Admin Announcement Lets Talk About Blessings

[brinny]

I will be working on this throughout the day. We will get it figured out. There is a lot of data to go through. In the mean time, I am going to disable gifting of blessings until everything is where we need it.

Thanks Brent!!!

And thanks for all of your hard work on CF.

 

[brinny]

 

[rockytopva]

Please remember that there is nothing wrong with outrageous amounts of blessings, and remove the cents. We use to have posters who use to post, "I will give 1 million blessings to the first posters to post..." And in some unanswered thread. Blessings should be a fun way to encourage involvement here on the CF>

 

[brinny]

Please remember that there is nothing wrong with outrageous amounts of blessings, and remove the cents. We use to have posters who use to post, "I will give 1 million blessings to the first posters to post..." And in some unanswered thread. Blessings should be a fun way to encourage involvement here on the CF>

i agree.

That was soooooo much fun!

(i miss the "move" feature)

 

[rockytopva]

i agree.

That was soooooo much fun!

(i miss the "move" feature)

I wonder what happened to LLOJ? I do not believe he has posted here all year?

 

[brinny]

I wonder what happened to LLOJ? I do not believe he has posted here all year?

He's posting, but not as frequently.....

he is missed...

i pray all is well.

He had some questions about blessings too, i think.

 

[rockytopva]

i agree.

That was soooooo much fun!

(i miss the "move" feature)

We use to do that in the old CB. I have encouraged the programmers to being back somekind of chat transcript in the Forums or Home page. That encourages involvement. LLOJ use to encourage people in the CB to post somewhere in exchange of blessings and that really worked well.

 

[brinny]

We use to do that in the old CB. I have encouraged the programmers to being back somekind of chat transcript in the Forums or Home page. That encourages involvement. LLOJ use to encourage people in the CB to post somewhere in exchange of blessings and that really worked well.

Yes, he was awesome at it....

he was like the CF mascot (besides ChrisBot)

 

[dogs4thewin]

Does this mean with it being reset that the blessings that DID carry over ot longer apply?

 

[brinny]

Does this mean with it being reset that the blessings that DID carry over ot longer apply?

I hope not...

i think Brent is fixing any glitches.

 

[rockytopva]

i agree.

That was soooooo much fun!

(i miss the "move" feature)

And remember when someone would announce the infestation of a troll here on CF CB? It was like the whole board would go into a state of excited watchfulness and expect some moderator to immediately come to the attention of the problem.

 

[brinny]

And remember when someone would announce the infestation of a troll here on CF CB? It was like the whole board would go into a state of excited watchfulness and expect some moderator to immediately come to the attention of the problem.

LOL!

It was hilarious

 

[AV1611VET]

Brinny don't need no blessings.

Brinny is a blessing!

 

[brinny]

Brinny don't need no blessings.

Brinny is a blessing!

Hahahaaa!

Awwwww thanks, amigo

 

[JCFantasy23]

Just remember some veterans have been a long time accumulating blessings and some have paid actual cash for them. Upgrades... There us to be a system where you were awarded some kind of recognition for the messages posted on CF. With the top award given for those who posted 100,000 or more. Little icons were placed next to the avatar such as the gold crown for the 100,000 posters. This is a great way to encourage involvement here on the CF.

That's one thing I miss on the old forum (the crowns), but I do prefer the new software much better now that I've gotten used to it.

I understand the reasoning to help the new people out, but for the long-term members who have put years into CF and their blessings, some may see it as they are losing all their progress over the years. There's something to be said for fairness to loyalty too.

On the other hand, the blessings have been kind of pointless since the software change since we don't have the same features, so those point systems were used mainly in the old software anyway up till now.

 

[Brent W]

We should be done in an hour or so with the rebuild. I have decided to go ahead and list the things that will award you points, just not how many points you get for each. Some actions on the forum will net you more points than others. Hopefully our store will be up next week and you can begin sharing and redeeming your blessings.

 

[AV1611VET]

Thank you for all your work, Brent!

 

[Brent W]

Everything should be done now. You can see the new leader board list for Blessings here: http://www.christianforums.com/members/?type=adcredit

I have updated the first post with everything that will give you blessings. More to come!

 

[Radagast]

Why are we resetting blessings? Well, we want everyone to be on an even playing field. Why? Because now you will be able to redeem your blessings.

I wondered what had happened -- that seems rather unfair. I paid $$$ for blessings under the old system, exactly because they could be redeemed for cool stuff, as well as being given away.

It might perhaps have been friendlier to convert "old blessings" to new ones at some kind of exchange rate.

 

[Brent W]

I wondered what had happened -- that seems rather unfair. I paid $$$ for blessings under the old system, exactly because they could be redeemed for cool stuff, as well as being given away.

It might perhaps have been friendlier to convert "old blessings" to new ones at some kind of exchange rate.

Unfortunately we have no way to determine which blessings were paid for and which were not. The previous owner did not hand that information over.