ATS, BTS, What would you like to see in the future?

That's an idea I feel is a great one. Don't know if it's been brought up before and ran through ATS members and staff, but off hand I'd say it may help all at least in the sense of building an even stronger ATS Community.

eBay I've dealt through and it's big and in some ways a buyer feels like a 'mouse in the cornfield' .

At ATS we have the management closer to it's members and keenly knowledgeable to consider that type of expansion.


Dallas

I have a new suggestion.

A point deduction system for people who use txt speak.

An example would be this.
"Hey! wat r u doin m8."


I don't know about anyone else, but it annoys the heck out
of me, I mean this is'nt some silly little messenger service or
a chat on your ceel phones text messaging thing, post full and
correct (yo your knowledge) sentences and words, not idiotic
txt speak.

I fully support this following notion, and I would love to see it implemented.

Issuing Warns to members who publicly call for the termination of another members account. Leniency of course. The first warning would not come with a point deduction or a red badge of courage, but the member would be contacted via u2u.

Second offense would come with the regular components of a standard warning.

When a member makes a mistake, it is not the job of the membership to publicly execute them. Ever notice that the business of the staff is almost always done behind closed doors? This is for a reason.

Whats even worse is when the staff deals with the problem, and members continue to bombard the member with posts screaming for them to be banished from the site forever.

Show me a member who has been here for any length of time that has never once made a mistake. I'd be surprised. Not everyone has been guilty of serious infractions, but we all make mistakes. Nobody deserves to be scrutinized by fellow members in this manner.

I'd like to hear what a staff member thinks about this one. Should this be a punishable offense? I would only support if it came with one shot grace period. The first time is forgivable, after that it is inexcusable.

Originally posted by chissler
I fully support this following notion, and I would love to see it implemented.

Issuing Warns to members who publicly call for the termination of another members account.

When a member makes a mistake, it is not the job of the membership to publicly execute them.

So you are publicly calling for punishment of members who publicly call for punishment of members. Do I have that right?

Does the universe explode now?

Did someone hear something? What was that?

I think I'll continue to wait.

Next time the brain says, hit the Complain button, damnit I'll hit Complain button.

Well done wcip, well done.



ed:

HOWEVER! I am not directly calling for the punishment of a member. I am merely attempting to discuss this problem within our board. There is a difference.



[edit on 23-11-2006 by chissler]

I won't tell anyone if you wont.









[edit on 2006-11-23 by wecomeinpeace]

I would like to see a "recent post" section when you enter PTS and BTS.

Whats wrong with the New Posts function?

Links to both are below.

politics.abovetopsecret.com...
www.belowtopsecret.com...

These are both recent posts on PTS & BTS.

Too lazy!

I want to see it on the left, just like on ATS.

That is what I would like to see in the future!

Originally posted by RRconservative
Too lazy!

This one?



If so, I think it would make board navigation much easier if it was included on BTS and PTS as well.

I'm lazy too.

OK, I remembered something I suggested along time ago,
but it sort of went away without little flare.


On all three ATS, BTS & PTS, it says myATS, but that
shows you all the threads, so my proposal is to change it to
myPosts.

Check this out... Today ALL ... all recent ATS, BTS, PTS posts on one page...

www.abovetopsecret.com...

Is there currently a free text "notes" section for ATS members to use on their MyATS pages? If not, I'd like to request that such a function be added. The reason is that sometimes I see a posting that I would like to reply to later, but sometimes I forget about the posting, etc., the next time that I am logged in to ATS.

So a small "notes" section for each ATS member would save our time.

My other request related to my becoming more organized is for a "line at a time" deletion option to be available for my subscribed threads. In other words, I'd like to be able to delete my inactive threads that we're all done with, but I would rarely need the only current Edit option of "delete all subscribed threads".

As I am determined to be persistent about my advocating a
Robotics sub/forum, I've compiled some more Robotics
threads from the last few days.


China Develops Its First Security Robot

Telepresence Robot Allows You To Interact With Its Environment

Israel Developing Hornet Sized Robot

Quadruped Robot: Big Dog

Rent A Robot?

I doubt this would happen but it would be interesting to see a "Wars Forum" with subforums of wars in the past,present & maybe future(cough.....World...cough....War....cough..Three....cough).If we study wars we could learn some useful things,like the conspiracies behind the wars and learn to not make the same mistakes in the past that caused the wars.

[edit on 25-11-2006 by tormentor]

Would it be feasible to have the space exploration forum broken down into sub-categories for different aspects eg

Moon
Mars
Sun
NASA
Space Flight
Black Holes
Other Solar Systems
etc etc etc

It would make sifting through the data much easier.

I would also think it'd be a good idea to break down other forums into sub categories like the Ancient & Lost Civ forum.

Anyway, just a thought. Can it be done?

As I am determined to be persistent about this, I've decided
to just start posting all robotic thread links from the week
each friday.


RIDC-01 Robotic Maid

Microbot Swims Like Bacteria With Flagellar

RoboSalmon and SHARCs

It happens a lot and it's probably unavoidable. There you are, you are reading a through a thread and it interests you enough to stop to write a reply. Something piqued your interest enough to want to comment. After all, you have thoughts and opinions too. You have "something" to say!

One problem....the comment you want to make -- need to make -- is "off topic". Oh sure, it's "related" (often by the remotest tendril of association) to the thread's topic but it really isn't. Many an interesting thread has been derailed (mostly inadvertently) by simple, off-track comments.

Yes, the off track comments might be funny. You can almost "see" the "other guy" chuckle at your comment. When it really gets "good" is when someone else replies to "your" comment" to make a snide, reciprocal comment which, of course is both funnier and even more off the original thread's intent. And so it goes. If it's a really "good" comment, you might even start wondering why it's not "you" earning all those extra points. By this time, you might even start thinking that it was your thread to begin with. Or even, that you "saved" the thread.

That's how most threads get derailed. I don't see some organized "den" of "thread-derailers" at work here. The thing is that sometimes those comments are funny, they are clever, etc. Perhaps it is even good that they were said but the original poster loses the "intent" of the thread.

Perhaps it would be good to "allow" people to make "off track" or "off subject" comments but without it actually being considered a post. What if you another feature were added In addition to "Reply", we could have a "A 'side-comment'". It would appear on the thread board in a different color, size etc. It would be distinctly different. A person viewing the thread could opt to view the thread in it's entirety, " Reply" and "side comments" or simply opt to view the thread sans side comments.

"Side comments" would not earn points and "side comments" posted as a "Reply" would cause a loss of points. That should be enough to keep most threads "on track". The thread author could actually monitor his/her own thread by suggesting that someone "stay on track".

I think that this would help keep threads cohesive, rational and on-track.

*cough*automotive forum*cough*

Looks around all casual. I desire to be able to use 133t sp3@k.

Originally posted by truttseeker
*cough*automotive forum*cough*

Looks around all casual. I desire to be able to use 133t sp3@k.

I believe you mean 133t sp34k.

An A in leet is 4 not @, jeesh.