Moog
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 Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:22 pm Post subject: Site Suggestions |
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There's no guarantee that suggestions will be implemented by alex, but it makes sense to me to create a unified thread in which to put site improvement suggestions. It's less likely to be lost off the bottom of the page for ever if you post it here.
AFAIK alex is still intending to upgrade the software and forum at some point.
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Moog
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Personally I'd like to install some floatation tanks. 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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I would personally suggest a report button and an online list.
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anna-banana
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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how about upvote/downvote options on posts? it seems to be working quite well on reddit.
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Mdyar
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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ye olde software was glitchin' again yesterday. No log in.
I'm' curious how many patches can she take before a complete overhaul?
Tombstone technology here-- fix it when broken ?
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League_Girl
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| No one can send PMs until they have a certain number of posts. That way it will prevent spam bots. |
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Surfman
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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Thats a good one
Limit thread starts to 1 per day, or 10 per week or something
Consider an exclusive area for those less fortunate, who feel depressed, around the wizz kids, romance and witty banter
Limit 1 membership account per computer, to prevent users trolling with dual or more memberships. Maybe have dispensation for couples/families |
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Cornflake
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:32 am Post subject: |
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| Surfman wrote: | | Consider an exclusive area for those less fortunate, who feel depressed, around the wizz kids, romance and witty banter |
Already exists as "The Haven" here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/forum23.html
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jackbus01
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| League_Girl wrote: | | No one can send PMs until they have a certain number of posts. That way it will prevent spam bots. |
Excellent idea, why isn't this already done. |
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Cornflake
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| jackbus01 wrote: | | League_Girl wrote: | | No one can send PMs until they have a certain number of posts. That way it will prevent spam bots. |
Excellent idea, why isn't this already done. |
It's not implemented in the current version of the forum software, never mind the earlier version WP uses so it would need to be specifically hand-coded. This is more of a developer/administrator activity and not something moderators would be able to do.
An alternative approach might be to implement "groups" (guests, newly-registered users, users) and only grant PM rights to "users" - but this functionality would also need to be implemented by an administrator.
But even if implemented, on a high-turnover site like WP it would also mean quite a lot of additional work keeping track of users' membership status and readjusting as appropriate - and it may not be possible without additional hand-coding to grant those "adjustment" rights to a moderator.
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Surfman
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Cornflake wrote: | | Surfman wrote: | | Consider an exclusive area for those less fortunate, who feel depressed, around the wizz kids, romance and witty banter |
Already exists as "The Haven" here: http://www.wrongplanet.net/forum23.html |
okay....so lower functioning aspies should hang out with the depressed and suicidal aspies? Does not sound very nice to me! |
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Surfman
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:35 pm Post subject: Female sensibilities |
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The male ish moderating could be softened in a beneficial way, by the employment of more women such as Hyperlexian
WP is too male as it is, and women do a better job, thanks to their female sensibilities and empathy
It appears at times the male WP workers.... use WP for their own ends, male ego and social status.
There is no substitute for a good womans love, in a crazy male dominated world 
As most WP members are young/teenage and male, site/member dealings with employed males would have less chance for smoothness, compared with dealings with a female authority figure......
mama mia!
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Moog
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Female sensibilities |
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| Surfman wrote: | The male ish moderating could be softened in a beneficial way, by the employment of more women such as Hyperlexian
WP is too male as it is, and women do a better job, thanks to their female sensibilities and empathy
It appears at times the male WP workers.... us WP for their own ends, male ego and social status.
There is no substitute for a good womans love, in a crazy male dominated world
As most WP members are young/teenage and male, site/member dealings with employed males would have less chance for smoothness, compared with dealings with a female authority figure......
mama mia! |
Wow, It's like the 1950's up in here
Maybe hyper can fix us some dinner, tuck in the babies and do the washing up while the mod boys are (apparently) waggling our e-peens around and being men. Tsk!
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Lord Badgerchops
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:50 pm Post subject: Re: Female sensibilities |
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| Moog wrote: | | Surfman wrote: | The male ish moderating could be softened in a beneficial way, by the employment of more women such as Hyperlexian
WP is too male as it is, and women do a better job, thanks to their female sensibilities and empathy
It appears at times the male WP workers.... us WP for their own ends, male ego and social status.
There is no substitute for a good womans love, in a crazy male dominated world
As most WP members are young/teenage and male, site/member dealings with employed males would have less chance for smoothness, compared with dealings with a female authority figure......
mama mia! |
Wow, It's like the 1950's up in here
Maybe hyper can fix us some dinner, tuck in the babies and do the washing up while the mod boys are (apparently) waggling our e-peens around and being men. Tsk! |
I agree, its 2011, not 1955.
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Fnord
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| Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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The ability for mods to merge or split threads. Merging would reduce the instances of duplicated thread topics, such as the recent threads on oxytocin. Splitting threads would allow for when divergent topics develop in the same thread.
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