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Dear Admins/Mods,

Is it possible to see a more extensive list of the threads I've 'watched'? Currently, it stretches to 19 threads, particularly those that have had a recent post. During lockdown, I put certain threads on 'watch' for me to revisit at a later time. As it is, a thread that last received a post in say, April would not be in the watched tab.

Also, have you considered initiating a feature similar to threadmarks, where posts which are particularly insightful, or received vociferous praise from others can be identified from an individual thread?
For example, let's say someone made a comment in the George Floyd thread, and it received 10+ responses along the lines of ”great post”, ”+1”, ”very articulate” it would be thoroughly appreciated if I could enter a thread of that size, bearing in mind it has 200+ pages and be able to immediately go to posts which received a high reception. There's been several of those posts on that thread, at first, I was bookmarking posts, but I was overwhelmed by the frequency of the posts that I decided to go back to them at a later time, as I wanted to read every single post. That was a mistake on my part.

Many Thanks,
Rasendori
 
Rasendori said:
Dear Admins/Mods,

Is it possible to see a more extensive list of the threads I've 'watched'? Currently, it stretches to 19 threads, particularly those that have had a recent post. During lockdown, I put certain threads on 'watch' for me to revisit at a later time. As it is, a thread that last received a post in say, April would not be in the watched tab.

Also, have you considered initiating a feature similar to threadmarks, where posts which are particularly insightful, or received vociferous praise from others can be identified from an individual thread?
For example, let's say someone made a comment in the George Floyd thread, and it received 10+ responses along the lines of ”great post”, ”+1”, ”very articulate” it would be thoroughly appreciated if I could enter a thread of that size, bearing in mind it has 200+ pages and be able to immediately go to posts which received a high reception. There's been several of those posts on that thread, at first, I was bookmarking posts, but I was overwhelmed by the frequency of the posts that I decided to go back to them at a later time, as I wanted to read every single post. That was a mistake on my part.

Many Thanks,
Rasendori
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The problem with the latter suggestion is that it might lead to cliques of people 'great posting' each other. It's only my own opinion but I think the Caf has suffered from cliquey stuff in the past, and it's better now there is less of it. Just my thoughts, I'm sure many will disagree. :)
 
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711 said:
The problem with the latter suggestion is that it might lead to cliques of people 'great posting' each other. It's only my own opinion but I think the Caf has suffered from cliquey stuff in the past, and it's better now there is less of it. Just my thoughts, I'm sure many will disagree. :)
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Is my suggestion something that will be discussed, or will it be deemed an unsatisfactory proposal? In any case, I appreciate the response.

Whilst I'm oblivious to the 'cliquey stuff'' which happened in the past, I suppose I get where you're coming from with a series of 'great post' potentially being disruptive to the actual discussion. In which case, it wouldn't be an issue if people expanded on that. '+1, to add to that ...' That may not be practical to implement, but if you scratch the expansion idea, I think it could potentially lead to a higher level of posts. Those that have nuance in their posts get recognition, and the rest get exposed to messages of high quality. It may even give posters incentives to make greater efforts in their rationale, before hitting the post button. Somewhat similar to the newbie system where posters have a prerogative to make an effort.
 
Rasendori said:
Is my suggestion something that will be discussed, or will it be deemed an unsatisfactory proposal? In any case, I appreciate the response.

Whilst I'm oblivious to the 'cliquey stuff'' which happened in the past, I suppose I get where you're coming from with a series of 'great post' potentially being disruptive to the actual discussion. In which case, it wouldn't be an issue if people expanded on that. '+1, to add to that ...' That may not be practical to implement, but if you scratch the expansion idea, I think it could potentially lead to a higher level of posts. Those that have nuance in their posts get recognition, and the rest get exposed to messages of high quality. It may even give posters incentives to make greater efforts in their rationale, before hitting the post button. Somewhat similar to the newbie system where posters have a prerogative to make an effort.
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I'm not a mod, so can't answer that sorry. Just a common poster with a like button, for newbies only. :)
 
Rasendori said:
Also, have you considered initiating a feature similar to threadmarks, where posts which are particularly insightful, or received vociferous praise from others can be identified from an individual thread?
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As a general thing we've tried to avoid getting into the whole like/retweet sort of culture - but I think most of us would like to see more/better threadmarks.

At the moment they only tend to get used for the occasional milestone in a thread like a goal or an official announcement, but it's nice to use them for special posts as well - particularly for posts that add information that everyone in the thread should read (if only to stop people asking the same question or repeating the same faulty/incomplete rumours/speculation).

The trouble is that currently relies on one of the staff spotting those posts and labelling them. I personally don't think we'll be moving towards an upvote/reputation/like kind of automation, and what we certainly don't want to encourage are a series of: "+1" "agreed" "this" sort of posts to highlights the good stuff, but I'll bounce it off the other staff. Maybe someone can come up with a way to get threadmarks used better.
 
jojojo said:
As a general thing we've tried to avoid getting into the whole like/retweet sort of culture - but I think most of us would like to see more/better threadmarks.

