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#151  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
@The Dark Huntress said:

" @Vance Astro In fairly certain xerox-kitty started a thread pertaining to this in Bug Reporting. You might want to post in that as well. "

I'm not sure I didn't already.It doesn't seem staff has any intention of fixing it.If Xerox (a mod) can't get them to do something...what can I do?
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#152  Edited By fishinsoup

More spoiler alerts DAMMIT. 
  
Also it would be nice to cover some character death issue category. I was just searching for one character's appearance in certain comic, but because my internet is slower today and it didn't showed profile picture  immeaditely I accidentaly glimpsed at his death issue.  
 
I know this is more as a wiki and such, but couldn't there be spoiler-free options if I just want to search for character appearances? 
 
And of course couldn't they just put spoilers in review instead of freaking title?

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#153  Edited By Donnieman v5.1

Sometimes I wish there was a way to find a specific page in those hundred or so page threads.

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find the funding even if via donations and grants to send every member of the vine free 
prophylactics. Comicvine should promote safe sex.

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#155  Edited By Mercy_
@Donnieman v5.1: Agreed. 
 
@CATMANEXE said:
" find the funding even if via donations and grants to send every member of the vine free  prophylactics. Comicvine should promote safe sex. "
Considering the amount of people on this site who hook up, whether it's cyber or RL, I completely agree with that. 
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@The Dark Huntress: 
more people here hook-up?
 
* looks back and forth, then at chewing gum stuck to shoe *
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#157  Edited By Mercy_
@CATMANEXE: I can name seven couples out of the RPG forum off the top of my head. Some are still together, some aren't. My biggest example would be MR and Arrow. xP
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#158  Edited By Eternal Chaos
@The Dark Huntress said:
" @Donnieman v5.1: Agreed. 
 
@CATMANEXE said:
"  sex. "
 I completely agree with that.  "
Me too. :)
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#159  Edited By Mercy_
@Eternal Chaos: LMFAO. Retconning posts FTW. xP
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@The Dark Huntress: 
?
 
i am so oblivious aren't I?
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#161  Edited By Eternal Chaos
@The Dark Huntress: It's an art taught by politicians. Normally it's called "taking things out of context". But I like what you called it more.
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#162  Edited By Mercy_
@CATMANEXE: :O You didn't know that Arrow and Red are together? To be fair, it's not exactly like they go screaming it through the forums. 
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#163  Edited By Mercy_
@Eternal Chaos: I liked what I called it better, too. :D
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@The Dark Huntress: 
oh those two yes...im just generally unaware of dating, sex, flirtation, or anything else outside of jokes
anywhere, or more it doesnt register. i guess whats not in my life doesnt exist. theres only art, music
and comics is more what i mean. ive only been with a handful of people and it was because they
pretty much took me, and due to circumstances, and was emotionally detached. otherwise ive never
pursued the whole dating lifestyle, ect. On this site, i presumed with something i was told that anything
I saw was just some form of comradery/jest/roleplaying as it where anyways, and not real nor intentful.
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#165  Edited By Eternal Chaos
@The Dark Huntress: Then we're in agreement.
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#166  Edited By Mercy_
@Eternal Chaos: Aren't we always? xP 
 
@CATMANEXE: :( 
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#167  Edited By Eternal Chaos
@The Dark Huntress: We are and it's slightly terrifying.
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#168  Edited By Final Arrow

Sex on the vine...  
 
Just wanting to clear this up quickly, no way no how. if someone is coming onto you and you like it, take it to PMs or better yet off the site. If someone is harassing you, you PM a mod instantly, make sure it's me because I hate when people pull this sh!t here. As for friendly flirting hell me and EC do it all the time, but don't go over board or I'll kill you.

