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Grex > Coop8 > #74: Change "Respond or pass?" prompt for new users? | |
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jenna
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response 25 of 45:
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Jun 16 15:35 UTC 1996 |
I like remmers thingee :} it's more asthetic
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popcorn
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response 26 of 45:
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Jun 17 15:27 UTC 1996 |
There are a lot of people who are allergic to pressing the help button. I
think it's important to have the "forget" and "stop" commands in front of the
user's face.
Doing both options is awfully long:
Respond, forget, pass, or stop? (type ? for other options)
Hm.
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remmers
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response 27 of 45:
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Jun 17 18:21 UTC 1996 |
Ah, but note that it doesn't say "type ? for help", it says
"type ? for other options". If they know that's the kind of
help they'll be getting, they might be less reluctant to
press the help button.
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brighn
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response 28 of 45:
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Jun 18 04:03 UTC 1996 |
I like:
Press random buttons til something works>
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tsty
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response 29 of 45:
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Jun 18 05:04 UTC 1996 |
oh, btw, just how much work would be necesary to make *any* such changes?
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remmers
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response 30 of 45:
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Jun 18 12:50 UTC 1996 |
Very little work. It's just a matter of editing a global config
file where the default prompts are specified.
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popcorn
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response 31 of 45:
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Jun 19 05:42 UTC 1996 |
Or editting the newuser config file, so the change applies only to new users
and not to old ones. That would take about 5 minutes.
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carson
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response 32 of 45:
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Jun 19 11:54 UTC 1996 |
I could do it, it's so simple. =)
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dpc
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response 33 of 45:
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Jun 23 01:39 UTC 1996 |
So is anything going to be done on this? I hope.
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popcorn
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response 34 of 45:
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Jul 1 16:58 UTC 1996 |
This morning, I change the default "Respond or pass?" prompt, only for new
users, to "Respond, pass, forget, quit, or ? for more options?" It's long,
but I think it will be OK. I'm thinking about changing the "quit" to "stop",
which I think would be slightly more self-explanatory.
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rcurl
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response 35 of 45:
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Jul 1 17:15 UTC 1996 |
What about "keep"? (For what new does.) ;-}
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tsty
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response 36 of 45:
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Jul 1 19:39 UTC 1996 |
except that all items are ' kept' but not all items are 'new.' that
dilutes tehusefullness of both new and distorts teh concept of keep.
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jenna
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response 37 of 45:
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Jul 1 23:58 UTC 1996 |
except that if you hit "s" it doesn't do the same thing as hitting
"q" valerie!
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popcorn
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response 38 of 45:
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Jul 2 15:29 UTC 1996 |
Hm. I always type the whole word "stop", but that doesn't mean everybody else
does it that way. I'll leave the prompt saying "quit" instead of "stop".
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ryan1
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response 39 of 45:
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Jul 10 09:21 UTC 1996 |
This seems like a whole bunch of talk about something that is very trivial.
So what if a prompt is long? It sure isn't going to hurt anything, except it
might not look as neat.
When I first used BBS (Grex was the first BBS I ever used, and is by far
the best) I had no idea how to navigate through it, much less waht
"respond" or "pass" meant. I kind of knew what respond meant, but i
didn't know how to enter a response. the word "pass" completely confused
me. In fact, I still don't use BBS that much, and I only know the very
basic commands :)
I definetly wouldn't mind having a prompt that looked somethhing like this:
Respond, Pass, Forget, or Stop ('?' for Help):
Note: if you use that prompt, you need to put a comment in there giving
credit to the designer! heh, just kidding
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bjorn
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response 40 of 45:
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Jul 10 14:01 UTC 1996 |
Slight drift here (I know this really belongs in the info conf), but my normal
prompt for the Great Ring conference doesn't seem to be working. The respond
or pass one, however, works perfectly.
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popcorn
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response 41 of 45:
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Jul 17 20:55 UTC 1996 |
That's odd. I just tested it and it worked OK for me. Is it still not
working for you?
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bjorn
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response 42 of 45:
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Jul 18 11:01 UTC 1996 |
Back in a few, I'll check the con and the check my rc file.
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bjorn
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response 43 of 45:
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Jul 18 11:04 UTC 1996 |
Nope, all I'm getting is an Ok: prompt, when my prompt is
define prompt "\n Where shall the great ring take you today? "
Perhaps I did one of those weird fairwitness things, and forgot how to UNdo
it?
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carson
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response 44 of 45:
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Jul 18 15:02 UTC 1996 |
Bjorn, check your .cfonce file. I suspect the priblem is there.
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bjorn
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response 45 of 45:
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Jul 18 16:34 UTC 1996 |
Okay, will do.
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