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greenjumpyone wrote:
Claudio,
that would be communicating ...
Hopper, you must be very brave. Using forbidden words is... well, somehow not very welcome by some people around here. Specially by those who decide which words are just not right. "Communicating"..., well, what could that concept possibly have to do at all with these forums?
Over the last 24 hours I have deleted approximately 1500 messages. JC deleted a similar number. Before I started the Database Communication with JRun forum looked like the screenshot below:
The spam in another forum is such that it is still closed while it is being cleaned up. Considering the magnitude of the spam problem we are fighting I think you find little support for a position that it is beneficial to leave a notice in place when a thread and/or message is deleted.
As to having threads marked in some way as locked, I would welcome a feature in the software to display that for those using the web interface. Your best bet is to go over to the Jive site and register an enhancement request for that. Moderator support for manually adding something to thread titles is probably sketchy. Those who support it already do it (when not made impossible by the inaccessibility of these forums on some devices). Those who don't, don't.
for posts, I think that perhaps all that it would take would be to make " - this indicates when changes were made and by whom." the selected option by default.
OK, I am still playing along, as the discussion seems to have moved to real world issues, or at least I think they have.
In most product fora, when a MOD does edit, or lock a thread, there is almost always a comment to that effect. It's always been similar to the "Edited by" tag line. Now, these particular fora probably get a bit less traffic than others here do. Also, even when logged in on basically an around the clock basis, I have seen scant little spam in any of them, so the work load is much less. In very high-traffic fora, this might just not be possible.
Hunt
PS - still, that little Lock icon would be helpful...
the_wine_snob wrote:
In most product fora, when a MOD does edit, or lock a thread, there is almost always a comment to that effect.
Yes, Hunt, you are correct. Here, it's up to the moderator and most (note that I did not say all) don't take the time to inform the readers of deletions/edits etc. They stealthily delete posts (messing up the post counts) or remove sentences/phrases/words from a post. When one refreshes the main forum comments page, a thread might show an update. If one were to click on the "last post", it will take you to a post higher on the list, because it had been edited. It's very confusing if you had read the post previously, because now something is different and you don't know how, why or who made a change. 
If they are unable to put an icon next to the thread title, a simpe [LOCKED] would be sufficient.
If they are going to edit a post they could simply put [edited for content by {put forum host's name here}].
Apparently that seems to be too much to ask.
the_wine_snob wrote:
When one refreshes the main forum comments page, a thread might show an update. If one were to click on the "last post", it will take you to a post higher on the list, because it had been edited.
Claudio,Thank you for the clarification. I had seen some threads, new to me, with references to Last Post, and to reply counts, and just did not get the issue. Now, it's cleared up - for me at least.
Thank you,
Hunt
PS - I guess that I hang in a bunch of backwater, low-traffic fora. Had not taken notice before.
It was Hopper who wrote that, not me 
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I guess that that is what I get for turning off the Threaded View.
In that case, Hopper - thanks a bunch!
Hunt
Sorry we are having so much trouble.
Shame there is no magic button we could press on Spammer that would send a signal to burn out their computer, modem and, Router.
WE need enforceable laws on the books where anyone sending blatant Spam could be subject to amandentory $100,000 per incidnet fine , or two year prison term with no time off for good behavior.
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