Hi all,
Firstly I would like to thank the tireless efforts of all the moderators and site administrators. Without you NANO wouldn't exist and your efforts are appreciated :)
I do, however, have a few forum enhancement suggestions that might make life a little easier for all involved.
1. Have the page numbers on the top and bottom of the threads. That way we don't have to scroll down just to jump to another page
2. On each of the subforms homepage:
- Have something that highligths what threads you have posted in
- Have a link in the last reply column that takes you to the last page/response in each thread. This way we wouldn't have to always load the first page of a thread. It would make it moere convenient for users who want to directly jump to the last page, plus would help reduce server load because there would be less unnecessary page views.
3. Ability to delete your own thread, but only if there have been no responses. During the mayhem that was the first couple of days on the forums there were a lot of duplicate and triplicate threads being created. Being able to go back and delete unnecessary duplications would save reader confusion and reduce the amount of work that mods have to do
4. I am not sure if it's just me or not but I don't seem to be able to edit the first / opening posts in my threads. Is there a reason for this?
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2006 - Leaving Mirtan (Winner)
2009 - One Day at a Time
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Nov 6, 2009 - 20 07
1) This has already been requested.
2.)
-This isn't a bad idea.
-This has already been requested.
3) I'd certainly like this. ;) Lord knows, it would save me a lot of work.
4) This has been disabled for regular users. We have a preview button for those who would like to check their posts before posting, and we recommend they use it. Editing is also disabled for any comments that have been replied to. We don't want people to be able to create posts and then change them to something else.
Once upon a time, it was set to where posts were editable for one hour or they got their first reply, whichever came first. This would be nice to have again, but that was the old software, and I imagine such a thing is low, low on the priority list. Le sigh.
----------Heather Dudley
Forums Moderator
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A Dragon Writes
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Nov 7, 2009 - 08 33
Once upon a time, it was set to where posts were editable for one hour or they got their first reply, whichever came first. This would be nice to have again, but that was the old software, and I imagine such a thing is low, low on the priority list. Le sigh.
Have there been many cases where people have abused this power? It is extremely useful to be able to
I think that it either should be on for everyone but disable-able if they abuse it OR there should be a class of trusted posters that aren't MLs who could be given this power.
--Tim
----------Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
co-ML, Illinois::Naperville
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Writing resources
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Nov 7, 2009 - 08 42
Many cases? No.
Pernicious and huge? Yes.
Unfortunately writers are a clever lot and we had some that were so clever that they could go back into their posts in a flame war and tweak them in just such a way that everyone else looked really, really bad. And I'd say that it was just one person and you'd be right to think that it should just be something simple we can take away ... unfortunately we had several huge cases over several years. (This may account for why you see some very experienced wrimos who will use quote a lot, as it's a solid way to document what the user said.)
I don't think it's a bad thing that participants commit to what they're posting. But I do agree that being able to edit for a short period of time is desirable. (The ning system does, and actually has a countdown clock when you revisit the post to tell you that it can still be edited.) Having granular controls that give some users more abilities would be great. And supposedly the system does do that ... but as we know, not all things work as advertised around here.
----------NaNoWriMo & ScriptFrenzy Staff