Code Examples

[mackrackit]

Darrel,

Is there a way to rig the forum so if a thread receives 10? 5 star ratings it would automatically be moved to... "THIS PLACE HAS GOOD STUFF".

[mackrackit]

On second thought the star idea may not work.

This thread has 5 stars, why?http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=2907

The thread it refers to has 4 stars?

[Darrel Taylor]

Dave,

That's what we want to see. Good idea's!

Unfortunately, vBulletin doesn't seem to have a feature like that.
But such a good idea it was, it led to this thought ....

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:picbasic.co.uk +"thread rating"

Which pulls up every thread that has been voted on in the forum.
A.K.A. the "THIS PLACE HAS GOOD STUFF" place.
(the first few results are the Forums themselves)

Then, if you add another search term to the seach box on that page, it will give a list of threads that were voted on, that also match your keyword.

It also quite handly shows the number of votes for each thread in the search results.

And if nothing else, it provides a source of the "Best threads" for creating a List as mentioned before.

But then, you all need to start voting on the GOOD one's, to make it work.

.

[mackrackit]

OK I will start voting.

Is there a way to put you link on the main page, with instructions?

[Darrel Taylor]

Great!,

I hope we can get a few more people to do the same.

Here's a couple links that may improve the results by limiting them to at least Min votes.

Min
4 --- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:picbasic.co.uk +"thread rating" -"2 votes" -"3 votes"

5 --- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:picbasic.co.uk +"thread rating" -"2 votes" -"3 votes" -"4 votes"

.

[Ioannis]

If I may suggest, a good search engine might help also. The forum has one but not very practical. Darrel suggested another one ... but I lost it. If I only could find where it was....

See what I mean? Can the forum search be improoved? If not, may be Darrel's suggestion be somewhere easy to find? (Higher rated)

Ioannis

[rhino]

Darrel suggested another one ... but I lost it. If I only could find where it was....

GOOGLE SEARCH FOR PBP FORUM!

Originally posted by Darrel Taylor

[mackrackit]

Darrel,

Could you put your google trick links on the main page so the are easy to find and do not get lost.

Some of us "book mark" threads of interest, but in my case I am not usising the same machine all of the time (shop, office, on the road, etc) so it would help to put these google links out front.

[Pic_User]

Darrel,

Could you put your google trick links on the main page so the are easy to find and do not get lost.

Some of us "book mark" threads of interest, but in my case I am not usising the same machine all of the time (shop, office, on the road, etc) so it would help to put these google links out front.

Hey Dave,
You don’t read the forum at work do you? ooops, gotta go..., here comes my boss...
-Adam-

[Archangel]

Darrel,

Could you put your google trick links on the main page so the are easy to find and do not get lost.

Some of us "book mark" threads of interest, but in my case I am not usising the same machine all of the time (shop, office, on the road, etc) so it would help to put these google links out front.

You can set up your little piece of this farm to keep track for you, just subscribe to the threads of interest and unsubscribe to all the others, then on your , home computer bookmark all the subscribed threads for permanent archive or better yet save the web page as a file.
HTH
JS