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[olds]

Hm, that never happens for me. Must mean that there is an option for it that's been turned off; maybe I did it years ago? If so, then that would be an enhancement I suppose - someone could turn off the the automatic subscription but they would always get an email if directly replied to.

Edit: I found the option in the control panel, maybe I did turn it off years ago. I'd turn it on but then a single P&N post would spam me for months to come unless I changed it...

I have mine set to subscribe with no emails or PMs telling me a new post was made. I just go here: http://forums.anandtech.com/subscription.php

 

[Anubis]

It's possible that this has already been discussed in this thread and I don't know it because I don't know the terminology for forum tech, but what about upgrading the forum to allow people to get replies when they are directly quoted so that there is no need to subscribe to a thread that you replied to?

If you post/reply in a thread, you are automatically subscribed. Are you talking about removing the automatic functionality of that?

i think hes asking about being notified when you are quoted specifically not when a thread is replied to in general

AVS forum notifies you when someone else quotes you

 

[Ketchup]

i think hes asking about being notified when you are quoted specifically not when a thread is replied to in general

AVS forum notifies you when someone else quotes you

OK. Wondering if it was something like that. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Number1]

I'm not a fan of the current situation. Some of the moderators here just plain suck. There's no way to candy-coat it.

If you actually wanted to improve the situation, then you permit moderators to be called out. If they don't like it, they can _un_volunteer. That's how it should work. If you had a shitty volunteer nurse, you'd make god damned sure that he/she came nowhere near you or your loved ones.

Or, you can have some sort of moderator feedback or voting system and get rid of them according to the will of the membership.

After reading some of your posts in here, getting rid of YOU would be the better alternative.

 

[RossMAN]

i think hes asking about being notified when you are quoted specifically not when a thread is replied to in general

AVS forum notifies you when someone else quotes you

Yes!

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=103768
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=112498

 

[norseamd]

aren`t you the guy who posted that somebody passed away out of spite and in a malicious manner? I wouldn`t say a whole lot about the mods...

again look whose talking about abuse....

Now who looks they they are yelling out of spite now? It is up to him now if he learned his lessons on this situation. And this situation did not just occur out of nothing since him and John were at it for a while apparently. Scholzpdx just took it too far but it seems like a first occurrence of this situation on this forum so let the situation and decisions made so far go by and let us hope everything stays more peaceful from now on. And when talking about spite maybe we need to consider those who deingrate whole ethnicities and cultures just because of conflict with their own ethnicity? Sorry for being rude and frank but let us try to get this discussion back to more civility.

 

[norseamd]

Make MoonBeam our philosopher king. He does zero moderation and has no official power; but everyone agrees to follow his proclamations (such as they are) as far as one feels (s)he can properly interpret them.

+1

 

[norseamd]

Perfect example of relevant posting on an old topic but still was shut down. Not to blame the mod as he was only following protocol.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=36222925#post36222925

 

[TurtleCrusher]

After reading some of your posts in here, getting rid of YOU would be the better alternative.

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C'mon. This isn't OT.
admin allisolm

 

[edro]

• Get rid of the tapatalk prompt every time I visit the forum on my phone/tablet. I don't want to use it and it is irritating to have it pushed upon me.
  
• Get rid of the left navigation or make it a settable option in the event others use it. Wasted screen real-estate on smaller displays.

seconded

 

[edro]

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[OogyWaWa]

'Embedded' or 'microcontroller' forum please. For Arduino, beaglebone and the like.

 

[Dankk]

I think what we have is pretty awesome.
I hate forums with large custom signatures, large custom avatars, embedded images/videos over a certain size, etc.

I think AT Forums does a great job at keeping it classy.

I agree with this, a lot. If we start adding a lot of these features that people are requesting, the forums will become pretty awful and hard to look at. (I mean, having a shoutbox on the page? Really?)

 

[norseamd]

I'll bet the OT stuff accounts for at least 3/4 of the traffic in these forums.

