Quote :

"nael most of these ideas are really, really dumb, at least for TWW implementation. I mean REALLY dumb."

snitches end up in ditches

11/3/2007 6:03:52 PM

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"I like the idea from page 1 about being un-google-able. that's all I can think of- otherwise I like the site as it is."

11/3/2007 6:12:37 PM

Can you input a check and balances system in place for mods who show favortism and hatred towards users? Ya know, for those moderators who "micro-manage" certain sections. Those mods who stress the importance of capitalizing every begining letter in the thread titles. Shit has gotten ri-fucking dickuluous.

Ideal moderator: Theduke, bobbyd

power abuser and big kid attention craving whore: everyone pretty much knows who im talking about.

[Edited on November 3, 2007 at 7:58 PM. Reason : /]

11/3/2007 7:58:00 PM

SUGGESTIONS FOR THE NEW OWNERS

thread authors can block specific users from their post.

user tags

make us un-google-able.

file storage for $profit

on user page we need an individual user block function, fuck a plugin that doesn't support current firefox!

for premium users, chatterbox history is always visible if so desired, plus a scrollbar for up top.

thread creators have option to lock created threads.

11/4/2007 1:27:14 AM

^User blocking in a forum often creates confusion and potential for abuse, so that's not really a good idea. User blocking with regards to PMs would be okay.

11/4/2007 1:35:17 AM

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"Bring back search for keywords against posts. Now you can only search for keywords in titles, but back in the day you could search the whole thread for keywords."

11/4/2007 4:33:46 AM

Quote :

"make us un-google-able."

11/4/2007 8:03:24 AM

going back to ungoogleable is a very simple code switch.

you just block the user-agents for googlebot-image, mediapartners-google, and googlebot

more than likely the robots.txt file is already in place to drop other web walkers, it's just be adding more to the disallow list.

presto

11/4/2007 9:33:42 AM

Quote :

"on user page we need an individual user block function, fuck a plugin that doesn't support current firefox!"

user block plugin + nightly tester tools= profit.

11/4/2007 10:45:19 AM

i don't want another plugin, specially one that makes me revert to an older version of firefox.

11/4/2007 10:58:55 AM

you don't have to revert. It makes the tww block user plugin compatible with the new versions of firefox.

11/4/2007 11:03:48 AM

make search work

11/4/2007 11:32:14 AM

how do you post in old school?

11/4/2007 11:43:25 AM

it isnt that hard to turn of the check compatibility flag so that it still works

11/4/2007 11:50:20 AM

Quote :

"this one is a big one. It's something that I've been asking for for years, only to be ignored as far as I know. (Even a PM saying "OK, you're all fixed up there buddy" would suffice)......... Can you update my email address for this username? I graduated from NCSU years ago, and the NCSU email address that you all have for me is no longer valid. I know it seems really small and insignificant....but....this means that I can't retrieve my password if I forget it"

THIS

11/4/2007 11:57:59 AM

true

11/4/2007 12:05:03 PM

^^ i PMed crazyj after i graduated and he changed mine within a day...have you asked?

11/4/2007 2:03:24 PM

Omar, you are buds with CrazyJ....are you sure you PMed him or just called him on the phone? Most of the mods hung out with him while he was in college...lol, that might be why it was so fast for you. I wouldnt pm CrazyJ now....he is a regular old poster now(former poster, dont post much now)

[Edited on November 4, 2007 at 2:33 PM. Reason : w]

11/4/2007 2:32:52 PM

^I asked many times and never got a response. But thanks for the perceived air of superiority on your behalf.

11/4/2007 3:29:23 PM

https for login

11/5/2007 11:44:34 AM

so pm the new owners to request old school access?

11/6/2007 4:04:14 AM

No, pm Maverick about all things Old School

11/6/2007 12:54:39 PM

give the mods a feature so that they can mark a thread as PERMANENT... so they wont be purged if forgotten.

having an entire pm convo on one page would be nice

scroll bar for chatterbox

and for the love of god fix school tool, it helped me out a lot when i first came to state and is the entire reason many people signed up

11/6/2007 4:59:20 PM

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"and for the love of god fix school tool, it helped me out a lot when i first came to state and is the entire reason many people signed up"

Amen to that. Whole reason I signed up for this site several years ago was to use the school tool, and when I tried to use it again last year it was completely and utterly worthless.

Mind, I've graduated and so it isn't anything to me personally, but it's an important and long-neglected part of the site.

11/6/2007 9:23:03 PM

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"give the mods a feature so that they can mark a thread as PERMANENT..."

