We Want Your Input!

[ABEditor22]

Dear AnswerBank Community,

Firstly, I wanted to thank you for the enormous amount of patience and tolerance you have all shown since I introduced myself back in January 2022 as the new owner of The AnswerBank.

Since January, I have been working with the team behind the scenes to plan our next steps, whilst listening to and observing the community. I can confirm our intention is to move forwards with a programme of works to improve The Answerbank in the coming months.

Before we do, we wanted to reach out to the community to get your input on some of the improvements we’re considering and to get your honest feedback and views; what better way to do that than using AnswerBank itself to gather that feedback.

To that end, I can confirm that some of our Editors will be posting some polls and questions to help gather feedback in the coming weeks and months so that we can include your views in our development roadmap. Now is a great time for you to share your views as to how we can make The AnswerBank a better place to share and socialise online.

I look forward to reading your responses.

M.

[Prudie]

How about a short polite reason given when threads are removed. Not the spammy ones, those we all understand but the ones that many users have contributed to - if only so we could learn from our mistakes. For example this weekend the guy who'd cheated on his pregnant partner. Over 50 answers, none of them rude unless it was the last couple I didn't see but all of a sudden all gone. And by polite I don't mean the rather impolite link to the Site Rules with nothing else which some mods favour as the answer to everything.

[Tilly2]

I'm desperately looking out for the next poll.

[gness]

Prudie. That poster who had his thread removed called another member the c word.

[Redhelen72]

Oh yes Gness he got very rude and very angry

[windywillow]

Naomi, I'm not talking about taking you to the first or last PAGE - I mean taking you to the first or last POST (excuse caps).

When you click on the last page you then need to scroll down to reach the last post, and if you've been following the thread, you probably will have already read some of the posts on the last page, so to be able to go straight to the last post on the page would be good for me.

I don't even know if it's possible to implement, but it appeals to me.

[Prudie]

Thanks Gness and RH, I missed the last few posts. So that makes sense - a comment such as OP got aggressive or similar. Particularly as users are not allowed to discuss removed threads.

[MissTerious]

Editing at weekends would help.

[choux]

Gness? Really? One can be removed for using "conservative"?

Hells bells.

[Prudie]

I think she meant Christmas :-)

[gness]

Only if it has a capital C, Choux. That results in removal of thread, banning and six months volunteering for your local Labour Party. :-)

[THECORBYLOON]

"I can confirm that some of our Editors... "

Some? How many more are there apart from THE Ed and the Spare Ed?

[gulliver1]

Get rid of self opinionated Mods.

[zebo]

//M?
Sounds very MI5/6 ish!//

I would rather it were Q, then we could all have some lovely gadgets!

[JimF]

Next time you feel compelled to "reach out" to anybody, try using the verb "contact" instead. That way, you don't sound like such a... well, you can work it out...

[Canary42]

Another useful feature would be the ability to re-locate an answer placed in the wrong thread by mistake (without having to resort to a request to Ed/Mod.

[royfromaus]

You don't listen, you will never listen.
AB is on life support and your mods are doing their best to put it out of its misery.