BTW, stole this off another web site. I'm saving it for DU trolls. Whaddya think?
Posted on 10/10/2003 7:35:55 AM PDT by RightFighter
I was just wondering if any of you have any suggestions for how to make Free Republic easier to use and a better place in general. This is NOT a criticism of Jim Robinson and I am most appreciative of all his hard work. This site is great and I enjoy coming here to learn about and discuss the conservative issues of the day. This is just my desire to see this site become more "viewer-friendly" than it is in its present iteration. I've had thoughts over the years about this and these are the ones that I keep coming back to:
1. Different background colors for alternating posts within a thread, for readability
2. Ability to set up chat rooms for certain events, rather than using the "Live Thread" concept. The entire idea of a "Live Thread" is somewhat of an oxymoron and EXTREMELY difficult to follow.
3. Smilies and other icons available when posting messages
4. Keeping track of numbers of posts by each user. Many forum sites do this, and some even give titles to users who reach certain posting milestones.
5. The ability to mark a thread for later reading, rather than having to "bump" the thread
Do not fix what ain't broke! We do not need smiley faces, we do not need to be like a junior high chat room. This is an adult site, leave it as such.
If, and that is a big if... IF FR has anything wrong with it, that would be IMHO, to much PC'dom in it's ranks. As Rush stated yesterday, if you want to appeal to the voting majority, you must embrace the Social issues... I say that is total BS, but, they are up there(FR included), and I am down here...
Keep your suggestions to yourself about how to make this place better. All you stated is totally meaningless in regard to re-establishing our constitutional limited republic. Suggesting anything but damn near a call to arms is just fluff... remember that...
As for being called an idiot, that's the mildest one so far this year, but since I lack the "victim" gene I am immune.
I have seen these "improvement" suggestion threads deteriorate into a nasty and/or useless series of real inanities. Anything possible has been suggested. Simple is better.
On the other hand I love the technical tips, and appreciate them greatly; That we got a few classics on this thread though, was strictly serendipity and many will lose out as a result.
But as long as I'm here, let me add my pet "wish list items": a means to go back in a thread to a given time on a specific date, or any specific time and date.
I lose more interesting threads by not saving them to disk.
As for spell checker? NEVER!
How else am I gonna identify the [deleted ] darlings that I would rather not bother with?
Yes, but that posting log only covers a person's most recent posts, and does not indicate the total number of posts a person has made on FR. I took a posting hiatus from FR over the summer, and when I returned I was flamed by someone who accused me of being a disruptor since my profile page only went back a couple weeks. This despite the fact I've made hundreds of posts in the past. Unfortunately, there was no way for this person to otherwise know I wasn't a disruptor.
BTW, stole this off another web site. I'm saving it for DU trolls. Whaddya think?
This search goes back for years!
BlackRazor
Since Apr 1, 2002
Solution... never take a break from FR. : )
I just tried that on myself and it only lists my posts back to 9/17/03. Nothing from earlier this year or the previous year.
You're doomed to profound disappointment then, sweetie.
I never expect the last word
I'm married
I think you misunderstood what sit-rep said when he called this an adult site.
I can't explain why it's not reporting your old posts!
I think it only holds a certain number of posts, regardless of how old they are. Once you exceed that number, it starts bumping out the older ones. At least that's how I think it works.
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