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~Profile parsing did cross my mind, but what made me feel okay about it was that I noticed in the SMF code that non-datetime text was already possible for that field before this patch (the text "Never" can be displayed there, too), so I guessed that you must already have made your parser(s) robust against non-datetimes.

All good man, no apology necessary!   Should be an easy workaround (once I get my development machine in order), although with potentially ~3 days of inaccuracy. I'm not sure what you would consider a more robust way to process that field but we basically have specific conditions to deal with Never & Today, to convert them to datetime.. just not (Recently), yet..  

So if I monitor a profile that was last active more than 3 days ago, and it's status switches to "(Recently)", I know it's became active right at that moment.

Well, you know it's become active at some point between that moment, and the last time you scraped the profile.

I never took the "show online status" as being directly related to the last active date, so 72 hours feels extreme when the default session time is 1 hour for a logged in "online" user. Maybe 8-12 hours for (Recently)?  
I feel like 'Last Active' should at least be accurate to the day they were last active to prevent someone disappearing for 3 days while victims think they are active.

And then what is displayed after 3 days of inactivity?.. the day/time they were actually last active, or 72 hours after the actual last active point?

This patch is also restricted to what ranks?? Because I can't  find it  in my forum preferences while checking...I guess this is also related to the small green button

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Saw a current theme preference with a change  link , is the forum also planning on doing that or it's available and still restricted  ??

@criptoevangelista Congratulation. your triple 5 merit was looking very nice. best of luck

This is nice to see and thanks to Powerglove for coming up with such idea, also to the admin for a very effective implementation on this, we now see more reason on why privacy in very more needed even on the way we appear on the forum, its not always ideal to have people predict the active time we are on the forum precisely, but being shown as recently could mean now, few hours ago or even some days after, you cannot be well predicted on your last active time now, its such a good and new development.

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I think there should be some benefit for users reporting like badges that come with some special privileges etc as it's a thankless task and it's very rare we add new mods based on their reporting so that's another lack of incentive. Maybe we could even give some small BTC prizes to some of the most active reporters etc.

The majority agreed that badges would be something that would further motivate users to be more active when it comes to using the "report to moderator" button, so I wonder why the admin hasn't done it so far - because it's not something technically demanding. However, even if this happens, it should be done in a smart way so that it does not happen that some people start making hundreds of unnecessary reports a day in order to get badges as soon as possible. Also, the limit for getting such a badge should be high, at least 5000 good reports or maybe even more than that.

As for the BTC rewards, I feel that it can be very motivating, but when it comes to money, there will always be those who will try to abuse it, even if it means that they will put their alt farms into operation, create as much spam as possible and then report themselves.

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Update: We have two new additions to the forum, interestingly both suggestions and smf patch were from PowerGlove.

Release Date	|	Author	|	Thread Title	|	Suggestion Implemented
10/06/2024	|	PowerGlove	|	Quoting from locked threads (SMF patch)	|	Added
12/06/2024	|	Theymos	|	Small improvement regarding activity / "Show others your online status"	|	Added

This isn't a rule. Threads are usually locked if they're reported and a mod deems them as run their course.

It seems that some members think that things on this forum take care of themselves, that is, that the moderators patrol the forum and delete posts, move/lock topics and ban bad users. If today we have less than 2000 reports per month, and a few years ago we had record months with almost 50 000 reports, then it is a little clearer why it seems to some that the moderators are not doing their job.

I think most mods will handle something if they come across it but staff only get paid for reports (with some other unknown factors involved) so if there's less reports coming in then spam is more likely to stay unless it gets reported. I barely browse the forum at all these days and tend to just stick to reports and the threads I frequent in my watch-list and I suppose that's probably true for many other mods. I think there should be some benefit for users reporting like badges that come with some special privileges etc as it's a thankless task and it's very rare we add new mods based on their reporting so that's another lack of incentive. Maybe we could even give some small BTC prizes to some of the most active reporters etc.

I have checked this new feature and it's working properly. I believe it's a quite good patch and we all should be thankful to PowerGlove for devoting his precious time to make such useful patches for the forum.

He's truly a pro developer and someone who's very respected member of this forum. I hope we'll continue to see such great patches from PowerGlove and I'm also thankful to Theymos for implementing this useful feature regarding activity on this forum.

if I have disabled the "Show others your online status?" option, why does it still display the exact date and time of my last activity after 72 hours?

I'd say it should only show the date, not the time. Or even just the month.
Or just stay active, don't abandon Bitcointalk for more than 72 hours

I do feel a lot of genuine users got banned cause accidentally they got logged in the same time.

Tagged: maybe.
Banned: no way. Just like users aren't banned based on similar IP addresses, the won't be banned based on their login time.

This patch will resolve the issue for someone blaming inconsistency or simalaties of login time. I do feel a lot of genuine users got banned cause accidentally they got logged in the same time.

I do understand this patch is meant for giving everyone active here the privacy of activities. If anyone here use this patch that means they are using for their own benifits. As BTT allows alt accounts some of the legends will use it to their benefits that will be evident when it doesn't show their accounts active

It is clear now that with this patch anyone can now use it for their own betterment. I personally don't think it will be good if anyone in the legend rank use it.