Quote from: dzungmobile on May 24, 2023, 10:14:48 AM

I don't actually catch your solution in your minds, my bad English perhaps. Cheesy

Hehe, yeah, don't feel bad, I suppose I didn't explain myself very clearly. I'm saying that campaign managers would be able to use these "thread banners" to keep important information in a very difficult-to-miss spot. Obviously, people are still going to be stupid, but I think having the option to put some kind of editable "notice" on certain threads would be a useful feature.

Quote from: John Abraham on May 24, 2023, 11:16:41 AM

Like this one?

Yup, something like that. Probably with different colors, though (maybe white-on-blue, to keep with the forum's theme).

Quote from: FatFork on May 24, 2023, 01:40:45 PM

Is it possible that the manager is intentionally employing this strategy as a test? Wink

Haha, yeah, I like the way you think. Cheesy

Campaign managers that are doing this intentionally would have the option to ignore this feature, though. If some managers started using it, and some didn't, it might actually make the trap more effective, by lulling potential participants into thinking: "No banner? It must be safe to apply then..." Grin

Quote from: LoyceV on May 24, 2023, 01:42:43 PM

My main concern is (as always): please don't break my 10,000 different scrapers Tongue

Yeah, I'll be careful. If I proceed with this one, then I'll PM you when I'm close to finishing and we can hammer out the details. (By the way, if you don't see any merit from me for a while, that's because I'm still maxed out with you after the Imgur thing.) Wink

Quote from: LoyceV on May 24, 2023, 01:42:43 PM

Other than that, I can think of a few potential pitfalls: What if there's spam in the banner, can we report it? Can we Merit it? Can we quote it?

Based on the way I'm currently thinking of implementing it, answers would be: Yes, No, Yes.

Quote from: iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2 on May 24, 2023, 01:51:09 PM

This may sound silly, but wouldn't it be easier to make updates in the first post of the topic?

Yup, I feel you, but these days, I don't think you can even rely on people to properly read the first post before responding (pitiful, I know, but it is what it is).

Quote from: RickDeckard on May 24, 2023, 07:16:50 PM

@PowerGlove: Don't take my words in a bad way. I really like what you've made for the forum so far (and what you may do in the future), but as you can see my opinion on this particular subject is to not support this suggestion. My argument for that is that a simple edit by the campaign manager on the OP should be enough for users to be aware of the rules and it is of the best interest for the campaign manager to update the OP with the rules that she/he sees that it would benefit their campaign (like the one you gave an example of).

Thanks for the kind words. See the above response to iwantmyhomepaidwithbtc2.

Also, although I didn't do a very good job of explaining this (only one vague sentence at the end of the OP), I think a feature like the one I'm proposing would end up being useful for quite a few things. The problem I outlined in the OP is what gave me the idea, but when pondering new features, I like to avoid specific solutions and try to come up with things that would be generally useful (and I think this one would be, for auctions, competitions, etc.)