Today's Featured Member

Just curious as to why the Today's Featured Member is always a member who has never posted a damn thing? I've yet to see it be a member who's ever had more than one post to their name.
Is this a member who's physically selected from the list by the admins or moderators, or is this just some cheesy feature of UBB that's automatic and doesn't serve any real purpose?


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"Qualifications for being a Moderator at Anandtech...? I think that you have to be 17 or under, and the lobomoty has to be total. Partial lobomoty only gets you Elite Member status."

Serendipity is looking for a needle in a haystack and finding the farmer's daughter.

 

Main Forums Page, all the way at the bottom.


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From another BBS:
"hmm... Cyrix III, huh? You can put syrup on sh*t, but that don't make it pancakes."

 

I am pretty sure it is automatic. Everytime you refresh the page, a new member appears, regardless if it is the same day.


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In Hong Kong, he'd be dead.

 

Well, then it's not really "Today's" Featured Member, is it?
Seems like a feature that could be eliminated. All it's really doing is wasting resources.


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From another BBS:
"hmm... Cyrix III, huh? You can put syrup on sh*t, but that don't make it pancakes."

 

Yeah, in its present state it doesn't mean much. It's a cool idea though. I don't think Aliensoup has enough members to have a daily feature member. But once this place gets really big it would cool to have a little section describing what that member did, and how he contributes.

I also noticed the record number of people online changes. Earlier this month, alien soup had a record of 130+ on at once.

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In Hong Kong, he'd be dead.

 

Yeah, the record number seems like it's just configured incorrectly, since it seems to reset daily. Not much of a record if it only means that day...
If it worked, it would be a good stat to keep around.


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From another BBS:
"hmm... Cyrix III, huh? You can put syrup on sh*t, but that don't make it pancakes."

 

The Featured Member is a random member.

 

Hiyas,

Yes, the featured member is random, and part of an inline stats hack. I myself find that a little funny as far as how it's worded, so I might change it to something like "random member of the moment" or remove it altogether and put something else there. We'll see. It's 'on the list'. .

As far as that mention of the record # of simultaneous users, it shows the record of the previous day.. It would be cooler to have it show an all-time record, I'll see what I can do.

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^Alien^
Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

where the hell do you see the featured member at?

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Anandtech = Staples' Bitch

 

Done, and erm done. .

Additional comments welcome.

Yes, our record was about 137 online simultaneously, we'll see if we can break that!

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^Alien^
Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

Well then I'm gonna keep refreshing until I get to be the one . Then capture the page and put it as my desktop!!!

 

WoW! The number of people registered here is growing by the hour! When I signed up there was less than 50 people registered and now there are over 500! My chances of becoming a featured member grow less everytime I check this site. One of six hundred? Think I have a chance? I think so.