Is there any way to archive a member's posts?  When I want to Archive a specific thread it is easy because I can just hit the print button and it gives it all in one nice long page.  But when we are talking about the posts of a particular member I havent found a good way to do it yet.  It has crosses my mind before to back up my own posts, because Ive had theories in threads that eventually get deleted, but have wanted to look back at them to see how accurate they turned out to be.  And when we loose a member, it seems like it would be a nice thing to do, even if it is not useful for anything specific. 

Would it be possible/easy to add the "Posts per day" stat to the member listing so that we can sort/rank by them?  Im pretty sure Cenwolfgirl is blowing most of us out of the water (95.6/day at the time of this post), but Id be curious to see what the overall stats look like without having to investigate individual profiles

Just a thought

So this is something Ive been kicking around for a while.  I want to make a Monarchy that works for the long haul, one that has checks and balances to avoid the typical pitfalls.  I like the monarchy idea in the sense that a single person who is trained and molded from birth to be a Leader could potentially be far better prepared to actually Lead a nation than any ladder climbing elected official you could find. 

I have a basic Medieval fantasy setting, high magic (ie. its common enough to be used in everyday life, with the occasional significant Artifact).  The MC is a crown prince, heir to the throne, and is about to set out on a traditional Pilgrimage to gain training in each of the Six and One Circles (6 schools of magic, plus those that master the Body ie. martial arts).  This is supposed to determine which school he is most suited to learn, as well as theoretically grant him insight and exposure into the People he will one day rule.  Political power is feudal, built around a few Major Houses and many more Minor Houses.  Each school is organized into its own Guild (with its own internal structure) but each has single Leader that is considered the most powerful of that school. 

So how would you balance a Monarchy to prevent future corruption?


I figure the three archetypal pitfalls are:
a) a Tyrant King, one who loves the Power for Itself and ignores the Responsibility
b) a Puppet King, one who bows to political pressures, or parrots the orders of another interest rather than Leading in his own right
c) a Reluctant King, one who has been made king against his will

Some thoughts Ive had so far:
A Constitution:  a charter document/treaty that sets up the framework.  This is what establishes the Rule of Law in the land.  But there needs to be some binding reason for all the houses to play by the rules.  Expecting the houses to keep each other in line only lasts until enough band together against it. A past Tragedy only lasts as long as the memory is fresh.   A Common Enemy could work. 

Trials:   The idea is that Heredity is not enough, a future King must prove himself powerful enough in one of the Circles to defend the Land. I figure each of the Major Houses will be able to put forward a Candidate as well as the Prime candidate chosen by the Current King.  The King's Heir would get priority, and the others would be considered if he fails the Trials.  Or maybe he has to defeat them all as one of the trials, to prove directly that they are the most powerful?

Training:  I had thought of adding a Secret Society whose duty is to train and prepare the candidates, but they would need to be totally devoted to their Duty of preparing Leaders.  They'd need to have absolutely no personal ambitions, or be innately incapable of taking power.  Otherwise they could eventually grasp for power themselves and become the worst Puppet-masters.  Perhaps an intelligent artifact or spirit guide of some kind?

Ive come across this issue a few times.  If your login settings are set to not keep you logged in permanently (its a work computer in my case), it will often log you out while you are typing a post, particularly if its long or you are checking references or something.  Then, if you click either Preview or Post, it will take you to the login screen to log back in.  When you do it will then return you to a blank Start New Topic thread in whatever board you were posting it, rather than returning you to the thread you started from, and any text in the post in progress is lost.  This gets particularly frustrating since it mostly occurs on posts that I've spent a lot of time on, and thus will have difficulty recreating.

I had a long analysis of the uses of the word "seems" but the world may never know the wisdom i was to bestow, for my lunch break is now over... 

First noticed here:

So Ammoracchius is 

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Excalibur

Esperacchius is 

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Durendal

Fidelacchius is

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Kusanagi

Any Thoughts?

Thought one: Use Spoiler Tags!

EDIT:  Sorry, didn't think I needed them with the Spoiler warning in the title.

Ive got a wipp (Work In Perpetual Progress) going and was looking for some general help.  

The question of the hour is this:   What different forms of power are there in the world?  Power in this sense is anything that lets you impose you will on the world around you.  These are what I came up with, anything else you can think of?

Physical - "Im stronger than you."  A primary basis for power in more feudal times.  
Financial - The gold standard of power. Literally.
Technological - "I have better stuff than you" (weapons, tech, etc)
Information - "I know something you don't know."
Social - Power based on others who will listen to you.  Could be political, business, general fame, etc.

Deceit - power through convincing falsehood (Thanks Vryce)
Destruction - Power over things via the ability to destroy them. 

Can you make it so that the "Don't Show Avatar's" preference option hides my avatar at the top of the screen?

I use the "Don't Show Avatar's" option, which keeps the screen looking more subtle while Im at work.  But I also use the New Replies and Unread Post links at the top of the screen, so I can't simply hide it.