How Could We Improve Scioly.org?

[EastStroudsburg13]

bernard definitely handles a lot more of the aesthetic stuff around here than I do, but a lot of your ideas would require shifting the site to a different forum software other than phpBB. Which still is a valid suggestion, but a lot of things such as posting mechanics, the UCP, private messaging, and BBCode are things that we cannot get rid of or make significant changes to without changing the entire site and archiving this one (a la past generations that can be viewed, though not accessed, here).

[Paypog]

I have one problem with this website. The mods (AHEM EAST) are able to edit posts, which means even if I'm saying something completely harmless, they can (and have) changed the post to mess with me. It's very unsettling and really causes some internal scarring every time it occurs. Therefore, I believe that mods should be able to delete posts, but not directly change them. Thank you for your valuable time.

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I have one problem with this website. The mods (AHEM EAST) are able to edit posts, which means even if I'm saying something completely harmless, they can (and have) changed the post to mess with me. It's very unsettling and really causes some internal scarring every time it occurs. Therefore, I believe that mods should be able to delete posts, but not directly change them. Thank you for your valuable time.

This makes total sense to me.

[EastStroudsburg13]

In the event that this is a serious suggestion; no, editing privileges will not be revoked from moderators. In the event that a post contains something actually problematic, but has already been quoted by other posts, being able to edit is important to maintain the flow of a thread.

Now, mods will sometimes apply this to posts that don't break any rules, but rather speak ill of the mods, in a tongue-in-cheek manner. If someone gets their post edited in this situation and has a legitimate problem with it, they can send a private message to the mod to work it out.

[Paypog]

In the event that this is a serious suggestion; no, editing privileges will not be revoked from moderators. In the event that a post contains something actually problematic, but has already been quoted by other posts, being able to edit is important to maintain the flow of a thread.

Now, mods will sometimes apply this to posts that don't break any rules, but rather speak ill of the mods, in a tongue-in-cheek manner. If someone gets their post edited in this situation and has a legitimate problem with it, they can send a private message to the mod to work it out.

Alright thank you. Time to send you a private message

[Cow481]

Why is the color on the font color thing when you reply spelled colour, this is america not europe, there is a difference

[CrayolaCrayon]

Has the old board website always been down?

[bernard]

2. Organization of threads is super important. Perhaps you could make it so only admins, moderators, exalted members, and members with 100+ posts can make new topics/threads. Because many "noobs" come on here, don't bother reading past posts, and ask questions that have been answered 10+ times (I know because I was like this last year).

I can relate to disorganization being inconvenient but we also want to make the site accessible by those who are new. Getting your questions answered when you first joined may have encouraged you to stay.

1. An app would be a good idea, as people are more likely to use an app than click on a website frequently. That's just my psychological guess based on my experiences and observations.

This would be nice to have, but it would be more work to roll out new features consistently. If we were to introduce a new feature, we'd have to make it compatible with many web browsers, a couple mobile operating systems and screen sizes. To make things manageable while still providing a decent experience for you, we've worked on making the site more mobile friendly.

I have one problem with this website. The mods (AHEM EAST) are able to edit posts, which means even if I'm saying something completely harmless, they can (and have) changed the post to mess with me. It's very unsettling and really causes some internal scarring every time it occurs. Therefore, I believe that mods should be able to delete posts, but not directly change them. Thank you for your valuable time. :)

This functionality is included in the forum software we use and not added by ourselves. As East mentioned, we use these capabilities judiciously. If a long post has a link to SO rules but is otherwise useful, I'd rather do the editing and take the link out than delete the entire post.

Why is the color on the font color thing when you reply spelled colour, this is america not europe, there is a difference

The forums use a British English language pack. I think this is a small difference that we can live with.

[Unome]

Has the old board website always been down?

It's been down for about a year or so, I don't know why.

[MadCow2357]

2. Organization of threads is super important. Perhaps you could make it so only admins, moderators, exalted members, and members with 100+ posts can make new topics/threads. Because many "noobs" come on here, don't bother reading past posts, and ask questions that have been answered 10+ times (I know because I was like this last year).

As an afterthought, maybe you could make it so that all topics need to be approved by moderators before being created, kinda like the Polling Place.