Official Request Thread

[Fyron]

Originally Posted by Annette

Please ask a moderator to delete your threads, and they'll be happy to do so.

In my opinion, that is quite lame. Why increase the burden on moderators unnecessarily? Most forums in my experience allow one to delete mistaken threads as a matter of course... Surely the option would be subject to the same 30 minute (?) rule on post edits, and would be disabled if there are any replies.

[Annette]

Originally Posted by Fyron

In my opinion, that is quite lame. Why increase the burden on moderators unnecessarily? Most forums in my experience allow one to delete mistaken threads as a matter of course... Surely the option would be subject to the same 30 minute (?) rule on post edits, and would be disabled if there are any replies.

I agree it's a pain in the butt and I, too, wish it wasn't necessary. Based on past experience, though, this setting will save the moderators time and headaches when fights occur. The reasoning is it's much easier to delete threads than it is to moderate a complaint when evidence has disappeared. If you send me a pm with links to the threads, I'll be happy to delete them.

[Fyron]

Originally Posted by Annette

I agree it's a pain in the butt and I, too, wish it wasn't necessary. Based on past experience, though, this setting will save the moderators time and headaches when fights occur. The reasoning is it's much easier to delete threads than it is to moderate a complaint when evidence has disappeared.

Aye. And that's why it shouldn't let one delete a thread that has been replied to (aside from moderators), just threads with only the first post in them (up to the normal editing time limit).

In a fight situation, someone might post a nasty thread, then think better of it and want to delete it. As it is, they can edit out the text, but it still leaves a thread clogging the boards. Of course, if they want to delete it after some flaming went on to cover up the evidence, they should be stymied, same idea as the 30 minute edit rule.

If you send me a pm with links to the threads, I'll be happy to delete them.

Somebody had already taken care of it.

Originally Posted by Annette

There is a "top" link at the bottom of each page. Not sure what we can do about adding one to the bottom of each post...

I'd recommend against adding one to each post... Posts are already horribly cluttered with useless cruft as it is. If anything, they could stand to go on an IM and silly progress bars diet! All that really needs to be there is the avatar, edit/quote buttons, who posted it, and when (eg: SEnet's boards). Everything else just makes the task of reading posts more annoying by increasing wasted space and emergent scrolling. If one wishes to look up all the extra info, its just a profile click away!

[Azselendor]

I'm wondering if anything can be done to trim down on the social networking bookmarks chicklets. Many of these sites I've never heard of.

[Mindi]

We added the option for those people who don't use social bookmarking to turn off this bar.

UserCP-->Edit Options-->Thread Viewing-->Enable Social Bookmarks yes/no

[Fyron]

Yeah, but I think he was meaning that the sites that are used by 6 people world-wide could be trimmed out, leaving only the more popular sites that people might actually be willing to submit threads to (digg, reddit, etc.). As it is, they are lost in the flood of nobodies, hard to pick out. There is probably little incentive for even those inclined to click on such a social bookmark to dig out the ones they'd want to use.

[Azselendor]

You beat me to it. Chicklets are something where less is more.

[Edi]

I have a couple of requests:

1) Could we get a fairly easily accessible link for "Mark all topics read" so that it flags everything as having been read in the forum you're in? That would come in real handy quite often.

2) Could some kind of script be run that went through the posts of all forums and replaced

<_ul type="square"_>

with

[list]

?
(you just need to remove the underscores, or else the text doesn't show even inside code tags)

Because right now the beginning of the list code from the old forums did not translate correctly even though the end of the list code did. It screws up the formatting completely and makes all lists unreadable. I've had to go and fix the Dom3 forum lists by hand (the important ones anyway), but running a script that did the edit mentioned above would fix the problem forum wide.

EDIT: This is what I'm talking about.

[Mindi]

For number 1, this already exists. To mark all forums read, please see the quick link tab in the tool bar. To mark the forum you are in as read, please see forum tools which is at the top right of the forum you are in.

For number 2, we still have some code that we are auditing from the conversion, but thanks for the reminder on list tags.