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Posted August 14, 2024Aug 14 Hello! I have a few suggestions for features which would enhance the user experience. In the case where members can edit a post, I believe that reactions should be reset if the author edits the body of their original post for any reason. Currently, an author can make a post, receive reactions, then edit their words and the reactions remain. We had a situation recently where an author stated an uncontroversial opinion, received many "like" and "thanks" reactions only to have them edit their post to clarify they meant the opposite of what they originally wrote. The positive reactions remained for the now controversial opinion and no longer reflect how the community really felt. I believe the reactions should have been reset when the member edited their original comments. In the AdminCP, there should be a way to stipulate a maximum character limit for posts on a per forum basis. You should be able to build a tag cloud block. We allow moderators to tag threads in order to group them, but there is no way for members to see available tags and click on them to discover content. They only way is to see a tag and click it directly, but of course this does not reveal what other tags exist. Thank you.
August 14, 2024Aug 14 14 minutes ago, Matt_C said: I believe that reactions should be reset if the author edits the body of their original post for any reason. Often edits are done for spelling and grammar, I don't think that would be widely accepted to remove reactions if someone did that. If you are concerned about edits changing the emotion or topic of the post, editing can always be disabled so any clarifications are done to a new post. Moderators can remove reactions in rare cases like this where a post may widely change based on perception or clarification. 14 minutes ago, Matt_C said: In the AdminCP, there should be a way to stipulate a maximum character limit for posts on a per forum basis. I would be curious as to why? 14 minutes ago, Matt_C said: You should be able to build a tag cloud block. We allow moderators to tag threads in order to group them, but there is no way for members to see available tags and click on them to discover content. They only way is to see a tag and click it directly, but of course this does not reveal what other tags exist. There's some large changes to tagging for version 5, this will help discovery of those tags:
August 15, 2024Aug 15 9 hours ago, Matt_C said: In the case where members can edit a post, I believe that reactions should be reset if the author edits the body of their original post for any reason. Currently, an author can make a post, receive reactions, then edit their words and the reactions remain. We had a situation recently where an author stated an uncontroversial opinion, received many "like" and "thanks" reactions only to have them edit their post to clarify they meant the opposite of what they originally wrote. The positive reactions remained for the now controversial opinion and no longer reflect how the community really felt. I believe the reactions should have been reset when the member edited their original comments. Some thoughts: 1. Can't the community - and by that, I mean individual members - simply remove their reactions? 2. This is entirely anecdotal and unscientific, but I would think that - in the overwhelming majority of time - users who edit their posts usually do so to further clarify their original intent in the same vein of opinion in which they originally intended. What you posed is a very unusual and untypical situation. 3. This is, and I want to call this out because it's such an unusual situation, deceptively brilliant. Post something very likeable. Get all the likes. Then immediately edit your post to the opposite opinion, to the point where members are so confused and wracked with self-doubt and mass consternation to the point where they question the very nature of space and time. The universe explodes. Reactions become useless.
August 15, 2024Aug 15 3 hours ago, Joel R said: 2. This is entirely anecdotal and unscientific, but I would think that - in the overwhelming majority of time - users who edit their posts usually do so to further clarify their original intent in the same vein of opinion in which they originally intended. What you posed is a very unusual and untypical situation. Agreed. I would say in this kind of unusual situation, it would be for the moderation team to take disciplinary action on that particular user as per any Community Guidelines/Terms of Use that you may have set up. This kind of activity is definitely not the norm and I don't think the Reactions function needs to change because of it.
August 16, 2024Aug 16 On 8/14/2024 at 11:19 AM, Matt_C said: Hello! I have a few suggestions for features which would enhance the user experience. In the case where members can edit a post, I believe that reactions should be reset if the author edits the body of their original post for any reason. Currently, an author can make a post, receive reactions, then edit their words and the reactions remain. We had a situation recently where an author stated an uncontroversial opinion, received many "like" and "thanks" reactions only to have them edit their post to clarify they meant the opposite of what they originally wrote. The positive reactions remained for the now controversial opinion and no longer reflect how the community really felt. I believe the reactions should have been reset when the member edited their original comments. In the AdminCP, there should be a way to stipulate a maximum character limit for posts on a per forum basis. You should be able to build a tag cloud block. We allow moderators to tag threads in order to group them, but there is no way for members to see available tags and click on them to discover content. They only way is to see a tag and click it directly, but of course this does not reveal what other tags exist. Thank you. For #3 Tag index page
August 16, 2024Aug 16 For v4 I have an app for this https://www.ic-essentials.com/files/file/52-remove-noindex-tag-from-tags-pages/ and it will be updated for v5:) And regarding tag cloud https://www.ic-essentials.com/files/file/24-tag-cloud/ , and same, a v5 version will come too:) And the best => Both apps are free.
October 27, 2024Oct 27 Author On 8/14/2024 at 11:33 AM, Jim M said: I would be curious as to why? Because we have a few members prone to posting an absolute wall of text.
