Pavel Chernitsky

We've recently launched a subscriber program and a donation campaign, and it's doing kinda meh. 
Suddenly! a wild idea appeared! 
Why not have a "X people got this" or some other variant of that next to the subscription/campaign name (or below it if it's super long)?
That way all those free loading non-sub scum could see how many people there are in the community who are so much better and more generous than they are, and then feel guilty and give us their money. of course they could also see no one's buying your crappy overpriced crap and just back out of the page sinisterly laughing.
Seriously though, all the crowdfunding sites do that, and peer pressure is a genuinely good sales tool. 
Technically this should be a cakewalk because you have that info plainly displayed in the subscription page in the ACP. 

OH GAWD I love (platonically no homo kind of way of course) you so very much! Thank you.

Following this post, I bring it here to have your guys' opinion on the matter.
If you're too lazy to click the link (which I totally get), I'll summarise here.
In 4.5 we got the badges system, that shows a "management", "author" etc. badges on the upper-right corner of the post. However, this system only shows one badge, and only shows when the user is in a group that has the "highlighted replies" setting turned on.  It got me thinking, why not have this system always up and show ALL the badges a member has. Plus, have "special" badges that you can give individually to members and have them collect and display them all, like FREAKING Pokemon gym badges!
What do you guys think? good/bad/terrible idea? Maybe something like that already exists as a plug-in? maybe someone wants to make one?

I'd recommend posting your suggestions over here so they can be vetted and considered properly: https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/forum/499-feedback-and-ideas/

OH GAWD I love (platonically no homo kind of way of course) you so very much! Thank you.

OH GAWD I love (platonically no homo kind of way of course) you so very much! Thank you.

OK, sounds great. I'll get it installed and cross my fingers.

@Meddysong That worked! Hopefully IPS will fix that soon and connect one of the fonts in the theme editor to this font. Thanks.

Hey guys, Not sure if this is the right forum for this topic, but I don't see which one would be more appropriate. 
Since - for a reason that completely eludes me - IPS has no system implemented to easily deal with banned users opening a new user (there is one, but it has to be accessed manually via the user's page in the ACP), it looks like we need to make on.
 
What we need is a "duplicate user" detector that will pop a notification / open a thread in a dedicated forum / send an email / any other method of notifying the site staff when a registered user registers a new alias. 
The plugin HAS TO take NO ACTIVE ACTION besides notifying the staff about the issue (since not all duplicate users will have actions taken against them).
It CAN'T be IP based since those are always changing, it CAN be cookie based, but it would be even better if it's based on something that isn't as easily bypassed.
 
Any ideas/offers? 
Thanks, and may your days be forever awesome.

Hey guys, Not sure if this is the right forum for this topic, but I don't see which one would be more appropriate. 
Since - for a reason that completely eludes me - IPS has no system implemented to easily deal with banned users opening a new user (there is one, but it has to be accessed manually via the user's page in the ACP), it looks like we need to make on.
 
What we need is a "duplicate user" detector that will pop a notification / open a thread in a dedicated forum / send an email / any other method of notifying the site staff when a registered user registers a new alias. 
The plugin HAS TO take NO ACTIVE ACTION besides notifying the staff about the issue (since not all duplicate users will have actions taken against them).
It CAN'T be IP based since those are always changing, it CAN be cookie based, but it would be even better if it's based on something that isn't as easily bypassed.
 
Any ideas/offers? 
Thanks, and may your days be forever awesome.

Brilliant! works perfectly.
Thank you so much, a million blessings upon your head 🙂 

Brilliant! works perfectly.
Thank you so much, a million blessings upon your head 🙂 

It's 2020, take as many as you can.

Ok... Ten thousand?

Brilliant! works perfectly.
Thank you so much, a million blessings upon your head 🙂 

Presumably the above link will work at some point. Again, no idea. First try. 🙂

Just checked, blog posts are uneditable unfortunately. 
Also, this menu option in the acp supports this:

Is it possible to "extract" the edit and report buttons from their new house under the three dot menu? I understand the want and need to declutter, but I personally and much of our users edit our posts quite a lot, and we also want our users to have as little work as possible needed in order to report a post. 
Thanks.  