Well actually the Garage is not much smaller than OT and the technical subforums add up to more than OT but OT is still the largest subforum on this site and probably makes up to more than 25% of the activity on this site.

 

[esquared]

I'll bet the OT stuff accounts for at least 3/4 of the traffic in these forums.

Well actually the Garage is not much smaller than OT and the technical subforums add up to more than OT but OT is still the largest subforum on this site and probably makes up to more than 25% of the activity on this site.

I just took a quick scan of the viewers on the forum.

OT= always seems to sit around 2K to 2500 viewers. No way is it close to 75%




Total view at this snapshot

7974 viewers.

Hardware and Tech
2638 viewers - 33%

Consumer electronics
452 viewers- 6.5%

Software
1014 viewers- 12.7%

Social
3600 viewers- 45%

Mechandise and shopping
252 viewers- 3.2%

Forum Issues
18 viewers- <1%


OT is the largest subforum.
It was 2468 viewers ATM - or 30%

The Garage was the second largest subforum at 818 viewers or 10%

 

[jpishgar]

Thanks all for the continued feedback.
This week things are a bit slow on the up-chuck due to the holidays and all, but most of this thread (and the others) are going to be compiled into a digest of viable recommendations. I encourage you to continue offering suggestions and recommendations for improvements or changes here. Discussion is great, but please remember to include what you feel is an actionable item. The What and Why are very critical.

Again, much obliged everyone!

-JP

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Change Requested: Allow users to designate their own custom user titles
Why: It is currently possible but no means of 'earning' it is listed

Change Requested: Bans limited to one year except for spammers
Why: People change, perspectives change, tempers calm down. I've lost a number of people that I consider friends because of the permanent banning policy.

Change Requested: Paid moderation
Why: When someone is paid to do the job they become servants of the community; there is no "respect" due to them, as moderation is their job, not labor they are giving away. For example, the amount of power give to a stewardess is amazing, but she still acts like her job is customer service.

Change requested: Ability to have a temporary/different forum handle for L&R
Why: Over the (nearly) decades we've all gotten to know each other quite well; If I say on L&R "My wife cheated on me" someone could figure out who I am and it could cause her problems.

Change requested: A legitimate means of reporting a moderator for abuse which gets to the ears of someone interested in retaining membership
Why: Procedural justice, the sense that the way we do things is fair for everyone, is essential to maintaining a general sense of openness and fairness.

With this many people, there should be some sort of mission for the forums; a vision for where it is going; and a set of values that it adheres to. Further it should be run more strategically: New products should be introduced that meet current needs/demands; and people who use the forum for something unexpected should not be repressed but seen as bringing an opportunity to serve a new market.

 

[biodoc]

Done.

This request has been approved and is being processed. Due to the holidays, we expect the change will take place within a matter of weeks. Our objective will be the complete elimination of the downtime period, rather than a rescheduling. You may see another downtime or two before we are able to enact this change, but it is approved and in process.

Much appreciate everyone's feedback so far - please keep them coming. 🙂

Thanks!

I'd like to vote to keep the Distributed Computing (DC) sub-forum intact. One poster in this thread suggested eliminating it and one poster suggested merging DC with the Highly Technical sub-forum which I don't think makes sense either.

Those of us that participate in Distributed Computing use our computers to support various academic labs around the world that need computational resources for their research in mathematics, astronomy, molecular dynamics/Protein Folding, etc.

Most of us build our own rigs so the cpu/graphics card/MB/RAM reviews that
AnandTech publishes are key for us making our hardware choices. AnandTech is known for high quality and in depth reviews of CPUs/Graphics Cards, etc so keep them coming! The graphics card Folding@home compute benchmarks I believe are unique to AnandTech so we appreciate those as well.

