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[Bruce Klein]

Thanks, Infy... will keep in mind.

Update, for those who have an incorrect post count, please check the old forum and email me w/ requested update.

Old forums: http://www.imminst.o...?s=&act=Members

[MP11]

How can I see more than a users last 5 posts?

[Live Forever]

How can I see more than a users last 5 posts?

Hover over a name (to the left of this post), click the pull down arrow, and click "Find a Member's posts". It displays a lot for me (more than 5). You could also do a specific search for key words and confine it to an individual screen name, I suppose. :thumb:

[MP11]

How can I see more than a users last 5 posts?

Hover over a name (to the left of this post), click the pull down arrow, and click "Find a Member's posts". It displays a lot for me (more than 5). You could also do a specific search for key words and confine it to an individual screen name, I suppose. :thumb:

Got it. Thanks.

Edited by mp11, 30 November 2007 - 12:38 AM.

[Brainbox]

After sending a PM, I could not find in in the sent folder.
It seems that you have to check every PM explicitly if you want to.
Is it possible to enable a feature to change the default to "always make a copy of sent PM's to the sent box"?

Edited by brainbox, 30 November 2007 - 06:15 PM.

[Bruce Klein]

Thanks, brainbox... done.

[stephen_b]

Anyone else having the issue where one is constantly being logged off, even with the 'keep me logged in' button checked? I'm wondering if it remembers your IP or works off of a cookie?

Stephen

[forever freedom]

Can someone return to the old measurement of posts per day that had more digits? Before i had could see i had 0.6 posts per day, now all it shows is that i have "1 post per day". If you could, i would even more enjoy seeing a 3 figure measurement like "0.67 posts per day" or something like that.


Thanks. Hope it's possible to do it.

[ilia]

Hi,
The link from ImmInst Forum to Regional Forums has been interrupted again.

Just some time ago, we were chatting in one of the Regional forums how great it was that we are all part of International ImmInst, but that we have regional forums to coordinate local activities. And now the regional forums have been again relegated to a limbo…

[Mind]

Sorry about that Ilia. Hopefully we will get those forums working again soon. I think the regional forums are very important.

[forever freedom]

Sorry about that Ilia. Hopefully we will get those forums working again soon. I think the regional forums are very important.

Do you think you guys can do anything about my request? Or is it too hard to make this change? I sincerely have no idea how to edit forums... so i don't know if it's hard or not to do.

Edited by sam988, 01 December 2007 - 06:37 PM.

[Brainbox]

http://www.imminst.o...o...c=18585&hl=

Old uploaded files are not accessible.

[platypus]

?

[Bruce Klein]

64x64 is favored to allow faster load and more emphasis on post content. Also, profiles allow for larger personal photos... btw, we're working on a "photo bucket" like installation as well.

[niner]

I have two requests.. I find the first post of a thread appearing on every page of the thread to be a distraction. Can this be changed easily? Anyone else find it bothersome? The other thing that I wish was carried over from the old forum structure was the visibility of recent posts while you are in the posting editor. A lot of times while I'm posting I'll want to look back to see what someone said or grab some piece of data, and now it requires opening a new window.

Also there seems to be a relatively short timeout on the logins. Sometimes I get logged out a couple times a night because I'm distracted with something. Could we have a longer timeout? (OK, now it's three requests...) I assume fixing the "remember me" function for logins is on the list of things to do.

The new forum software is looking great, guys, and it's way more powerful than before. Thanks for all your efforts.

[eternaltraveler]

we have fully modifiable active topics lists.

Using this tool it's a simple matter to select the fora you want included in the active topics list (bookmark that page to save your preferences).

We can now make fully individual active topics lists. though it probably makes sense to put a few options in the blue bar at the top (supps vs non-supps?)

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[Bruce Klein]

Thanks for the suggestions/ideas guys!

Plan to implement most all as suggested (as soon as we can, likely w/in the next few days).. and have added to the list.

- non-supplement active topics list, etc (Elrond, great idea)
- regional forums were lost in transition.. need to revive
- links not working for uploaded files in Full Member share forum
- first post in thread - on each page is distracting (remove to only first)
- see previous posts in reply to thread view
- remember me, duration longer
- number of posts made back to three digits

[Bruce Klein]

Let's brainstorm a bit on which Selective Active Topics meta group we'd like to add to the top bar (as a drop-down under Active Topics). Perhaps...

Active Topics
- Supplements Only
- Supplements Excluded
- Science Only
- Round Table Only
- Full Member Topics

[eternaltraveler]

the first two are a no brainer.

Leadership would be good for those of us in leadership, when we don't have a lot of time and just need to see whats going on their quickly

Science would be good

How differentiated do you think we should be keeping in mind that everyone can make their own individual list (but most probably won't I suppose)? If we get too differentiated we're down to one active topics list per forum, and that defeats the purpose.

