Ideas for ILX

Ok, thanks, that makes sense (why SBs aren't public). xpost

S1ocki, I don't know what the issue is. I was asked recently to remove 'reply to' from webmail, because people were being hassled off board.

― Keith, Saturday, August 1, 2009 5:11 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there was ever a "reply to"?

every webmail i've gotten has been unreplyable. which is ok, but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

More poll forms would be fun. One that allowed you to rank the options from first to last, say, or just allowed you to tick multiple boxes, livejournal style.

Would like this!

Also, if you decide to _not_ bring back lists of ILX-wide stats, I would still be interested in personal stats on on each person's profile page re: how many posts they've made, how many threads they've started, etc. Or at least a way for each user to see their own info.

Oh, and that secret cool feature Ned Raggett has that notifies him as soon as someone mentions his name anywhere on ILX causing him to show up.

*holds breath & refreshes like mad*

but maybe there shoudl be some sort of reminder to put your own email address in the message? or even an optional field for your email addy?

Sure...

Musically, I do actually have these numbers, but what you're specifically asking for is one of the reasons I got rid of the stats thing! Tom Ewing wrote an article about this... Having # posts against each user automatically gives certain people status in the community, and this isn't necessarily a good thing (loads of posts doesn't mean loads of quality posts), so what I was thinking of was some more point in time stats, like # posts in the last week or month or something, which would be a bit more interesting anyway, as it changes more frequently.

Re: your own info, then yes sure - no reason not to show it there.

Oh and for now, you've made 3,839 posts.

omg i want to know mine!

... and 35 good ones! ;-) (xpost)

Surm, 1,209

OK, olive should be olive, webmail has a note on it warning you to stick your email address in it and there's XML for bookmarks that have new answers.

Stet: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/BookmarksControllerServlet?xml=true

(not choosing these out of favouritism, they were just some of the easier things for now)

Ho, top, cheers! Pints are yours.

Man, I loved the stats page.

Well, if you want stats for now, which ones and I'll just run them and post them...

Saturday night and no f***er is up for a drink, so at a loose end!

love where we're at now (with the exception of SB, which was an interesting idea and i'm sure not trivial to implement, but it's changed things for the worse imo). i'm generally opposed to new features that change the way ilx works as a magical community of social retards rather than just improve the UI (like remove bookmark links at the end of bookmarked threads) or are just cosmetic (like CSS changes).

preview would be great.

"magical community of social retards"

all my thoughts already mentioned

"continue keeping it simple and plain"

^this above all :)

It sounds better and more true than "a social community of magical retards" (xpost)

Re: the simple and plain thing, I've certainly no plans to change that. I do think the thing is very economical and helps you get straight to the actual important info - what people are posting. I find these PHPBB things really horrible with a really low signal to noise ratio, in that about 20cm on the screen can be taken up by someone saying 'lol' or the like.

lol

i agree, that is terrible

I am super pro-expanding poll options. I think they've grown to play a decently big role here, and you can do lots of pretty interesting things w/ statistics and rankings and stuff.

I agree, it's just one of the harder things to do...

But will spend some time thinking it through.

maybe we can have a function for the race demographics off poll participants

What about a poll option that automatically SBs anybody who starts more than one poll in a week?

Or a function that blows up your computer if you start a poll on something that was done 2 months ago?

Or maybe shoots nerve gas out of your keyboard if you start a poll about Animal Collective?

yeah maybe some polls with two axes so then you can make a histogram based on the respondent's age/sex/whatever

yeah anything that blows up your computer is cool

I'd like a function that prevented people getting uptight about the fact that other people may have discussed the same subject in the past. xx-post

hey thanks in advance Keith for anything you decide to do

how many posts have i made?

Would like to have a simple link to threads I'm on, please!

Granny, thanks.

Pfunkboy: 15,732

Meg, don't quite understand that... Can't you get it from your browser's address bar? Maybe that's not what you mean.

thanks, keith!

what about an unsuggest ban option? I think I have sb'd one or two people on accident.

I hope StanM didn't die by holding his breath for half an hour.

no like automatically bookmarking threads you posted on? except you can just click bookmark xp

only another 545987098767676 posts to catch up with Ned mind you

No, I mean if I want to see which threads I've contributed to recently/ever. Without having to click bookmark every time.

Hooray! xxxpost :-)

Oh OK, Meg... Hang on a tick...

X-post Harbl has gottit.

Meg, forgot about this, did it some time ago and have just turned it on... See the menu bar for a "My Recent Posts" option. This might go at least some way to what you're looking for.

i would like a function where anyone attempting to a thread with more than 200 new answers has the add a post box replaced with:

http://www.blogcdn.com/nintendo.joystiq.com/media/2008/06/nintendo_take_break_final_break_lg.jpg

Ooh, lovely, thanks :)

x-post

huh i pretty much only view bookmark snas, but look at new thread lists every few days i guess. i don't even cut my historical bookmark list because stuff doesn't get revived that often imo?

due to this pattern, the distinction bw web and zing doesn't feel so big at least to me.

it'd be useful to me b/c sometimes i want to post in a thread i can't remember the name of and that i am caught up with. such a thread might be relatively active, but not active enough that it appears on SNA, so it'd be nice if i could find near the top of my list of bookmarked threads

I have purged all bookmarks a few times over the years as a cleanse