Registered: May 2012
Posts: 89

Enhancement request / suggestion

Considering all the Troll threads, bickering, insulting and just plain babbling posts.

My suggestion would be to enable a Non View / or ignore feature on entire thread... either on all forums or at minimum the home page. This would prevent the Home page from being cluttered by Troll threads and quality threads being pushed back into the forums and missed...

Alternately, enable the "view rating" on homepage as is in forum views as a hint, warning or reminder to the quality of threads...

There exists a mix of intelligent members who desire to contribute, those who merely enjoy creating friction and conflict, and there are some which are so hopelessly lost it is painful to read...

I use the ignore function religiously, and attempted to use the thread subscribe feature, however the constant pinging of my iPad/iPhone devices when mail received is quite annoying... so needed to unsubscribe to allow my wife to sleep at night...

Thank you for your consideration...

Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 392

You have to be realistic about these sort of features.

Re: Adding Thread rating on Homepage
Thread rating is useless. You can rate your own thread and create multiple ET user names to rate threads multiple times.

Re: Enable thread ignore feature
Don't click on threads you do not want to view.

Registered: Aug 2011
Posts: 392

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Quote from cynic:

Would a Favorites thread option be acceptable?

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FireFox > Bookmarks > Bookmark This Page

I don't have IE, but I'm sure it's similar.

Registered: Dec 2003
Posts: 31975

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Quote from Realistic:

Enhancement request / suggestion

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Registered: May 2012
Posts: 89

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Quote from Lucrum:

Wow you must be a pretty smart guy. I mean you've only been here a month and yet you're full of ideas no one else has thought of in the 13 year history of the web site.

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Registered: Jan 2012
Posts: 407

The thread rating makes no sense on this forum anyway, and can be completely removed IMHO.

In forums like "Religion & Politics", you can see that right wing threads are always rated with 5 stars, and liberal threads are always rated with 1 star. A similar pattern can be found in the forums about technical trading: threads containing some serious mathematical or technical background info are routinely rated with 1 star and spammed by trolls.

Thread rating has normally the purpose to indicate the quality of a thread. This does not work here due to the high troll rate. I can see that it might be difficult to get rid of trolls, as the forum would then probably lose 50% of its members. But the thread rating is here completely meaningless.

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