[Bruce Klein]

Agree on Leadership Topics... and on others, I'll look at actual traffic #'s to get a better idea. Anyway, this should change overtime, as suggestions are made by members, and as we grow more active in certain areas.

Also, one problem I see is that forums w/o active topics should show the history of topics (and not an error screen) when selecting Selective Active Topics for relatively inactive forums.

[eternaltraveler]

Also, one problem I see is that forums w/o active topics should show the history of topics (and not an error screen) when selecting Selective Active Topics for relatively inactive forums.

Perhaps "active topics" could be modified in some way for certain areas (round table active topics) so instead of showing topics active within a few days by default it could show a week or a month?

[Lazarus Long]

A projects and programs active topics would be useful to speed up finding areas of focus for taking action and an *announcements* page that acts as a virtual kiosk would also be extremely helpful. It would be where we post not only our own chats, conferences etc, but all the related conferences that pass a set of guidelines we set for relevance. These should be from any organization with similar focus and could overlap research groups, universities or simply think tanks that are mentioned by members. For example many of the conferences that Gavrilov mentions, or even those Aubrey is involved in are often lost in the threads they are posted in but really should get a more prominent presentation. Just mentioning them on the front page is not always enough and this should include mention of conferences by many of the other groups like the WTA, Betterhumans, or even companies like Novamente.

Links to the virtual kiosk should be in a few places like the drop down menus and maybe pinned to the top of the active list pages if those pages can get topics pinned to them.

I also think a *Soft Sciences* forum section would be helpful to begin the process of sifting and winnowing the less meaningful threads from the more substantive threads with social science relevance. It might be better to call it *Academia* or something besides *soft science*. For example philosophical talk might stay at the round table but I do not think the academic aspects of philosophy should be casually blended with *social discussions* of the off topic areas. If it is academics then it should be treated with a similar standard to the manner we treat the sciences, even if the specific rules of discourse vary somewhat. If it is more like bar talk then it belongs in a member's discourse zone that includes Free Speech etc.

IMHO it would be easier to moderate conduct if the areas of participation were a little more clearly delineated and this would help filter what appears on active topic subsets AND google.

Creative Free style belongs with the Lounge as well as many videos of general interest but specific lectures (even when on video or audio) belong in a more formal related topic zone. We also need a more defined *library* and cataloging system for uploaded files (file sharing) that is only accessible to Full Members and maybe even a library section that is public but with copyright rules much more stringently enforced sometimes by simply making the files of high relevance but high risk move to the private archives by electronic sleight of hand.

[Bruce Klein]

Agree, Laz... also one of the larger mods is a wiki that has a forum user-name integration to allow us to more systematically-easily-clearly organize info and gate by member level... hopefully by year's end.

[Lazarus Long]

What might be useful for a start would be to divide the entire institute structure into two (or a few) principle zones, from which standards of conduct could be more consistently applied and understood. One could be *Casual Club talk* (only an example of a name) and another would be the *Cloister Cluster*, *Academia Hall*, *Scholars Central* or some such other relevant and obvious title.

By dividing into a few larger and more concisely applicable zones it would facilitate the issue of filtering active topics as well as enforcing rules and identifying problems. We would then have Leadership as one of those clearly defined *Zones* and be able to move all casual and trash talk to a *Club Zone* for the more intimate but often frivolous discussion and each of these zones would have Basic member (public) and Full Member (private) only areas.

[Bruce Klein]

Agree, Laz... hard and soft division via the Selective Active Topics feature should be worthwhile.

[Shepard]

Also, if no one has mentioned it, the Exercise Regimens subform is gone.

[Traclo]

One idea for a feature would be the ability to censor someone. Many places have it for when a user simply does not want to hear what the other is saying, but they are flooding many of the topics. This would allow someone to read the posts that they deem relevant while ignoring the others without having to deal with the flood of other comments. Though this is mostly unnecessary, and may have negative consequences, there is much trolling going on recently in the forums, which lowers the amount of time I spend reading worthwhile comments in an attempt to filter out the "I'm right!" "No I'mmm right!" type discussions.

Though this strikes a bad chord in me, for it feels too elitist, and too much of a blanket solution.
Suppose we'll just have to deal with it.

(And it might be hard to do!! :tung: )

[Shepard]

traclo, You have the option to ignore both users and entire sections if you please. You can ignore individual users in your Control Panel, and you can set up an Active Topics List for whichever sections you prefer.

[eternaltraveler]

Hi bruce,

I noticed that the FSF doesn't show up on the active topics list even if you select it. Can this be remedied?

[niner]

we have fully modifiable active topics lists.

Using this tool it's a simple matter to select the fora you want included in the active topics list (bookmark that page to save your preferences).

This sounds like exactly what I was going to ask Santa for! I clicked Selective, and got a list of all active topics. It wasn't obvious how or where to enter my selections, though. Can anyone point me to some documentation, or show how it's done? Thanks a million!