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#169  Edited By The_Ghostshell
@Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin.
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#170  Edited By Final Arrow
@Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody!
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#171  Edited By The_Ghostshell
@Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was.
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#172  Edited By Final Arrow
@Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about!
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#173  Edited By The_Ghostshell
@Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about! "
Touche. You're myth is about as true as Dying from  Pop Rocks and Cola
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#174  Edited By Final Arrow
@Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about! "
Touche. You're myth is about as true as Dying from  Pop Rocks and Cola "
I'll make you famous...:p
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#175  Edited By The_Ghostshell
@Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about! "
Touche. You're myth is about as true as Dying from  Pop Rocks and Cola "
I'll make you famous...:p "
Hahaha yeah I know. Charlie Sheen/Porn Star locked in a closet famous.
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#176  Edited By Final Arrow
@Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about! "
Touche. You're myth is about as true as Dying from  Pop Rocks and Cola "
I'll make you famous...:p "
Hahaha yeah I know. Charlie Sheen/Porn Star locked in a closet famous. "
I was thinking more Robert Downing Jnr in a hotel room with two hookers and one dressed as Wonder Woman
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#177  Edited By The_Ghostshell
@Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about! "
Touche. You're myth is about as true as Dying from  Pop Rocks and Cola "
I'll make you famous...:p "
Hahaha yeah I know. Charlie Sheen/Porn Star locked in a closet famous. "
I was thinking more Robert Downing Jnr in a hotel room with two hookers and one dressed as Wonder Woman "
Apples and Oranges lol
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#178  Edited By Final Arrow
@Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
" @Gambler said:
" @Final Arrow said:
"  but don't go over board or I'll kill you. "
You're losing your ability to intimidate. Married life has made you soft pumpkin. "
Wait didn't you use to be somebody! "
You know what they say, better a has been then a never was. "
Im a myth im never forgotten, just whispered about! "
Touche. You're myth is about as true as Dying from  Pop Rocks and Cola "
I'll make you famous...:p "
Hahaha yeah I know. Charlie Sheen/Porn Star locked in a closet famous. "
I was thinking more Robert Downing Jnr in a hotel room with two hookers and one dressed as Wonder Woman "
Apples and Oranges lol "
Hey at least my option gives you another shot in ten years...or there is always two and a half men :o
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#179  Edited By Mercy_
@Eternal Chaos: More than slightly. xP
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#180  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator

Ok I got another suggestion for an improvement and I've brought visuals !!!! :D
 
I've been adding lots of old issues to the wiki and it occurred to me that it would be useful to know if all the issues have been added to a volume without having to go page by page to figure it out, I know most normal volumes can be easy since they start at regular numbers but, for example, books from charlton they change their names two or three times so you have a lot of volumes starting and ending with random numbers. So my thought is how about either a check box or dropdown combo box so we can mark a volume as complete/incomplete so we can tell easily if there are issues missing so they can be added. This would show up on all wiki pages.
 
Here is my first mockup to get an idea of what I mean:

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You can see the top row is unchecked and incomplete, in edit mode it has a checkbox and in regular wiki mode you get a simple little label and then the bottom row is checked and complete. Doesn't have to be text labels though of course, little images or something could be used.
 

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With this one instead of a checkbox it uses a combo box and allows for volumes to be marked as ongoing so that you know a series is ongoing and not just incomplete. This could be extended even further since it would show up on all wiki pages, another entry could be added to the combo box that says like "needs work" so the wiki would get tagged so users would know that a page needs more work done on it, or another entry for "plagiarized" so a visitor would know it needs to be rewritten.
 
So what do you guys think? could be nice and very useful.
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#181  Edited By RLAAMJR

is there a way to categorized images on my images? Like i want to separate all Storm images from other of my favorite characters images?

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#182  Edited By xerox_kitty
@RLAAMJR: Go to your Images.  Click on Edit.  Then click Add New Gallery.
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#183  Edited By RLAAMJR
@xerox-kitty said:
" @RLAAMJR: Go to your Images.  Click on Edit.  Then click Add New Gallery. "
thanks!",)
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still very much want voice chat.

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#185  Edited By Roxanne Starr
@CATMANEXE said:
" still very much want voice chat. "
That way you can actually hear me rap...right? :D
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#186  Edited By JMFG

Other comic sites have this feature, but it'd be nice to see on CV. Each Monday or so, the new comics for that week are posted on a page and users can click a button and "pull" books for that week.  Users could see what books they pulled by checking out their pull list on their profile page and access forums that discuss the ongoings that they are pulling. You also find out who else's lists are like yours and look for recommendations. Maybe the titles could have bare bones info prior to the comics actually coming out so as to not create mayhem on the wiki side of things.

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#187  Edited By Mercy_
@pikahyper said:
" Ok I got another suggestion for an improvement and I've brought visuals !!!! :D
 
I've been adding lots of old issues to the wiki and it occurred to me that it would be useful to know if all the issues have been added to a volume without having to go page by page to figure it out, I know most normal volumes can be easy since they start at regular numbers but, for example, books from charlton they change their names two or three times so you have a lot of volumes starting and ending with random numbers. So my thought is how about either a check box or dropdown combo box so we can mark a volume as complete/incomplete so we can tell easily if there are issues missing so they can be added. This would show up on all wiki pages.
 