11/6/2007 9:33:05 PM

give us more cabnit

11/6/2007 9:55:40 PM

one that is made or from someone else

preferably

[Edited on November 6, 2007 at 11:26 PM. Reason : ,]

11/6/2007 11:25:04 PM

DO NOT give users control over their threads, either to self-moderate (delete), or to exclude people from their threads. also do not globally support user-blocks. if someone is so thin skinned, make em search out a plugin.

because all this cliquey bullshit goes contrary to everything that TWW is about, in my opinion.

i mean, if youre gonna do that, you might as well make it so everyone has to "friend" everyone to see their posts. and then we can thrown in huge avatars and sig blocks. yay.

11/7/2007 12:16:57 AM

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"CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GET THIS MOTHERFUCKER THE HELL OUT OF SOAP BOX? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, I CAN'T CLICK ON A THREAD IN THIS SECTION AND NOT SEE IT BEING SPAMMED BY SOME RETARDED RAMBLING OFF-TOPIC COMMENT THIS IS NOT CHIT CHAT THIS IS NOT AIM THIS IS NOT LOL ROFL WTFBBQ SHIT THAT YOU SPIT IN PMs TO GIRLS THAT ARE NO DOUBT DISGUSTED BY YOU JUST STAY THE FUCK OUT OF TSB FOREVER BECAUSE THAT IS HOW LONG IT IS GOING TO TAKE YOU TO ACQUIRE ANY SEMBLANCE OF A BRAIN NEEDED TO MAKE VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS SECTION"

can you make something like that a suspendable offense in soap box?

11/7/2007 5:01:55 PM

man the new owners sure are doing a bang-up job.

such a smooth transition. you wouldn't even know someone new has taken over. i mean, they even never respond to a single fucking thing in feedback forum, just like the old guard! terrific work!

11/7/2007 7:37:37 PM

^ they were the very first ones to respond to this thread

11/7/2007 7:42:05 PM

The most important thing:

Do not substantially change the look or layout of the Wolfweb.

No avatars, sigs, etc. No reorganization. Only the barest of cosmetic modifications. The forums on this site are sleek and easy to read and navigate. There's a reason why I post in these forums and pretty much no others.

I also agree that some slight degree of self-moderation might be in order, just to help clear up accidental duplicates and fix typos or confusing aspects of thread titles and whatnot. However, outside of these capacities, I agree emphatically with joe_schmoe:

Quote :

"DO NOT give users control over their threads, either to self-moderate (delete), or to exclude people from their threads. also do not globally support user-blocks. if someone is so thin skinned, make em search out a plugin."

That is, the emphasis is on self-moderation. A slight expansion of your abilities to alter or delete your own contributions, but not those of others.

[Edited on November 8, 2007 at 1:15 AM. Reason : ]

11/8/2007 1:14:52 AM

can you make URLs in the chatterbox into links?

11/8/2007 10:38:19 AM

autoshorten hyperlinks

11/8/2007 1:17:13 PM

Make it so that when someone links to thewolfweb.com people who are logged in to brentroad.com don't have to log in again.

11/8/2007 3:29:22 PM

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"N/A Feedback Forum QUESTIONS FOR THE NEW OWNERS nael 11/1/2007 10:18:29 PM"

11/8/2007 11:51:32 PM

Talk about a seamless transition in ownership! It's like CrazyJ never left!

11/11/2007 12:19:48 AM

srsly

i expected more posting

11/11/2007 12:22:23 AM

Oh, neat! New owners. Whoever they are - so far only nael has been identified, right?

I love the layout and usability of this site - so please don't change it at the core. I'm ok with ads, but it would be nice if they fit the page, meaning no scrolling.

I've always wanted an automatic user tag button in the post box. It will fit!!

[Edited on November 12, 2007 at 11:37 AM. Reason : .]

11/12/2007 11:35:34 AM

some of this stuff takes time guys. nael has also mentioned to us that Jake really didnt leave them with solid directions on how to do some of the things mentioned in this thread

you cant do what you dont know how to do

[Edited on November 12, 2007 at 12:00 PM. Reason : and Jake has been slow getting back to their requests]

11/12/2007 12:00:21 PM

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"and Jake has been slow getting back to their requests"

haha big surprise.

11/12/2007 3:23:45 PM

Quote :

"WOULD YOU STOP WITH THE FUCKING SHIT HOLY FUCK? HOW OLD ARE YOU? 40? YOU SHOULD BE ABOVE THIS CHILDISH SHIT YOU SCUMBAG YOU'RE IN GRAD SCHOOL? IS THAT A JOKE TOO ID EXPECT THIS SHIT OUT OF SOME OF THE REST OF US BUT FOR FUCKS SAKE DO YOURSELF AND THE REST OF HUMANITY A FAVOR THE NEXT TIME YOU GET THE URGE TO REMAIN AN ANONYMOUS CUNT BEHIND A SCREENAME AND FEEL LIKE ENGAGING IN THIS PETTY BULLSHIT JUST STOP AND CONSIDER SOME OTHER ALTERNATIVE MORE APPROPRIATE TO YOUR AGE AND NOT YOUR EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT BECAUSE YOU ARE REALLY KILLING ANY POSITIVE RESULTS THIS SECTION COULD HAVE FROM ME AND TWISTA POSTING LESS YOU GET THAT? YOU'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM DICKBAG "

dear god can you please make this a suspendable offense?

