Ideas for ILX

• get rid of SB

No way! That's like saying to science "get rid of indeterminism"

• auto SB for anybody who says get rid of SB

i will take a SB if it meant no one else would get SB'd. i'm basically jesus

some of them are already in testing. xp

I don't like scrolling down a thread and seeing thousands of Suggest Ban links, one next to every post, daring me to find fault with someone's ideas even before I've taken the time to read them. it's ugly, it's redundant, it breeds unconscious hostility. why not move the Suggest Ban link to people's profiles, so that you only see it when you click on a particular user's name?

my hostility's pretty conscious tbh.

anyhoo, let's make this serviceable thread into a 1,000 post SB clusterfuck, we haven't had one of them for a while.

you could use strategically-placed post it notes to cover up the offensive links

can i get ILXBeta

what's the criteria for sb

what, my criteria?

dunno if i've got time, Con Air's on at half past 9

I don't know who you are (should I care?) but I guess I want a consensus

I don't know who you are (should I care?)

SB'd u for that

I guess I want a consensus

― wolves lacan, Saturday, October 1, 2011 7:49 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

possible readings

A) no such thing
B) for outrageous/offensive statements
C) for annoying people you no longer want to see posting on ilx

what's the criteria for sb

― wolves lacan, Saturday, October 1, 2011 9:45 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

think you collected a few in the thread about annoying colleagues thread, so that's one criterium tbh

ohh I just noticed Noodle Vague answered one of my Godard questions on some other thread, sorry man / woman / mineral I have been tired and cranky lately a/s/l/?/jk I'll get some sleep and hey Le Bateau Ivre you know what?

fine.

I didn't sb you, wolves. But just sayin'.

I should also note that with the name "wolves lacan", you will have won over NV for 50% already.

i do like Lacan it's true

y u hate wolves

they keep breaking my heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xwvztZtjmw

• a "suggest ban the suggest ban system" button

Can there be a … list of who the mods are

I hate doing this — I'm always afraid I'll forget somebody.

Top-level admins - stet, Pashmina
Shadowy rarely-encountered codemeister - Keith
sitewide mods - jjjusten, MattDC, electricsound, forksclovetofu, Remy, tehresa, Abbottt, me

Yay, thx

http://lincoln.msghn.org/cemclearbranchphotos/070.jpg

it's sad he was a mod

- a list of the most bookmarked threads on ILX (or per board)

Ability to search for "text" written by "particular users"

I often try to find something I said back whenever, but unless I'm the only one who had said it, it's pretty near impossible.

yeah that'd be great

Also, autoreplace of really offensive words with pictures of john terry

- a list of the most bookmarked threads on ILX (or per board)

ZS, I thought this was a display name/user name combo for a second.

whenever i search "mark s" in a thread i remember that it will give me "bookmark suggestban"

Ability to search for "text" written by "particular users"

I often try to find something I said back whenever, but unless I'm the only one who had said it, it's pretty near impossible.

― Mark G, Monday, October 24, 2011 8:05 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

There is a solution for your problem! Search in this format:

"back whenever" AND displayName:"Mark G"

By the way, Mark G, you have used the phrase "back whenever" a lot.

It's a good phrase.

Now see if you can track down something I said about Radiohead.

I would like the website to have shortcut buttons for BBcode formatting like Zing Touch does. On Firefox on my laptop I have a BBcode extension installed, but at work or elsewhere I don't. I know the codes, but it's a great convenience to be able to apply formatting with just one click. This is my greatest wish beyond a healthy and happy server.

For each thread, (a small number of) persistent links to "sibling threads" at the top and bottom (editable by mods, or possibly threadstarter as well).
Examples:
-- Poll voting thread <-> result thread <-> ballot thread (and track poll threads <-> album poll threads for corresponding polls) ;
-- Monthly, seasonal or other "serial" threads (like wdyll, or US politics) could be linked to previous thread and next thread in series.

i want to be able to search my own posts by word count - what have i been most passionate about/had the most to say about etc

i had a few good suggestions in my head the other day but i forget them now

Spoiler tags. Easy CSS implementation, innit?

Opt-out-able warning screen - "this thread is on ILM, not ILE -- are you sure you want to go there?"

voiced by Lenny Kravitz.

when you write a post & press submit, instead of refreshing back to the thread, a gif of a waddling duck swims across the screen right to left, leaving a trail of java-enabled ripples distorting the page, & when it passes & the ripples dissipate the page is refreshed

i think seeing it 1000x times in ten minutes would probably soothe some of the bs on the rap threads

re: long threads, & resuming your position in them, does ilx work better now than it did before? i feel like recently sometimes when i've clicked on 'click here to see all messages' in the middle of a thread, it's usefully taken me back to the last message i'd seen, rather than just loading everything and making me remember.

i might just be making this up, idk

When searching it defaults to only searching the boards you have favourited.

A feature that would not allow people to upload huge ass images that take up the whole damn screen.

I thought images were already limited to 600 pix wide.

If it's any larger, it gets compressed.