Also, why deactivate and then activate the William account?
long story short:
I thought I was going to have a major schedual change in life sooner than later- so I ditched the account to help me not waste time on subjects that were peripheral / tertiary hobbies to my life. That didn’t happen, and I got annoyed by the spam influx, so I asked if they wanted help.
…and why deactivate it again and make the vive account a moderator? Why deactivate the William account in the first place? Why not just not log in if you don’t have time to spend on the forum?
I don’t know the answers to these questions either, Wheylous. But it would be a funny joke to say they keep me up at night.
As for the captcha, I have a feeling that would actually be more work than its worth with this platform (especially considering the apparent total disinterest in the community from the powers that be.)
Two accounts didn’t make sense.
As for the rest, it was ust one of those little things to help promote good habits.
Anyway,
that’s all I’m going to say on that. If you wantto get into personal stuff PM me
I fucking, hate captcha. Cant read damned thing 7/10 times. make it so u have to take a small survey before you sign up (the are you an austrian quiz, just shortened).
Brilliant sentence structure, Kelvin.
As to making better forums, as part of my LibertyHQ website I’m hoping to come up with a good solution to how to make good forums that have generally broad appeal. I’m thinking that some of the forum sections will be private and invite-only - as in you have to either have proven to be a productive user to be let on to the boards or you have to make a successful appeal to tptb of the forum.
@Wheylous: If you are web-programming inclined, I have $0.02 on the matter… as a long-time user of Internet forums (since, oh god, at least 1996), I offer them for your consideration.
Build on top of an existing platform that is widely-used and (hence) relatively bug-free. There are open-source forums out there that you can modify the source to suit your own needs but leave the bulk of it to those who have been doing this forever. THis is the #1 mistake of the mises.org forums. They tried to reinvent the wheel and we got Egyptian pyramid sleds instead.
Offer both threaded-view and linear-view. People have strong opinions about each.
Allow users to ignore specific users (posts from that user simply don’t appear). Ignoring specific threads would also be a nice feature (certain topics that are perenially popular with certain groups are often completely uninteresting to others).
The one-stop-shop “Active Topics” and “My Discussions” views are the only good ideas on this forum S/W and could actually be profitably extended… you could create a system that actually calculates a “buoyancy” factor that is simply the post frequency taken over a suitable period (say, the last 24 hours) and let the number of Active Topics visible be configurable per user rather than having the same setting for everyone (5 visible until you click “Read More” at which you get dozens). You could even make the buoyancy period configurable if you maintain that information - most active by latest post (mises.org behavior), most active in the last hour, most active in 24 hours, most active in one week, etc. If I had these options, I would configure my profile so that “Active Topics” showed, say, the top-20 most active topics over the last 24 hours and “My Discussions” showed most active by latest post.
Of course, you should still keep the standard “topic-specific forum” view so that people can find particular posts.
steps down off soap-box
Clayton -
Oh yeah, I’m not planning to make my own software. I started a while back (5 years ago?), and I got almost nowhere.
Whatever RevolutionBox is running might be nice: