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Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 5627
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 11:52 pm: |     |
No, please don't make it easier to quote others. I hate overly used repeated text. Instead, make it easier to link to the post the author is referring to. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5006
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 6:42 am: | |
Cathy: I think Dave is refering to "Yahoo-type" virtual clubs where the "owner" can invite others to join but where the general MOL population would be unable to enter. Current sections like Ed's SOMBI and Greenetree's dieters section would be examples. (Dave please correct me if I am wrong).
Other things I would like to see:
1. An FAQ which deals with things like how to post a picture, adjust font color-size-style, send and receive a PL, etc. which could be accessed directly from each page, like the links at the upper right hand corner presently are.
2. A running directory of businesses (structured like the Blog Section) which would be a kind of annotated directory with contact infomation followed by MOL citizen reviews and discussion limited to that business.
You should definitely do this for your sponsors. It would be nice if it could also be made available for posting information on other businesses used by MOL citizens and lurkers as well.
3. A Round Table Forum open to all posters where the emphasis would be on problem solving rather than griping. Discussions could include such topics as economic development and planning in both our towns, developing activities for our youth after school and on weekends, smoking or not smoking in public spaces in our two towns, practical ways to reduce the municipal tax burden, improving street lighting, signs, markings, signals, and traffic flow patterns in both towns, etc.
Discussions could be on-going or of the topic-of-the-week or month variety. Ideally, discussion would be lead or moderated by town officials and/or local experts on the subject who could contribute factual information not available to the rest of us and propose practical ways in which the conclusions reached by participants might be incorporated into local programs and services. |
Bobkat
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 7693
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 7:31 am: | |
I'm with Tom, don't make it easy to quote a previous post!!! A couple of other boards I frequent allow this and things get very cluttered.
This isn't all that big a board. Looking up a few posts isn't all that hard. |
Cathy
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 696
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:31 am: | |
I didn't mean the ability to quote others!!!! I agree with both of you, make that harder, not easier.
I meant the ability to do this:
quote:I want this to be indented with the word "quote" over it.
Although perhaps imposing some sort of limit on the length of a quote wouldn't be a bad idea. :-) |
Cathy
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 697
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:33 am: | |
One more thing - I see this as useful if you want to quote something from a newspaper or something, not necessarily somebody else's post. That is, if the article is long and the quoted bit small (but so big that it would be confusing to put it in quotation marks in-line with your own posted text), so linking to the article wouldn't be helpful. Also for quoting a sentence or two out of somebody else's long post. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5009
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:34 am: | |
I'd like a way to post a thank you to suggestions/advice/info offered on a please help thread for times when that thread has gone to archive before the problem is resolved.
Starting a new thread of the same name(continued) and posting a link to the old discussion is a cumbersome way of handling trhe issue now.
Is there a more elegant solution? |
Cathy
Supporter
Username: Clkelley
Post Number: 698
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:35 am: | |
I also agree with Tom's request for a direct reply to PLs. I know how they work, but have often absent-mindedly replied directly. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5010
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 8:38 am: | |
Dave:
I finally found the FAQs I asked about above. Unfortunately, the link was from the search function (Search for information on how to use the site?), where some of us who make connections differently than you and/or Jamie do might not think to look. Plus, once I found the FAQ I was looking for, the answer was one I couldn't follow.
Perhaps the FAQs could be written with the assumption that the person looking for the information doesn't already know the answer to the question they are researching. |
AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 108
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 3:49 pm: | |
I would like the ability to edit my own posts (for longer than 1/2 hour) forever. If the post is edited, it should just state that the post was edited and when so others know that there was a change. I notice typos all the time in my own posts and worse still misinformation that I have to make a follow-up post to fix.
I also would like the ability to reply to individual posts in a thread, so that the replies are nested (like slashdot.org's forums). |
AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 109
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 3:52 pm: | |
Oh yeah, ONE MORE HUGE THING. I missed the jitney the other day, cause the jitney schedule is out of date. I would prefer not listing it, if it's wrong. |
jamie
Moderator
Username: Jamie
Post Number: 793
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 4:26 pm: | |
yeah - i will take that jitney schedule offline - no one ever sends me updates - so I never adjust it in time. |
Hillsider
Citizen
Username: Hillsider
Post Number: 8
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 5:00 pm: | |
HI Dave,
Don't know if you are still taking in any requests... but
My # 1 feature would be to add a Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
We could then have a FAQ, list of favorite pizza places, restaurant reviews, list of dry cleaners, list of whatever else... online without re-starting a new thread everytime a new person comes in...
