Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Apparently I'm ''European''. A little vague? I feel a bit like I'm living in George Orwell's 1984

I rather like the flags. It lets me know when some American is just spewing jibberish on purpose and not because he is foreign to english.

Hellfury wrote:

I definitely wasn't talking about you, Orlanth.

I dont want to name names, but man, there are a few of the newer brit posters who...really type like chavs...

You know that word? Oh dear, I hope that stereotype hasn't spread to the US

As for post quality as long as people read the guidelines and follow them I'm sure they'll be ok.
It may take them a while to adjust if they expect to be able to use "text speak" abbreviations.

I personally love the flags for all the reasons listed above. Product advice that's country specific, English being a first language etc.
Plus they add a bit of colour.

I like the flags.
Very helpful when someone is posting horrible spelling and you see thet they are from a place where english would not be their first language.

Apone wrote:

Hellfury wrote:

I definitely wasn't talking about you, Orlanth.

I dont want to name names, but man, there are a few of the newer brit posters who...really type like chavs...

You know that word? Oh dear, I hope that stereotype hasn't spread to the US

Actaully I think that type is pretty universal, its just named differently wherever you go.

Apone wrote:I personally love the flags for all the reasons listed above. Product advice that's country specific, English being a first language etc.
Plus they add a bit of colour.

Man, those flags really tied the room together. Did it not, Dude?

Oh yeah *stretches out hands across the world*

But seriously I do think they add a nice touch.
Yeah I gathered we all have those types, was just shocked to hear the word over the pond.

legoburner wrote:I figured out we can get the best of both worlds potentially by allowing people to either set their flag or (by default) use 'autodetect'. This should solve most issues and give us a higher accuracy level than we have right now

I looked for the setting quite a few times before giving up and blaming my IP. I don't really care though. I'm half ,"Get rid of the damn flags," and half "let me set my own".

Flags are here to stay.

But we are looking into ways of fixing the issue with the few people with incorrect flags.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:

legoburner wrote:I figured out we can get the best of both worlds potentially by allowing people to either set their flag or (by default) use 'autodetect'. This should solve most issues and give us a higher accuracy level than we have right now

I looked for the setting quite a few times before giving up and blaming my IP. I don't really care though. I'm half ,"Get rid of the damn flags," and half "let me set my own".

Please see the rest of legoburner's post, where he says it'll be along in November, with a bundle of updates.

At the moment, it will most likely be an mod-only setting to keep the flags more accurate across the site, and to reduce the scope for abuse. Either way though, it should indeed be available sometime in november and the actions you will need to take to change your flag will be noted in your profile settings at that time.

Janthkin wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:

legoburner wrote:I figured out we can get the best of both worlds potentially by allowing people to either set their flag or (by default) use 'autodetect'. This should solve most issues and give us a higher accuracy level than we have right now

I looked for the setting quite a few times before giving up and blaming my IP. I don't really care though. I'm half ,"Get rid of the damn flags," and half "let me set my own".

Please see the rest of legoburner's post, where he says it'll be along in November, with a bundle of updates.

... really?

I thought he said he was going to go for a few bongs in November. That must have been me talking.

Nah... kidding. Originally I was just subtly commenting on the irrelevance of nationality over free media, but for the sake of the BSB 's everywhere I'll keep my vote with the flags, for the nice Warhammery lets-kill-everyone-that's-funny-lookin-and-repeats-mod-posts atmosphere.

I like the flags. It's rare to find other irish posters on here, and given how small the PP community is over here at the minute I like being able to see if anyone is interested.

Do you get your hopes up, then hopes dashed every time you seen an Italian on here Da Boss?

I dont want to name names, but man, there are a few of the newer brit posters who...really type like chavs...

and whats wrong with chavs?
im a chav and proud

Edit: missed quote tag.

legoburner wrote:Probably not as there are around 200 flags and they would completely overpower all the other emoticons in the listing. You can include the flag images in any post by using the following syntax as an image url...

Any chance of some historical flags, then we could put our FoW armies in our sigs. e.g.
While you're at it some Warmachine ones would be nice too.

I realise there may be issues with this.

We dont have much in house artistic talent or time, but if someone wants to make some (from scratch - not just shrinking other people's images), then we would be happy to add them.

Nice to now see that my flag isn't what is was, although it's now what it has always been, for as far as I can associate myself with it.

Flags are good. You know what else would be good? Posting people's IP addresses. And credit card numbers.

j/k

And if people are blowing smoke up your tailpipe, Kyoto-sama, that's what iggy's for!

Heck, I love your threads; I always end up 'ignoring' half the posters who decide to wander into 'dawghouse' territory instead of sticking to the subject. Makes for a much more meaningful Dakka experience

I'm happy with the flags the way they are.