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Hey admins or whoever else may know, hope this hasn't been explained already

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Grant

Posted: Jan 5 2008, 01:10 AM

John Freeman said
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What are the big red "!" blocks in front of some topics in the News forum for?

I've never seen them until now, and when I hover the mouse over a couple of them, they say that the topics have been reported 1 time(s).

So fill me in, please.

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Hatman	Posted: Jan 5 2008, 01:11 AM
The astro craaag Group: Members Posts: 10223 Member No.: 2510 Joined: 16-August 06 Status: (0d)	It guess it's for a news topic that became recently void.

ShadowMan	Posted: Jan 5 2008, 01:12 AM
Roll away baby. Roll away forever. Group: Members Posts: 23782 Member No.: 47 Joined: 13-October 03 Status: (0d)	It was part of an old system we had implemented for Super Reporters. They got the Orange Exclamation point badge, and topics they reported would be flagged with the big Red ! Block. Klobber was the only one to get this badge, and it was discontinued immediately after. Then he became admin again. I think the reason we never went through with it is that it was the equivalent of being Hall Monitor: everyone knows you're the tattletale and beats you up under the metaphorical jungle gym of life. Not sure why that topic has that. This post has been edited by ShadowMan on Jan 5 2008, 01:13 AM -------------------- end of line

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Xgoff

Posted: Jan 5 2008, 01:14 AM

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good thing it was shut off because every single topic around here would have one of those icons just because someone said "ass"

This post has been edited by Xgoff on Jan 5 2008, 01:14 AM

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Grant

Posted: Jan 5 2008, 01:15 AM

John Freeman said
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QUOTE (ShadowMan @ Jan 5 2008, 01:12 AM)

It was part of an old system we had implemented for Super Reporters. They got the Orange Exclamation point badge, and topics they reported would be flagged with the big Red ! Block. Klobber was the only one to get this badge, and it was discontinued immediately after. Then he became admin again.

I think the reason we never went through with it is that it was the equivalent of being Hall Monitor: everyone knows you're the tattletale and beats you up under the metaphorical jungle gym of life.

Not sure why that topic has that.

Sounds like something that went out of use long ago, before the News Forum was even created.

Do you suppose one of the admins did that just for the sake of a mystery - to make people wonder until it was explained?

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good thing it was shut off because every single topic around here would have one of those icons just because someone said "ass"

But he said only Super Reporters' reports would cause the topics to be flagged with the block.

This post has been edited by Grant on Jan 5 2008, 01:16 AM

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QUOTE (oh youtube trolls)

u guys r retarded hippocrates

QUOTE (Piemanthe3rd)

Pie is not random. I wish people would realize this.