Support/Announcement Ideas on Improvements

[Brother Faisal]

It's certainly an interesting idea. We actually trialled something like this a couple of seasons back. Unfortunately it rewards popularity of opinion and goes against the philosophy of the forum where every opinion is equal, and the forum benefits from more diverse opinions rather than more popular ones. As such, it's unlikely to come back.

BTW I've noticed some posts where users regard their reactions to posts ratio as a means of how popular their posting history is. Do note that is certainly not the case(or more accurately, we do not use it in that manner). That "reaction score" is skewed as we also trialled a feature (some may remember) where negative reactions was used to auto moderate the posts of fellow members. It worked to an extent (mostly spam) but we have moved on from that method.

Reporting a post works far better for those scenarios, and there's less tit for tat in giving negative reactions as a result. Also the community has matured in understanding what is acceptable on certain threads (I.e. recruitment) than say 4/5 years ago. So thanks to all.

Probably best time before the season starts to say thank you to all of you in how you all post in some threads. From time to time we do allow some slack, unless there's a continuation of offtopic posts. Be ontopic and you won't have any moderation issues.

And don't get offended if your posts get deleted. It's not such a big deal.

Also prob a good time to mention there won't be many change in features this season for a variety of reasons(mostly outside of our control). This includes no "dark theme". There will be a large overhaul at the end of this season though.

Just want to say I’m enjoying using the chrome extension of the site. It’s almost like an app version that I can quickly open and it takes me direct to the main page. It’s quite streamlined and just speeds the process up of posting responding and seeing threads etc.

 

[Beastmode]

It's certainly an interesting idea. We actually trialled something like this a couple of seasons back. Unfortunately it rewards popularity of opinion and goes against the philosophy of the forum where every opinion is equal, and the forum benefits from more diverse opinions rather than more popular ones. As such, it's unlikely to come back.

BTW I've noticed some posts where users regard their reactions to posts ratio as a means of how popular their posting history is. Do note that is certainly not the case(or more accurately, we do not use it in that manner). That "reaction score" is skewed as we also trialled a feature (some may remember) where negative reactions was used to auto moderate the posts of fellow members. It worked to an extent (mostly spam) but we have moved on from that method.

Reporting a post works far better for those scenarios, and there's less tit for tat in giving negative reactions as a result. Also the community has matured in understanding what is acceptable on certain threads (I.e. recruitment) than say 4/5 years ago. So thanks to all.

Probably best time before the season starts to say thank you to all of you in how you all post in some threads. From time to time we do allow some slack, unless there's a continuation of offtopic posts. Be ontopic and you won't have any moderation issues.

And don't get offended if your posts get deleted. It's not such a big deal.

Also prob a good time to mention there won't be many change in features this season for a variety of reasons(mostly outside of our control). This includes no "dark theme". There will be a large overhaul at the end of this season though.

Thanks Taj

I am as guilty as anyone when it comes to making posts for shits and giggles

However, I will “like” a post if I think it’s good and well thought out, even if I don’t agree with it.

When scrolling through the endless pages of banter, the posts i usually look for first are those with the large amount of likes.

While I understand equality and all that good stuff, some posts are just better than others, and should warrant attention.

Caveat I do agree there is bias to certain posters. Like yourself and Mt Wellington for example. You guys get likes for posting next to nothing.

I kid.