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New Feature: CF Health!

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There is a new CF Health Bar that appears below your Reputation jewels.

It is similar to the Health that you see with CF Pets.

Does this mean you need to "buy" food to "eat"?

No. :) You need your 3 meals a day, but you do this by making 3 posts per day on average. Each post you make is like your "meal" to maintain your CF Health. If you average 3 posts per day or more, your CF Health will remain 100%. If you average 1.5 posts per day, your CF Health will be 50%. If by chance you are not very active and your Health drops to 0%, don't worry, nothing will happen. Your account won't be canceled, you won't "die". :) This is just a fun feature.

The Health percentage is not calculated each day, but is based on your total post count divided by the total number of days you have been a member. In other words, this is a graphical representation of your posts per day (as seen in your profile already) with 3 posts per day being the standard. So if you haven't post for 99 days, and make 100 posts in 1 day, you will still average 1 post per day.

You can hover your mouse over the CF Health Bar to get more information. Essentially, the more blue and less red you have in your CF Health Bar, the better.

There is an option to hide your own Health Bar in your User CP, Options, Privacy for those who do not wish to show their Health, or you may even choose to Disable All Health Bars in Threads especially if you have a slow connection in your User CP, Options, Thread Viewing.

We had this feature about 3 years ago, and recently a member suggested it. I thought it would be fun to add it back.

Please bear in mind that this feature is meant to be FUN and is not to be taken too seriously.

Enjoy!
 
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I have posted 4 times and my health is 45. According to your math, I should have a 57.14285714285714285714285714285714285714285714285714 health. (my calculator told me that, I'm not THAT smart! ;)) I personally don't like it, it then makes a person who does a lot of PMing look like they don't like CF instead they love it.

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I don't like this at all. I want to turn mine off. I don't want to see mine or anyone else's.

Sorry, but I think it's really sick to rate people's "health" based on how much they post--it will just encourage trolls like the one we had in TAW until recently, who post just to hear themselves talk and insult people and are just generally badly behaved.
 
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servant4ever said:
I have posted 4 times and my health is 45. According to your math, I should have a 57.14285714285714285714285714285714285714285714285714 health. (my calculator told me that, I'm not THAT smart! ;)) I personally don't like it, it then makes a person who does a lot of PMing look like they don't like CF instead they love it.

servant4ever
No, that's not how it works. :) If you click on your profile, it says you have posted 3.18 posts per day. It's not calculated from today - it's calculated as an average from the day you jointed. You can post 100 posts today, but if you have been here 100 days, it's an average of 1 post per day.

You can hover your mouse over the Health Bar which explains this. :)
 
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Erwin said:
No, that's not how it works. :) If you click on your profile, it says you have posted 3.18 posts per day. It's not calculated from today - it's calculated as an average from the day you jointed. You can post 100 posts today, but if you have been here 100 days, it's an average of 1 post per day.

You can hover your mouse over the Health Bar which explains this. :)
I absolutely don't like this at all. This gives a huge advantage to the people that are brand new or mods because the mods post a ton. It will take me forever to get up to an average of 7 posts a day! I have been raising my post count in the last few weeks, and my average doesn't go up that much.

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Matrona said:
I don't like this at all. I want to turn mine off. I don't want to see mine or anyone else's.

Sorry, but I think it's really sick to rate people's "health" based on how much they post--it will just encourage trolls like the one we had in TAW until recently, who post just to hear themselves talk and insult people and are just generally badly behaved.
I agree--this could encourage more disruptive posts just so people can keep their "health" up. If it is here to stay I do think we should have the option to turn it off.

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Celticflower said:
I agree--this could encourage more disruptive posts just so people can keep their "health" up. If it is here to stay I do think we should have the option to turn it off.

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There is an option to turn your Health Bar off in your User CP, Options. :)
 
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Celticflower said:
I agree--this could encourage more disruptive posts just so people can keep their "health" up. If it is here to stay I do think we should have the option to turn it off.

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I don't want to see mine or anyone else's, and I don't want anyone else to see mine. But I would like it a lot better if it was just deleted. It's slowing down CF for me on my stupid rickety old dialup.

Either I have to have this ONSLAUGHT of images or none at all?!?! Some choice that is.

I thought Erwin said he didn't want any more images in posts but then he implements this thing?!?!
 
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I agree. I hate this thing. I feel like I'm being "watched". My son has more posts than me but his "health" is less. This makes no sense.
Could it at least be optional? It's a bothersome thing to have to watch and I am quite disappointed that it has to be here
 
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Nancaroo said:
I agree. I hate this thing. I feel like I'm being "watched". My son has more posts than me but his "health" is less. This makes no sense.
Could it at least be optional? It's a bothersome thing to have to watch and I am quite disappointed that it has to be here
It's not based on the total amount of posts. If it is it would be pointless to repeat the post count. It's based on average posts per day. Hover your mouse over your Health Bar - it will explain it. For example, you make on average 30 posts a day, so your Health is higher.
 
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