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I think it would be a neat idea (if easy to implement) if you could browse members by their MBTI. It would be cool to have a quick way to find out who has a type akin to your own.

Basically, would it be hard to implement into the theme/code?

i was just thinking this the other day. motion seconded.

Pheidippides @ 2:40pm, Sat Jan 11, 2009 wrote:Just a thought, would it be possible to include something on the Members page that allows you to sort by MBTI type? That would be interesting, I think.

Great minds think alike?

Pheidippides wrote:

Pheidippides @ 2:40pm, Sat Jan 11, 2009 wrote:Just a thought, would it be possible to include something on the Members page that allows you to sort by MBTI type? That would be interesting, I think.

Great minds think alike?

This would have been really cool if you guys happened to have the same MBTI.. :<

Inspired wrote:If I was really bored I would go through lists of users with 50 or more posts and compile a table. I might do it later.

What about CoffeeFreak and other important people with less than 50 posts? D:

Yeah, I think it'd be better if there was an easy way to be able to search for it, rather than manually compile a table.

maxson, you're ISTJ too?

Well, there's still the meet-and-greet method. As in, unnecessarily browse forum posts looking for matching MBTI and then incessantly annoy your match with the most pointless attempts at conversation.

Hahahaha. Hi, Pikman <3

Agreed. Should have been done back when MBTI was implemented.

this is a good idea.

Great Idea, I have no time to look through forum posts just to find MBTI types.

I'm not entirely sure if it'll be possible. Will probably require a phpBB mod, like a ton of other features which are available by default in IPB :(

Chase wrote:I'm not entirely sure if it'll be possible. Will probably require a phpBB mod, like a ton of other features which are available by default in IPB :(

Remind me why we're using phpBB then?

If I (or anyone else with sufficient knowledge) had access to the forum database temporarily, I/we could compile a list of users with their metadata. And then I could put it on my site and allow search by any field. If you wanted. It's not quite the same, though.

Also I could do it manually, but that would take fucking ages unless I wrote a bot or something.

Edit: Yeah, no. The memberlist page doesn't list certain meta, so I'd have to crawl through the profile pages of all 1600 users. That's not going to work.

Edit 2: even if I did do a bot, viewing profiles requires authentication.

Universezero wrote:

Chase wrote:I'm not entirely sure if it'll be possible. Will probably require a phpBB mod, like a ton of other features which are available by default in IPB :(

Remind me why we're using phpBB then?

phpBB - Free
IPB - $149.99

There's your answer.

MBTI search would provide a great way to estimate the number of spambots in this community. Search for ISFJ, count up the results and subtract four.

That would be cool

incluye wrote: Edit 2: even if I did do a bot, viewing profiles requires authentication.

Wouldn't that be as simple as giving it temp admin status or something?

ghoulash wrote:

incluye wrote: Edit 2: even if I did do a bot, viewing profiles requires authentication.

Wouldn't that be as simple as giving it temp admin status or something?

Yeah, but it still needs to authenticate itself as an admin, and I don't think phpBB allows IP whitelisting. AND I doubt that the staff would IP whitelist me for any stretch of time anyway.

Damn, I had always assumed this would be an easy feature to implement. Just a bit of SQL type deal.

Destiny wrote:Damn, I had always assumed this would be an easy feature to implement. Just a bit of SQL type deal.

Well, if I could get a SQL dump of the users table, it would be a pretty simple matter of listing all the users and their MBTI types on a separate archive or something. Actually that sounds like an excellent idea.

And I'm not even a web designer -.-