Moderator Related Reply Problem

[Creamsteak]

Moderators, please look at This function and tell me what you think. DO NOT delete the thread or any posts within, but view the way the messages slowly scroll to the right based on when the user replied. This is very annoying methinks...

 

[Henry]

WoW! That IS screwy! Any idea what code is causing it?

 

[Creamsteak]

I know what causes it from the user end, but not what causes it from the server end. From the user end, it's what button you use to post a reply. If you use the post reply button at the bottom of the page, you are starting a new post and it will be aligned to the far left. If you use the reply to post button on a post, instead, you will be posted one space to the right of the post you replied to. Then when someone does the same thing to that post, it knockes everything one more space to the right. This continues indefinitely, stretching the thread farther and farther.

 

[DanMcS]

(I'm not a moderator, btw, so I can't actually see this.) That doesn't sound like a bug. It sounds like the board is keeping track of which messages are replies to which other messages, and displaying it automatically in the "deletepost" page. When you delete a parent post, are all the replies to it deleted as well? That's probably why it's showing you the replies indented, so you'll see which ones will go if you delete one of the parents.

 

[Piratecat]

CS, I think it doesn't look like that if you aren't looking at the board in "threaded" mode.

 

[Creamsteak]

Long time since I posted this, but I guess I never replied. PC, I'm NOT looking at the board in threaded mode... that's the reason why this always bothers me when clipping out posts from threads.

 

[Darkness]

That doesn't sound like a bug. It sounds like the board is keeping track of which messages are replies to which other messages, and displaying it automatically in the "deletepost" page. When you delete a parent post, are all the replies to it deleted as well? That's probably why it's showing you the replies indented, so you'll see which ones will go if you delete one of the parents.

I think Dan might be on to something here.
(BTW, each post has a box where you can select/deselect all its child posts.)

 

[Darkness]

Yep. Checked it in this very thread. Look here, especially at my post (which chronologically is the last post in the thread):

 

[Creamsteak]

Ugh... maybe I'm not explaining myself well... I understand WHY it does this, but I want to figure out how to change it so that the thread doesn't do this (so it acts like it used to in the old bulletin board code). Any way to do this?

 

[Piratecat]

No, that's the only format when deleting posts. It's a pain in the butt, too, because it makes it difficult to choose the correct ones.