'TA'; Territorial Army, an island in Micronesia or what?

[Lucien Nunes]

So I've gone from being 'esteemed' and 'respected' to just 'TA' which I assume means trusted advisor, although I am not sure why we have to be cryptic about it. People who want quick pointers on whose advice to trust are those outside the forum who don't know the contributors, who also won't know what 'TA' means.
Oddly, a poster from the USA gets badged as a 'USA advsior' (sic, it's misspelled on the badge) simply for being in the USA even if they post a lot of nonsense, whereas UK members have to work to earn a 'TA'.

BTW, what happened to that post 'quality' index that was going to drive the 'Esteemed' badge? Is it behind the TA or a discarded concept? I sort-of liked it up to a point, not least because I was good at it!

 

[buzzlightyear]

dan ,can we not have superior advisors.

 

[Dan]

Ps there's only one "USA Advisor" for now. It is a test for me to apply settings to. And whilst I was in there I thought hmmm I'll apply a badge to that too perhaps. So that isn't quite finished yet either. I'll take your feedback on board and consider it when I'm messing with those settings again in a couple of weeks time.

PPS. I'm setting up a bug bounty soon. So you'd have been paid to point out that misspelled wording. Only a fiver Amazon voucher or something but still a reward perhaps.
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dan ,can we not have superior advisors.

Pmsl.

Do you get it first?

*Takes a bow to the master
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I would agree that "TA" is far too cryptic and unlikely to be understood.

It is intentionally like that. ? For now.

There is a better way to do all this somewhere. Need to clock where / what that is with the staff.

(I won't be discussing it with normal members regardless of their badge type etc - just too many opinions to get anything done)

 

[Lister1987]

I reckon it was @Westwood, with his whipping off the covers obsession; TA being ---- & ---

 

[littlespark]

Youll pay us for spotting spelling mistakes, @Dan ?

I just read a post by Buzz. That's going to cost you a fortune!

 

[Dan]

Christ no. Not in your own posts, or even my posts. But within the forum system itself, maybe.

*Puts forum staff hat on

Please keep this thread on topic. It's quite an important one for those who have the tag. It's questionable as to whether people should even be replying who don't have it. Let alone sending it off on one about something else.

 

[Dan]

@Lucien Nunes and other people who had the Esteemed Tag. I'm taking a look into this now. And can't seem to find the issue as to why it's not processing. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the customisations a few times now, various ways, and it's just simply not parsing it like it did when it was working. Seems to have kicked in again on TilersForums by itself. So its some conflict somewhere that on that forum I've somehow indirectly fixed.

Leave it with me.

As for the other stuff, staff are discussing the way the TA goes long term. So we'll get back to you on that one asap.
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It's back for some but not others. Seems to be conflicting with the TA badge now.

Still working on it. LOL!

Hate Mondays.

 

[Dan]

Okay. So the forum has decided all on its own that if you have the Trusted Advisor (TA) tag, you don't get to have the Esteemed Member tag too. So don't tell it I'm working out how to get around that in case it bans me or something. I'll have to commit a bit more time to this on a fresh head. It's blagging me to bits.
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PMSL!!!! It has now dished them out properly!! I didn't even do anything!

I think the forum read my post and did it for me!

Just spotted Andy78 - https://www.electriciansforums.net/members/andy78.42946/ and then came here to check and it's working again!

I need to change the ratio a bit so it's a bit more rare, but I daren't change a setting anywhere yet. So I'll leave it as it is for now. But note this post if you lose it in a couple of weeks.

 

[Lister1987]

Back up everything NOW; the forum software, the SQL database, EVERYTHING ?

 

[Dan]

It's automatically done on a rolling basis matey. I can pick a time of day on any day in the last few weeks and roll the whole forum back. Or just a page. Or just a database segment etc.

Thank god. I've needed it over the years. Lol

 

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I reckon it was @Westwood, with his whipping off the covers obsession...

A thorough obsession of inspecting ,and removing covers to see the insides - a very male thing
( Even "Bender" of Futurama is on the same wavelength !)
May not be PC ,but is a built in directive - No insult intended.
... denied we risk losing urge to multiply ...