Site update suggestions for Danny

Don't Be Nasty (clown?)

At Evan's suggestion, I already withdrew "mandatory" in favor of "strongly encouraged". In any event, I'm glad you agree that location posting (even Bahstahn) is sometimes useful.

 

Okay. In your view. I accept that. However, the point as I understood it was "what is the purpose of PriusChat"?

I gather you see it as something rather general and floating which is loosly connected to fun and Prius. Where does that lead? Who knows. How does one moderate that? By ear. How does one seem fair in the process? You don't. Unless you get lucky and stay lucky.

At least profit making enterprises have one measure. If they are losing money they know something must change without delay. What is the measure of success for PriusChat? How do we know if we are tending toward or away from our purpose? How will we know when to steer back toward the path of our "safety". Or will we find ourselves unexpectedly in oblivion? How do we know if that process is not already underway?

Are you comfortable with just lettiing it happen how ever it will?

I would rather see it mature into a better and better place to learn about and get support for the Prius and allow the other stuff to hang on in an undisturbing way.

Allan de

edit: If you think about it, even a simple statement such as the last one above can be the basis for considerable policy in formating the site.

 

there is a check box that says remember me....or save my cookie, whatever you prefer. if this is checked and it still does not work, then create a shortcut to specific forum. i believe that even "new posts" will work.

if that doesnt work, its your security and cookies settings that you need to look at.

 

I have consistently affirmed that Danny and the moderators have the right to whatever kind of website they want.
Also, I have always agreed that their position that, if we don't like it, we can ignore it or leave, is a legitimate policy for them to have.

This kind of patronizing and insulting attitude on the part of the moderators is exactly why I don't post here anymore.
I can and am ignoring the flame and fluff.
I certainly don't think I have done anything to merit the hostility of this response.

 

I'd like the tool to keep track of which posts I've read regardless of which computer I've logged in from. As it is now it keeps track of my history on each client, which is silly. *ahem* PriusOnline does this correctly...

As for thread views, eliminating threads by subject, eliminating authors, et cetera: those functions are provided by most newsreading tools for newsgroups. If you can live without animated avatars, smileys and other graphic stuff, check out alt.autos.toyota.prius . Every popular browser includes a newsgroup tool.

 

I'm sorry for your understandable bitterness over those events.
You are not alone.

I've only asked for the tools to make it easier to ignore unwelcome topics and/or members: "Ignore Member" (which exists), "Ignore Forum", "Ignore Threads Started by Member", and possibly a separate forum for contentious off-topic threads.
None of these tools would, in any way, impare the ability of members to post anything they wished while, at the same time, allowing other members to remain blissfully unaware of it.

I don't think I'm blaming anyone by requesting these tools.
You want us to police ourselves.
Providing these kinds of tools would make it easier to do so.

 

Do you have it bookmarked as http://www.priuschat.com or http://priuschat.com? I use the latter and I'm logged in as soon as the site comes up. I had asked about this and that's what I was told to do.

 

h34r:

Add a "politics" section with the explicit warning that things can (and will) easily get ugly... :lol:

j/k


FWIW, I think the site is, more or less, perfect the way it is (with the exception, maybe, of the more "fine tuning" points others have brought up). FHOP is such a small sliver of PC as a whole, you sure as heck can't say non-Prius topics are anywhere near a majority, plus, it allows for a very wide range of discussions. Yes, flame wars and ugliness WILL surface from time to time. Hell, I admit, probably 80% of other boards would have banned my nice person at the first flare up, but it ALWAYS dies... Life goes on... You cannot please everyone.

Keep up the good work!

 

Where is this checkbox? I've been all through (I think) the options in My Controls and haven't found this. I'm going to try deleting my PriusChat member id to see if that evokes this checkbox.

 

Hi. As a recent Prius owner and visitor, if I may I'd like to offer my 2 cents.

First with other sites that I frequent, I've found it a major timesaver to know in what threads I've posted AT A GLANCE. My suggestion would be to add another iconic column on the thread pages (and perhaps the section pages as well?) that would indicate if I have posted there or not. Maybe it's because I'm new and still getting used to the site, but it seems to be a hassle to look up my posts and navigate from there.

Also...this may have already been mentioned about the KB, but when I was thinking about buying, the FAQ here was pretty much useless in assisting with a 2006 model purchase. I don't know how the FAQ was posted (by a single person or many), but I find that with such a huge pool of brains here that the FAQs should be a collaboration. If they could be treated like posts to be edited and moderated, I would think that the FAQ section would be a formidable one-stop-shop collection of must have info for the soon to be, new, or longtime Prius owner.

From a coder perspective, I'd also like the ability to personalize my posts more with HTML code. Things like special characters, small tables, etc. would be a welcome addition...also the ability to hand code URLs (with HTML) would save time for me vs. the curernt method.

Edit: forgot something! Could it be possible to also have breadcrumbing at the bottom of a thread page as well? Some of the pages are really long scrolls.

Anyway...love the site and thanks for the forum to share ideas and suggestions.

 

That's no excuse for making it your life's mission to annoy as many people as possible. <_<

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Gee, I wonder who THIS "guest" could be???

btw, the use of the <_< emoticon gives it away...

 

No checkbox. Deleting the cookie didn't help. This appears to be a minor forum flaw with the homepage. However, I have no problems if I link via a bookmark to a forum, so I'll go that route for now. (But I do like entering the site via the homepage. It gives a nice overview.)