Ways to Make The Forum Better - Suggestions

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Re: Ways to Make The Forum Better - Suggestions

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TheVeganAtheist wrote:Are there any other people who would want another thread created for more serious discussions (separate from Off Topic)? Please weigh in.
I'm in favor of having a serious discussion thread.
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brimstoneSalad wrote:I'd merge:

Youtube Fan Suggestions / Requests & Forum Support
That's definitely a good suggestion to implement. The difference between those two is often already blurry.
dan1073 wrote:I'm in favor of having a serious discussion thread.
Great. And political issues are a (big) part of it, right? (can be put in the description)
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Science and Technology has been made into a new thread called Off-Topic Discussions Serious. I have moved out a lot of the non-serious content into the renamed "Off-Topic Discussion Fun". Serious topics that once were in the old Off-Topic Discussions, have been moved into the Serious forum.
Do you find the forum to be quiet and inactive?
- Do your part by engaging in new and old topics
- Don't wait for others to start NEW topics, post one yourself
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What do you think about the 'Youtube Fan Suggestions / Requests & Forum Support' merge?
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I thought about it, but they are fundamentally different. Youtube suggestions is for ideas and requests for my youtube videos, while the Support page is for the forum. I also didn't add any new forums, only repurposed/renamed ones we already had, so we don't have more forums then we did before the change.
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Perhaps this has been proposed before, excuse me if it has, but some way of showing appreciation of a post without replying to it would be nice. An example of how this could be done:

On another forum I'm active on you just have a little thumbs up button with the prescription 'say thanks to the author of this post'. Everybody has a 'has thanked' and 'been thanked' counter and you can click on the number to see which posts he has thanked or been thanked for. I really like this system because it allows you to do what I said before, along with giving you an impression of what kind of posts are well received by your fellow forum members.
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miniboes wrote:Perhaps this has been proposed before, excuse me if it has, but some way of showing appreciation of a post without replying to it would be nice. An example of how this could be done:

On another forum I'm active on you just have a little thumbs up button with the prescription 'say thanks to the author of this post'. Everybody has a 'has thanked' and 'been thanked' counter and you can click on the number to see which posts he has thanked or been thanked for. I really like this system because it allows you to do what I said before, along with giving you an impression of what kind of posts are well received by your fellow forum members.
Im looking into it, and if I can manage to implement it I will.
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TheVeganAtheist wrote: Im looking into it, and if I can manage to implement it I will.
If you'd like I can ask the admin of that forum how he did it.
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Here's an mod called AutoMod. This will allow you to easily add any mod you want to phpBB https://www.phpbb.com/mods/automod/
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miniboes wrote:
TheVeganAtheist wrote: Im looking into it, and if I can manage to implement it I will.
If you'd like I can ask the admin of that forum how he did it.
sure.
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