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What matters more to you (pick 2)

  • Make chat not work like absolute shit.

    Votes: 886 35.4%
  • Add features to DMs so they're useful (kick people, invite logs, etc).

    Votes: 450 18.0%
  • Community editable OPs for threads.

    Votes: 1,718 68.6%
  • Something else you're going to suggest as a reply.

    Votes: 267 10.7%

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Something like the old groups feature for putting together OPs/doxes/whatever. Just the listed suggestion of making DMs better might be enough though.

Also community-editable OPs would need some things just to keep people from vandalizing them, like being able to have an approved list.
 
Consider adding either a moderator insertable tag for "infopost" / "cow update" or some other way that isn't the highlight feature that indicates "milestone posts" users can navigate to and from.
Big threads like Greer's and Gibes suffer from being overloaded with shitposts (albethey funny) and repetitive discussions that bury informative statements and updates on the cow. Even though some of them feature weekly recap posts by very dedicated Kiwis that I'm grateful for, these can be hard to find and don't necessarily make it to the highlights.

In such cases navigation to understand wtf is going on through highlights becomes impossible, which generates an endless amount of posts asking what is going on, making the problem worse - I feel this necessitates either a way for moderators to tag informative posts separately from highlights, or for posts with a ton of :informative: or some other new sticker a la "cow update" to receive that tag automatically. Site culture will decide whether people use this just to tag shitposts as informative, or everyone sticks to the system - could go either way.
Ideally one could then jump from infodump to infodump instead of just highlights and these threads would become easier to navigate.

I also agree that there should be some way to sound the kiwi signal when you want to team up to work on a proper OP. Sometimes having 4 instead of 1 is necessary to divide the workload when a newly discovered lolcow has a considerable internet presence over many years and consequently a lot of material to sift through.
A lot of warez forums have a [REQUEST] subforum - I would suggest adding that, only visible to users with more than X posts or something along those lines, to request assistance with clear guidelines as to how such a request should be formatted.
 
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Editable OP would be great. Preferably with a last edit date visible in subject line.
 
Chat already doesn't work for me so I voted DMs(might as well make it like Discord)
 
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fix this shit. it triggers my autism.
also,re-add the icons for the subforums again. i miss them
 
I'd recommend you change the point values of some of the stickers.

For example, the Islamic and Lunacy ratings detract points, but they're always used in regards to Cows and seldomly other users. The Autistic rating, on the other hand, does not decrease points and it's always used toward other users.

It'd be a small change, but it'd be more in line with the site's evolution over the years.

Ignore the dumbasses begging for a "funny" react because that's what the Winner react is for.
 
Make OPs able to remove, edit, and add new thread polls after the thread is posted

Have multiple polls inside one OP (good for Julays etc)

A "Fat" reaction
 
  • Agree
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This may be a stupid question, but is there a way to mute specific conversations and not get notifications without leaving them?
If not, that should be added.
 
  • Agree
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Wiki style OPs is by far the most important feature we could have, it would make lolcows with a huge amount of content dramatically more approachable
 
Maybe instead of community-editable OPs, there can be a collaborative OP system. Like if the thread creator knows a few other (exceptional) individuals who also have an interest in a particular cow, and would be interested in keeping the OP up-to-date, those people can be given the ability to edit the OP. This can also work in the case where an OP is inactive and a moderator can give editing permissions to someone new to keep things current.
I believe that a system like this can provide the community-drivenness that people are looking for while avoiding spam and making sure contributors know what they're talking about.

Just a suggestion.
 
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