I would like to be able to see what the last time was that a user logged in, as we can now. I don't remember seeing this feature on vBulletin forums. It is a helpful feature for the FS/T forum.
Absolutely NO to deleting your posts. Perhaps locking or moving posts, but there needs to be very strict regulation on this!
Yes!
If inline pics are enabled, file size needs to be regulated, and I like the idea of using javascript to see the picture only when you click on a small link. Obviously filtering needs to be in place.
inline images should be an option. If you leave it unchecked, images will simply appear as links.
A photo album for each user is not realistic. There are almost 200,000 registered members (Granted - not all are active) on the forum. Even if each user was allotted 10mb's for that photo album, that is already 2TB of data, not counting EVERYTHING else.
Agree
NO REP SYSTEM. All that will happen is that it will become a pissing contest to see who can get the highest or lowest rep.
Yes! A rep system would be awful.
No ebucks or any of all these other things that you build up points and buy.
Also awful
Working code parameters (It is aggravating to have HTML parse through code for an array and make everything italic or bold or something).
Yes!
No custom avatars and no pictures in sig. Allow custom sigs the way they are - I don't need a person's entire photo album popping up every time I open a thread.
Yep
I really like the plugin that was mentioned earlier that combines posts inside a certain time span - great for bumps and what not.
Agree
If there are more smileys - please, please, please not the animated ones. I hate seeing the smiley army walking around in a post all the time.
Agree
Perhaps some benefit for Elite Members and Lifers - but I don't like the idea of "prizes" for posting a ton of stuff.
Meh
No ignoring users; however, ignoring certain forums is a good idea.
Agreed
A lock on the L&R forum or a sub-forum of L&R. There are some pretty explicit threads in there that young children who might post here have no business seeing. Request permission from a moderator for access to that particular sub-forum. Everything outside of that forum must be kept clean.
No way. The mods already lock things that are too ridiculous. There's nothing int here that "young children" (>13) haven't already heard about or thought about.
I was a big fan of the word censoring - though that is not everyone's slice of cake. Don't block the words, but use asterisks or something in place. It just makes it nicer to read a post where, although someone may be pissed, I don't have to read through the dictionary of curse words to figure out what they are saying.
Make it an option, just like inline images.
Keep the forum professional looking above all! AT forums are a great place to not only hang out and talk about whatever is on your mind, but a great place to learn - lets keep it that way!
By far the most important thing. I keep coming back to this place because the look is clean and there aren't 10,000 custom animated avatars and images in people's signatures. The color schemes are nice and, generally, Anandtech is one of the more professional feeling forums on the internet.
Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Absolutely NO to deleting your posts. Perhaps locking or moving posts, but there needs to be very strict regulation on this!
Yes!
If inline pics are enabled, file size needs to be regulated, and I like the idea of using javascript to see the picture only when you click on a small link. Obviously filtering needs to be in place.
inline images should be an option. If you leave it unchecked, images will simply appear as links.
A photo album for each user is not realistic. There are almost 200,000 registered members (Granted - not all are active) on the forum. Even if each user was allotted 10mb's for that photo album, that is already 2TB of data, not counting EVERYTHING else.
Agree
NO REP SYSTEM. All that will happen is that it will become a pissing contest to see who can get the highest or lowest rep.
Yes! A rep system would be awful.
No ebucks or any of all these other things that you build up points and buy.
Also awful
Working code parameters (It is aggravating to have HTML parse through code for an array and make everything italic or bold or something).
Yes!
No custom avatars and no pictures in sig. Allow custom sigs the way they are - I don't need a person's entire photo album popping up every time I open a thread.
Yep
I really like the plugin that was mentioned earlier that combines posts inside a certain time span - great for bumps and what not.
Agree
If there are more smileys - please, please, please not the animated ones. I hate seeing the smiley army walking around in a post all the time.
Agree
Perhaps some benefit for Elite Members and Lifers - but I don't like the idea of "prizes" for posting a ton of stuff.
Meh
No ignoring users; however, ignoring certain forums is a good idea.
Agreed
A lock on the L&R forum or a sub-forum of L&R. There are some pretty explicit threads in there that young children who might post here have no business seeing. Request permission from a moderator for access to that particular sub-forum. Everything outside of that forum must be kept clean.
No way. The mods already lock things that are too ridiculous. There's nothing int here that "young children" (>13) haven't already heard about or thought about.
I was a big fan of the word censoring - though that is not everyone's slice of cake. Don't block the words, but use asterisks or something in place. It just makes it nicer to read a post where, although someone may be pissed, I don't have to read through the dictionary of curse words to figure out what they are saying.
Make it an option, just like inline images.
Keep the forum professional looking above all! AT forums are a great place to not only hang out and talk about whatever is on your mind, but a great place to learn - lets keep it that way!
By far the most important thing. I keep coming back to this place because the look is clean and there aren't 10,000 custom animated avatars and images in people's signatures. The color schemes are nice and, generally, Anandtech is one of the more professional feeling forums on the internet.
My only additional recommendation would be to echo another idea. I'd love to have a "best of" subsection where users could vote for the best threads. It would give more continuity to the life of the forum.
