A frustrating thing that we have found with version 4 is that reported posts seems to have been designed by a completely different committee to the one which designed the standard topic interface.

I think it would be very helpful to bring the reported posts threads into line in their functionality with topics.

It would also be very helpful to be able to configure the reported posts to be directed to any particular place.

As I expect it is with all forums, we have some private forums where there is a lot of interchange between staff members.

It will be extremely helpful to be able to set up a separate private subforum simply to receive reported posts so that they are more easily accessible and we don't have to go to some special reported posts corner which as I have indicated works in a way rather different from the rest of the forum topics.

Surely having a single uniform interface design would be much easier for everybody and also much easier to keep upgraded.

I understand what you are asking there, but thats entirely a different function. The reported posts area is not intended to replicate the topic area, as its not a forum, and can actually contain more than topics. The first thing to consider, is you are not reporting an entire topic (although you may be), so for that reason it couldnt be the same. You may be reporting a private message, a gallery image, a gallery comment, a blog, or even a pages database entry.

I'm sorry to say that I rather knew you were going to say that.

I have found that once envisioned makes decisions about things, they tend to be pretty fixed.


It would be so difficult to make the reported posts system configurable so that every user/administrator – manager – could get it working the way they would really like to work which suited their own particular needs and their own way of working.


I think I've said this before in the past two years – what's wrong with Choice?

What would like to see? How would you like to see it work?

For our part we would be very pleased to see it exactly like a normal topic with all that functionality and flexibility and ideally would like to be able to configure that all reported posts go to XX sub- forum or ZZ sub- forum – and even maybe certain topic -related reported posts would go to a related forum and reported posts from somewhere else will go to another sub- forum of our choosing.


That way we could have all the functionality of the existing reported post system – if we wanted it – but if we wanted to change it to suit our particular needs then we could.


I think we are looking for maximum choice and I suppose that because the topic system exists already, I would hope that it wouldn't need a lot of extra design to make that happen.