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Originally Posted by Don Cragun

I am not a big fan of a coffee cup icon as an indication that a poster is an advisor, moderator, or administrator. (I realize that the tag line under the user's name usually gives the poster's position in the hierarchy, but that isn't true if the poster has used bits to pay for a personalized tag line.).

OK, let's work out some new badges for this.

Any suggestions?

I think we need small images versus unicode icons.

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Also just recognized icon for forum advisory has been changed, IMHO previous ICONS were/are awesome(not denying this one but previous ones were like medals for forum advisory and MODs which were NOT at all old fashioned in IMHO)

So that's two negative votes for the new badges for advisors and staff

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Item 1 is mostly fixed. When I click on a poster's name, it now goes to the poster's public profile. But, when I hover over the poster's name, there is no text indicating what will happen if I click while I'm there. Please display text similar to "Go to user name's public profile" when I hover over the poster's name.

Item 2 is fixed.

Item 3 is fixed.

Item 4 is partially fixed. When I hover over the quick reply icon, it now says "Quick Reply to Post without Quoting this Post" which leaves the impression that although this post won't be quoted, other posts selected with the Multi-Quote icon will be quoted. Please change the text displayed when hovering over this icon to "Quick Reply to Post without Quoting any Post".

Item 5 is fixed.

Item 6 is partially fixed. The text displayed when I hover over the new Quote icon is "Quote this Post and Reply". That text gives no indication that posts in this thread that are selected for Multi-Quoting will also be quoted in the reply. Please change this text to something like "Quote this Post and any Posts selected for Multi-Quoting and Reply".:

Hey Don, I'm on the road and working with only 4 hours sleep, LOL, but I think I addressed all of your issues *except* the member badge changes, which has not been well received (see prior post).

But as far as the mouse over the icons, I think I made all the changes you wanted; except I need to make some changes to get the actual username in the mouseover text on top of the user profile link, so I adjusted it but left out the username variable because it breaks things.

Updated: Now that mouseover text has the username as well (fixed).

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New issues that I mentioned in post #14 in this thread:

The Thanks icon in the lower left corner of each post should not appear if I have already given (and not removed) thanks for that post and should not appear if I submitted the post. The first condition is not currently handled correctly; the second condition is handled correctly. Please remove the Thanks icon from posts where I have already given thanks for that post.
When I use the Multi-Quote icon to select a post for Multi-Quoting an additional icon (an underscore) is created between the Multi-Quote icon and the Quick Reply icon. This new icon does not display any text if you hover over it and appears to be a no-op if you click on this icon. Please get rid of this icon. (Note that even if you de-select that post for Multi-Quoting, the underscore icon remains.)
I'm not a big fan of the Power-off icon that tells you whether a user is on-line, off-line, or hiding when you hover over it. If you need text that appears when you hover over an icon to tell you what the icon means, it seems to be an indication that the icon doesn't not clearly indicate what information it is trying to convey. And, from a human-factors stand-point, you expect the text that appears when you hover over an icon to explain what will happen if you click on that icon. That is not what happens here. If you click on this icon, you get a menu similar to the menu you get when you select the User CP menu at the top of the page, but the menu applies to the user to submitted that post instead of to the currently logged-in user. Consider using the solid Chalkboard-teacher icon to indicate that the user is on-line, the solid Chalkboard icon to indicate that the user is off-line, and the light Chalkboard or Chalkboard-teach icon to indicate that the user is hiding. If there is a user-at-a-terminal icon, that would be even better than the Chalkboard-teach icon. Hovering over the icon should display something like "Display user name's CP Menu". You might also consider adding a down arrow next to whatever icon you use to indicate that there is a menu hidden under it.
For user's who have provided a Home Page on their Public Profile "Contact Info" tab, since the latest changes have been made clicking on the "Home Page" text in that tab does not display that user's Home Page; instead it displays the home page for The UNIX & Linux Forums. The same glitch happens when you click on the menu item labeled "Visit user name's homepage!" in the menu that comes up when you select one of the one or two icons to the right of a user name in the top left corner of a post.
As with the Power-off icon, the coffee-cup icon suffers from the same human-factors issues. And, I don't see the need to have two icons that invoke the same menu when clicked upon. If you don't go back to the badges that we used before, please choose an icon (although I don't have a good suggestion) that indicates the meaning) without using text when you hover over it to explain what the icon stands for. And, please consider making clicking on this icon be a no-op (and not adding underlining when hovering over this icon or badge). I liked the old badges better than a single icon because they indicated the position of that user within the UNIX & Linux Forums staff hierarchy; the coffee cup and eye icons don't do that (and don't, at least to me, indicate that the user is a UNIX & Linux Forums staffer).
The second line in the menu that comes up when you select one of the one or two icons to the right of a user name in the top left corner of a post is "View Public Profile". It should be "View user name's Public Profile".

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If you don't want to go back to the old badges indicating UNIX & Linux Forums staff positions, the Users icon might be better than the coffee cup icon. But it is only one icon and Users seems more suited to non-staff positions instead of staff positions. One could also consider using chess piece King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight, and/or Pawn icons for various staff positions. (But, I think I still like the old badges better.)

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Hey Don,

The "Thank You Thumb Up" disappears for all users I have checked, when the Thanks have been given. See image:

If your image is different, please take a screen shot and post, Thanks.

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Also, Don, I logged in as you, and all looks correct, see screenshot, give thanks, thanks button goes bye bye.... remove thanks, thanks button reappears:

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