"automerge doubleposts"

[Michael Morris]

Headaches?

I don't remember double-post ever causing anything but the slightest and occasionally amusing inconvenience. Can you detail how double-post ever caused a "headache"?

Personally, I see this feature as potentially really annoying in the story hour forum, more annoyance than a double-post ever caused me, anyway. . .

The story hours aren't usually updated twice in the same day though. Further Story Hours might be better off migrated to the blog area (just a thought).

Note - it is possible for me to put a seperator into the merge like this:

-------------------------- Automerge ---------------------------

Also, I can turn off the feature on a per forum basis if it truly is a problem with Story Hours.

 

[WhatGravitas]

The story hours aren't usually updated twice in the same day though. Further Story Hours might be better off migrated to the blog area (just a thought).

I think this is a great idea - a problem with the storyhours is that it is sometimes hard to read'em because of some comments in the middle. A blog-style format makes it easier to read and makes it easier to allocate the comments to each entry.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Headaches?

I don't remember double-post ever causing anything but the slightest and occasionally amusing inconvenience. Can you detail how double-post ever caused a "headache"?

Right back from when I started as a moderator, quite a bit of time was spent deleting double posts (except where someone had edited the double post into something funny). I'm still deleting a few double posts every day.

Perhaps 'headache' was too strong a word for it

 

[el-remmen]

I think this is a great idea - a problem with the storyhours is that it is sometimes hard to read'em because of some comments in the middle. A blog-style format makes it easier to read and makes it easier to allocate the comments to each entry.

Cheers, LT.

I haven't experimented with the blogs on here yet, but I'm skeptical if only because I have found the blogs included with other versions of messageboards to be difficult to navigate between posts and impossible to set it so it shows oldest post first - though that may not be the case here.

I think I am old-fashioned. I think I just like story hours in threads.

The story hours aren't usually updated twice in the same day though. Further Story Hours might be better off migrated to the blog area (just a thought).

Note - it is possible for me to put a seperator into the merge like this:

-------------------------- Automerge ---------------------------

Also, I can turn off the feature on a per forum basis if it truly is a problem with Story Hours.

Well, not often. . . but sometimes.

In my case, I usually post a little note before or after an update that says when to expect the next one or how the writing is going, etc. . . And since I am super anal about the layout of my story hour I don't like those messages to be part of the same post as the story itself.

I guess it is just something to keep in mind if I ever do update twice in the same day.

I gotta play around with the blogs and see how I like it for story hours - I have not liked the blog functionality of other messageboards I have seen.

 

[Nifft]

Also, I can turn off the feature on a per forum basis if it truly is a problem with Story Hours.

How about for the House Rules forums? Lots of folks like to "reserve space" at the top of our threads in case our content exceeds the limits of a single post.

If there is a limit on post size, "handbook" writers need a way to indicate "save me one more". Or three more, or ...

Thanks, -- N

 

[covaithe]

I just ran into the doublepost thing the hard way in the PbP forums. I'm DMing a game there, and I made two posts in a row in the thread, just under 24 hours apart, and was very surprised to find them merged. If my players are subscribed to this thread, will they still get email notification of a new post, given that my post was merged?

If not, then I would really like to be able turn this off, badly enough that I would consider making a second account so that I could make dummy posts between my I-don't-want-them-to-be-merged posts.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Yeah, I'm not liking this feature. To me it seems to cause more problems than it solves. Are double post really that big an issue?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Michael Morris]

Until we can figure out which forums to limit it to or how to modify it to clean up the implementation I've disabled this plugin. (One of the nicer parts of the new code base).

 

[Nifft]

If there were a checkbox or something else you had to deliberately and explicitly toggle, it'd keep automerge for "careless" posts while allowing double-posting for "careful" users.

That would solve all my issues. For the vast majority of my posts it's irrelevant if the module is on or off; but for an important minority of posts, I want explicit control.

Thanks, -- N

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Thanks for that Michael.

Olaf the Stout