Suggest Your Ideas

Suggestion:

 

It might be useful to have the ability to toggle a "hold for moderation" setting for users.   I believe moderation delays are available for blogs, but not forums presently..

 

How it might work:

 

If toggled, the member could post, and could see their submitted posts appear (perhaps greyed text) as a normal post in the conversation, but the post would not appear for other members until a moderator cleared it. 

 

The moderation flag would be set for the thread, and maybe some additional moderation icon to the side of the thread would appear alerting moderators that the thread contained posts that needed to be cleared.  Perhaps the post would appear greyed out, but in place for the moderators too, and it might have an "approve" button appear much like a kudo or accepted solution button appears on the right hand side of the post.  When clicked to approve, the post would become black text and normal - viewable by all.   If a mod didn't want to approve, they could use the pull down to take normal moderation actions - delete, move, etc.

 

The toggle function could be accomplished via a pull down, or a setting from the profile page (where mod / admin comments can be stored, along with bans displayed), or this might be done by a role that could be applied automatically or manually.

 

 Why I'm suggesting this:

 

The purpose of this idea is in the same line as another idea here which suggests auto-bans if the smut filter it triggered multple times within a certain interval.

 

In my case, I'm seeking alternative features that will help to curb some users that we might wish to place on probation, but not outright ban.   We have a couple members who post erratically - some of the their content is ok, and some fall in the category of profane rants, public reposting of moderators private counciling of them, etc.  Obviously short term bans may be a tactical solution, along with further moderation of their posted content, but the bans are less desireable in that it denies continued participation, even passive access to other help being provided, and moderation coverage may not be 24/7 and available moderators should not be consumed with "real time" damage control.

Imported from the Suggestion Box:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/board/message?board.id=Suggestions&thread.id=36

 

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Roxy wrote:

I would love to see Lithium’s search refined so that it presented search results based on individual threads, not individual posts. 

 

Currently, if you do a search in the forum for "languages," almost the entire first page of search results are from the same thread—just repeated over and over b/c the word "language” is mentioned several times throughout that single thread.  The way it works today would be comparable to Google presenting the same website multiple times, because the website contained multiple mentions of your search term, rather than just presenting the website as one of your many different search terms.

 

IMHO, it would be more effective if Community members could scan, on the first page, more threads that include the search term instead of having to review pages of search results--many just individual posts from the same thread.  Please note that the actual search would still function by searching posts within a thread, but the results would only present the entire threads.

 

Cheers,

 

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Sure would be great if a 'floated' thread wasn't duplicated in the 'main' threads list.  It's odd to see a thread appear twice (within close proximity) when someone posts to a floated thread.

As more and more ideas are posted, the length of the page grows excessively.  I think it would be great to view a list of the submitted Ideas by Subject only.  THink of this as similar to browsing a board in the Forums... you can view only the thread titles... and must click to view the entire post.  I think an optional view like this for Ideas would be great.

I suggest a new page displaying a list (with links) of all threads with new posts since last login.  Rather than enter the board to view the threads with unread posts, this page would pull all threads with new posts regardless of what board they are in.  Perhaps a column which displays what board the thread is from... and a link to the first new/unread post in the thread.  This could enhance moderation effectiveness by providing a portal type view of new posts.

Displaying both a rank and role with each user name would allow both the type of user and the status of the user to be displayed. For example, we have assigned the rank of "Certified Consultant" along with a special icon to our partners to identify them as "experts." But this prevents a rank based on participation from displaying, which is important because these are our top contributors.

Imported from the Suggestion Box:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/board/message?board.id=Suggestions&thread.id=20

 

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Gina wrote:
All the forums I have ever used divide their tags with commas or some other punctuation. Why does Lithium use spaces? When two words naturally should go together the tool forces them apart creating meaningless tags in the tag cloud. For example, if I tagged something with George Washington, "George" and "Washington" would be greatly separated in the tag cloud. By themselves, two words that naturally go together may not have much meaning when separated.

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Imported from the Suggestion Box:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/board/message?board.id=Suggestions&thread.id=45

 

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Mark_Hopkins wrote:

I had an idea I thought I'd float here to get group reactions...

 

Suppose as part of the rank system, there would be a box in which a predefined congratulatory message could be entered by the admin.   There would be a check box to auto send the message to members upon rank achievement.

 

This would allow the community manager to tailor some messages geared toward certain behavior triggers that were met.  These might recognize ranks for being especially active in the community, or for the time investment in terms of logins & minutes online, or recognition based - kudos, or other legacy ratings.

 

The message could also call out some of the new permissions being bestowed ...

 

In short, it would be a way that members could receive some personalized private messages from the community recognizing them on rank / role changes and increasing the positive impact of the achievement without burdening the mods & admins with a lot email duties.

 

Thoughts?

 

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Too many times users post a new thread or simply a reply with no text in the body of the post.  Sure there might be something in the Subject, but its usually worthless.  It would be great to enable an option to deny posting a post with no text in the body.

Have you ever wanted to save a copy of a thread in another location without having to 'move' it?  What if you wanted to create a board and store all 'The Funny Things Users Say" and simply copy the post or thread to that location for posterity... but keep the thread in the public area for all to enjoy?

How about create a read-only board where you move the most commonly asked questions/answers (again, thinking Tribal KB... but perhaps a poor man's version)?  I'd like to take a 'solved' thread and copy only the question and 'solution' to that read only board.  I'd like to keep the original thread in the main discussion area(s) to preserve the conversation with only the 'meat' of the thread appearing in the read-only section.

 

Darn, this is getting confusing... simply put: I'd like the ability to 'copy' posts/threads to another area while preserving the original.

 

Note: copied posts/threads would not impact post count.

Imported from the Suggestion Box:

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/lithium/board/message?board.id=Suggestions&thread.id=42

 

 

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jloyless wrote:

I would love to see batch processing extended so that it could be used within threads like it can be within boards.  Recently, I've had several long threads that I needed to separate into two different threads.  The messages that I needed to move out of thread 1 into thread 2 weren't always replies, so I couldn't do a bulk pickup using that function.  I ended up moving them one at a time which was very tedious.  A list of messages with checkboxes would have been much more efficient.

 

Jane

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