ideas for our Forum's future

[Project Willow]

So anyway you look at it, autoloading off-site content into a post by any means is probably a no-go area. Goes back to why we can't let folks post flash objects or custom javascript, etc.

Yep. Facebook is its own beast, there is the collaborative element which we cannot emulate.

[justdrew]

Not having a smartphone, I'm not too troubled

I assume it works fine now on slates/tablets right?

[Occult Means Hidden]

A site wiki would be amazing, if we all chipped in.

[semper occultus]

...well you're all wrong basically..."likes" are a worthy if inevitably limited & somewhat rough-and-ready innovation in the cause of bringing some informational order out of the heaving ocean of chaotic data on the site...the Boston bombing thread is now 154 pages long & all but inpenetrable to someone short of reading it all through from page 1 - being able to view or order the thread by "like" ranking would at least give some means of sifting the posts & taking the temperature of the community view on the subject...

[DrVolin]

being able to view or order the thread by "like" ranking would at least give some means of sifting the posts & taking the temperature of the community view on the subject...

This.

[Canadian_watcher]

being able to view or order the thread by "like" ranking would at least give some means of sifting the posts & taking the temperature of the community view on the subject...

This.

sort of like how the news tells you what the top story is on any given day?

[JackRiddler]

Drew, here's what I mean. When you enter a link into Facebook, it creates a little link box taking the page title, a snippet of text, and usually giving you a choice of a couple of graphics to use as thumbnails. Thus, if you put in this page we're on, you see the following. (I didn't post that, it makes the link box already in the draft mode.) Below that example, you can see another one that's better. (True, that one is an FB link, but most of the time it works as well with anything else.)

eg.jpg

Anyway, the reform I thought I'd institute is to require all posts to go through a subforum. GD would be replaced by an automatic version of "Latest" that extended all the way to the beginning as default.

But maybe that wouldn't help that much to organize material here. So maybe what's needed is TAGS and better search. Also, the ability to pick tags out of a tag-cloud, like with WordPress.

Also, tags should be applicable to posts, too. So many threads where brilliant posts suddenly appear, often unrelated to the rest of the thread.

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[semper occultus]

know what you mean Jack - link pasting is mighty onerous in these parts...on the David Icke forum the url post functionality is very slick :

when you paste the link it automatically creates as shown not just a plain [url]pasted text[/url] so you can go straight to editing down the visible text to something meaningful...I don't suggest we generally try to turn ourselves into the Ickeforum however...




the only imperfaction is the http:// bit that is already there that invariably you want to delete as you pick that up when you copy the source url

[DrVolin]

sort of like how the news tells you what the top story is on any given day?

It is valuable to know what others want you to pay attention to, especially if you don't use it as a guide to what is actually important.

[Canadian_watcher]

sort of like how the news tells you what the top story is on any given day?

It is valuable to know what others want you to pay attention to, especially if you don't use it as a guide to what is actually important.

i don't post anything that I don't want people to pay attention to - wouldn't that go for everyone? I'm willing to bet the AD wants everyone to pay attention to Tantra Induced Delusional Syndrome or w/e it is called.

[semper occultus]

...C_w .....why not.....lets credit ourselves with being slightly more aware & critical than the bovine masses snorkelling up the Yahoo-brand info-fodder pellets being spat out of the corporate sphincter into their MSM news-troughs

...we are time limited & I can't face having to always read every post on every big thread ..

[Canadian_watcher]

...C_w .....why not.....lets credit ourselves with being slightly more aware & critical than the bovine masses snorkelling up the Yahoo-brand info-fodder pellets being spat out of the corporate sphincter into their MSM news-troughs

...we are time limited & I can't face having to always read every post on every big thread ..

It isn't like I'm going to have a fit if like buttons show up, but I think it's juvenile (sorry).

[justdrew]

how about we make all good posts have to wear stars?

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but yeah, it could be like that instead, "star post" button might seem better, then we could "sort by the stars" - it does seems a little better than "like"

[Canadian_watcher]

define "good" though. you know?
I like some of the other ideas - just not the ones that have anything to do with ranking, group-think, hive mind, monoculture or popularity contests.

[JackRiddler]

I beg you please... given what an addict I am. Don't make me be looking for likes on this forum. Don't make me wonder why brilliant post X got no likes but eh post Y got many likes. Don't. Thank you.