My Ignore List:
DrPhil, DrPhil., IME, Meat72, san_jose_gay, tixtittyfag, JimGassagain, Call.Me.Ishmael, SirLapdancealot, L1oydSchoene, Nicole1994, TrapBapy304, PaulDrake
But no more, now no one is on IGNORE. I do not plan on using IGNORE to keep people from posting on my threads.
Founder, setting up a VIP Room and a Dressing Room is going to neutralize much of the appeal of this forum. Now the juicy stuff about clubs is likely to stay in the VIP Room.
And then letting people prevent someone's posts from being seen on one of their threads, that is a huge amount of power. This forum is going to fragment. People who cannot talk to each other on a thread will be talking across threads!
I see these changes as a big negative.
Both of the above mean that those who want this forum to be very narrow in content will now have a great deal of power.
Lots of people have stopped posting, because they are no longer PL's. Maybe once they were in a situation such that they had to seek regular gratification in strip clubs, and such that they called the women they knew, ATF and CF. But no more. They have been able to move on. They are not the sort of pathetic types only interested in financial speculations, gambling, right wing news and politics, sports, cumming in their pants, and paying hookers for sex. If they are likely to be here, it will be to talk about other things.
So for those of us often holding minority POV's, these new changes are going to make things very tough.
So if this is how it is to be, would you consider 3 other changes.
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Reopen our old discussions and keep the articles open. It is easier to maintain a broader array of topical threads when one does not have to worry about them closing. I can't see how this contributes to trolling. It is likely those who want only Right Wing PL topics who would think that. WHen one does not have to worry about thread closure, they can put their time into making higher quality posts.
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Allow us to have a unique URL for each post. Long ago it was like this, the code generator used the post serial number to mare that place in the page.
So then there might be some kind of an icon on the right side of the post, which upon clicking on, it takes you to the top of that post and puts its unique URL in the address bar. Though you can of course still scroll up or down and see all of the other posts. Most message boards today have this feature. It makes it far easier to reference posts in other threads.
- An end of page link. When threads are long, and if there are text dumpers, it is time consumptive to get to the bottom of a thread. So how about displaying the thread titles as now. But also add at the right side of each threads listing, an EofThread icon. If you click on it, it takes you to the last post on the thread. You can still scroll back up, like say to your own last post. But presumably you know everything above that. This will make things go faster.
SJG
Founder, also, it now shows a red dot by "Conversations", suggesting that I still have some new ones to read, when in fact I have already read them all.
SJG