Now we're cooking. Good stuff.
Some specific comments:
I used to think this was a bad idea. Now I say go for it. At minimum it will reduce the number of posts asking for it<g>. At best it may reduce some of the squabble...hopefully the threads will not turn into discussions about ignoring each other. Hopefully there will not be too many redundant posts as some readers chose not to read posts and therefore post something that was posted two or three posts earlier. "You Turkey..that was just posted yesterday...can't you read?"
I suppose that it's possible that threads could start to see junk posts of the sort you mention, but I bet strongly they won't. Why? Because members don't know they're being ignored, only the reader does. Readers have no incentive to tell everyone they are ignoring the person because everyone else has the same option. Currently there is a little of that now, but it happens mostly because the person doing the ignoring is usually telling others about a feature he/she has using BrowseMaster that others don't, and encouraging them to download BrowseMaster. This will stop when ignoring is as easy as pressing a button while viewing a post.
A correction option. Two months after writing a post one discovers an error. Not an edit function but a correction message "box" at the bottom of a post.
Your idea for a correction box is ok if I understand it correctly. You'd like to be able to go back to previous post of yours, and add something (presumably a correction). This addition would be marked in some obvious way by SI (and include the date and time I presume) so that subsequent readers of the post would always know it was an addition by the originator, not part of the original post. I think I'm OK with that, but am not sure the value it adds, except for a very few times it would allow a poster to go back and indicate they wanted to correct some factual error or typo they had made.
My concern is one of not knowing how this new feature might be "abused" and how that might detract from what we have now. Not sure here and waiting for more discussion before I make up my mind.
A 'price stamp' in the message. When I review old posts and old price predictions would also like to follow the price movement at the time. Current 'price stamps' show todays value..not the value at the time of the post.
Good idea, again presuming that this price stamp is added by SI and can't be changed by anyone. Exactly which price would it have, the one at that moment, the previous close, what?
You also made a couple of enhancement suggestions for better features in the message editor. If SI had a full screen editor with messages looking like they will when posted, most reformatting problems would be instantly resolved. An option to have a direct link to an editor of the poster's choice, assuming it was on their PC, would be even better.
The ability to bookmark posts and make the selected posts available to other readers. Some posts are of high quality. It should also help redundant posting. Some issues are talked about over and over and over and ....something like a custom FAQ option for a thread.
Not sure how this would work. Let's say I bookmark a dozen post from 4 different threads. This in and of itself is useful to me but I can already do that in my browser and just put them into one or more folders. If I could make them public, say in a John Biddle's Bookmarks, would people find that valuable. I suppose they might (not mine maybe, but someone's) but how it evolve into a "custom FAQ". I'm missing something. |
