Editing Posts Alters Credits? Does being retrospecitvely pedantic pay?

[galexcd 0]

Well I sure didn't know any of this thievery of credits was going on by RedAlert. I thought I'd send him this topic as a laugh about old times, posting on trap. Hmmmm. However, you certainly should not be following his example. I'm sure the moderators and admins will step up a bit now to make sure this can't happen anymore.

[Nabb 0]

So this text-same-colour-as-background thing has been done before.I devised a method that is almost undetectable. It doesn't create massive blank space. No text is hidden and visible by highlighting... But you can hit the quote button! Damn!So what do I do with this, should I leave it alone, or tell someone who would be able to do something about it, or what...(no, I haven't abused it anywhere, feel free to check all my 53 posts)edit) Har, I had another idea but it doesn't work. But it's IPB that blocks it!

Edited September 8, 2008 by Nabb (see edit history)

[jopak134 0]

i always thought this one an addon to ipb guess i was wrong

[rayzoredge 2]

Also you want to stop at 30 credits to get the default package because once you get hosted you lose all your credits.

Whoa... what?

That's something that I can hopefully see changing... since I do plan on being hosted myself, but I never actually applied for hosting because I actually never figured out what I would want to do with a website yet, hence my plan to just save up credits for the time being. If this was outlined in the rules, apparently it wasn't obvious or I missed that very, very important statement.

I'd like to keep my credit count when I decide to host and cough up 30 credits... not 1700+ credits for default hosting.

[travstatesmen 0]

Yes, rayzoredge, I got caught out exactly the same way. I had built up over 100 Credits before I signed up for my hosting package with Xisto, expecting to see 30 of them used as per the advertised offer. But I didn't read the hidden small print either, and when I found that all my Credits except for a paltry 4 were taken to start my hosting I was quite shocked! I know that this problem has been addressed in the Suggestions For Version 3 Of The Credit System, and I hope that it gets adopted. It is too late for me now, and for others, and probably for you as well, but I hope that v3 will fix this problem. Either that or they should change the advertising, and say something like "It takes a minimum of 30 Credits for package 2 hosting, and will consume practically all your Credits when you start getting hosted." And this should be prominent, and not hidden in a link to a post, which is linked from the rules. I've already had my say on how confusing the rules are here, and I think something really needs to be done about it.

[RedAlert 0]

Very cute rvalkass, but a ridiculous idea? Really? It got me many credits and you didn't even "catch" it until I told you about it. It seems like a great idea to me.

Edited September 17, 2008 by RedAlert (see edit history)

[rvalkass 5]

Very cute rvalkass, but a ridiculous idea? Really? It got me many credits and you didn't even "catch" it until I told you about it. It seems like a great idea to me.

Yes, but your posts were in long-dead threads that were made before I was a mod When I found the topics, it was fairly obvious.

[-Sky- 0]

As far as I have seen, I get my credits increased when editing my posts.

[RedAlert 0]

Yes, but your posts were in long-dead threads that were made before I was a mod When I found the topics, it was fairly obvious.

You found them because I linked them to you AND told you what rule I broke. You would never had found them because I only edited them after the threads had already been long-dead.

[Forbez 0]

I'd just like to say thanks, I've always been wondering about this. Never bucked up the courage to ask .