One thing you may want to consider in your graphics card reviews is to incorporate thermal imaging measurements. I realize that this equipment is expensive but I find it highly informative. Since Nvidia cards only have thermal sensors in the GPU, you really don't know if a manufacturer has efficient cooling for the VRM and memory. Check out this link for an example where the VRM on an nvidia card is running too hot for my tastes.

 

[Bradtech519]

Another vote to keep the distributed computing sub-forum. Even though a lot of us don't post incessantly inside of it we do run into issues & coordinate inside of it. It is the one key area to ask specific Distributed Computing/BOINC related questions & report issues to ask others for help. A lot of other DC teams have their own sub-forum or full blown website with forums to communicate with each other.

 

[Ken g6]

* Highly Technical & Distributed Computing (merge, since they're both fairly advanced topics)

I hadn't seen this until now. I disagree too, since they really aren't related. If you have to merge HT, the closest topic I see is Programming - and even that's very distantly related.

If we had a "Benchmarking" forum, that's the only thing I'd consider merging into Distributed Computing. Prime95, in particular, falls in both categories. They're also both all about the stats.

* Laptops, Notebooks, and Tablets (split off from smartphones) - aka Mobile Computing

Not quite appropriate, IMHO. There should be a separation between tablets with a desktop OS, tablets with an Android OS, and tablets with iOS. (Consider this another vote for an All Things Android forum.)

 

[Perknose]

Another vote to keep the distributed computing sub-forum. Even though a lot of us don't post incessantly inside of it we do run into issues & coordinate inside of it. It is the one key area to ask specific Distributed Computing/BOINC related questions & report issues to ask others for help. A lot of other DC teams have their own sub-forum or full blown website with forums to communicate with each other.

:thumbsup:

 

[Rudy Toody]

I hadn't seen this until now. I disagree too, since they really aren't related. If you have to merge HT, the closest topic I see is Programming - and even that's very distantly related.

If we had a "Benchmarking" forum, that's the only thing I'd consider merging into Distributed Computing. Prime95, in particular, falls in both categories. They're also both all about the stats.

Another issue to consider: TeAm AnandTech has profiles on most DC projects. Those profiles have links to the DC forum. It would be a lot of work to change that!

 

[Crono]

It would be hard to reach a consensus on which forums to remove, add, or combine, which is why I requested a moratorium on new forums (it's a bit like legislative bodies and taxes - read my lips: No new forums 😀).

Ideally we would go back to pre-vB number of forums, but I'd settle for the suspending of new forum creation, at least for the near future.

Most of the niche new forums users are requesting are better suited by dedicated threads in existing forums, in my opinion. I'm not a fan of having to check 10 different forums for topics I'm interested in, especially if they are closely related and there isn't enough activity in them to justify that many separate forums.

 

[Greenman]

Change Requested: Allow users to designate their own custom user titles
Why: It is currently possible but no means of 'earning' it is listed

Change Requested: Bans limited to one year except for spammers
Why: People change, perspectives change, tempers calm down. I've lost a number of people that I consider friends because of the permanent banning policy.

Change Requested: Paid moderation
Why: When someone is paid to do the job they become servants of the community; there is no "respect" due to them, as moderation is their job, not labor they are giving away.

Change requested: Ability to have a temporary/different forum handle for L&R
Why: Over the (nearly) decades we've all gotten to know each other quite well; If I say on L&R "My wife cheated on me" someone could figure out who I am and it could cause her problems.

Change requested: A legitimate means of reporting a moderator for abuse which gets to the ears of someone interested in retaining membership
Why: Procedural justice, the sense that the way we do things is fair for everyone, is essential to maintaining a general sense of openness and fairness.

With this many people, there should be some sort of mission for the forums; a vision for where it is going; and a set of values that it adheres to. Further it should be run more strategically: New products should be introduced that meet current needs/demands; and people who use the forum for something unexpected should not be repressed but seen as bringing an opportunity to serve a new market.

All very good ideas.

 

[crashtech]

I like the anon L&R part. Not sure how it would be implemented, though.