As some of you have noticed, you gain the ability to set new bits of “Flair” on your user icon as you gain additional Trust Levels.
You can pick which flair is displayed for your account by navigating to your Preferences, by clicking your Icon top right, and going down to Profile → Preferences → Flair.
I think it’s only for TL3 users that this option will be available.
Will all users, that qualify for that trust level be bumped by admins/moderators if deemed a good fit or will the automatically set discourse requirements need to be fulfilled if you didn’t get granted that level upon migration of the user account?
The requirements by discourse seem rather high if the activity here will pick up where we left the old forums.
Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 25% (capped at 20k)
Edit: why do I have two check marks? I only selected one.
“Title” and “Flair”, whatever those mean. I looked up what extended meaning the English language has given to “flair” compared with my native French, but none of the possibilities appear to make sense in the context.
flair | flɛː |
noun
1 [in singular] a special or instinctive aptitude or ability for doing something well: she had a flair for languages | [mass noun] : none of us had much artistic flair.
2 [mass noun] stylishness and originality: she dressed with flair.
Then, using the same ornament for two different things is another design flaw.
And having animated ornaments is a major faux-pas. Unless there’s a hidden setting somewhere to stop these little cogwheels from turning, this first post may well be my last here.
There’s really nothing I like about Discourse, and the more I see the less I want to see it again.
I doubt it’s unique, but its usage in the movie “Office Space” is, I think, in line with how it’s being used here. In that context, it referred to buttons or badges that a waitress would wear on her uniform. Likewise, here, it’s referring to a badge you can add to your avatar.
It wasn’t the flair as such; it was the corporate environment–the flair was just a symptom. And “corporate environment bad” was pretty much the point of the whole movie.
Unsurprisingly, I had to look up this title as well. Never seen, never heard of—and never heard of anyone on the credit list save for J. Aniston (“heard of”, never seen anything in her filmography; I could certainly pass her by in the street and not notice). And through the 90’s and 00’s I was watching about 150 movies per year—all in theatres, no TV!
This is now well beyond Discourse, or any forum, but the message to take home here is: With a worldwide audience, be very, very, wary of “cultural references” you take for granted.