Thursday, August 04, 2005

Two technical updates

One, posts that have been administrated will automatically show the time they were last edited.  Should this time be GMT or localized? I could have it display the last editor, too, but if someone comes along and changes a typo, that’ll be misleading.  So I think we should still sign the Admin field with our names.

Two, the “Can’t-vote-without-text” issue should be fixed.  The problem was that I had already voted with nothing but a checkbox, and EE denies duplicate data by default as a spam prevention measure.

Post here with input on either issue.  :)

Comments

Excalabur:

04-08-2005 19:06:23 UTC

er. 

whatever the display is in the footer of the posts, the display in the admin field should be the same.

75th Trombone:

04-08-2005 21:28:39 UTC

Huh?  You mean the style, the way it looks?  Or the time itself?  o.O

Excalabur:

05-08-2005 00:33:17 UTC

the time itself.

75th Trombone:

05-08-2005 02:13:46 UTC

The footer time is when it was posted.  The Adminned time is when it was edited.

Excalabur:

05-08-2005 02:20:51 UTC

Yeah.. make them both in the same time: either localized or GMT.  doesn’t really matter which.

smith:

06-08-2005 00:48:42 UTC

NO NO! It should be GMT because we need a single reference time to work from for rules and proposals. It would be highly confusing to have everyone referencing their local time.