Thanks for the feedback one and all. As a result of comments made here, we've decided that we won't have a comments feature on the main site, but will instead included a link at the foot of news items etc directing readers to this forum (that'll learn ya). We won't be incorporating the Boot into the main forum, nor will we (for now at least) create a separate section for the Hat.
Changes that will be made will include some design tweaks and some reorganising of how the stats info is displayed. We're still taking feedback, though, so please feel free to make other suggestions before we get down to it in the close season.
"STEVE F" wrote:i see no reason to change anything about rageon as it works ok as it is rather stupid action on part of admin changes not wanted or needed unless admin intent is to mess up rageon site
am not happy with this admin action and am sure most users will agree with my opinion
Last suggestion from me.
Can we sponsor STEVE F next time rather than a player.
I don't think that disabling the Quote button is a good idea, although I wonder if it would be technically possible to make it so that just the post being replied to is quoted, rather than all the posts previously quoted. Probably not.
More proactive moderation? Nah, not gonna happen.
Sponsoring STEVE F? Unlikely, but I wonder if there's some way of disabling the Caps Lock key (I know on some forums they have a filter that prevents posts appearing that are written in block capitals, but all that's needed is one letter in lower case and it doesn't work).
I found it quite difficult to find the Oxfordshire Senior Cup Results (I wanted to check the date and score of the Kidlington game). First I looked under Fixtures, which includes League, FA Cup and FA Trophy, but not OSC. Then I looked under Testimonials and Friendlies. Finally I found it under Reserves, which doesn't seem to fit this season.
Yeah, I had a bit of a problem deciding where to put the OSC results. They're not proper 1st team games, neither are they testimonials or friendlies. And I take your point about them not being reserve games either, but historically that's what they've been so I left them under Reserves for consistency's sake.
One of my projects last close-season was to introduce a section for youth team results, but I had so many problems finding them for the period from th early 60s to the mid 70s that I gave up in the end. I will endeavour to resurrect the project, time permitting, as I too think it would be a useful addition to the archive.
Projects for this summer include finding a way to incorporate results before 1949 and adding League tables (for every season from 1894).
"boris" wrote:I don't think that disabling the Quote button is a good idea, although I wonder if it would be technically possible to make it so that just the post being replied to is quoted, rather than all the posts previously quoted. Probably not.
If you're going up to phpBB3, there's a configurable "maximum nested quote" option.
Regarding STEVE F, I think he's posted before that he uses all caps because he is partially sighted? In which case, removing this would be an offence under the DDA. Personally I have more of a problem with WHAT he writes, rather than how he writes it!
In the statistics section, I would like to see attendance records for the "new" ground. We are not going to beat the current "top 20 at home" in the current 3 sided stadium, but I would like to see a run-down of the top attendances. The question often pops up, and most of us know the 10,000|| crowds includes Orient, Villa, Woking, Northwich, Reading, Slumdon, Elton John, Man United pre-season etc. But what is the official list?
Something I've been thinking of is a webnews section of the forum. A bit like the NewsNow news scraper, but so we can comment after the stories. Obviously I don't want it to overlap with the news section of the site, but sometimes I find interesting little titbits from a news search I have running which are perhaps worth sharing. For instance the John Baker story / Gambian Oxford United. Perhaps it could replace the Road Rage section as that hardly gets any use?
As I don't know how to write an automatic news finder, perhaps we could just start a new topic for each story. (sadly I got this inspiration from the townendforum news monkey
