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Discussion Thread for new Community Forum Structure

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« Reply #80 on 04/09/2009, 17:07 »
Did you see I'd added one for spamming of links?

It's the news items section Smiley
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« Reply #81 on 05/09/2009, 14:44 »
Thats a good addition - its always been a pet hate of mine to open a post just to find its a link to another post, and and not even an except or opinion on an article.

At least I can ignore them collectively!
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« Reply #82 on 05/09/2009, 16:01 »
What i would have liked was a News/Announcements Section where Plusnet and the moderators could post announcements and replies by normal users would be allowed but they would not be able to create new threads,
This would give us a clear place where new announcements would be found and also the subsequent discussions.

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« Reply #83 on 05/09/2009, 16:41 »
Oldjim that sounds too sensible for this forum  Wink
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« Reply #84 on 05/09/2009, 17:38 »
Attached are the options are the standard SMF security options you can set for each forum. As you can see you could have Post new topics unset and Post replies to topics. It would take someone with admin rights all of 30 seconds to make that change to the existing Product / Service Announcements forum.

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« Reply #85 on 05/09/2009, 17:41 »
Agreed - I already checked although I am not sure if I have the necessary rights to do it.
However this discussion is presently about the new layout and I don't think Plusnet staff would be too chuffed at me unilaterally changing the permissions on the existing forum Shocked
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« Reply #86 on 05/09/2009, 17:45 »
If you ever got fed up with moderating it would be a quicker way out than making a resignation post first to Plusnet and the other moderators and then to the forums. Cheesy
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« Reply #87 on 05/09/2009, 17:50 »
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« Reply #88 on 06/09/2009, 16:41 »
For what it's worth, I've opened a poll and discussion thread in General Chit-Chat specifically about the 'News Items' board - so if anyone has any thoughts/feelings about the idea and hasn't already aired them could they please do so there. Thanks.
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« Reply #89 on 16/09/2009, 18:00 »
I'd like to see Testimonials split into 2 categories - Positive & Negative.

Currently, only positive reviews are under the testimonials, fair enough, however, I don't agree that some negative testimonials are placed under Rants & Raves as this implies: If you say that someone rants, you mean that they talk loudly or angrily, and exaggerate or say foolish things. (Source: http://dictionary.reverso...cobuild/rant%20and%20rave)

I know there is many posts in that section which deserve to be in that section fitting the definition, however, there are some posts which are written politely and intelligently, providing valuable feedback on their experience, its just that they are negative in nature. This kind of feedback deserves to be in testimonials so long as it isn't abusive, derogatory for the sake of, etc.

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« Reply #90 on 16/09/2009, 18:26 »
Or a testimonial category with a simple tick box for Positive or negative.
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« Reply #91 on 16/09/2009, 20:12 »
the tick is a much better idea  Smiley
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« Reply #92 on 16/09/2009, 21:40 »
Reading the posts in Testimonials and Rants and Raves, I'm obviously not alone in being unclear as to what these sub-forum titles are supposed to mean.
Most things are somewhere else

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« Reply #93 on 17/09/2009, 11:16 »
My vision for the Community site redesign sees rants, raves and testimonials being removed.  I don't like the names and I feel that they are often misued, or posts placed in the wrong areas.

I see all of the above being ideally placed within the relevant section in the forum category - a complaint about a fault can go into the Faults section, or something wanting to say how great their home phone service ahs been, can post in the home phone forum.

The fewer forums we have, the simpler it is for all.
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« Reply #94 on 17/09/2009, 12:49 »
James when will we bw able to have a look at a mock-up of the  new layout?
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« Reply #95 on 17/09/2009, 13:32 »
Erm, isn't it in this thread already?  Or was it another one?
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