Rank/text below avatar text
08-08-2005, 06:55 PM
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Rank/text below avatar text
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Posts: 901
Name: Harvey C
Location: Brighton, UK
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I'm curious about the text below your avatar. I see, as usual, your rank increases by post count, but I've seen a handful of somewhat... random ranks in my time here!
Would anybody care to explain the ranking system, and custom titles?
Thanks!
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08-08-2005, 07:06 PM
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Posts: 3,111
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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When you get to 250 posts, you get to set your own user title  (And it lets you store more PM's, 250).
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08-08-2005, 07:08 PM
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Posts: 901
Name: Harvey C
Location: Brighton, UK
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I see. Thought it'd be on the forum rules, but maybe not. Will start thinking of a title now 
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08-09-2005, 02:26 PM
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Posts: 4,634
Name: Kandi
Location: Western NY
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I'm so glad I read this - I was wondering about that myself but wasn't curious enough yet to ask. 
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08-09-2005, 04:52 PM
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Posts: 3,111
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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Just another perk for our regulars
If you can think of any other cool features we could offer, I'd be interested to hear them 
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08-09-2005, 05:36 PM
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Posts: 1,167
Name: Dragos-Valentin
Location: Cluj-Napoca, RO
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» Please remember to add to my Talkupation if you enjoyed my post. Thank you :)
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08-11-2005, 12:12 PM
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Posts: 901
Name: Harvey C
Location: Brighton, UK
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Didn't want to pollute the forum with another totally random, curiosity based thread, so thought I'd just add on...
Do moderators get some sort of special, lineless signature, or does DaveMo(can't find the squiggle key) type in his name and the  smiley in manually every time he makes a post?!
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08-11-2005, 04:35 PM
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Posts: 316
Location: Michigan
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I've wondered about that, too. It's too bad I don't post as much as other people.
BTW, the "squiggle key" is found under the escape key and left of the 1 key.
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08-11-2005, 04:37 PM
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Posts: 1,167
Name: Dragos-Valentin
Location: Cluj-Napoca, RO
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DaveMo(cant find many keys on this laptop  ) defies a status ... WT does what Davemo thinks
j/k
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08-11-2005, 07:32 PM
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That squiggle line has name and I can't think if and its driving me nuts, anybody know what it is?
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08-13-2005, 08:30 PM
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Posts: 4,634
Name: Kandi
Location: Western NY
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It's called a tilde:
1. the diacritic mark (~) placed above an n in some orthographies to indicate a palatalized sound, as in Spanish ca–on. 2. the same mark placed above a vowel in phonetic transcription to indicate that the vowel is nasalized. 3. It signifies the end of a line or a field in some of the database files.
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08-13-2005, 08:55 PM
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Administrator Defies A Status
Posts: 10,209
Name: Dave
Location: Scott Depot, West Virginia, USA
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The tilde is the easiest key to find since it's at the far left of the numbers line on the standard American keyboard (forgot at the moment what they call that keyboard).
The tilde is often used in dictionaries when a word or sentence is not completed. For example, if there were listings of other words used with "feet", the ~ might be substituted for the word, like cold ~, two left ~, etc.
So, the DaveMo~ means that there is something left to the name and has been omitted on purpose.
And in answer to the question, I type in my name and the smiley with every post! It could be in the sig.
Dave 
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08-13-2005, 09:01 PM
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Posts: 316
Location: Michigan
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So what is the rest of your username?
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08-14-2005, 03:44 AM
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Posts: 1,167
Name: Dragos-Valentin
Location: Cluj-Napoca, RO
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Originally Posted by DaveMo~
The tilde is the easiest key to find since it's at the far left of the numbers line on the standard American keyboard (forgot at the moment what they call that keyboard).
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LOL. the only problem was that the keyboard on the laptop i was using then was anything but american
coudn't locate many keys ... like / ...  slash was nowhere to be found ... i am sure it was somewhere around there but trust i didn't find it ...
to add something to ~ : in romanian it's called tilda ... not much different 
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08-14-2005, 10:22 AM
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Posts: 316
Location: Michigan
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You could copy and paste!?!
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08-14-2005, 10:29 AM
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Posts: 901
Name: Harvey C
Location: Brighton, UK
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Wow, you learn so much every day...
Shame I have a laptop keyboard. Not that I need the ~ anyway!
DaveMo, over 6,050 (correct @ time of writing), you've spent a whole 50 minutes writing that end bit, assuming it takes half a second each time.
Time to get some custom signature moddage going methinks!
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08-14-2005, 05:18 PM
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Posts: 1,167
Name: Dragos-Valentin
Location: Cluj-Napoca, RO
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Originally Posted by fancymoustache
You could copy and paste!?!
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not without a mouse on a keyboard where i can't even find slash 
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08-14-2005, 07:51 PM
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Posts: 316
Location: Michigan
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I'm not exactly sure what you're saying there, but if you're using a Windows box, you could always use the "Character Map".
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08-14-2005, 08:13 PM
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Administrator Defies A Status
Posts: 10,209
Name: Dave
Location: Scott Depot, West Virginia, USA
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