Where shipmates come from
bongowoman
Shipmate
in The Styx
On the Old Ship when I was just a lurker I found it helpful to see where posters came from as it sometimes helped me assess and understand better what people were saying.
Now I think we can't know this?
Please don't shoot me down for saying this - it's not as if I was thinking "Huh! What do you expect from an American/Canadian/NZ-er/Scandinavian?"
I guess if it can't be included then so be it, but I just thought I'd ask.
Now I think we can't know this?
Please don't shoot me down for saying this - it's not as if I was thinking "Huh! What do you expect from an American/Canadian/NZ-er/Scandinavian?"
I guess if it can't be included then so be it, but I just thought I'd ask.
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Yeah, we got rid of those pretty early in the testing. Because we still hate them.
Thank you!
Hehe. This was the point my itchy finger mover to the phantom like button
I was one of the many to make my location more cryptic following that discussion - Internet safety and all that, y'know.
My parents are here?
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Where is the :paranoid: emoticon when you need it?
We are a community, and if you get to know people you can usually work out roughly where they come from at some point anyway, even if it's just by which weather they complain about and when!
It would be interesting to see how many Shipmates are the product of two other Shipmates. I know of at least one...
Our children are too young... you'll just have to wait another 6 years. And then he'll have to find the place!
Just an aside, I did like having my custom (I would pay again) avatar description (ship's galley maid). I'd have to change it though, since I my career has ceased to be linked with food. Suppose those have gone too?
I had a phrase girt by sea from our anthem. I was asked if I lived in Girt in US. Not something I would ever have considered researching.
sabine
Do you do it on the Ship? And do you address inanimate objects as "dude"?
Dude, BTW, is not limited in usage to California, nor even to America.
There you have me, madam, I did not know that was a thing.
I'm having so much trouble with it that I am wondering if I might have dyslexia! Sorry, I don't mean to trivialize dyslexia but it is really hard to read. Editing to apologize for the tangent and then not at least posting in keeping with the thread. Anyone who doesn't know yet would assume I must be Canadian.
Sadly yes. As you can see, we do have the capacity to assign posters to different roles (Shipmate/Admin/Board Host/etc), but to do so we have to actually create the role and assign posting/editing privileges to it. That's a lot more work than simply typing a phrase into a textbox as we did on UBB!Ship.
Long story short, we have neither the time nor inclination to create a separate role for each individual poster just so that it can show a different bit of text at the top of their posts. If a plugin can be found that enables such bits of text to be added more easily then I'm sure we'll be prepared to consider it. In the meantime, feel free to use the "About" section of your profile as @Eutychus says.
I'd suggest waiting until summer for that visit.