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David55
20-06-2006, 13:31
Brandon, I think that it would be a good idea to add an option to pick what forum the thread will be opened in. Currently, opening a thread about a picture automatically opens it in the "Extra Discussion" forum. Maybe it would be better if each picture thread would be opened in the related forum. For example: John's swerve vex robot picture, would be opened in the "Vex Challenge" forum, together with all the Vex related threads.


David
Brandon Martus
20-06-2006, 14:08
Any suggestions on a reliable/standard way to pick such forum?

Right now we have a few moderators moving them out of 'Extra Discussion' into the proper forum. If you see any that could be moved, report them to a moderator and tell where it should be.

The 'Report to Moderator' button doesn't always have to be to report something bad.
David55
20-06-2006, 14:14
Instead of the moderators doing all the work, you could just have the users pick the forum from a list. I doubt there will be too many problems with wrong forums...
Brandon Martus
20-06-2006, 14:22
True. I'll have to see about working that into the process.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Adam Richards
20-06-2006, 16:58
Instead of the moderators doing all the work, you could just have the users pick the forum from a list. I doubt there will be too many problems with wrong forums...Perhaps an option for the forum choice to be moderator-approved should also be worked into the addition? If they were autoadded into forums, and people began to start posting everything in the wrong subforums, a moderator headache could be created very fast.
artdutra04
20-06-2006, 17:53
Any suggestions on a reliable/standard way to pick such forum?

Right now we have a few moderators moving them out of 'Extra Discussion' into the proper forum. If you see any that could be moved, report them to a moderator and tell where it should be.

The 'Report to Moderator' button doesn't always have to be to report something bad.Brandon,

A while back you enabled all users who uploaded an item to CD-Media to have limited moderator abilities for their own threads, as long as they still resided in the "Extra Discussion" forum. I believe the only thing you can do is to move the thread to a new forum. Here's a screenshot I took as I moved one of my threads out of the Extra Discussion forum and into the Championship Event forum:

http://adutra.team228.org/images/chief-delphi-screenshot_admin-settings.png
Brandon Martus
21-06-2006, 06:33
A while back you enabled all users who uploaded an item to CD-Media to have limited moderator abilities for their own threads, as long as they still resided in the "Extra Discussion" forum.
Another good point. Hmmmmmmmm.