for KasperVld (note missing @ ) et al. on that thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 1 hour ago, Kuzzter said: Really, it's supposed to be guess who will reply next, not let's see who we can make reply next. Funny note- I actually don't tend to reply to that thread anymore for the same reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Iron Crown Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 I may be partially responsible for that, afaik I'm the first person to tag someone in a post in that thread. I get tagged there somewhat frequently, it's easy enough to ignore if you don't want to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooNamedGames Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I have a requests moderators, can I have my name changed to ZooNamedGames ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DuoDex Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 17 minutes ago, ZooNamedGames said: I have a requests moderators, can I have my name changed to ZooNamedGames ? Absolutely not, that would be impersonating another member of the forums and we cannot condone that. If you speak, communicate, or otherwise harass a moderator again with this inappropriate and impertinent request the banhammer will be dropped. Immediately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 When one posts something, then posts again a short while later on the same thread, the forum automagically merges the two posts if no one has replied in between. What's the time threshold for it doing this? Is it one minute? Five? Sometimes I feel rushed to finish my second post before it decides not to merge them, but I don't know how long I have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 9 hours ago, Kuzzter said: Would save me the trouble of having to ignore a whole bunch of people in the "Guess Who We'll Harass Next?" thread Well played, Kuzzter. Well played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrbitalBuzzsaw Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) What was the "Rocket Builders" forum? Edited June 16, 2016 by OrbitalBuzzsaw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooNamedGames Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 17 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said: What was the "Rocket Builders" forum? I'll take this one! Let me answer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrbitalBuzzsaw Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 So what was it??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooNamedGames Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 4 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said: So what was it??? Let me type! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooNamedGames Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 18 minutes ago, OrbitalBuzzsaw said: What was the "Rocket Builders" forum? It was a subsection to the Spacecraft Exchange that was meant specifically for those who wanted to have requests for crafts done for them. Everyone could make their own companies to perform these requests, I personally owned one of the largest companies, Kerbal Minds Corp (logo in the bottom left of my sig). It occasionally became the target of several user conflicts (mostly between two unnamed companies), and because of the companies it was considered borderline roleplay. So in December of last year, the forum had the Great Forum Migration, where we switched forum software, and when we did. they decided not to carry the section. It was a sad loss, and it will be sorely missed by those who participated, and severely underestimated by those who didn't. A few of the larger players from the section who are still around are; @zekes, @Spartwo, @Endersmens, @Mad Rocket Scientist, and lots of others. They owe they're start to the Rocket Builders section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Well said, a much more in-depth answer than I could come up with The Rocket Builders subforum was a thread were players essentially had threads dedicated to their own rocket or aerospace company. I'm not entirely sure of all the reasons behind it, because I'm pretty sure the subform was taken out before I became a moderator, but I believe it had something to do with the roleplay rules. It became a little difficult to moderate properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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