[discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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Linuxdirk wrote:
muhdnurhidayat wrote:(double negative is wrong, "ain't not true" = "is true").
But not always.
When two negatives are used in one independent clause, [they] produce a weakened affirmative [...] in some dialects if a verb or adverb is in between two negatives then the latter negative is assumed to be intensifying the former[...]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative#English
Oh, thanks for the link... I missed those dialects where it's not wrong to use double (or more) negatives.

I grew up in languages* where double negatives will always become positive. Maybe I've carried away with the rules from those two languages. xD

*I'm talking about Malay and Chinese where I speak in everyday life and social media, as opposed to English where I only use to read textbooks or refference books (most of the teachers and lecturers explain stuffs in Malay even while using English books :P) or to interact with foreigners online like here, on forums (I've never met real life foreigner yet, the last time I speak English was during the speaking test of Malaysian University English Test, last year xD)

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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muhdnurhidayat wrote:I grew up in languages* where double negatives will always become positive. Maybe I've carried away with the rules from those two languages. xD
Same for me. My english is influenced by German grammer, too. I guess that normal.

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

by ABJ » Post

Surely "no no" is a no. Am I correct?

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

by Sergey » Post

Well, at least phpBB has a feature of "friends and foes". So good I have this useful feature. Especially the "foes" part.
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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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muhdnurhidayat wrote:Another suggestion, allow more than 8 URLs in signature... lol.

I just realized the limit was 8 when I'm trying to add 2 more servers with links to their forums to my signature. I had to write their forum thread IDs as substitute.

When I play on any newer servers, I will also add them to signature, because where else I could mention the servers I played on if not on game forums itself, lol. No one really reads external website (except useful ones like krock-works mod search - http://krock-works.16mb.com/MTstuff/modSearch.php ) and these users will miss out servers I'm playing on.
You can do what I do, which is to have a link to my website, which has all the links I like! You can make a website for free on Github.

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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BBmine wrote:
muhdnurhidayat wrote:Another suggestion, allow more than 8 URLs in signature... lol.
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You can do what I do, which is to have a link to my website, which has all the links I like! You can make a website for free on Github.
The post you quote is quite old, and I already have such website...

The "Full signature" link in my signature is the link to my website of full expanded signature with links to all servers I've played on. xD
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The link is http://github.mnh48.com/signature/minetest.html if you're wondering.

I also planned to make such expanded signature for other forums too (I use many forums from game to language to anime to religion to shopping, not just use Minetest forum), and I planned for a homepage that lists out directory of signatures... :P

While my websites are mostly on Blogger and one test website on Hostinger Free, the signature itself is indeed on GitHub ( https://github.com/MuhdNurHidayat/MuhdN ... /signature ) as it's faster than Hostinger Free and simpler than Blogger.

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

by BBmine » Post

Didn't know that. Sorry!

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

by TumeniNodes » Post

You all knew this was inevitable... :P
too bad there is no use for these sorts of silly things here...
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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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TumeniNodes wrote:You all knew this was inevitable... :P
too bad there is no use for these sorts of silly things here...
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Could you add it to your signature?
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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

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dawgdoc wrote:
TumeniNodes wrote:You all knew this was inevitable... :P
too bad there is no use for these sorts of silly things here...
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Could you add it to your signature?
Yes, but you'd only see it if he put it on his first line :P

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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

by TumeniNodes » Post

could add different ones for, contributor, modder, server owner, tester, player, donator, etc. haha
could also have one to use on other sites to help spread the gospel :P
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Re: [discussion] how can the forums be improved?

by theFox » Post

I think somebody should clean up all the outdated stuff in the WIP mods section...
Some of that stuff doesn't actually exist anymore, some is broken, some is just off topic and some is already implemented in the main game.
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