"My Posts" button...
- Thread starter Craig
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wow, great job!
You are just two fixes away from fully functional threads...
1) Color for the highlighted post in threaded mode (it came back and then went away) (techies wrestle with that one, it seems like it would be easy, but that's why I'm no techie)
2) A reply counter to our posts
The reply counter is actually the most important item for the whole site. Without it, lag time on conversations extends from minutes to months and quite often eternity. The reply counter alerts us that someone has replied to a post of ours, so we then click on it and respond back and that's what makes threads happens... we had that in the old fray, we didn't have all the bells and whistles we have here, but we carried out much better conversations (threads) because we had the ability to track our posts. My normal behavior would be to click on My Posts and look for replies, then go there and read them... you have everything in place for me to do that except the reply counter displaying the amount of replies made to my posts... without that, no one can track their posts, threads, mistakes, brilliance, all of it. In essence we are posting blind until we get a reply counter. These people are actually brilliant, but they look pretty dumb right now... they leave off their arguments and their words get fed to wolves; that would never happen if they had a reply counter to track their posting.
Now be warned. Blinding these monsters was not a bad experiment. Given the ability to track their posts, their full personality will come out and the place will heat up. But then you will have what a threaded forum is all about; full discussion of the issues; there is nothing else like it.
You are just two fixes away from fully functional threads...
1) Color for the highlighted post in threaded mode (it came back and then went away) (techies wrestle with that one, it seems like it would be easy, but that's why I'm no techie)
2) A reply counter to our posts
The reply counter is actually the most important item for the whole site. Without it, lag time on conversations extends from minutes to months and quite often eternity. The reply counter alerts us that someone has replied to a post of ours, so we then click on it and respond back and that's what makes threads happens... we had that in the old fray, we didn't have all the bells and whistles we have here, but we carried out much better conversations (threads) because we had the ability to track our posts. My normal behavior would be to click on My Posts and look for replies, then go there and read them... you have everything in place for me to do that except the reply counter displaying the amount of replies made to my posts... without that, no one can track their posts, threads, mistakes, brilliance, all of it. In essence we are posting blind until we get a reply counter. These people are actually brilliant, but they look pretty dumb right now... they leave off their arguments and their words get fed to wolves; that would never happen if they had a reply counter to track their posting.
Now be warned. Blinding these monsters was not a bad experiment. Given the ability to track their posts, their full personality will come out and the place will heat up. But then you will have what a threaded forum is all about; full discussion of the issues; there is nothing else like it.
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Thank you
