The MyBB Humanization Project

[BlackChaos]

Just thought I'd share step one of my master plan of converting my forum to human-friendly standards. Its not as advanced a step as brad-t takes with his community, but I thought I'd do well to start small but think big.


Link if you care to see: http://www.gthreeforums.net/member.php?action=register

I basically just removed the useless options part which members can easily edit from their UserCP and added a sort of foreword/letter written in an informal style. I want to showcase our forum as a fun community and my writing style generally takes towards that direction as it is.
So that's my little tweak for now.

Next stop: World Domination

[brad-t]

Not bad. I would suggest replacing the captcha with a security question.

[BlackChaos]

Hmm... I suppose that would be better. Plus it looks kind of awkwardly placed anyways. Thanks!

[brad-t]

I made mine "What's the name of this site" and no spammers have gotten through it yet haha

[BlackChaos]

Well played haha. Most people think of complicated methods to prevent spamfestation, but often times the most simple of methods are the most effective. As long as they don't ask something that can be easily googled or calculated (1+1=?), security questions can be way safer than captchas.

[Shell]

Wow man! You are/were also the admin of http://worldbeyblade.org/ right? I just registrated on that forum because it looks so nice! IMO you are one of the best MyBB designers and you also really give valuable information!

KUTGW!

[brad-t]

I am the founder but left that site about 3 years ago

[Michaud©]

Brad-t - would you ever share the quick reply code? <3 I really like it.. and can't seem to figure out how to edit it very well.

[brad-t]

Yup, no problem. Obviously you will need to work on it since it calls classes you don't have.

<br />
<form method="post" action="newreply.php?tid={$tid}&amp;processed=1" name="quick_reply_form" id="quick_reply_form">
	<input type="hidden" name="my_post_key" value="{$mybb->post_code}" />
	<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="RE: {$thread['subject']}" />
	<input type="hidden" name="action" value="do_newreply" />
	<input type="hidden" name="posthash" value="{$posthash}" id="posthash" />
	<input type="hidden" name="quoted_ids" value="" id="quoted_ids" />
	<input type="hidden" name="lastpid" id="lastpid" value="{$last_pid}" />
	<input type="hidden" name="from_page" value="{$page}" />
	<input type="hidden" name="tid" value="{$tid}" />
	<input type="hidden" name="method" value="quickreply" />
<input type="hidden" class="checkbox" name="postoptions[signature]" value="1" {$postoptionschecked['signature']} />
<input type="hidden" class="checkbox" name="postoptions[disablesmilies]" value="0" />

	<table border="0" cellspacing="{$theme['borderwidth']}" cellpadding="{$theme['tablespace']}" class="tborder">
		<thead>
			<tr>
				<td class="thead" colspan="2">
					<div class="expcolimage"><img src="{$theme['imgdir']}/collapse{$collapsedimg['quickreply']}.gif" id="quickreply_img" class="expander" alt="[-]" title="[-]" /></div>
					<div>Reply to this topic</div>
				</td>
			</tr>
		</thead>
		<tbody style="{$collapsed['quickreply_e']}" id="quickreply_e">
			<tr>
				<td class="trow1">
					<div class="editor_control_bar" style="display: none; position: relative; left: 104px; width: 80%; padding-bottom: 10px; color: #333; font-size: 11px;
" id="quickreply_multiquote">
						
							<span class="icon-comments"></span> {$lang->quickreply_multiquote_selected} <a href="./newreply.php?tid={$tid}&amp;load_all_quotes=1" onclick="return Thread.loadMultiQuoted();">{$lang->quickreply_multiquote_now}</a> {$lang->or} <a href="javascript:Thread.clearMultiQuoted();">{$lang->quickreply_multiquote_deselect}</a>.
						
					</div>

<div style="float: left; padding: 0px 20px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="usercp.php?action=avatar" class="imageframelink"><img src="{$mybb->user['avatar']}" class="imageframe" style="max-width: 70px;"></a></div>

					<div style="width: 65%; float: left;">

						<textarea style="width: 100%; padding: 4px; margin: 0;" rows="8" cols="80" name="message" id="message" tabindex="1"></textarea>
					</div>
<div style="float: right; width: 20%; padding: 0px 20px 0px 10px;">
<input type="submit" class="button bigbutton" value="{$lang->post_reply}" tabindex="2" accesskey="s" id="quick_reply_submit" style="width: 100%;" /><input type="submit" class="button" name="previewpost" value="Full Editor" tabindex="3" style="width:100%;" /><br />
{$closeoption}
</div>
				</td>
			</tr>
			{$captcha}
		</tbody>
	</table>
</form>

[Earl Grey]

Would just like to also say that your design is absolutely beautiful <3 I would love to see you build some sort of base template that we could all build off of <3 In fact, I'd love to see you on the team for mybb 2.0 theme design!