Thanks, I've seen this plugin before, but I don't like the way it looks. Especially now with the "Author" badge that does work.

Yes, THAT!
Also, when clicking one notification and going to that content, other notifications should remain as unread. otherwise you have to open all of them at once in different tabs, and can't leave one or more notifications to handle later (i.e a user reported a post and you can't deal with it right now, or someone posted in a thread you're following and you want to read later). Right now, morons with bad memory like yours truly, are in danger of leaving something for later and then forgetting about it.

yeah, I will. It looks great.

Awesome! did you try it with 4.4 as well? we're waiting for the stable release before upgrading.
Also, anyone knows how to set a custom title for that group?

As I said, we have experience with such a tool from when we were using VB, and of course it doesn't work on all cases, but most people, even the technical ones, slip up at least once and forget to delete the cache or cookies, and then they pop up on the radar. 
Regarding IP vs cookies, ip is a complete no go. since here in Israel smartphone acceptance is extremely high (like 96% or something) and mobile data is very cheap and basically unlimited, pretty much 100% of our users log in from a mobile phone as well as a pc (if not exclusively). So IPs are all over the place. So the only viable option is a cookie (or some other method I'm not aware of). Since Israel isn't a part of the EU, we don't actually have to abide by the GDPR, but even when we will, I'm sure about how many people give that "we use cookies" message a second thought. 
I mean of course, I'd love a 100% fail proof system, but I'm not a complete moron (contrary to what my wife says) and I'm fully aware that any system, no matter how smart and sophisticated, can be circumvented. And until someone figures out something perfect, I'll take what I can get. 

As I said, we have experience with such a tool from when we were using VB, and of course it doesn't work on all cases, but most people, even the technical ones, slip up at least once and forget to delete the cache or cookies, and then they pop up on the radar. 
Regarding IP vs cookies, ip is a complete no go. since here in Israel smartphone acceptance is extremely high (like 96% or something) and mobile data is very cheap and basically unlimited, pretty much 100% of our users log in from a mobile phone as well as a pc (if not exclusively). So IPs are all over the place. So the only viable option is a cookie (or some other method I'm not aware of). Since Israel isn't a part of the EU, we don't actually have to abide by the GDPR, but even when we will, I'm sure about how many people give that "we use cookies" message a second thought. 
I mean of course, I'd love a 100% fail proof system, but I'm not a complete moron (contrary to what my wife says) and I'm fully aware that any system, no matter how smart and sophisticated, can be circumvented. And until someone figures out something perfect, I'll take what I can get. 

I'm sorry, but that's just a ridiculous statement... firstly because I'm running an automotive community, secondly because I myself dabble in gaming a bit and know for a fact there are no more "gamer" trolls than any other random kind, and lastly because the tendency to troll has nothing to do with one's hobbies, and everything to do with their nature, mentality and upbringing. 
Also, you don't have to agree with the need for anything, but dumbing it down to basically "It shouldn't be a core part because some admins are dumb and will ban family members using the same computer, and gamer trolls will find a way to bypass it" is actually pretty insulting to me. should we not have any way to enforce rules or laws just because some people find ways around them? Should we ban the selling of kitchen knives because a moron once stabbed himself in foot with it? that's a very simplistic and "turn the other cheek" kind of thinking if I'm being honest. I think admins should be given the maximum amount of tools to help them deal with "law breakers" and make their jobs at keeping the communities they are in charge with as much within the communities guidelines as possible.
 
I get what you're saying, that is an easy metric to look at, but I don't think it's the only - or even the best - one to consider.
firstly, because that plugin is fairly expensive as far as marketplace plugins go for small one-man-show communities, and for larger communities who have an in-house dev (or dev team), they'll just have them write a similar plugin that perfectly fits the community's needs. Secondly, I'd say there are a fair few admins who just don't think of that option, I haven't until we've installed it on the previous forum software we used...
Also, when I say "niche" I don't mean "small numbers" but "small role. If we're looking at it conceptually, a duplicate user detector is - as I see it - the basis for the community's entire rules/warning system, and you got to agree that's a pretty important chunk of the system (or of a community in general, virtual or IRL). When you don't have a way to enforce the "punishments" you've given, why give them at all?