I have tried clarifying my issues over the past day or two, but each time I go to post, I get booted off LRC with the usual "Oh Snap! something went wrong" notice on the blank screen. So I will address each of the two issues I raised in separate posts later on. I'll put your name at the top in bold so you can easily see them.
Erik:
I know how to find the last page in a thread, duh. The former feature I would like restored is the one that would take me to the last page I personally was previously on in any particular thread the last time I looked at it.
For example, there's a thread I was on for a while that now has more than 40 pages accumulated over a number of weeks. Used to be, when I'd go to revisit it, the LRC software would take me to the last page I looked at each and every time. Which might have been page 24 or 27 or 31 or 34. But now when I click on that thread, I am always taken to page 1 - and i have no easy way of finding where the hell I last was.
Suggesting that I go to what is now the final page in the thread (and every other long-running thread with many, many pages that I am interested in) and backtrack from there in hopes of finding where I was the last time I engaged really isn't a solution, in my view.
I think we were talking past each other. I understand what you meant, I just didn't communicate well enough the process I was using to text it.
I believe I've figured out what was going wrong and patched it.
My guess is when you saw this issue you were not clicking from the forum index, but from a forum thread (e.g., while reading a thread, you click from "Recently Visited Threads" or the Top 10 list at the bottom).
For as long as the feature has existed, it would not redirect you to your last visited page when clicking from a thread page. The reason was if you, for example, visited page 4 of a thread, and then clicked page 3, you wouldn't want it to redirect you to page 4, which it things is the latest thread you read. You'd never get to page 3.
The problem was the check I was using was too permissive -- it would prevent redirects visiting from *any* thread. No one ever really noticed or complained because before the update, we didn't have all these ways to find threads to visit without going back to the index.
Anyway, please let me know if this last patch fixed the problem for you. Or email me at erik@letsrun.com. Thank you.
Do you think we want anti semetic posts on our site?
racist posts?
I think we do a pretty decent job moderating and we’re getting better
I think the moderation of anti Semitic posts has improved. But in the past you certainly had a problem and I don't think it was just workload related. There was a time when a series of anti Semitic posts would appear in a thread and I would report them. But they wouldn't be taken down. However, other posts would be taken down, so there was a moderator looking at the threads. Eventually, after several hours, they would disappear. It was almost as if the moderator would wait until the end of his shift before taking them down.
I don't know how you select your moderators, vet them and train them, but a moderator with an extreme bias can do a lot of harm to your site's reputation.
Should you decide to allow an "edit post" option, limit it to 60 seconds. That's long enough to correct typos, but not long enough to revise the entire comment. Longer would be inviting revisionist history.
Do you think we want anti semetic posts on our site?
racist posts?
they are terrible for a lot of reasons but they lead to less people coming to the site and yes advertisers don’t want to advertise around them. Fortunately partners like google help flag pages that might have problematic content.
I think we do a pretty decent job moderating and we’re getting better
I don't think you want posts like that, but you don't want to be to harsh on those that write them because they're some of your post prolific posters and 'friends of the site'.
Do you think we want anti semetic posts on our site?
racist posts?
I think we do a pretty decent job moderating and we’re getting better
I think the moderation of anti Semitic posts has improved. But in the past you certainly had a problem and I don't think it was just workload related. There was a time when a series of anti Semitic posts would appear in a thread and I would report them. But they wouldn't be taken down. However, other posts would be taken down, so there was a moderator looking at the threads. Eventually, after several hours, they would disappear. It was almost as if the moderator would wait until the end of his shift before taking them down.
I don't know how you select your moderators, vet them and train them, but a moderator with an extreme bias can do a lot of harm to your site's reputation.
There are no moderators (that I know of) who let anti-semitic posts stand.
Should you decide to allow an "edit post" option, limit it to 60 seconds. That's long enough to correct typos, but not long enough to revise the entire comment. Longer would be inviting revisionist history.
Just wanted to start a thread about our first week with the new forum.
I am quite pleased with how things are doing.
Just back here now after quite some time away, and haven't read past the OP.
Registration-to-post is fine with me. All of the jerks (I don't except myself) will probably still post, but I don't think we'll get as many alter-ego concurring posts.
Just wanted to start a thread about our first week with the new forum.
I am quite pleased with how things are doing.
Just back here now after quite some time away, and haven't read past the OP.
Registration-to-post is fine with me. All of the jerks (I don't except myself) will probably still post, but I don't think we'll get as many alter-ego concurring posts.
Thanks, LRC.
"Registration-to-post" isn't even on the table. Don't know why you posted that.
Whren you say "fewer alter ego posts," are you including yourself and your several alternate handles?
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