Forum update - 1 week with the improved Forum 2.022 - we want your feedback or questions

I love it so far except the message editor is a little funky. I'll be able to give you more specifics after crafting a few more messages. I agree with Flagpole about the Logo. The old school logo should still be prominently displayed somewhere.

I'm on another forum that gives you 60 seconds to edit after posting. I use the preview, but sometimes I miss a typo that just jumps out at me after I post it. A 60 second window to edit after posting would be great.

Private messages would be nice. I'm on another forum that allows that. I've had a few posters track me down on Facebook, but it would be nice if we could communicate by private message. Obviously, it should be for registered users only.

The down votes seem to be keeping Greg off the board, so A+!

(Though I'm sure he's lurking here unregistered.)

as an unregistered voter willing to be multiple registered users, who wouldnt mind giving certain posters massive down votes, (admiting i will down vote some no matter what they say) i have found, though perhaps a bit lazy about it, that it is harder to give multiple downvotes from the same computer than i was hoping. that said i am willing to join various alliances to make sure some posters get massive downvotes. perhaps even at the same time. like a flash mob. flash downvote on ........ .

Big improvements and I find myself enjoying the board a lot more. Up/Down votes are great for reasons that others have already mentioned. Blocking posters is amazing! I have only blocked a half dozen known registered trolls and that cleans up threads very well. On some hot button topics, eliminating comments by those six people cuts the number of posts by almost 40%! You can tell who is crap posting to dominate discussions or to refute every post that they do not agree with.

Overall a good improvement.

However, i mentioned already that it shows 2 digit up and downvotes (e.g. 23) above each other sometimes. 2 is above 3.

I wish an edit function available for 48h. You need an edit time frame otherwise people could delete all of there post even after 10 years.

I have really enjoyed the change, much improved.

Thumbs up on your improvements.

Your message board ads no longer slow down my Windows computers and devices (iPad and iPhone). If not part of this upgrade you must have addressed this recently.

Thank you.

If you try to delete text from the end of a quote, the whole thing disappears. You can delete the beginning but not the end.

This has ruined my life!

  Why are non-running threads still showing up when I’ve selected running only at the top?

If I select that option it means I don’t want see posts about the trucker protest or some of the other things that are slipping through that particular crack.

This happens. A sarcastic ref to vote corruption and the uninitiated go wild in voting. 

Investigation! Right.

I'm quoting this to emphasize the first part of it. But I'm not going to upvote it because I disagree with the second part (48h is way too long, I'd say 5 min max).

I can tell you that when I speak the truth, when I am authentic, when I don’t try to please you people, I get a lot of down votes. When I am slightly fake I get more up votes. I do not really care for the changes and I think it is a bit more boring. However I understand that this will not be applauded.

My concern is that on the podcast you mentioned that these changes took months. Unless you developed a novel NLP/ML (natural language processing, machine learning) system to moderate comments or classify posts, I fail to see how it took more than a week or two tops to get everything rolled out. Hopefully you are not letting anyone on the technical side take you as a dope. Any future technical changes you should post the project specs and let people bid on it, plenty of people here making $250k+ who would be happy to assist.

I love that I can block posters. Thank you!

I will add that there do seem to be less COVID-19 posts which is refreshing and to some extent it seems more running oriented but this may also be partly because there were some races to discuss. Time will tell.

Still work to do..... I would get rid of anonymous posters alltogether for starters. Then get rid of the useless Covid and political threads, this is a running platform after all. Small dip in traffic initially, maybe, but better product.

If the voting system ends up shouting down dissenting voices this is wrong... you have an example above... a guy made a sensible suggestion about paragraphs and still he got thumbed down because people tend not to like him. If people are looking for a safe space here this is a wrong platform so I am all against hiding posters. Keep posting civil and let everyone have his say. If you dont like or dont agree... then tough luck.

Please identify yourself. If not then I would stop being such a hypocrite.