Just make it a choice whether you want the first post or the first unread, or make that dot bigger (as it was on GAF) if that's possible.
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Moderator ban/warning messages should state moderator's username for community accountability.
I actually like it because it makes it more obvious that very recent posts are very recent. It makes it easier to see when some kind of event has happened and lots of people are sending posts all of a sudden.
Nah, "A moment ago" is fine when the post is very recent. No one needs to know a post was posted 14.4295 seconds ago. It's distracting.
The .4295 is obvious hyperbole, considering no one has mentioned breaking it down past whole seconds. So, given that, I'm not even sure the rest of the post is made in good faith. But, nonetheless...
Disagree.
Did you miss the original post?
"A moment ago" is unnecessarily vague.
And "1 second ago" doesn't do that?
Again, the timestamps update in real time. "A moment ago" becomes "1 minute ago" after 60 seconds.
IMO, when trying to read a thread, seeing several different counters going "1 second ago", "2 seconds ago", "3 seconds ago", etc. is distracting and unnecessary, unlike the "A moment ago" and "x minutes ago".
And that's just my opinion in a thread about requests and suggestions; no need to assume bad faith or whatever :/
IMO, when trying to read a thread, seeing several different counters going "1 second ago", "2 seconds ago", "3 seconds ago", etc. is distracting and unnecessary, unlike the "A moment ago" and "x minutes ago".
And that's just my opinion in a thread about requests and suggestions; no need to assume bad faith or whatever :/
Which is why it should just have the time it was posted and be done with it. Every device used to access this forum has the time constantly displayed. We can figure it out from there.
I don't have my time showing on my computer or phone
We're not all beautiful mind people like you. = (
There's a user stylesheet some generous soul created that switched the thread dots into site icons similar to the old style:
Style here if you want it: https://pastebin.com/8gBDMVYm but I do think the official style should be tweaked to do something similar.
That's been tried before and resulted in death threats. At least one Reset era mod already got doxxed, too. I feel like explanation is fine, and the ability to appeal to mod chiefs is nice.
If this was eliminated, how are people going to do giveaways, Discord, etc. that are hidden from lurkers?
I don't know how many people are actually using it for that, but for the most part I've seen it used arbitrarily in place spoiler tags.
If the RE moderation is anything like the old place it would usually just say "decided collectively by like eight people" anyway.
I dunno, people could always find some power-hungry fascist nazi to write them a community tool to do giveaways or something.
There needs to be a notification in posts that reply to ignore content that say that they're replying to ignored content so that there isn't a communication misfire, because the way it is currently set up makes it look like the poster is shouting into the void and does nothing to imply that you're missing context.
I don't need a feature that shows ignored content. If I wanted that I'd use incognito mode. But the stated feature request is a must.
I don't need a feature that shows ignored content. If I wanted that I'd use incognito mode. But the stated feature request is a must.
I used to frequent a forum many years ago that played host to a sub-forum, called The Melee. In this forum, people were given more free reign to discuss politics and other real-life issues. There were very few rules in place in The Melee. It was pretty much anything goes. The only restrictions were no porn and no sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist language. Other than that, it was fair game - a chance for people to vent without fear of being banned. Would something like that be possible here?
Is there a way to refresh the page at the bottom like on the old forums? If not, that's a feature I really miss.
Now on mobile you have to hit the up arrow, drag down to refresh, and then hit the down arrow to go back to the last posts.
Now on mobile you have to hit the up arrow, drag down to refresh, and then hit the down arrow to go back to the last posts.
There should be, there's a "refresh old posts since you posted" and the timestamps refresh automatically.
Can you move the date of the post from the bottom and put it under the avatar and add time to that? The date of when the post is made is right under the post itself and often i end up reading as well :P
Putting it beneath our 'Member' tag makes more sense.
Can we have the name and avatars on the right side? I don't really care who says what, I want some content first.
I know there sometimes is this message that you can click to show new posts, but it doesn't seem to be there if you just scroll from top to bottom reading messages. On a computer you can simply click refresh either way, but on a phone it's a bit of a hassle to go to the top to refresh the page. I know the other forums had a refresh button on the bottom when you visit threads on mobile, which is super useful for fast moving threads.
