Suppressing Forum Topics

[dkel]

@Tim Kelley 132192 wrote:

Yeah, what’s the fix?

Join Freezing Saddles, duh. :rolleyes:

[jabberwocky]

@Tim Kelley 132192 wrote:

Yeah, what’s the fix?

De-index the FS subforum from the new posts list? Roll the entire thing off into its own event page (it seems like its getting big enough)? Evaluate whether 30 individual threads are truly necessary?

@rcannon100 132193 wrote:

Whine and complain a whole bunch about a free service????

…or be a dickhead? :rolleyes:

[mstone]

@Tim Kelley 132192 wrote:

Yeah, what’s the fix?

As suggested up top, the ability to ignore anything happening in a subforum. If there’s a way to make that happen with the current software, great. If not, oh well.

[Tim Kelley]

@jabberwocky 132196 wrote:

De-index the FS subforum from the new posts list?

Is that possible with this software?

[jrenaut]

@Tim Kelley 132192 wrote:

Yeah, what’s the fix?

vBulletin has a forum where you can provide feedback – if you make your case over there, maybe they’ll add it, although this site is version 4.x and they’re on 5.x now. There’s also a community forum where people write plugins. Maybe someone has already created the functionality you want. Or you could learn PHP (if you don’t already know it) and create your own plugin.

[Tim Kelley]

Sounds like pretty advanced stuff for a lowly bike advocate…

[jrenaut]

@Tim Kelley 132208 wrote:

Sounds like pretty advanced stuff for a lowly bike advocate…

My suggestions weren’t necessarily pointed at you.

[Tim Kelley]

If someone wants to take a crack at looking into a fix, I’d welcome the assistance!

[vern]

@PotomacCyclist 132172 wrote:

Only one of the top 8 new forum posts is BAFS-related right now, not counting this thread.

Currently, 8 of the 9 new forum posts are about suppressing forum topics! So you see, any hot topic will create this phenomenon. I say fuhgeddaboudit and let the moment pass.

[rcannon100]

@vern 132213 wrote:

I say fuhgeddaboudit and let the moment pass.

There, its Fixed.

[bobco85]

My two cents – I wonder if the following could be done:

• New forum setting would be added (accessible from Settings -> My Settings -> General Settings page)
• A checklist of all the subforums (Freezing Saddles, Arlington PAL Ambassador Program, Commuters, Events, etc.) would appear
• Users could check or uncheck which subforums show up in the Activity Stream (the “What’s New?” page) and save the selections to their profile
• The Activity Stream would then be customized for each profile to show only what subforums they want
• Peace and prosperity spread through the land

[Steve O]

For me at least, I find the organization of The Chain Link in Chicago to be better than ours. I particularly like the upcoming rides and events section. They have 10 events upcoming just between now and the end of January. That’s a function this forum could serve well, but the calendar function here is not really functional. And no one ever looks at it, because it’s almost hidden.
The number of users and discussions in Chicago is actually a lot larger than this forum. For instance, they already have 14 replies to the Missouri flag post while we have 2. Their “What’s this doing in the Bike Lane 2016” thread, started on January 4 has 42 replies and 2718 views in 9 days. However, despite the much larger traffic volume, I feel like I can evaluate what I want to read much more easily on their site.

I don’t know how to translate what I see there into improvements here. But if there are ways to incorporate some of what they do there that seems to work onto this forum, that would be good. Someone must have compiled a list of best practices for on-line forums that would provide ideas for improving this one.

[Anonymous]

@vern 132213 wrote:

I say fuhgeddaboudit and let the moment pass.

But the moment might not pass. There are twice as many people participating in FS this year as last year, so even if we start with assuming that last year’s “plateau” level of FS posting was not too disruptive (and I don’t even know if that is true?), that doesn’t mean this year’s won’t be. We are legitimately overrunning the forum w/ freezing saddles posts at the moment, and it is not at all obvious (to me at least) if or when (prior to late March anyway) that will stop. Trying to figure out a solution seems like a good idea.

[mstone]

@Steve O 132225 wrote:

The number of users and discussions in Chicago is actually a lot larger than this forum. For instance, they already have 14 replies to the Missouri flag post while we have 2.

Well, until reading this it was suppressed by my mental freezing saddles filter due to its unfortunate choice of subject line.

[DismalScientist]

Regarding all the Freezing Saddles posts, I believe that the youth of America have the appropriate suggestion:

“GET A ROOM”

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