[SOLVED] Could we have country flags back?

I always hated the misuse of the feature but let's let the bottlenoses around here have some fun. Seconding Acer's idea for it though; let's keep it simple over on the left.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Or, instead of displaying no flag, maybe some awkward country? Maybe a fake one like "newbville" so people will be more "obligated" to choose something other than the default... Unless of course they don't care.

Nevertheless, thanks. =o

Edit - Face, it's possible that the flag may autodetect where you're at. I never chose Guatemala.

Edit again - Nevermind. It just remembered what we had it set on last time we had the feature.

How ya doing, buddy?

Why don't you like it between the time of the post and local time, Crash? (honest question)

WHY ARE YOU FUCKING DIFFERENT? (obnoxious question)

Decide.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by AcerBandit

I'd totally pay for 5 bucks for a Grand Dutchery of Barapados Tootswag flag. =)

Hey, five dollars wouldn't be bad at all for something like that. It's almost like a "luxury" item so it's not like we really need it and are charging unfairly.

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That not really a privilege though (in the sense that when only staff had custom titles and regulars didn't it was a privilege), it's more of a customization. Besides, people don't donate for any privileges right? They do it because they can and they care.

Of course, I wouldn't be against any donator getting this for free if they want. Incidentally, you've already donated face. =O

I was speaking idiomatically.

Haha, divided Mush? I think we're in (and have gone through in the past) some really thick divisions. If gold borders don't divide us, this won't either. Maybe a separate donations list for the flag people? Like, if you donate in general you get the border. If you donate for the flag, you get the flag. But you get rocognition either way. I don't know, maybe over the months and years we can come up with incentives like this?

I always liked that about Board Support. It's almost a more public modhut.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Well, the problem would be in charging people for things they should have for free; this doesn't necessarily count as that. Besides, if people are going to donate anyway, why not give them something? And we don't have to worry about people using these tactics as justification in the future for charging. Blah and Miles are in charge, not bobo.

FELIPE NO

Too cool for school, Shin? Remember that?

Anyhow, MySpace charges for features like that or are you just saying MySpace is full of customizable images and is therefore tacky as fuck? It's just a flag Shin, it wouldn't really operate any differently than the ones we have up now.

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I suppose you're right now that you put it that way. =o We might as just focus on the core reason we came and remain here.

How ya doing, buddy?

Why don't you make a poll of it?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Hmm, do those two areas get enough traffic to make it worth it?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Well, I'm alright with Acer's idea. Or even an idea where you have no control at all over your flag and it just automatically detects what country you're posting from. That possible? Yeah, maybe flags aren't necessary but as the situation currently stands they're sort of irritating.

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Well, for uncertain countries maybe there can just be a blank spot there for those people. If they don't like it they can ask staff to put their actual country and that's that. For people that are in the States but are from, say, Guatemala, they can ask staff to fix that too. Just a little cooperation on all sides and it'd work out swell.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I really think you're looking too far into this, Shin. A group of people with custom flags would never earn that sort of reputation, not even close to being on par with chat anyway. I think these fancy gold border members would get closer to that sort of image.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Shin

I just think that adding a load of custom features adds an extra distraction from posting and will encourage crappy posting, much the same as an out of hand Testing forum.

While I don't think that would happen with the flag option, I can see it happening if we had too many extra little features like this down the line. I mean, if we had enough at some point for people to derive fun from them by just playing around with that and not really worry about posting quality. Then it'd be a problem.

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When paired with his brother Merv's angry and vicious. No provocation, no addressing the party by name or by quotes, and no rebuttal. He's like Tails with no charm.
The Ace Combat incident isn't a very good example. That was more about the participants (mainly Team Awesome) and not about the way they were using their av/sig spaces. Sort of the way me and other Team Fedora members got chastised when we used our av/sig spaces in the same way.

Hmm, some sort of Team Fedora custom flag would be awesome. =OOO Also the new flag space is good and would make custom flags less annoying because they'd never be in your face every post.

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