Thread Category & Prefix System

[Michael Morris]

Like post icons? I can't see the difference. I never found post icons useful. I don't see why this would be any different.

Well, for starters, open your eyes and look at the bottom of the page in the display options. There are controls there for sorting the threads, which now includes by category. Thus in General you can select "plots" to see all the "plots" threads without having to sort through other, unrelated threads.

Now, if no one selects thread categories this feature is useless. It has the potential though to be very powerful. That is why I set category selection to MANDATORY.

 

[Piratecat]

No need to be testy.

 

[Michael Morris]

True. Sorry.

 

[buzz]

Now, if no one selects thread categories this feature is useless. It has the potential though to be very powerful. That is why I set category selection to MANDATORY.

Just out of curiosity, was this a feature that was requested by the ENWorld community, or one that simply seemed like a cool thing to implement? Honest, I'm just curious, not criticizing. The sortability thing does seem like it could be helpful.

 

[buzz]

I installed one in General and it should be there unless someone removed it.

I'm not seeing a Gameday category in General, FYI.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Thanks for putting in the Paid/Unpaid in Open Calls and Job Vacancies. Why is there a General category there, though? Just to fit with other forums' style?

 

[Morrus]

Thanks for putting in the Paid/Unpaid in Open Calls and Job Vacancies. Why is there a General category there, though? Just to fit with other forums' style?

It's a default global category. Every forum has to have it.

 

[Len]

Not to crack down and be "All or nothing" here, but for this to be effective, it must be mandated. Let it run for a month or so then go back and do searches based on the categories, or sort threads in a forum based on them. Then the advantage should become clear.

I think you misunderstood what I meant.

I'm not talking about making it optional to PUT a category on a thread when I create it - I'm perfectly willing to do that since it only takes a second and it helps other people. I'm talking about making it optional for me to SEE all the categories on the showthread page.

I never found the old post icons to be useful. I did give them a chance - I kept them around for quite a long time before I turned them off. The categories were just too broad. They didn't help me decide whether I wanted to read a thread, or help me find a particular topic. I always had to read the thread titles anyway, so (to me) the post icons / categories are just distracting and wasteful of space.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Gotcha. If I see someone posting a vague unpaid job using "General", though, I'm taking a claw hammer to them.

 

[DanMcS]

That's also at least 2 hours of work. Unless a huge outcry for this erupts I'm not going to do it - I have other things to do on the site like getting the reviews section done.

Your standards for what to implement are hard for a user like me to fathom. There was no huge outcry to implement the tags, but you implemented them. Why, then, require a huge outcry to make them optional for viewing?

Heck, php isn't that hard, I'll volunteer to do it if that will take a load off of you.