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Captain...or Skully
climber
Where are you bound?
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Homan.....There'd be some cryin' about that.
"My Posts! My precious posts!!"
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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It would be nice to be able to flag spam posts. ST, like most sites with user generated content, has been seeing an increase in spam posted by real people (not automated postings). On the site I work on, we allow people to flag spam posts. After a certain number of flags, if the user account is new, the post gets hidden until it is reviewed. If multiple posts are flagged, the account is blocked and all posts are hidden. If the account has been around, the post stays visible until it is reviewed. This gets most spam posts off the site quickly, while preventing people from hiding the legit content of someone they just don't like. Accounts can also be whitelisted.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland--Gulf Breeze
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Brandon-
Please, name another forum where the owner checks in and takes feedback like CMac does.
TGR
Wide Fetish
Middendorf's big wall site
UK climbing
Mountain Project
Summitpost
14ers
Most of the forums I read tend to have owners who take care of the site.
I think some of you need to expand your horizons and realize ST is not the only game in town and as Riley already pointed out this model is very limited in global beta compared to MP or the next site we find ourselves on .
Sorry Chris, you should have stepped up and taken responsibility years ago and start chopping heads of the politicos who contribute zero climbing stoke.
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BBA
climber
OF
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Better search to either allow three characters or to allow spaces within a string surrounded by quotes. As an example, if someone writes BBA is a dick, I can't find that out to defend myself or agree because I can't search for three characters or add a space in front or behind BBA to make it four.
thanks
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Better search. There has to be free boilerplate code that lets you "advanced search" by field and do shorter strings.
Three forum tabs: Climbing, Politics, and Ourselves.
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Hilt
Social climber
Utah
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I agree, we need to help people block others to prevent situations from getting out of control. Internet stalking is a real threat to many for all the wrong reasons.
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Murzerker
Social climber
Land of Goats and Tacos
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Better search, and the ability to ignore/filter users. Other than that everything about this place rocks.
Edit: and the ability to subscribe to threads, (or favorite them).
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada City, CA
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Calendar of upcoming climbing related events!
Erik
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Did the search just change a bit?
In the past I have had to search for text within a post.
This morning it appeared I had an option to search for a thread title,
which I had previously been unable to do.
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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You're right scuffy!
Additionally if you search by authorname, it brings up every thread that user has started...
I wonder who has started the most threads?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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1. Put the search back how it was.
Yeah or change the defaults
Hate the new search, which looks within thread titles first, usually bringing up ancient threads instead of the current things I"m looking for.
Default should be "Within entire Forum" so we get fresher results
Thanks Buddy. Thanksless question!
peace
Karl
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, scuffy b... and karl...
say, as to this:
Did the search just change a bit?
In the past I have had to search for text within a post.
This morning it appeared I had an option to search for a thread title,
which I had previously been unable to do
i DID just experience that, on the search tonight... *i needed to find the horse thread...
usually all i do, is type my name, and i get my recent threads... which usually is all i need...
or, someone elses name, and their recent thread...
now, i supposed the new way may be good--i may just need t get used to it, but:
it DID bring up all the old thread, according to title--that HAD my name i the title.. (I JUST wanted my name, as to being the poster)...
well, oops, NOW I HAD to REMEMBER what i had in the title or WHAT the major words were, so i COULD bring up my recent post on the horses...
was wondering if i couldn't remember, then, HOW would i ever do a search to find the thread, if my name-search only brought up those with name in the title...
a bit harder, but perhaps in the LONG RUN, it is better...
just that i need to get used to it, i reckon...
oh my... :)
i DID find the post though--i was just very surprised at how i had to get a 'battle plan' on how to do it, :))
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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now the search is working worse for me than formerly.
The phrase "drank wine and hit on my wife" used to get me to a post of
Prod's along with several other choices. Now I am told that phrase has
never appeared.
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jaaan
Trad climber
Chamonix, France
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Dec 11, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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I am starting to think about what should be focus of improvements in 2012 for SuperTopo.com...
Well unless a poster does what I just did, by quoting another poster, it's often impossible to tell who they are replying to and therefore difficult to follow a conversation. On the other side of the Atlantic, UKC solves this with a 'In reply to Chris McNamara' link back to another post. Would it be possible to incorporate this sort of feature? Or have I missed something?
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Prod
Trad climber
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Dec 11, 2011 - 01:30pm PT
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Ban anyone who posts a cartoon pony/ unicorn/ weird uncomfortable images.
Prod.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 11, 2011 - 02:47pm PT
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Scuffy: enter the search words, hit "go". The new screen tells you it looked for the exact words you asked for, in that exact order. But it also allows alternatives, e.g. "search for post containing these words". Try that. (In other words, the default search is now exactly what you ask and nothing else - but there are alternatives.)
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1096121&msg=1096877#msg1096877
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Dec 11, 2011 - 04:13pm PT
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This reiterates other posts; I assume that isn't bad when looking for things folks would like to see.
1. I agree that the main forum should have columns for number of views and latest post as well as number of messages, with the option, as in the TR section to sort on any of those characteristics. In particular, sorting on number of views might bring up interesting threads that haven't garnered a lot of comments.
2. I can't say I see any great need for blocking specific posters, but I think the ability to hide entire threads would be very helpful.
Having a forum restricted to talk about climbing is actually rather boring; take a look at MP to get an idea what that is like. Part of the interest of Super Topo is that there are very interesting discussions going on that aren't strictly (or even tangentially) about climbing. But the trouble is that "interesting" is in the eye of the beholder.
I suspect that most people, given the opportunity to hide threads, will leave most of the climbing threads visible and then choose to hide some of the non-climbing threads; the net result will be an increase in participation in the climbing discussions, because they will be less likely to be lost, but no diminution of what each of us finds interesting in the non-climbing department, and no need for some kind of moderation imposed from above.
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Chinchen
climber
Way out there....
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Dec 14, 2011 - 12:51am PT
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Has anyone asked for a POLL option yet? Those are fun....
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R.B.
Trad climber
47N 122W
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Dec 14, 2011 - 01:40am PT
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If not already suggested, maybe a new column on the forum listing that gives the name of the last poster (it could even be truncated if column width is an issue.)
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Dec 14, 2011 - 11:44am PT
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Anders, as of today the search is much better.
However, for several days I could get no results from an exact phrase
which had worked well for me for quite a while.
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