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The asterisk. This five-pointed symbol has graced telephones, led our eyes to fine print, and been used as a poor man's star for years. It's a key component of comic strip cussing. It's how you get a Commodore 64 game to load (Load"*",8,1), it often accompanies Barry Bonds Home Run records, and until recently, it guided us to threads we have posted in here on Realgm.com.

I have hesitated writing this in hopes that its absence was only temporary - that perhaps the asterisk had simply caught a cold and was at home weakly sipping chicken soup. But, alas, no return. My heart is in tatters. The asterisk provided a real utilitarian task for this site and to kick it out like yesterday's punctuation is just wrong.

I strongly urge you to take steps to repatriate the asterisk. I look at the glut of threads on the board and I'm just lost. Which ones am I an active participant in? You expect me to use my memory? I write my name on my underwear so I don't forget who I am. I need the asterisk, man. Please, please bring it back.

Long live the
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I'll save howie from doing his general response.

ElectricMayhem,

Not at the moment but next time we do forum upgrades please post his in the upgrades thread and we will see what we can do.

Since this is more of an old feature that the upgrades have buggered, I imagine the Dream Team will probably look at this a little sooner, Return. They do what they can, but implementing new features, shuffling servers around, the ol' development and growth dance often breaks something as haphazard as a PHP forum when it's spread across desktop and mobile platforms. It's a credit to them that RGM is as together as it is!

But yes, I miss this feature as well, and since it's actually only been gone a few months and is existing functionality, I hope it can come back soon.

tsherkin wrote:Snip

Don't want to start a new thread about this, but I had 5 notifications that you closed inquiries into posts I'd reported in the OKC and Player Comparison forums. I didn't report any posts, so is this just a weird hiccup or should I change my password?

spearsy23 wrote:

tsherkin wrote:Snip

Don't want to start a new thread about this, but I had 5 notifications that you closed inquiries into posts I'd reported in the OKC and Player Comparison forums. I didn't report any posts, so is this just a weird hiccup or should I change my password?

In the future, you could PM me directly if you wanted to.

But I went through the PC Board logs and cleared out some old reports which had been hanging there because we forgot to close them. Some were quite old. They were all posts you'd reported, for sure (all the notifications you got, I mean, not all the ones I dealt with), but many of them were simply very old.

Thank you for answering this tsherkin.