[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

Slight problem observed. Let’s say I am on page 4 of the home page threads, and then select one of the threads there to read, which takes me to that thread. At this point, if I then want to go back to the thread listings on page 4 where I started, I use the back arrow on my browser (Chrome), and it now takes me all the way back to page 1, instead of page 4 like it used to. Should’t it go back to where you originated once you leave the thread??

Never thought about that side effect. I reverted the change, it should behave as it used to now. Thanks!

Now works just like it used to. Thanks for the quick fix.

Geez. It’s like you think science works, or something.

Nah, it IS SB’s Powerful magic. :wink:

It’s all strictly the scientific method until I manage to break something, at which point I have to resort to other techniques. :stuck_out_tongue:

He has unicorn hair and peanut butter in his wand. Um, don’t try and picture that.

Posts per page selection? I sometimes adjust that for bandwidth.

Unfortunately no. I could probably hack something together though for a sort of alternate view of threads for offline or image-free viewing.

Meanwhile, I’m testing a quick test of the input filters (probably won’t work):

Test

Advanced post editor test.

Test

Some link: http://www.google.com

Test here

Test

Another test

Test

BTW, what are your thoughts on a comment moderation / feedback system?

I don’t know if anything already exists for Drupal, but I’m thinking something like…

  • Each comment can be up-voted or down-voted up to one time per user.
  • Votes may possibly be more than just plus or minus — qualifiers like “informative”, “insightful”, “funny”, “amazing”, “off-topic”, “redundant”, “flamebait”, “troll”, “overrated”, etc. Similar to slashdot, maybe, or facebook’s new ‘like’ system. (like, wow, lol, angry, flame, …)
  • Comments start with 1 point and can go up or down as far as people vote them, but scores below zero won’t be shown.
  • Comments with extremely negative scores could possibly be omitted from the default view.
  • People who get a lot of downvotes (only flamebait- or troll-category downvotes) may periodically be reviewed, lose permission to vote, and possibly have more serious actions taken.
  • If necessary for site performance reasons, comments older than N (120?) days won’t be vote-able, and will have their votes reduced to a sum instead of tracking individual votes. Hopefully this could keep the vote table sizes under control. Or perhaps comments which haven’t received any votes for N days. Or something like that.

This should provide positive reinforcement when people make good posts, but does not reward trolls who aim for extremely low scores. It also helps quantify who causes the most problems, so they can be dealt with. Hopefully it could improve the overall tone of the forum by giving less attention to trolls and more reward for quality comments.

Just something to think about as the forum grows. There’s a point, eventually, when it’s more effective to influence behavior through architectural means rather than doing it on a strictly personal basis.

Edit: It might also be important to not grant voting permission until someone has had their account for a certain length of time and possibly until they have made a certain number of posts, or something like that. To prevent flash mobs of sock puppets, in case that’s a risk worth caring about.

I LOLed