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    • leocg
      leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      Beside the Lounge and, maybe, the Suggestion Box, all (sub)forums here are tech related.

      Would you mind telling people here of your ideas what the heck the forum feedback section here is about?
      I'm personally ALL EARS...

      As the name says, it's for people to give feedback about these forums, reporting issues, giving suggestions and discussing about them.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        THAT is exactly the sort of bullshit I'm talking about.
        It is a faqing FAQ thread. I even faqing asked there to pin it.

        I don't think it's a FAQ. Even if the case, i don't discuss on a FAQ page.

        Have I called anybody an idiot yet? No? Strange...

        You don't know what you did or not? This is strange really. 😃

        Imho you should just stop overreacting on this.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          You gave wrong reasons - for a forum.

          On normal forums things don't get closed just because there haven't been any new posts there for a while - whatever WHILE it is.
          Well, if a thread has REALLY lost its point - that would be the case IF THE ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED, or the situation on the topic discussed has so drastically changed that the thread's got about some cuckoo instead of what's real, or like that.

          In the case of my threads mentioned neither of the above mentioned factors is present: the situation hasn't changed by a iota, and the issue in question ain't resolved (if any).
          But I've already told that - didn't I?

          Let's say that the site guys should pay attention to the site, shouldn't they?
          If a normal search had been implemented, and other issues, there wouldn't have been such "inactive threads" - or at least too much an issue about such: people would've searched and found things, and actual topics would have stayed actual. Now, instead, many of such sink - nobody IS OBLIGED to post in them like every day to keep them on page 1 or something. (I asked to pin a thread of mine for that matter, didn't I? So?)

          Concluding on all that,
          there's NO issue on inactive threads here -
          it's an issue of inactive developers rather.

          1. Make ******** search at last.
          2. Implement something about good threads (like pinning to top) and/or tagging threads.

          If done, the only issue to remain will be a one-time sweep of duplicate threads - which are LEGION because nothing is done.

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          • blackbird71
            blackbird71 last edited by

            To be ruthlessly fair, as much as I greatly dislike the current so-called search function in these new Opera forums and while I believe the old MyOpera search engine was far better than the current one, many users never bother to search for an existing similar topic before starting a thread, in the first place. One of the chronic problems in the olde MyOpera days was fresh users repeatedly asking the same questions that had been already asked dozens of times before, for years on end. It's a chronic forum problem, with or without an effective forum search engine, and unfortunately it reflects human nature: it's easier to start a new thread than seek out and join an existing one for the same topic. If I had a dollar (or Euro) for every thread in MyOpera asking about a garbled webpage that was eventually traced to a mis-setting of the Fit-To-Width feature, I'd retire for life. Ditto for the new forums and the consequences of mis-setting Opera's Turbo feature in the browser.

            Hence, endlessly duplicating threads in a forum are almost a given, with or without a decent forum search engine, and with or without 'sinking' threads. The only remedy would be a powerful and effective forum search engine combined with an unforgiving approach to mod-closing of new, duplicate threads to exclude them. Neither, unfortunately, is likely to happen - and one without the other would be a disaster.

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            • james438
              james438 last edited by

              I just don't think it should be too difficult to post a few words in the rare instance that a thread is closed stating why it was closed.

              The search engine in this forum is not very good. It is very bad actually. I do try to use it before starting a new thread, but the results are so off base from what I am looking for that doing a google search is better.

              What are the prospects on upgrading this forum to something like vbulletin or phpbb?

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                Black, seeing your point, there are places where people spit at the pavements, there are places where they generally don't.
                It's a matter of administration.

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                • blackbird71
                  blackbird71 last edited by

                  Black, seeing your point, there are places where people spit at the pavements, there are places where they generally don't.
                  It's a matter of administration.

                  I agree on the importance of administration. The problem is that the lack of a good forum search engine has consequences that reach far beyond just user inconvenience. If a user can't locate a prior unclosed thread on his topic, he'll start a new one. If a mod sees the new thread, he can't very well close it, knowing that whatever earlier threads which exist may be unreachable by forum search and closing the new one will leave the poster hanging in air.

                  On the other hand, if a mod leaves the new thread alone, any old thread(s) can greatly age without being kept current. But sooner or later, somebody will tumble upon those old threads somehow and resurrect them (there are other search engines and various reference links besides the forum search engine, of course). Now what is the mod to do in the face of some of the obvious necro-posting?

                  IMO, the result is a collage of at-times-confusing mod actions or rulings, wherein they are trying to do their best with what they have in situations ultimately made much more difficult because of an unreliable or unsatisfactory forum search engine.

                  And indeed, as @james438 suggests, it would be useful to some extent if mods would at least post their reason(s) when closing a thread. Otherwise, in some cases, users are left to fret and puzzle at the 'why' of thread closings.

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