general questions Where can I see my Warning Points

[Will Guide 21,360]

The count for Warning points used to appear underneath my picture next to my posts, but now it's gone. How am I supposed to know how many Warning Points are still attached to me?

[Rikifive 24,192]

I believe you should be able to see your warning points on the left panel in your profile page. However, it appears only when you have any warnings applied, so if your account is clean, you'll not see anything. 

[Will Guide 21,360]

@Rikifive

Nope. I know I did bad recently, and yet I can see my points anywhere.

I don't think your post has the answer I was looking for.

[Rikifive 24,192]

Hmm.. but how bad is the question. I mean, are you sure you had any warning points applied officially? If mods were kind enough, you could get a friendly verbal warn via private message without any consequences applied to your account, thus leaving it clean in the database.  

 

If you'd have any points, you probably would be able to see them there:

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Note, that this image isn't accurate to what you should see in your profile page.

 

Either way, I may be wrong, so I'll stop poking my nose where I shouldn't and let the moderators answer your question, as they'll be able to see the details behind the scenes and then specify things correctly.

[Fhaolan 4,484]

Bit of a story behind this one.

When we did the forum upgrade to the newest version of IP.B, the Warning Point thing was front and center of your profile no matter how old the warning was. It was pretty obnoxious, and we got a lot of complaints because people with warnings from *years* ago that were definitely no longer relevant were having to look at the stupid thing. So, when we got a hold of a developer for a short time, they hid the whole thing with the intent of making it so it was a clickable 'reveal/hide' a bit later. Life happened, and the developer never had a chance to finish fixing it. So now you can't see it at all, unless you're staff or something similar.

This upgrade did a lot of screwy things, and nobody's very happy with it.

[Rikifive 24,192]

Oh that changes things.

 

Um.. I did little science and while it is not a perfect solution ('reveal/hide' would require way much more magic), I know how to hide the warn block (that widget with warn info) from member profiles from their view, when they'd have 0 active warning points. That way, they would be able to see the whole warning history when they'd have any active points/restrictions applied, but wouldn't see a single thing, when their warn level would drop back to 0-- assuming, that the warning points aren't permanent judging by that quote:

6 hours ago, Fhaolan said:

we got a lot of complaints because people with warnings from *years* ago that were definitely no longer relevant were having to look at the stupid thing.

Basically they'd see their warnings only if they'd have any active (relevant / recent) ones on their account.  

That solution-- or rather a workaround, would be simply to prevent that block from drawing, when the user's warn level would be 0. All you'd have to do is to add an 'if statement' in a template to check if user's warn level is above 0. If it is, it would return true and draw that block; if not, it would skip the function and simply remove that from their view.

For moderators, it would be still visible all the time.

 

Of course it's not that I want to stick my nose into not my business, don't get me wrong. I was just thinking, that if it is an issue, then some little things could be done, without too much coding science. I could specify the details if you'd like to get into this, but I believe you'd prefer to wait for somepony experienced with better, advanced solutions.  

Okay, okay, I'll be quiet now. *squee* :x

[Fhaolan 4,484]

I'd love to implement your solution, but I'm not sure how to undo what the developer did in order to put it back the way it was in the first place. I'll see if I can still get a hold of him to find out,

[Rikifive 24,192]

I suspect he modified the same conditional branch, where he removed the part responsible for members leading to hiding it from their view completely. If that would be it, then editing it again to your needs would be enough (i.e. adding back a branch to check if member is viewing his own page, then adding another condition to check, if his warning level is above 0 - a matter of a single line of code).
If you'd be able to provide me that chunk of code, I could figure out what has changed.

Nevertheless, if you can still contact him, then that most likely would be a much better choice. Besides, I'm pretty sure he'd be able to implement the same (or even a better) solution while bringing stuff back, by an occasion, as that will be nothing but a walk in a park for experienced coders.  

 

[Ken 108]

On 9/12/2017 at 4:32 PM, Rikifive said:

I suspect he modified the same conditional branch, where he removed the part responsible for members leading to hiding it from their view completely. If that would be it, then editing it again to your needs would be enough (i.e. adding back a branch to check if member is viewing his own page, then adding another condition to check, if his warning level is above 0 - a matter of a single line of code).
If you'd be able to provide me that chunk of code, I could figure out what has changed.

Nevertheless, if you can still contact him, then that most likely would be a much better choice. Besides, I'm pretty sure he'd be able to implement the same (or even a better) solution while bringing stuff back, by an occasion, as that will be nothing but a walk in a park for experienced coders.  

 

I could swear i didn't do that...all i did was add the JavaScript to hide it by default.

On 9/12/2017 at 7:50 AM, Fhaolan said:

I'd love to implement your solution, but I'm not sure how to undo what the developer did in order to put it back the way it was in the first place. I'll see if I can still get a hold of him to find out,

If i remember correctly there's a way to reset the code source to whatever you start with by default, so you could just do that. It's a button in a toolbar somewhere in the editor you get after you select the template for the user's page...yeah, i really don't remember much, sorry!