I'd also like to see a thread somewhere where the mods post what they've done. When they ban a member or issue vacations, it would be nice to see a brief description of the offense and how long people are going to be gone for. That will eliminate a lot of the "did xyz get banned?!!?!?" threads.
Originally posted by: Rudy Toody
A feature that is really needed on the DC forum is the ability to create and display tables for the stats to keep the columns aligned.
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Probably not possible but I really liked the idea of thread tags/labels instead of subforums/categories. For instance, you can post a thread seeking guidance on how to overclock your X CPU on a Y motherboard and what heatsink would be best and have it appear in the CPU/Motherboard/Cases & Cooling forums. Since a lot of people only seem to dwell in a select few forums, that would get a thread far more coverage.
I think Barack Obama once posted a link to such a forum and it looked pretty neat.
Could have pretty useful implications: like a thread tagged both Hot Deals as well as Off Topic (for more exposure if it warrants it). Or maybe a PC game issue that might be related to both the Video Card driver and/or a OS issue.
Is this something that can be 'added on' or would require the forum software to be built from the ground up to support it?
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Probably not possible but I really liked the idea of thread tags/labels instead of subforums/categories. For instance, you can post a thread seeking guidance on how to overclock your X CPU on a Y motherboard and what heatsink would be best and have it appear in the CPU/Motherboard/Cases & Cooling forums. Since a lot of people only seem to dwell in a select few forums, that would get a thread far more coverage.
I think Barack Obama once posted a link to such a forum and it looked pretty neat.
Could have pretty useful implications: like a thread tagged both Hot Deals as well as Off Topic (for more exposure if it warrants it). Or maybe a PC game issue that might be related to both the Video Card driver and/or a OS issue.
Is this something that can be 'added on' or would require the forum software to be built from the ground up to support it?
Yep this is a great idea, the forum I posted before was:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=80
Does anybody know any plugins that can do this?
Because this will solve the whole too many subforums debate!!
Originally posted by: chronodekar
Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Originally posted by: theprodigalrebel
Probably not possible but I really liked the idea of thread tags/labels instead of subforums/categories. For instance, you can post a thread seeking guidance on how to overclock your X CPU on a Y motherboard and what heatsink would be best and have it appear in the CPU/Motherboard/Cases & Cooling forums. Since a lot of people only seem to dwell in a select few forums, that would get a thread far more coverage.
I think Barack Obama once posted a link to such a forum and it looked pretty neat.
Could have pretty useful implications: like a thread tagged both Hot Deals as well as Off Topic (for more exposure if it warrants it). Or maybe a PC game issue that might be related to both the Video Card driver and/or a OS issue.
Is this something that can be 'added on' or would require the forum software to be built from the ground up to support it?
Yep this is a great idea, the forum I posted before was:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=80
Does anybody know any plugins that can do this?
Because this will solve the whole too many subforums debate!!
I never knew we could 'tag' a thread. I do it with my bookmarks, and I know how wonderful a feature this is. I support this as well.
Originally posted by: Pegun
A couple things I'd like to suggest:
-A flag option to automatically ask the mods of a given forum to review something. I'm not sure if its a built in feature but to flag and relay a comment as to why it was flagged would make it so that users might consider policing forums themselves anonymously (False flags result in bans by that person, specific requirements for flagging)
-In the title bar, I'd like to see the OP's user name. It would make following the topic a little bit easier.
-iTrader 2.0.1 looks like an interesting plugin to have AT have their own rating system rather than relying solely on heat
-There seems to be a plugin for earning points towards contests and such. I know AT tried this a while ago and it didn't really work out so it was discontinued.
Originally posted by: QurazyQuisp
If I write a plugin that turns all of our posts in to Harcadio posts, can we have it installed? For example, any time anyone starts a word with h, the h is removed. So, "here" would be changed to 'ere.
Originally posted by: shortylickens
I also have to agree that Fusetalks PM system is far superior to everyone elses. We need to keep it.
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
You know I absolutely love the current forums. I wish you guys wouldn't change.
If it has to go I'd say what I like most is the quick navigation using the left sidebar. Second thing I like is how compact everything is...hard to say what I mean...vBulletin wastes a lot of vertical space, FT and AT's current setup does not.
I also love being able to browse the entire thread (without having to click next for pages).
Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
Originally posted by: shortylickens
I also have to agree that Fusetalks PM system is far superior to everyone elses. We need to keep it.
You mean how if you start a PM conversation you can NEVER find the first PM in the Sent folder? Face it, FT is broken. For the love of God, mods, don't carry over any bugs (if that's even possible).
Originally posted by: soccerballtux
You know I absolutely love the current forums. I wish you guys wouldn't change.
If it has to go I'd say what I like most is the quick navigation using the left sidebar. Second thing I like is how compact everything is...hard to say what I mean...vBulletin wastes a lot of vertical space, FT and AT's current setup does not.
I also love being able to browse the entire thread (without having to click next for pages).
People are only up in arms over vBulletin wasting vertical space, it's hilarious how they forget that FT wastes a LOT of horizontal space, especially on a widescreen (about 25%). If you do add a left pane navigation thingy, please make it optional, I hate how much space it permanently wastes on the left half of my screen once I've scrolled past the first two or three posts...