Order of "users browsing this forum"

SirJethro · Jun 12, 2003

This may have been asked before, but I couldn't search and it's been driving me mad for months.

What dictates the order that users are listed in the "users browsing this forum" list? I've tried every theory I can think of (alphabetical, post count, time online, date registered) and I can't make anything work. All I know is that I'm always last, but that may be because I'm me, and me is always last (if you know what I mean).

Padma · Jun 12, 2003

They are in user number order, with the user viewing the list being placed last.

When I view it, I'm last. When you view it, you're last. Etc.

There have been a few anomalies with the user number order, also, IIRC.

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 12, 2003

Thunderfall with user # 1 will be first if he is on. I ,with user #10, (and 2 thru 9 are reserved for admins, test log on, or otherwise do not post), will be second if TF and I are on.

Immortal · Jun 12, 2003

lefty, how long after the site came up did you register? same day?

EDIT: my reason for asking is that according to the user info, you signed up two days before thunderfall did.

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 12, 2003

Thunderfall used the generic "Admin 5" for this first day and half of the current forums, later creating the Thunderfall admin log on, and, I believe, switching is user# with "admin 5"
here is page 1080 of members ordered by date; (edit, the last page will get pushed to a higher # as new posters register)
http://forums.civfanatics.com/membe...r=&postsupper=&direction=DESC&pagenumber=1080
earliest date is at the bottom, while lowest number within the date is at the top of the day registered. Scroll over the names to get the numbers. Thunderfall and more "Old timers" (before UBB) are on the prior page, 1078. 1 thru 7 are apparently reserved for admins and date before the UBB was initialized late on 10/24/2000, except to the Thunderfall log on, renumbered to 8 & 9 just registered to protect their nicks. IIRC, SunTzu (Then Gregorious Lux) was TF's first staff member, some months before the UBB. A few other guys who have not been active on the UBB contributed to the 'Main Page" back before the UBB. For some time before the UBB, CFC used the Civ section of old strategy game forums (now gone). I actually just a 2 or 3 months before the UBB, in the summer of 2000; CFC had been around about 6 months beofore that, and under a different name and sites, back into 1999 and 1998.

Immortal · Jun 12, 2003

I see, for a minute there I thought ol cruelty's aging brain would simply say "I know not"

Now Im interested to see what this place looked like before UBB was initialized.

kind of cool to look at post number 1 though:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=1

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 12, 2003

Among the oldest parts of the site are (in the CivII section) the war academy, AI stupidties, the game, Timelines.

Octavian X · Jun 13, 2003

Hmm, this thread seems to have turned into a CFC history lesson. Care to continue, Lefty?

SunTzu · Jun 13, 2003

ah, the good ole days of CFC, before it blew up and started to kick apolyton's butt

SunTzu · Jun 13, 2003

i think the people who have been at this site the longest that are still around, are TF(of course), lefty(i believe i remember seeing leftys name at the OLD forum :lol:

) and me. I can't believe i once posted some of the news articles on the sites main page

Dell19 · Jun 13, 2003

I'm on page 1074 so I was probably in the first 200 members to join

cromagnon · Jun 13, 2003

So then shouldn't you be 2 of 19 :borg:

, Lefty?

Immortal · Jun 13, 2003

or 10 of however many members we have here.

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 13, 2003

Thats 6 out of 19 moderators. 5 moderators, Thunderfall, JValdezToo, Matrix, Smash, & Stomerne were staff members before I went insane and become a moderator.

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 13, 2003

For the old old ones of prehistory, check the authors of the articles in the Civ2 war academy. A few of the articles are later additions. Only TF and SunTzu can tell much about then. A few other old ones like Shargon, or Warlord56 wander by now and then. Case posts in the game forums. The last pages of the mebers list, sort by date registered, should show most of the guys active when the UBB started. They would have resgisted in Oct 2000.

Håkan Eriksson · Jun 13, 2003

I were number 108 to register.... Feels like yesterday, but it realy is 2 ½ year ago... :eek:

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 13, 2003

Just put the cusor over the profile button in yours or someone elses post to see the user number in the bar at the baottem of IE

Cilpot · Jun 15, 2003

Oh.. I'm lost reading the early OT threads.. It's great stuff

(And who was this HARDMAN and MIG21?

)

Dell19 · Jun 15, 2003

Wasn't HARDMAN banned? An early trouble maker I believe.

Lefty Scaevola · Jun 16, 2003

HARDMAN is a covername for a group of persons who do forum spam invasions with him. "he" is perma banned with hours of his appearance (called HARMANNING a forum) anywahere. There will be a trhead at one of his home forums describing what what forum is being or to be hardmaned, given the password for 'his' registration, and a few of them will take turns spamming the target with MARDMAN threads hutil 'he' is banned.
MIG21 was an unreformable troll.If you run a forum , you should yourself register a HARDMAN DL, and oermaban it.

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Paterfamilias

the Absent Admin

Illuminatus

Deity

Illuminatus

Deity

Illuminatus

is not a pipe.

Hooah

Hooah

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Emperor

Deity

Illuminatus

Illuminatus

Commander of the Swedes.

Illuminatus

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Take a break

Illuminatus

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