Forum: User Posting Modifications

During the Forum Battle of 2011, part of GPFontaine's campaign was to create mini modifications to people's posts. Some of these were found, others were not. Here is a list of the modifications.

Discussion

Discussion about these changes can be found in this thread.

User Modifications

User Targeted	Modification	Part of Forum Battle	Status
Klimbatize	Background for poster details area = #f57303 faded to transparent	Yes	On
Shardea	Background for poster details area = #006EDC	Yes	On
GPFontaine	Name Changed to 'Sir Jeep E. Fawntaine'	Yes	On
Knyte	Name Changed to 'Sir Knyte'	Yes	On
aika	Name Changed to 'Dame Aika'	Yes	On
Beach Bum	Title under name added 'Noun: A person who loafs on or around a beach.'	Yes	On
Black Zarak	Name changed to 'Zlack Barak'	Yes	On
Pandajuice	Title under name added 'Most Special'	Yes	On
Sehkmaenzo	Name font changed to: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Small Caps', 'Size 14px'	Yes	On
Username	Red shadow added to name	Yes	On
Hacker	Name font changed to: 'Brush Script MT', 'Size 17px'	Yes	On
Hacker	Post background image	Yes	On
HardcoreGamer4Ever	Name changed to 'HardcoreGamer4AWhile'	Yes	Off by request
HardcoreGamer4Ever	Title changed to 'Definitely not special	Yes	Off by request
LordHuffnPuff	Name replaced with rainbow image of name	Yes	On
TheThunderThief	Name font changed to: 'tahoma'	Yes	On
joshwoodzy	Name placed on button. Button slide toggles all post text on and off for the entire thread	Yes	On
joshwoodzy	Underlined all text in poster details area with green dotted border	Yes	On
Optimist With Doubts	Name changed to 'Pessimist With Hopes'	Yes	On
viewtopic.php	Double clicking text in a thread reverses it	Yes	On
sidewaysdriver	Added text 'Meow!' to the end of every post	Yes	On
UsaSatsui	Modified post area 'Radius 20px', 'Background #8855ee', Image, 'Border 4px #7744dd'	Yes	Off by UsaSatsui's Request
Atma	Modified post background to image	Yes	On
lavalarva	Location rotated 180 degrees (upside down	Yes	On
Douche McCallister	Mouseover avatar switches to picture of Summers Eve, second Mouseover switches to animated Spicoli	Yes	Off by Douche's request
The Flaming Schnitzel	Post background image of flame	Yes	On
Cameron	Signature background image	Yes	On
Thunderhorse	Post background image	Yes	On
Arlock41	Post background image	Yes	On
Syd Lexia	Post background image	Yes	On
ToGdor	Post background image	No	On
Andrew Man	Post background [http://karatekid.sydlexia.com/forums/images/andrew_man_mario.png image	No	On]
Char Aznable	Background for poster details area = #880000	No	On
Doddsino	Name Scrolls in from right	No	On
The Excel	Post background image	No	On
Optimist With Doubts	Post background image	No	On
@om*d	Name changed to '@om*ingOff'	No	On
Username	Added 'Post Count: 1' to his poster details	No	On
Ghandi	Post background image	No	On
Mr. Satire	Post background image	No	On
Mr. Satire	Name Font = NES font	No	On
sidewaysdriver	Post Count now counts backwards	No	On
Pandajuice	Post background image	No	On
Shut up, Dorn	Post Background image	No	On
Methid Man	Post Background image	No	On
Drew Linky	Post Background image	No	On
SoldierHawk	Motivational Posters for Posts	No	Off By SH's Request
Fernin	Post Background image	No	On
ToGdor	Name has umlaut over o's	No	On

Infrastructure Code Modifications

In order to make these modifications certain technical improvements were made to the forums.

PHP Modifications

• $poster_cleaned = str_replace(" ","_",$poster);
• $poster_cleaned = str_replace("@","_",$poster_cleaned);
• $poster_cleaned = str_replace("*","_",$poster_cleaned);

and

• 'POSTER_NAME_CLEANED' => $poster_cleaned,