Musicbanter Improvement Thread

[Paedantic Basterd]

Would be possible to receive a who-quoted-me type function, that notifies a user when their post has been quoted and responded to by another? I've seen this implemented in other forums, and have found it immensely useful.

[Freebase Dali]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Would be possible to receive a who-quoted-me type function, that notifies a user when their post has been quoted and responded to by another? I've seen this implemented in other forums, and have found it immensely useful.

Ah yes! I was trying to remember that function, as I'd seen it somewhere, but it got lost somewhere in my brain. Will add this, unless someone has some sort of valid objection.

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Would be possible to receive a who-quoted-me type function, that notifies a user when their post has been quoted and responded to by another? I've seen this implemented in other forums, and have found it immensely useful.

A function like that would be very useful. Years ago I posted on a forum that had a feature like that. I loved it. No objections from me here.

[dankrsta]

Yeah that could really come in handy. I just hope people won't use quotations at all costs because of it, for example, when they respond to the post directly above, or when a post contains huge pictures or tones of videos. I hate it when people quote all that especially when it's directly above.

But, yeah, I'd love to have this option.

[Paedantic Basterd]

Originally Posted by dankrsta

I just hope people won't use quotations at all costs because of it, for example, when they respond to the post directly above, or when a post contains huge pictures or tones of videos. I hate it when people quote all that especially when it's directly above.

I doubt it would go that far, if people aren't seen abusing the quotes as is. People seem to be pretty good already about trimming strings of photos and such out of quotes, and I see no reason for that to change.

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by dankrsta

Yeah that could really come in handy. I just hope people won't use quotations at all costs because of it, for example, when they respond to the post directly above, or when a post contains huge pictures or tones of videos. I hate it when people quote all that especially when it's directly above.

But, yeah, I'd love to have this option.

What I do with quotes is this: If it's just text, I'll usually just leave it alone. If it's just text but extremely long, I either single out the parts I want to respond to or I break it up and respond to each point by itself. If there's only like 1 video or photo, I might leave it alone, especially if it was posted a couple of pages back. Then finally, if it has a ton of vids or photos, I cut out the ones I'm not responding to. I also hate when people don't edit quotes.

[s_k]

Especially when they have a massive amount of pictures.
Some people just don't care about typography ;D.

[djchameleon]

Can we bring back the arcade? does any of the Mods know why it had to be closed down or w/e?

[Urban Hat€monger ?]

Originally Posted by djchameleon

Can we bring back the arcade? does any of the Mods know why it had to be closed down or w/e?

I don't think any of the current mods were modding when that happened so i'll take this question.

When the current ownership took over the site they disabled a hell of a lot of features.

The arcade went
The member list went
The who's online feature went (The one that tells you which threads people are looking at, not the one on the main page)
The today's birthdays feature went
The newest member feature went
The chat room went

And also when you clicked on New Posts it showed you all the posts that were replied to since you last logged on and continued to do that until you logged off again, visiting those threads didn't take them off the list like they currently do now. I believe someone was asking about this earlier in the thread... Well we used to have that feature.

So basically a hell of a lot of stuff people are asking for we used to have here at sometime and no matter how many times the admin was asked to reinstate some of them we never found out why they were removed or ever got a straight answer as to whether we'd see any of them again.

[Sparky]

It would be cool to change the color scheme for this site as well.

this blu....yuck