Here is my first mockup to get an idea of what I mean:
No Caption Provided
You can see the top row is unchecked and incomplete, in edit mode it has a checkbox and in regular wiki mode you get a simple little label and then the bottom row is checked and complete. Doesn't have to be text labels though of course, little images or something could be used.
 

No Caption Provided
With this one instead of a checkbox it uses a combo box and allows for volumes to be marked as ongoing so that you know a series is ongoing and not just incomplete. This could be extended even further since it would show up on all wiki pages, another entry could be added to the combo box that says like "needs work" so the wiki would get tagged so users would know that a page needs more work done on it, or another entry for "plagiarized" so a visitor would know it needs to be rewritten.  So what do you guys think? could be nice and very useful. "
LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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#188  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator
@The Dark Huntress:  yay somebody finally notice !!!! after almost a week I thought I was insane and everybody hated my idea :P In my head it makes total sense to have it and I think it could be really helpful cause then you don't have to rely on the "X results" down near the pagination especially when there are one half issues and zero issues bloating the numbers and you never know if there are dupe issues clogging it up so right there at the top you get an accurate visual representation :D On further reflection I can see that the check box wouldn't be so great but the combo box is much better cause it can include additional useful entries like ongoing, plagiarized, needs work, dupe, or outdated along with the complete/incomplete entries.
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#189  Edited By Mercy_
@pikahyper: No, I love it, I think it's a great idea. I would loveee to see it implemented.
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make me an honorary staff member

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#191  Edited By Mercy_

Yeah. Not gonna happen.

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@Roxanne Starr: 
that, and its a bit faster and you can hear the emotion in words which is important, and leads to less belief of implication and therefore
flamewars. also for blind people, whom im sure in this day and age listen to comic book/superhero movies.
it would make Daredevil very proud...but mostly to hear you rap of course! :)
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#193  Edited By JamesSpiring

An option to sort by date instead of issue number please. Some volumes have to use a YYYYMMDD date format for issue numbers where there isn't one on the cover, such as Rover & Wizard. Others have to use YYYY## if the issue numbers reset every year, for instance Look-in. And of course issue 0 or -1 ends up before issue 1 in the list, when it more than likely came out midway through the run i.e. Action Comics.

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#194  Edited By jasraj
Change the one of the battle rules 
 
I want to make anime vs comic book characters, but im not aloud, change that rule
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#195  Edited By brc2000

There's a reason they're no longer allowed.

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I WANT FONT YE SPOOKY LASS!


 
let us upload and use custom font from our image galleries? imagine what this would provide for RPG alone for starters.
 
and at the very least give this joint some class by switching to some like Zap Raygun 2.0 (the same used bu Irrationals Freedom Force superhero based game franchise). 
 
(sidenote: I'm curious if the Comicvine logo is hand drawn or if its a font set and which if so? anyone? )
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#197  Edited By JamesSpiring

Fonts have to be viewable on all computers, so they have to use those that comes with Windows as standard. That's why Arial is used. Saying that, there is a web technology that allows standard text to be replaced by a custom font, stored as vector graphics on the website's server I believe. I've seen it used for the headlines on newspaper websites, and in lots of places at The Beano comic's official website.

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#198  Edited By pikahyper  Moderator
@digifiend said:

" Fonts have to be viewable on all computers, so they have to use those that comes with Windows as standard. That's why Arial is used. Saying that, there is a web technology that allows standard text to be replaced by a custom font, stored as vector graphics on the website's server I believe. I've seen it used for the headlines on newspaper websites, and in lots of places at The Beano comic's official website. "

Those aren't the only two options actually, there are services online that "host" fonts and using javascript or flash you can utilize the fonts on a website. The two sites you posted (Beano and The Sun) use cufon, other alternatives available are TypeKit, sIFR, and the newer Google Font API to name a few. Using these services any site can use non-standard fonts that are not available on users computers, some are paid solutions and others are free.
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animated gif use for avatars. we are ready the time iz now!

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#200  Edited By Icarusflies  Moderator
@CATMANEXE: Ugh, but those drive my computer (and my eyes) CRAZY. Backgrounds are bad enough!