At the moment they only tend to get used for the occasional milestone in a thread like a goal or an official announcement, but it's nice to use them for special posts as well - particularly for posts that add information that everyone in the thread should read (if only to stop people asking the same question or repeating the same faulty/incomplete rumours/speculation).

The trouble is that currently relies on one of the staff spotting those posts and labelling them. I personally don't think we'll be moving towards an upvote/reputation/like kind of automation, and what we certainly don't want to encourage are a series of: "+1" "agreed" "this" sort of posts to highlights the good stuff, but I'll bounce it off the other staff. Maybe someone can come up with a way to get threadmarks used better.
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Agreed with this. Can't see there being the stuff in bold, otherwise Niall would have had likes usable to all, but threadmarks could be utilised better - case in point, 6 threadmarks in the 2623 page Trump thread.
 
jojojo said:
As a general thing we've tried to avoid getting into the whole like/retweet sort of culture - but I think most of us would like to see more/better threadmarks.

At the moment they only tend to get used for the occasional milestone in a thread like a goal or an official announcement, but it's nice to use them for special posts as well - particularly for posts that add information that everyone in the thread should read (if only to stop people asking the same question or repeating the same faulty/incomplete rumours/speculation).

The trouble is that currently relies on one of the staff spotting those posts and labelling them. I personally don't think we'll be moving towards an upvote/reputation/like kind of automation, and what we certainly don't want to encourage are a series of: "+1" "agreed" "this" sort of posts to highlights the good stuff, but I'll bounce it off the other staff. Maybe someone can come up with a way to get threadmarks used better.
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Thanks. Yeah, more/better threadmarks is basically what I was asking for. Just to clarify, I wasn't trying to say that people should make posts like ''+1''. What I tried to say in my initial post was that a post may be particularly insightful, and not get quoted. An example being a typical post from thereddevilsadvocate . Equally, a post may be insightful and receive vociferous praise, an example of the high praise being a specific post which receives several responses in the ilk of ''+1'. Again, I'm not calling for people to make those ''agreed'' posts, I'm talking about posts which elicit that response anyway. And then someone could make the judgement if it qualifies as being identified via a threadmark or something. Essentially, I was making the suggestion if there was a way both types could be identified in a similar vein to the use of threadmarks. I used the GeorgeFloyd thread as an example, as I've personally seen a number of high quality posts, and I don't think that's reflected by just 5 threadmarks, especially a thread with 200+ pages. Now the US elections thread is a thread I just opened for the first time, to look at the threadmarks. 700+ pages and 1 threadmark. I'd imagine the thread has had numerous posts of high quality.
 
jojojo said:
Variants of the reply panel bug are currently being reported on a number of Xenforo sites and some non-XF ones. It's believed to have arrived in an update to Chrome Android (85.) and it's already been logged as a bug report with Chrome's developers.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1121179
That group suggest there's a patch/update in progress/under test.

Meanwhile other browsers (including Firefox and Edge) are still working ok on Android.

If you don't want to switch browser then apparently what you can do for now is switch to the BB code editor rather than the rich text editor. Not great but better than nothing?
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Edgar Allan Pillow said:
What order are search results displayed in?I thought it was latest first, but seems not.
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Default seems to be that it's ordered by relevance (which throws up some quite random results at times) but if you go to advanced search instead and scroll to the bottom you can select it to be ordered by date instead. Handier if you're looking for something that you know has been discussed quite recently.
 
Rasendori said:
Kindly ban me for 1 year.
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Yagami said:
Noooooo
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Desert Eagle said:
why'd you close the doom and gloom thread?
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Without looking, my assumption is the thread is like literally every other intended positive/negative-only thread in that people of the opposite viewpoint still post and they end up in a slanging match that could just go in any of the other discussion threads.
 
Damien said:
Without looking, my assumption is the thread is like literally every other intended positive/negative-only thread in that people of the opposite viewpoint still post and they end up in a slanging match that could just go in any of the other discussion threads.
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fair enough maybe a post in the thread before closing from a mod would be more ideal.
 
Should we not ban the practice of people posting the word cnut?

There’s enough vitriol going around at the moment, it might be nice to calm things down. I don’t see why this is a practice we should support. I’ve potentially done it myself, but I see it so often that “player such and such is a cnut”, I personally don’t think it’s something we need and it should be banned?
 
I just want to know if the Book thread has an easier way to find it when a person is either sober or drunk? I've tried both! Bút find it a pain when you just want to see what others are reading.
Slap me down if it's obvious, but it's a pain to me so it may be to others?
 
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