It would be open to all, and in no time at all we could have a nice in-town knowledge base...
It will be a bit more work... but IMO will be worth it...
What say??
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sac
Supporter
Username: Sac
Post Number: 1840
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 5:15 pm: | |
Search improvements such that at least 24 hours worth of posts (i.e. "last day") is always manageable plus a way to search for all posts between two dates (for when you come back from vacation and want to catch up and "new messages" is on overload) |
jamie
Moderator
Username: Jamie
Post Number: 795
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 5:40 pm: | |
check out a new feature I just launched on the homepage.
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AlleyGater
Citizen
Username: Alleygater
Post Number: 112
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 9:55 pm: | |
I also think the Maplewood Online Wiki is a phenomenal idea. Let the people create their own authoritative document on the best and worst of Maplewood.
For anyone who doesn't know what a wiki is well... it's a bit hard to explain. The best explanation I can give is imagine a document that ANYONE could write to. You would think that because no one agrees and people who are hot-topic personalities (eg. Straw) might add lots of things you disagreed to the document, that a war would occur, and the document would be constantly destroyed by other peoples thoughts, words and actions. Well the beauty of it is that a Revision History exists of ALL changes made to the page, and at any time you can just revert the page back in time, and fix it the way you like VERY EASILY. You see the power of wikis is that it's easier to fix a page than to destroy a page. What communities have found is that the activity on wiki pages end up settling down eventually, and fine tuned until there is an agreed upon consensus by the community of what should be on the page. It's sorta complex and beautiful. I would love to see a Maplewood Wiki. And then next time someone asks a question on the board (say, What's the best Pizza in town) we can refer them to the MOL Pizza Wiki page. And just for argument sake, say they call the pizza parlor and it went out of business. Right then and there they could edit the page and eliminate it the listing cause EVERYONE has the power to edit the pages. |
mjc
Citizen
Username: Mjc
Post Number: 290
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Friday, February 25, 2005 - 11:05 am: | |
(if someone didn't say so already) Improvements to the Search function. For me, it almost always times out. Maybe if we could search for a key word AND the last x weeks, it wouldn't have to look so far?
Thanks for MOL, guys!! |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5044
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 26, 2005 - 5:18 pm: | |
Does the google tool bar work on MOL? |
Mayor McCheese
Citizen
Username: Mayor_mccheese
Post Number: 186
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, February 27, 2005 - 2:09 am: | |
I think it would be great to see who started threads. Currently the only info seen is who left the last post. I wish I could see who posted last, but also who posted first on each thread. |
Meandtheboys
Citizen
Username: Meandtheboys
Post Number: 266
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, March 5, 2005 - 8:52 am: | |
My vote? Under Topics: "Parents" or "Parenting" or "Parent to Parent" or whatever you like. |
hariseldon
Citizen
Username: Hariseldon
Post Number: 287
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 5, 2005 - 10:25 am: | |
I would love to see "Offical Postings" from the School District, Village of South Orange and Maplewood Township!!!! Oh wait, better not. |
Katracho
Citizen
Username: Katracho
Post Number: 6
Registered: 11-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, March 5, 2005 - 5:00 pm: | |
Archives to be placed at the bottom of a thread, not the top. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5083
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 5, 2005 - 7:18 pm: | |
Katracho:
Since the archives for a given thread contain the earlier posts to that thread, it actually makes sense to list them first. That way, readers new to a thread can read all the prior posts before reading the current page of discussion.
If the archives were to appear at the bottom of the page, the reader might not notice there was prior discussion and could have trouble following some of the discussion on the most current page. |
bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1009
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 - 2:09 am: | |
Threaded links, then, so you do not have to return to the active page to access the next archived 20 posts. I hate this. Archive? Cool, but don't make me go Back'n Forth. Threads should flow. |
Joan
Supporter
Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 5087
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 - 9:45 am: | |
Bets:
If you click on the "next" link in the upper right hand corner of any archived page, it will take you directly to the next most recent page of posts on the subject and the last archived page will take you to the page of current posts. No need to flip back and forth. |
mjc
Citizen
Username: Mjc
Post Number: 324
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 - 3:21 pm: | |
Joan, thank you!! Who knew? |
bets
Supporter
Username: Bets
Post Number: 1010
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 6, 2005 - 8:16 pm: | |
Yes, thanks Joan! Can't believe I've missed that all these years. |
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