Then just read the post? You don't need to look at who said what. You're not forced to look at the username and avatar before reading a post.
Right.
I'm kind of against this, it could easily lead to making things personal when there's no need. The mod team should be treated as a whole: they themselves can see who banned who.
Rather, I would like to see an "appeal" mechanism in place that ensures at least one other mod than the original one sees the appeal. With the caveat that if mods feel that someone is abusing the appeal system, they can take further action.
Now I'm curions, what did you think OP stood for? :D
And now that we're talking about it, what does "Community Resettler" mean, exactly? Seems to be someone in between a mod and a regular poster? I tried googling it but didn't find anything.
Community Resettlers are people who were admins of the Discord channels of the various old forum communities, and who helped migrate said communities to the new forum.
nah I knew OP stood for original poster, or original post depending on context, it just didn't click when I was seeing it all this time
Oooh, I get it, "comunity resettlers". Thanks for the explanation!
You'll also see people tagged with "Resettlement Advisor", they offered advice to the administration during the building of the forum.
However, those are just tags. The users are normal average forum members. The only thing one can infer from the tagging is that they helped accomplish setup and processing and got a tag as a thank-you.
Has anyone pointed out that the Reset Era logo looks a lot like the https://www.roadtovr.com/ logo?
I'm sure it's nearly impossible to come up with a truly original logo, but this one happens to belong to another gaming site.
I'm sure it's nearly impossible to come up with a truly original logo, but this one happens to belong to another gaming site.
100% of sites that keep an "anything goes" subforum like this eventually degenerate into bigoted 4chan nonsense. The staff's job is gonna be hard enough as it is.
Really wish you could use light theme on desktop and dark theme on mobile. Also it would be nice if the dark theme was actually black like the old board - useful for AMOLED screens...
Also a preference to always expand quotes. It always just cuts off a tiny bit (especially with images/gifs).
Also a preference to always expand quotes. It always just cuts off a tiny bit (especially with images/gifs).
Then perhaps set up a dedicated team of two or three moderators whose job it is to solely maintain The Melee. This forum I mentioned used to have problems with political debate and the like turning really nasty, so they introduced that 'anything goes' sub-forum - and it worked! Discussion outside of it was beyond civil and friendly, while discussion and debate within the sub-forum was all-out was - to a degree - that allowed members to vent and rage without fear of being banned.
I believe something like that could work well here on ResetERA. If anything, I'd like to see this feature given a trial period of a fortnight, to see how well the community adapts to it. If it works, great, keep it open. If it doesn't, scrap it. The staff who will moderate it will obviously have to go through a screening process, so as to not make or take things personally within The Melee. Comments could and would be made that, while not derogatory, could be offensive, and members taking part, and staff moderating it, should be able to take these comments without feeling offended or upset.
"I know we're already paying you nothing to do a lot of thankless work, but would you also like to deal with more gore photos, harassment campaigns, and Nazis?" Boy people are gonna rush to sign up for that.
It's well established that "containment" boards have exactly the opposite effect -- they make discourse elsewhere on the same site worse by existing, as was most directly shown recently with reddit before and after expelling the hate subreddits. As a person invested in having Resetera be a pleasant community I'd really rather not have a part of the board actively cultivate that kind of userbase, thanks.
All users should have New Thread privileges. The two-tier system of early members vs juniors discriminates against people who weren't part of a preselected insular group.
This site already verifies people by a non-generic email account, so that should be enough trust in my opinion.
This site already verifies people by a non-generic email account, so that should be enough trust in my opinion.
I have to say I agree. I'd been on the old forum and it's prior incarnations since 2001 and had never been banned even once, but now I'm just a shavetail louie.
But, I think as Reset Era was coming up there was a fear there would be an influx of trolls and assorted miscreants stirring up trouble, so I imagine that was the reasoning behind temporary junior status.
Who said anything about gore photos, harassment campaigns, or Nazis? That really is one hell of a stretch.
Well, you see...
Hint: What you said doesn't preclude it (or, at least gore photos and most harassment campaigns. Nazis could probably find a way to work around it too), so it would happen.
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