Tasuki wrote:

@Victoria: According to Ant they got rid of them because it cause some problems with the fact that people knew where other posters were from. For instance people would make assumptions about people cause where they were from. So basically to make sure there was no problems due to that they got rid of the flags.

If you are really curious about where people are from you can also click on the persons avatar and it will tell you where they are from.

From the news article about the changes:

#162

antdickens said:

@VintageBoy we wanted to give everyone a level playing field, we've noticed that since the introduction of the flags people can pre-judge someone's comments based on where they are from - in a negative way, for example users from smaller countries often get ignored straight away - so to remove this prejudice we've removed the flags. Hopefully people can understand why!

Squiggle55 wrote:

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, powers that be, but my honest assumption is that the old website template had the flags built in and it would be a hassle trying to figure out how to add them in to this new template.

zezhyrule wrote:

Squiggle55 wrote:

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, powers that be, but my honest assumption is that the old website template had the flags built in and it would be a hassle trying to figure out how to add them in to this new template.

Ant clearly stated the reason that they removed the flags.

Squiggle55 wrote:

I know I followed the post about the website changes very carefully. I'm just stating my opinion that it seemed like a reason developed after the fact.

theblackdragon wrote:

Squiggle55 wrote:

I know I followed the post about the website changes very carefully. I'm just stating my opinion that it seemed like a reason developed after the fact.

just FYI, implying that Ant's a liar isn't really the smartest move ever :3

Squiggle55 wrote:

hey, i love all of you and your work. I don't mean any offense. All I'm saying is that I don't think there is a turn on/turn off flags button.

James wrote:

Squiggle55 wrote:

hey, i love all of you and your work. I don't mean any offense. All I'm saying is that I don't think there is a turn on/turn off flags button.

Ant coded this site almost single-handedly. If he wanted to code the flags in, you better believe he could do it

SkywardLink98 wrote:

A thumbs up bar.

theblackdragon wrote:

Knock it off with the frowny-face, Mac — the reason we don't have them here yet is because the forums haven't yet been upgraded. Patience, please. :3

theblackdragon wrote:

There was a bit of back-end stuff that got upgraded along with the profiles and visual revamp, i think, but no — we're still waiting on changes to the forums.

SkywardLink98 wrote:

A thumbs up bar.

theblackdragon wrote:

while you're in here, Mac, I must say i like how you said you'd like to see users unable to change their own names (due to confusion) when you asked for and received a name-change yourself just the other day (and are probably already confusing people, lol). People are going to be confused no matter what — the only possible way to go about it is to not allow username changes at all if we really wanted to put an end to it. :3

Order-Sol wrote:

theblackdragon wrote:

while you're in here, Mac, I must say i like how you said you'd like to see users unable to change their own names (due to confusion) when you asked for and received a name-change yourself just the other day (and are probably already confusing people, lol). People are going to be confused no matter what — the only possible way to go about it is to not allow username changes at all if we really wanted to put an end to it. :3

Yeah, changing the name wasn't my best idea - I keep confusing myself! (who's this order-sol who keeps posting in my threads?!) If anything, that's what brought it up. If we go through the mods, it's less likely and at least confusion is reduced. I know you guys set it up this way because too many people were asking for name changes, but now I feel it's too frequent. I left here for a week once, and when I came back, I felt like I was in another forum or something. Some people have gone through 6 or more different names, and I'm bad enough with names as it is!