10 Suggestions For The Ed

Buenchico | 19:18 Mon 25th Feb 2013 | Editor's Blog

34 Answers

1. Finally get the badges sorted out. (Lots of people have the '10 year' badge, for example, despite having been members for a far shorter time).

2. Ensure that there's at least one badge available for each of AB's sections. (I want an 'Armchair Traveller' badge please, for people like Dzug2 and Mushroom25 who specialise in the 'Travel' section - as well as for me!).

3. Prevent people being able to award themselves 'best answers'.

4. Get the 'Best' tabs, in people's profiles working again. (They've not updated for 3 months now).

5. Get rid of the annoying feature whereby a page automatically scrolls down to show the answer I've just posted at the top of my screen; it means that I then have to scroll up to see if anyone has posted while I was typing.

6. Make the default view, when clicking on 'My Profile', go to 'Threads involving me', instead of to 'My Q's'; that way I can see everything I'm involved in and then filter them down to just questions or just answers if I want to.

7. If it's not already been done, introduce 'Captcha' on the registration page to stop the regular late-night automated spammer from getting onto this site.

8. Consider whether 'Related questions' is actually benefiting anyone. As far as I can see, all it's doing is making it harder for potential new members to find relevant pages via Google.

9. Consider giving posts in 'Jokes' the same status as those in 'Chatterbank'. i.e. retain the Jokes section but with posts only showing up in 'Latest posts' and not on AB's front page. (Sometimes nearly every 'question' on the front page is a joke; that could discourage potential new members from joining the site to ask serious questions).

10. Re-instate the idea of inviting members to submit articles (such as the one Dot contributed on tracing family histories) but actually put them where they can easily be found!

11. Provide all of AB's moderators with company cars and luxury holidays.
(Oops! How did that sneak in there?)
;-)

Aargh Ed - I'm Getting Silverdisc Log-In Requests Now

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woofgang

I agree with wot Chris said.

boxtops

Chris - good list. Yes please, Ed.

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Mojo-Jo-Jo

Hi Factor. Yep, I think we agree on that one.
Even for first time sign ups it's a huge deterrent.

Mojo-Jo-Jo

And I like related posts.

DJHawkes

I can't even find my articles now, there are 4 i think, possibly buried in history?

DJHawkes

oh actually, they've all been moved into genealogy, still, not as easy to find if it's a newbie browsing,

chelle7272

All good suggestions there (though doubtful about 11!). I was going to postabout badges earlier as I have lots I haven't earned.
Also really wish mazie's suggestion was possible!

Tuvok

I agre with 1, 6 & 8.

DJHawkes

if all AB moderators were provided with company cars, B00 would have to take a driving test and craft would have to have a booster cushion, I can't see the ed going to those lengths.

AB Editor

Thanks Chris.

We've been a bit busy this last week with things falling over :)

I'll see if we can get some of this sorted ASAP (it's all fairly reasonable - although we can only stretch to a 1976 Rover 500K for the company car, and you'll have to share it)