11/12/2007 5:14:48 PM

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"and Jake has been slow getting back to their requests"

ill be shocked if he ever gets back to these new owners

11/13/2007 8:07:31 PM

Quote :

"man the new owners sure are doing a bang-up job. such a smooth transition. you wouldn't even know someone new has taken over. i mean, they even never respond to a single fucking thing in feedback forum, just like the old guard! terrific work!"

meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

11/13/2007 10:47:57 PM

the king is dead. long live the king.

11/14/2007 12:27:09 AM

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"and for the love of god fix school tool, it helped me out a lot when i first came to state and is the entire reason many people signed up"

11/14/2007 3:05:25 AM

re: new boss, old boss comments

i mean give the guy a break, he just got his hands on a gold mine and is no doubt looking for ways to double up. maximize potential banner spots, maybe some small ones down the right side when you reply.

ha ha

i think he will soon discover that unless he plans on losing his ass (unless he got a great deal), and i give tww 6 more months max. they've already had it for 8 supposedly.

however, i think he would find that if he took the time to answer each, or even most questions in here, on a daily (or as close to convenient as possible) that premium memberships would skyrocket. even wolfeee has expressed that she cant get a reply back, and we all know how much of a HUGE asset she is to the academic side of TWW.... i'd hate to see her get jaded and take off like all the other users

while i'm being "totally outrageous" with my ideas here at 330 am, i should get a 10k yearly stipend to keep posting, just because i am the glue that has held tww together for so long. no proof, that will all be in the aftermath i suppose

but seriously folks, it totally makes sense now why jake never answered these anymore. as one of the few old old old twwers that still visits probably daily, id say your chances of keeping this thing afloat are close to 0 if you play tww like it will run itself. every question you answer is a potential 25 dollar source of yearly revenue. feedback forum is where the money's at, dont you playerzzzzzzzzz know your biznasssssss?

11/14/2007 3:30:54 AM

^^ youre just still holding a grudge because i suspended you right before i left to go on a week cruise because you were slandering me

anyways. i actually had an email in my inbox from nael that i hadnt checked last night when i wrote that. i was kinda woken up in the middle of the night and had trouble getting back to sleep.

anyways, ive spoke with him, and i'm gonna take back the little jabs i made to pick on him not being around.. the advice still stands about listening to everyone, but apparantly thats part of the problem that in his free time he has been busy reading and taking in user advice. which obviously isnt great news to all the instant gratification people... but you must consider that crazyJ was unable to ever put ANY time aside for TWW.

so just having a guy that dared open a suggestion box that was busting at the seams... the new guy definitely has my vote. his emails seem like he is all about keeping things the way we like it, but at the same time, willing to implement things we ask for.

i say give the guy a chance and a little time to get throguh everything. he cant even start on the feedback stuff until he finishes whats gotta be 18 pages of email by now. once he/they get caught up, its gonna be the tww you always wanted, as far as "not rocking the boat" goes, and youre gonna have an ADMIN that will listen and perhaps institute change, instead of one who cant because his next 18 weekends are lined up at home depot

my new 2 cents after talking to nael

11/14/2007 7:06:34 PM

^^ well the proof will be in the pudding here. i'm not holding my breath, but maybe i'll be pleasantly surprised.

11/14/2007 8:19:08 PM

heres a summary of the suggestions and questions from the thread. we will be checking to see how useful some of these are and how easy they will be to implement.

Tww improvements

1. Scrollbar to chatterbox
2. Sort feature to inbox
3. Link usernames in chatterbox to profile
4. Last 5 posts to top of page when new page is made
5. When replying to multipage thread, make reply window default to final page
6. Thread view for PMs
7. No more purge
8. Delete PMs
9. Update school tool
10. Update search function
11. Ability to leave comments under pictures in photo gallery
12. ultra premium accounts with file storage space
13. add a “[user][/user] button”
14. the edit post reason/time etc is in smaller text
15. possible changes to thread allowances

Tww questions

1. We will never have popups

2. We will not change the look and feel of the site

3. We will never merge the site with any other site

4. We plan to be hands off with user issues. Mods will be handling all of that.

5. We waited until November because we wanted to make sure that the transition was seamless and we could fully deal with any situation that would come up so that we wouldn’t screw up the site.

6. There will be no avatars and no signatures, that would change the look and feel too much

7. Maverick will handle all old school access questions

8. We will not have anything to do with suspensions, the mods will handle that.

11/15/2007 11:51:13 AM