Meta: This board needs ignore user/thread to function properly

Submitted by huntmich on October 28th, 2023 at 12:23 PM

Michigan being the subject of national and ridiculous ridicule brings all the wrong attention to this board and attracts trolls and bad faith actors. They can speak whatever inflammatory bullshit they want, but high value contributors will come around less and their input will be harder to decipher if we don't enact a means for users to block out the noise to get to the signal. It'll be a downward spiral of high quality user-generated content, which is about 28% of what makes this site great.

 

That's all.

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snarling wolverine

October 28th, 2023 at 12:32 PM ^

The board needs a lot of things.

-Active threads should go to the top (even if they're - gasp - more than 3 hours old)

-Posters should get notifications when someone replies to them

-Posts with scores of -10 or worse should be folded over/grayed out 

Many, many message boards have these functions.  Why this community has to be trapped forever in 2008, I don't understand.  

(Before someone says "It's a free site, be happy, blah blah blah" - I'd happily contribute to a KickStarter to upgrade this.)

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Seth

October 28th, 2023 at 12:37 PM ^

The first is a feature, not a bug. New threads are more important to us because if you push active threads it tends to push things that piss people off to the top. The threads that don't get as much activity are usually the ones you will have a better experience with, or are more relevant. If you see a thread with over 100 replies, chances are you don't need to go near it.

Notification alerts are a sticky subject. Most of the time you do not want this. Also they're a good way to slow down the site.

-Good idea.

UPDATE

I forgot to add, if you click on your name and then click on the "Activity" tab you can see the threads you're in and whether there are new comments. If you click that you should automatically be taken to the latest reply to you if there is one.

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bluebyyou

October 28th, 2023 at 3:29 PM ^

I see that I'm bucking city hall here Seth, and maybe others have different experiences, but I frequent several different websites and on every one of them thread order is based on the latest response.

Are there any stats that suggest the Mgoblog way is the preferred choice on other websites?

At least consider increasing the number of threads visible on the front page.

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Denard In Space

October 28th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^

I'm generally happy but I came here to tout the MGoBlog Enhancer Chrome Extension complete with "Troll Cave" to hide unwanted users, though I've never used that feature. Alas, it is gone now from the Chrome Store. However, there is a current MGoBlog Extension for Chrome you can check out at this link: 
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgoextension/ofgjchbbkncnajaflgolpahdbidmgoop

It is described like this: 
 

A reasonable retheme of mgoblog.com

This retheme strips away the clutter of MGoBlog 3.0. During the install, you will see a notice that the extension reads data sent to and from mgoblog.com. This is necessary to block the site's default styles and javascript. No private data is read. Specific changes:

  • No more banner or story tiles at the top of the page. The first thing you see is the latest post.
  • Board threads listed before diaries in the sidebar.
  • Few diary titles in the sidebar.
  • Comment threads are more condensed and less cluttered. Board threads default to 100 comments per page.

Haven't used the latter, can't vouch for it. Just thought I'd share 

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