I think you are playing with a mod, because quake doesn't have reloading or cocking weapons 

hi kaisersozeh, thanks for asking.

Your question about weapon animations could go in Modelling Help or Coding Help. I think it's probably more Coding Help becuase you want to use existing animation frames with new functionality. 

For the love of god can you please get one of your func_minions to spend 5 minutes make modding help and coding help into sticky threads, it would be, errr, helpful for people with specific questions that way. 

 

Right, thanks for reminding me 

 

It's long overdue. 

 

It would be nice to remove the spam replies from the new replies counter in the forum index. This way we won't end up opening old threads just to find a "2 posts not shown on this page because they were spam" message.

A way to implement it would be to check the new replies from newest to oldest, and eliminate the "new replies" indicator if all of them are spam. 

mankrip, I agree. Right now the way it works is, each user x thread has a "last seen postnum", and then that gets compared to the "last postnum" for that thread, and the difference is the number of new posts. It's efficient but relies on cached data. To extend this system I could update last post num every time spam is flagged, which would at least eliminate the case you describe (all new posts are spam.) But the count could be wrong.

Last fall i spent some time writing new SQL queries that dynamically counted new posts excluding spam. It has some other nice features like ignoring posts from before you registered your account. The only issue with it is the performance -- 200ms vs. 0.7ms for the old query. Which is why they haven't gone live yet. 

And stop anon posting outside GA. 

"Site Help" should also have anon posting enabled. 

99% To stir up shit and abuse people.
1% To say something worthwhile.

Yeah let's all pander to the 1%.

Glad you chaps aren't politicians! 

When func was literally the only place to have quality interaction with quality quake people, the rules could be a bit more slack, because really, where else could you go?

Now, func has been squeezed to near irrelevance by two discord channels - #TF for the anything-goes matey banter and jovial pisstaking, and #QM for serious mapping chat.

Previously, func fulfilled both these roles, but now it really has no use beyond giving a voice to the very small number of people who for whatever reason aren't on discord, and also for the occasional map release post or event announcement (both of which are usually just cross-posted from discord anyway).

So, the spam and shitposting is starting to dominate here, in the absence of quality posting, and therefore I think we probably need to be a little more moderated. 

#TF is also for serious mapping chat with some great discussions about the subject and various mapping help / promotion sub-forums.

Other than that, yes cleaning up anon stuff here would help. 

So, the spam and shitposting is starting to dominate here, in the absence of quality posting

Is not the issue this, the lack of normal posting, more than the spam from anons? Right now, outside of releases most posting is about people falling for trolls (both anons and users) or advertising them about what they do on Discord than on actual spam or much less anon or worthwhile posting.
Apart that there has been more trolling from users than from anons, both before and after non-IP posting was allowed.

Due to Discord and its popularity in general i doubt we will regain back posting to levels of years ago same as how Discord and Facebook has taken users from many websites and forums, but we could recover a good chunk of users if we discuss the actual issue instead of blaming anons. How many discussions do we need about this? We had some already in this year for nothing. 

Anon shitposting is used to fan the flames of arguments between normal posters, prolonging nasty arguments between normal posters (e.g. you can see that the latest mfx/otp beef has been embellished and enhanced with some strategically applied anonery, giving the whole thing more oxygen.)

The other use for anon posting is spam.

The actual, valid anon posts that are not shitposts or spam are so rare that I don't think there can be any defence of the anon posting feature. It has been suggested by myself and others that perhaps allowing anon posting only in GA would quarantine the problem to that one thread, whilst also preserving an outlet for the 0.000001% of anon posting cases where an anon who is not a spammer or a shitposter has to post something really important otherwise the world will literally explode or whatever.

I'm not trying to make func suddenly incredibly active again, that's for a totally different discussion and it's not the purpose of this idea -I'm just saying here's a really simple way to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.

#TF is also for serious mapping chat with some great discussions about the subject and various mapping help / promotion sub-forums.

Yes I agree shums, sorry if it looked like I was saying otherwise. 

I am saying that the problem is on the signal, there is not enough, and the discussion about improving the place is getting distracted with a part of the noise.

On the noise, while i think the otp/mfx thing was done mainly between them, there was more than enough support to it through members to not blame its continuity on anons, even less counting that there was at least two decent anons, from memory, on that part. More importantly, the ball is always on our side for falling to not follow the basic Internet rule of not feed the troll, be it anon or not.