Welcome to the Smiliedome!

[viscousmemories]

If you're reading this, you've found our newest forum: The Smiliedome

The idea behind this forum was simply to segregate the discussion of smilie making from the other forum administration threads, so people could more easily find other software and policy information when they're looking for it.

Feel free to continue posting smilie polls and other smilie-related threads in the Watering Hole or elsewhere. It isn't our intention to move every smilie thread into this forum, just those that are related to smilie creation.

:matrix:

[Skep]

Fascist.

[viscousmemories]

:laugh:

[livius drusus]

:cartwheel:

[Ensign Steve]

Well, nobody asked, but I'm aggin' it! Subforums just bug me. But that's just me.

Anyway, I like the Matrix smilie! :)

[Ymir's blood]

Well, nobody asked, but I'm aggin' it! Subforums just bug me. But that's just me.
Me also.

[viscousmemories]

Yeah, I don't like subforums either. But what was I to do? Liv didn't even try to stop me.

[SharonDee]

Subforums don't bother me none. I don't use the forum separation, anyway, thanks to the "active thread" searches. (Downside: I occasionally make goofy posts in totally serious topics because I don't notice their forum locations. Oops. :doh: )

[viscousmemories]

What is it specifically you guys don't like about subforums? Is it that they show on the forum index? Because that can be disabled.

Or are you just opposed to the addition of new forums at all?

Or...?

[viscousmemories]

Downside: I occasionally make goofy posts in totally serious topics because I don't notice their forum locations. Oops.
At least you have an excuse. I don't know if the rest of the clowns around here can say as much.

[Ensign Steve]

What is it specifically you guys don't like about subforums? Is it that they show on the forum index? Because that can be disabled.

Or are you just opposed to the addition of new forums at all?

Or...?

What bothers me is that you can't tell from the index whether there are new posts in the subforum or the superforum or both.

[viscousmemories]

What bothers me is that you can't tell from the index whether there are new posts in the subforum or the superforum or both.
You can, though. If you see this --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/forum_new.gif in the left column, that means there are new posts in the superforum.

New posts in the subforum are indicated by this --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/subforum_new.gif to the left of the subforum name, which isn't orange when there aren't new posts.

[Legs]

To change is to grow...

keep up the good work vm :kssmyass:

[Ensign Steve]

What bothers me is that you can't tell from the index whether there are new posts in the subforum or the superforum or both.
You can, though. If you see this --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/forum_new.gif in the left column, that means there are new posts in the superforum.

New posts in the subforum are indicated by this --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/subforum_new.gif to the left of the subforum name, which isn't orange when there aren't new posts.

Nope. I see the psi (or is it phi) regardless.

[viscousmemories]

Nope. I see the psi (or is it phi) regardless.
Regardless of what? You're supposed to see the psi all the time. It never goes away, it just changes color. It's supposed to, anyway. Things might be different (again) on Safari.

You should see this in the left column --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/forum_old.gif if there aren't any new posts in Forum Administration

and this --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/forum_new.gif if there are. Same goes for all the regular forums.

And beneath the forum description you should see:

Sub-Forums: http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/subforum_old.gif The Smiliedome, if there are not new posts in the Smiliedome

and

Sub-Forums: http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/subforum_new.gif The Smiliedome, if there are.

[viscousmemories]

To change is to grow...

keep up the good work vm :kssmyass:
:laugh:

Thanks, Legs.

[justaman]

Does this mean everytime I post a smilie thread in forum administration, vm will have to move it over to here? Caaaan do!

:yessir:

[Ensign Steve]

Nope. I see the psi (or is it phi) regardless.
Regardless of what? You're supposed to see the psi all the time. It never goes away, it just changes color. It's supposed to, anyway. Things might be different (again) on Safari.

You should see this in the left column --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/forum_old.gif if there aren't any new posts in Forum Administration

and this --> http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/forum_new.gif if there are. Same goes for all the regular forums.

And beneath the forum description you should see:

Sub-Forums: http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/subforum_old.gif The Smiliedome, if there are not new posts in the Smiliedome

and

Sub-Forums: http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/subforum_new.gif The Smiliedome, if there are.

No, sorry, dude. The psi turns dark whenever there is a new post in either the forum or the subforum. This has been the case ever since the days of the book club forum, before I even started using Safari (don't remember if I was on IE or Firefox at the time). Then again, maybe it's just me.

[viscousmemories]

No, sorry, dude. The psi turns dark whenever their is a new post in either the forum or the subforum. This has been the case ever since the days of the book club forum, before I even started using Safari (don't remember if I was on IE or Firefox at the time). Then again, maybe it's just me.
I think I know what you mean. It's buggy. There are some other buggy things with subforums, too. Let's try it as a forum of its own for awhile. :yup:

[pescifish]

Good idea for splitting the forums. Sub forum for this doesn't bug me, but what I don't understand is how you decided to make the Smiliedome the subforum, when clearly it is the most important topic with regards to forum administration.

:?

[viscousmemories]

:laugh:

Gotta keep up, pesci. It's not a subforum anymore! :D

[pescifish]

Well, summabitch! This board administration is so accommodating that this issue was resolved even while I posted that last comment. :thankee:

[Ensign Steve]

:woohoo:

This is the best board, ever, btw!

Well, it's a non-issue anymore, but I just wanted to add that the little "folder" is not very pretty, and since the rest of the board is so pretty, I was also aggin' that!

[pescifish]

:laugh:

Gotta keep up, pesci. It's not a subforum anymore! :DYeah, sure, laugh at the slow ol' fart! :crutch: :P

Your youthful efforts are much appreciated. :oldman:

[viscousmemories]

I'll just bask in the appreciation until tommorrow, when the opponents of additional forums on the main index log in. :giggle:

[pescifish]

I'll hit 'em with my cane. Just point me in the right direction, 'k?

[viscousmemories]

I'll hit 'em with my cane. Just point me in the right direction, 'k?
Will do!

[Dragar]

Nope. I see the psi (or is it phi) regardless.

This is phi (looks like a capital phi, too):

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/buttons/collapse_tcat.gif

And this is psi:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/images/freethought/statusicon/thread_dot_hot.gif

Both (though mostly the latter, psi) are the customary symbols used to denote the wavefunction in quantum mechanics!

[Skep]

Both (though mostly the latter, psi) are the customary symbols used to denote the wavefunction in quantum mechanics!
A quatrain composed by Walter Hückel, a young collaborator of P. Debye, concerning Schrödinger's psi (1926):

Erwin with his psi can do
Calculations quite a few.
But one thing that has not been seen
Just what does psi really mean.

:feynman:

[pescifish]

...:qsigh:
:feynman:

[JoeP]

(Downside: I occasionally make goofy posts in totally serious topics because I don't notice their forum locations. Oops. :doh: )
Oh - is that wrong? I make flippant posts even when I know the topic's serious. :naughty:

[JoeP]

This is a great move. When posting "Resistance is Futile II", I thought of asking if 'forum admin' was OK. Clearly it wasn't OK enough.

I'm glad to see this "subforum" nonsense has been done away with before I arrived. We could be ten times as busy and not need subforums. I mean, really.