Suggestion thread (plus a heads up and a question for you all). (1 Viewer)

[Andrus]

Seems we've gotten this thing pretty stable, the addons are all in place and all of the server tweaks are in, so we plan to officially launch this site next Tuesday, November 12th (EDIT to Wednesday, November 13th). In the meantime, I am open to any suggestions that you might have regarding features. If the suggestions make sense, are do-able and not overly complex I can see what I can do.

StudioSaint suggested on the other site that we add a board for those that decline to declare affiliation (conservative/moderate/liberal) and I would like to hear your thoughts on that. If you like the idea... any suggestions on what we should name that board?

My initial reaction to his suggestion was that the MCB should cover that, but then I remembered that not everyone will be suited for this MCB board due to the rather strict behavioral rules on this board... and the Mud Pit will obviously not be moderated enough. I thought that most of those that declined to commit as either conservatives or liberals would declare as moderates, but that doesn't seem to be the case, so I am open to the idea.

-Andrus

 

[Dadsdream]

I can see an argument both ways, but it creates the situation where if a user starts the thread for a common topic (say, an election tracker), then any user they're ignoring won't be able to see it which blocks them from not only seeing the ignoring user's content, but from seeing the entire topic.

Hi Rob,
Here we go again.
I wanted to post about the NBA suspending its season, so I looked for a thread in progress on the MDB about the virus.
There was none.
I couldn't see it until I searched for Coronavirus, specifically on the MDB.
Bang, there was the missing thread, 23-pages, and it even allowed me to post in it.
But, it's invisible to me as long as I'm logged in under my name.
And it's been invisible to me since its inception weeks ago.
This is wrong. I agree with what you said above.

 

[MT15]

Just changing the default setting for ignore would probably fix the problem, the default is the more severe form of ignore, and I wasn’t aware of the option until I read this thread.

 

[Dadsdream]

Hi Rob,
Here we go again.
I wanted to post about the NBA suspending its season, so I looked for a thread in progress on the MDB about the virus.
There was none.
I couldn't see it until I searched for Coronavirus, specifically on the MDB.
Bang, there was the missing thread, 23-pages, and it even allowed me to post in it.
But, it's invisible to me as long as I'm logged in under my name.
And it's been invisible to me since its inception weeks ago.
This is wrong. I agree with what you said above.

Second note - I still can't see the coronavirus thread if I'm logged in, but I can log out, go to it, log in, and then post on it!

 

[Dadsdream]

Second note - I still can't see the coronavirus thread if I'm logged in, but I can log out, go to it, log in, and then post on it!

UPDATE
Now, I can't see the coronavirus thread if I'm logged in, but I can log out and see it, but if I log in, a message says the thread does not exist.
I am totally prohibited from participating in the most popular thread on the site.
Please let me know if this is a glitch or an actual ban on participation.

 

[Humperdoo]

What is the difference between a Moderate/Independent. I think 3 is just fine. If you add another then you may have people asking for another board down the road like a Green board or even more.

Who’s gonna pay for that green board?