[Girish]

Woah, that's a lot of information. Seriously, immense work, miromiro.

Just fyi, I don't think that the staff allows admin and mod pips to be used as avatars since it might create confusion amongst new members. I think you should get rid of the 'nice trick'.

As for join date for DigitalD, I believe that is because the original forums were launched in April 2001. They were re-launched in Nov 2001 due to a crash.

And the reason why you cannot see Tank's posts is simple. He never posts in the public forums, except Network Support. Most of his posts are in the Staff Room, Mod cave or the admin forums.

About the SA Theatre topic, I believe the topic was transferred from one user to another user. Admins can do this.

But once again, great job, mate.

[miromiro]

Thank you.
Yeah, I'm going to delete all those soon. I somehow realized the thing about Tank's posts.

Going to remove those. Thanks again for the feedback!

[Josh]

I believe that b&mike39 had his post count reset after his banning. He was then reinstated into the member group with his new account, mike39.

I also seem to remember that the Retired Staff group is hidden for a reason, and that the staff don't want information about them disclosed.

Also: Forty; Demarest; CharmingCharlie and Cerbera were fired from moderating positions, Steve-m was an admin. And I'm also sure that OBrien97 was only ever a global moderator. Impact was never a member of staff either I don't believe, he seems to just be a communal admin account.

[B][O][T] was also a moderator, although he hasn't posted in a while. Also -ONYX- even though he was just a prank account.

Also a permanent ban is called a "Full Warning" in the member log.

Finally, placing an account into the "Awaiting Authorisation" group is usually done by the member themself rather than by an admin/mod. When a user is banned and tries to reactivate their password they'll move into the AA group, see examples such as Chunky Lee Chong and immessedup17. However once banned you can't move from the AA group back to members by changing your email address.

This post has been edited by Josh? on Thursday, Dec 30 2010, 15:17

[[SM]CJZera]

Hm... For a moment I mistook this amazing post for one of those tomes you buy at the starting town for about 800 gold and teach lots of spells...

In other words, this is freaking awesome, it looks awesome, and almost smells awesome...

If you don't get a medal, noone else will ever do

[miromiro]

Well, I used a magic 'time machine' and found an archive of GTAForums in 2004. Impact was an admin, at least that's what the Moderating team said.
Also, I added in the list only members who were moderators, without counting that they're now in the Retired Staff group or not.

I'm not pretty sure of what happened in the past, that's why I made monthly updates.

[AndyGanteks]

Good job. There is a bit of unupdated info here and there and that post with the tables broken, but overally, great job, hopefully you keep it updated.

[pcguytech]

Excellent job!
You can see that a lot of time and effort when into the making of this guide, and I'm sure the staff will see it that way as well. Best of of luck with this topic and hope to see it pinned.

[Minus the Boom]

Excellent work. Can't imagine how much time you put into this.

I've got a stupid question though - is it possible to collapse the leftish menu on the LCS skin aswell?

[miromiro]

I've finally fixed the tables. Should look better now.

pcguytech_2005, thanks for the feedback!
Minus, it should be possible as the only difference is the skin. However, you won't need to if you own a HD monitor.

Oh, and it took 2 months - from 4 Nov 2010 until 30 Dec 2010. I also worked today on it. I said this in the last F.A.Q. question.

[Josh]

More info:

Bots don't keep the forum safe, they are for search engine indexing and they crawl the site at regular intervals. The reason why hidden forums aren't viewable to general google searchers is because they are stopped from entering certain forums/sub-forums manually by either forum permission masks or a file called robots.txt.

Provocative discussion awards are also given out to people who have attended/helped with the GTAF forum meets in the past. One member with one is EmSixTeen.

Don't forget that if you post in a topic it becomes a coloured envelope with a black dot on it.

And anyone can use the anonymous function, you just need to go to the login area and select "Don't add me to the active user list."

And to elaborate further on Daz's point about Parcel Force, the gang that was once around was called Feroci Racing, their name is still referenced in the OGA information slot.

Parcel Force also has a member who apparently works for Rockstar, endo. He put his name on the cooler for the Sultan RS in GTA IV. However he is just carried over from PF's old name since many of the old members haven't posted for years, which was Daz's biggest gripe IIRC.

This post has been edited by Josh? on Thursday, Dec 30 2010, 15:42

[miromiro]

Thanks for all the information Josh. I'm going to add it soon.
Thanks also to Waddy for pinning this thread, although he had to unpin flicko's...

EDIT: Holy sh*t! Thanks Waddy for the medal!

[Waddy]

No problem, you put in a lot of hard work.
The forum directory hasnt been updated for a long time and you link to it in your guide anyway. Pins dont often actually serve a purpose but this should be fine.
Dont blame me if Admin come a long and unpin though! They are anti pinners!!

Good job

[Pandazoot]

QUOTE

»  The Major Contribution/Achievement Award. This uses to be the biggest and the best commendation the staff could ever give. It's absolutely supreme to the other and it's VERY hard to get one. Sure, there are the old school guys who have helped the forum in the past too, so it's not a REALLY big deal to get one, just a lot of work.

Small spelling error there

[Indi]

Fantastic guide mate, and congratulations on the medal.

Well deserved .

[Girish]

QUOTE (Pandazoot @ Dec 30 2010, 21:33)

QUOTE »  The Major Contribution/Achievement Award. This uses to be the biggest and the best commendation the staff could ever give. It's absolutely supreme to the other and it's VERY hard to get one. Sure, there are the old school guys who have helped the forum in the past too, so it's not a REALLY big deal to get one, just a lot of work. Small spelling error there

There are quite a few of them and grammatical errors too, but I guess we can ignore them since they get the message across clearly, anyways.


Congrats on the award, miromiro. Thoroughly deserved.

[Josh]

I have another glitch for you: Back when members could be banned and then unbanned by moderators when they were unbanned they'd still have the BUSTED! stars under their flag. Nowadays only admins can unban people as far as I know, although mods can ban.

Also in the list section, capital I and capital A will make their relevant lists be in capital letters.

And you can change your member title after less than 10 posts. I can't remember when I changed mine but it must have been between 2 and 5 posts.

And in the member group section, the Rockstar user is actually their technical support and not involved in the coding, just in helping end users out. And new accounts here don't require admin validation to my knowledge, the user activates them by replying to an auto-generated email.

Quick list of some members who had more than the regulation 5 karma, off the top of my head:

• Edison Carter (25)
• PatrickW (25)
• Wolf68k (6+)
• Mint (50)

And that's about it from me. Good work.

[miromiro]

Thanks josh, I will add those too.
Thanks girishb and Panda, I will make the correction.

Will update everything as soon as possible!

[Minus the Boom]

QUOTE (miromiro @ Dec 30 2010, 16:25)

Minus, it should be possible as the only difference is the skin. However, you won't need to if you own a HD monitor.

I don't, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. Any help on this one?

Also congrats on the medal.

[miromiro]

Thank you.

Well, My Controls -> Left Menu -> Options -> Skin and Languages -> Board 'skin'
Choose there the skin you want.

To collapse menu: Under 'My Controls'.

[Josh]

The option to collapse the menu isn't available on that skin for whatever reason.