Timestamp Petition! (in General)

Timestamps are a wonderful part of CB, but sadly, they have been missing for quite some time now. This is far less convenient and occasionally even problematic for most, for many reasons. I shall here post a shortlist of those reasons:

1) They make things more convenient.

2) For record-keeping: "Interest on this loan will be compounded at 5AM" and the person repaying the loan sends the money any time that day (and the loaner logs on the next day to check)

3) Contests in which posting within a certain amount of time of another poster is required or earns something.

4) Sellers trying to find which time they actually posted a FS/WTB thread, so they can bump the thread before it closes.

5) Contests setting a cut-off time: "The first person to post after 5PM will win" and the person running the contest logs on the next day and realizes he can't find which one wins (I think G_Beee had a few of these contests.)


...and if anyone else thinks of a reason off-hand, feel free to post it.



Therefore, I am formally requesting/petitioning for the return of timestamps, specifically on the forum posts. Please, if you are interested in seeing Jonathan return the timestamps to the forums, reply to this petition with your name.

Please, Jon? *puppydog eyes*

Hakai

w00t, permanent timestamps *drool*
Lingy

The Hatchetman

Didn't we already do this? Twice?

Your name.

Sutekh T. Destroyer.

Bob. j'Bob.

SNK4R.

Shaneekwah Hurbert Buckley.

Hancock..

Bast - that's what I thought. But apparently my other petition (which I have yet to look up) was only for chatmail timestamps.

I move that this petition be edited to include timestamps everywhere, including the Recent Battles list.

democracy in action...or was that inaction. timestamps for all!

Godwolf

Flamey.

Paddy Boy

timestamps everywhere FTW! ~SundariZelia

Mitt

RX3

__X________

Xenko

x

Would help hunt multies as well...

What you guy's don't know is that Redwolf actually signed his monitor with a Sharpie, and now he's trying to get it off his screen... ^_^

Can't he just use white-out?
Simple, duh!

A!A! :P

What y'all don't seem to get is that this is no Democracy... You live in a sometimes benevolent Dictatorship. Deal with it.

I will not deal with it. (Mostly because you're not the boss of me!!!)
I thumb my nose at you... (tho i don't really know what that means)
And further more I sign my name again!
vote early, vote often!!

j'bob

I bite my thumb at thee, too, LG.

Colonel Custard

Last Gasp, this is a request/petition, not a demand.


Are you for the idea, or against it? That is all that is asked of you in responses to this thread....that, and if you have more reasoning why it should be implemented.

So there's no reason to go all "this is a benevolent dictatorship" on us. We KNOW.

AdminJonathan, Oct 17 2007
added time of day back to old chatmails.

QBBast, Oct 17 2007
Thank you.

[P]Mitt, Oct 17 2007
Hrm, is it just me, or has the time been erased from previous days' posts?
If it's not just me, I'm requesting that they be put back up.

AdminJonathan, Oct 17 2007
> has the time been erased from previous days' posts

yes.

if you want it back you will have to explain how leaving it out affects usability.







Just answering this request - it affects usability at least in the 5 ways mentioned in the original post, plus what bartjan said, plus probably multiple as of yet unposted difficulties.

Since bartjan says it would help hunt multys,
JahRoor

Does knowing what time of day they posted affect anything?

BluBBen

OB - link?

Napoleon Solo

I'd like to know why the timestamps went in the first place. Does CB run better or take up less server space without them for instance.

But I love timestamps!

DrAcO5676

Bartman

Yet again,

Ranger

RVT

I will throw my lot in even though I don't think it matters all that much personally.

Mokaba

Nightstrike: here.

Ok, so I went and got my original petition:

http://www.carnageblender.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0025om

This was back in April of last year, and involved the replacement of time stamps *everywhere*. It seems that Jon then went and decided to try again with removing time stamps to see if anyone would notice. The original petition covered all cases.

bump

three4thsforsaken

OK so I still see no timestamps and it is really annoying me, I haven't a clue when my FS/WTB thread will end, and I saw another thread that reminded me of this one - a contest where the creator needed to log on before midnight because people were only allowed 1 entry per hour and there are no TIMESTAMPS to check the next day!


Come on Jon. Everyone HATES not having them. It's like torture. -.-

this again? must be on the to do list.

Draugluin

This thread had 27 replies in the first 15 minutes. If that's not reason enough to bring them back, then how about the fact that non-admins have no idea whether or not I'm making that up :P

Hatch, neither do admins without record keeping and a very tedious trawl through a very long string of data...

Resigned.

Andy

Yawn

beep

Signed again. Obviously falling on deaf ears again : /

is this approved yet?

X

This thread shall not remain unbumped until we get our

Stimetamp bump before work

Please time stamp?

bizzump

w00t, go OB, keep the heat on.

/doodles on the petition

/me furiously erases JahRoor's doodles.

bumper cars

well I have never seen time stamped posts as described since I join. Not sure how great/useful it was, but to see so many requests for it, I would gladly join in the petition.

Bah, can't see my timestamp for when I started my latest contest. Bumped.

done

lol, yay!

Yeah!

oh thank you jon, thank you thank you thank you...
because now this thread will DIE!!!
i mean, um, good job ob.

w00t!

It's a Bird, no it's a Plane, no it's a Time Stamp!

lol

Excellent! Thanks, Jonathan!

Dreams do come true!!! <3

Thanks Jonathan!

Thanks Jon. Highly appreciated.

perceferance(however written) pays off finally.
This is w00tness for ever and ever.
Well done OB, well done indeed.