Suggestion and Update Thread

Someone was bitching about spam evasion on /r9k/ and it reminded me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST_(biotechnology).

If it could be implemented on E/N forums in the 1990s (not user-facing, was basically a moderator tool), I'm sure something more interesting can be done with it now.

Whether having a xkcd Robot 9000 subforum where every new post has to be below some matching threshold or something that alerts users when they're being unoriginal fuckwits (a recent exchange with a Salon Mod comes to mind) or as a spam detection tool or all of the above, I don't know, but I liked having it when I had to herd cats evaluate user generated content.
 
Remove the ability for users to hide who can view their profile. Literally nothing good can come out of this feature, and if for some reason a profile absolutely needs to be hidden, have an admin do it
 
Some people might disagree with me but the Fishtank thread should be moved to community watch instead of the main Lolcow board. Especially now that there’s been multiple lolcow threads made about the various contestants and Jet and Sam.
 
If it's at all possible, I think it'd be nice if alerts were color-coded by type, or we had multiple lists that filtered out different sorts of them, or something. It's nice to know when a post is getting a lot of attention so I don't want to disable seeing my rates outright, nor replies on watched threads, but often in scrolling down them, I miss some of the more valuable "someone quoted your post" sorts of alerts in the tide.

I guess I am also a little bit surprised that there's no alert when a post of mine gets highlighted, either automatically or by someone else, as that seems a bit more worthy than something like a rate.

Pardon me if this has already been suggested or if it's technically infeasible.
 
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Have you ever considered a "postmark/highlight only mode"?

Of course, theres a button already but it'd be better and would avoid alot of sperging/low quality BS/"unnecessary" opinionposting and every time I click on the postmark left/right button at the top, I have to scroll all the way up/down and click left/right again when it would be alot easier if all non postmarked posts could be hidden.

With this, you could see actual contribution posts like people bringing new info on a lolcow which would make those giant 500+ page threads easier to catch up on if you're completely new. I only have a couple lawlcows I've fully caught up on, but theres some like BossmanJack I'd like to get into as well. I myself don't like "prime cut" lolcows because theres so much shit everywhere I have no idea where to start and just don't even try.
 
Not sure if this is the correct thread for this, but I've noticed a marked increase in political/current news updates in the Community Feature Submissions thread. I enjoy reading about politics/news and probably share a lot of leanings in common with the average A&N poster, but the Community Feature Submissions thread is kind of a culture-defining part of the site, directing users into threads they may not have visited before. I would argue the more of the Community Feature Submissions thread is taken up by political/current news updates instead of lolcow updates, the more the site moves from a lolcow site to alt-/pol/. Just my two cents.

EDIT: as this is the sugguestion thread, I would suggest some sort of semi-lax rule of "don't make a new post for every new develolment of an ongoing story." maybe also "twitter posts are not worthy of being submitted to the community feature submissons thread."
 
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Would it be viable to have a persistent thread highlight button above these arrows?
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Is there a way to search only for posts that have an attachment? Like in gmail you can do "from:name has:attachment" in the search field. If not, could there be? I have sometimes been trying to find a post that had a certain image I remembered someone posting, but even if there's text with the image, it's not always related.
 
Not sure if this is the place to ask, but the Fallout show thread and main Fallout thread should probably be merged. There's a good bit of discussion about the games in the show thread and the show in the main thread. Also afaik no other nerd franchise has two threads like this.
 
I wouldnt mind if duplicate notifications eg. 5 "This user has replied to thread you are watching" notifications generated from checking the thread would be collapsed into one if its not an absolute nightmare
 
The next highlight buttons are great and all but is it possible to have something similar for attachments? Like next/previous attachment?

A lot of the time I click next highlight and it's just a highly rated funny comment about the last highlight. Most of the actual updates in a thread is someone posting with an attachment so you could easily catch up on a thread by just viewing posts with attachments.
 
Sometimes I try to go through a threads highlights, but if a long post is highlighted I have to go all the way to the top of the post to click the next highlighted post button. Might be cool to have another set of them on the bottom, at least for longer posts.
 
I need a "hebrew content" reaction to go alongside the christian and islamic one. ☺️
 
Could there be a filter or search parameters specifically for posts with attachements? Sometimes I'm looking for an image or video but don't remember where it is. This would make it much faster to search.
 
A section of the forum for new users called the Corral - like the Inner Circle - but they're locked in until they reach a certain post count so they can learn site rules, basics of forum etiquette, etc, before they move on to the main boards
 
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