Locked threads don't show up as locked in the forum?

[Ansury]

Like the below locked thread:

"So many feature requests from the old forum are deleted. Why ??"

....wha?  Wow!  Am I missing something or is there really NO way to tell if a thread is locked before you click on it?

Every forum in the UNIVERSE indicates that.  The DINOSAURS forums even did.  I've seen 386 monochrome applications that implement this correctly.

Where are our little PADLOCK ICONS, Jive?  (That's the last straw, bring back WebX!  BTW this is a free points thread. Get your free points here...)

[~graffiti]

Ansury wrote:

....wha?  Wow!  Am I missing something or is there really NO way to tell if a thread is locked before you click on it?

Doesn't appear so. Pretty obvious once you're already in but not beforehand.

[~graffiti]

Then again, if you're like me and come in to most threads by clicking on the "last post" link, again, it's not obvious.

[adobe-admin]

Web Crossing didn't indicate a thread was locked, either. You had to visit the thread and notice that there was no reply box avaialble. And hosts/moderators didn't even have that indication, they still had a reply box. Now a locked thread is that, locked. Even an admin cannot add a reply without unlocking.

But I do agree that it would be good to be shown in the list and will ask about having that happen.

[Ansury]

adobe-admin wrote:

Web Crossing didn't indicate a thread was locked, either. You had to visit the thread and notice that there was no reply box avaialble. And hosts/moderators didn't even have that indication, they still had a reply box. Now a locked thread is that, locked. Even an admin cannot add a reply without unlocking.

But I do agree that it would be good to be shown in the list and will ask about having that happen.

Facts, facts, meh!

(Really?)

[adobe-admin]

Yeah, really. Each forum system has its own set of "issues." My bug/issue list with WebX was similar in size to what we have now, just different.

[Bob_Peters]

adobe-admin wrote:

My bug/issue list with WebX was similar in size to what we have now, just different.

I can certainly believe that

[Ansury]

At least the list probably didn't include extra, useless features (slowing the system down) that nobody even wanted.

[Ansury]

Good enough for partial free points, but I didn't see any "Jive sucks" or similar critical comments. So "my question has not been answered yet".

I mean, if a T-Rex could engineer the ancient DinoForum v. 1.0 with locked thread padlocks, shouldn't "Clearspace  2.5.7"?

[~graffiti · Accepted solution]

Ansury wrote:

but I didn't see any "Jive sucks" or similar critical comments.

Well Jive DOES suck. That's just a given.

[Ansury]

~graffiti wrote:

Ansury wrote:

but I didn't see any "Jive sucks" or similar critical comments.

Well Jive DOES suck. That's just a given.

Free points, cashed in: cha-ching.

[JayJhabrix]

Ansury wrote:

Like the below locked thread:

"So many feature requests from the old forum are deleted. Why ??"

....wha?  Wow!  Am I missing something or is there really NO way to tell if a thread is locked before you click on it?

Every forum in the UNIVERSE indicates that.  The DINOSAURS forums even did.  I've seen 386 monochrome applications that implement this correctly.

Where are our little PADLOCK ICONS, Jive?  (That's the last straw, bring back WebX!  BTW this is a free points thread. Get your free points here...)

"Reset preferences, update to 11.10.9.8.7.0.1, get the latest video card drivers and treat yourself to your favourite tipple at your favourite bar".

[Ansury]

JayJhabrix wrote:

Ansury wrote:

Like the below locked thread:

"So many feature requests from the old forum are deleted. Why ??"

....wha?  Wow!  Am I missing something or is there really NO way to tell if a thread is locked before you click on it?

Every forum in the UNIVERSE indicates that.  The DINOSAURS forums even did.  I've seen 386 monochrome applications that implement this correctly.

Where are our little PADLOCK ICONS, Jive?  (That's the last straw, bring back WebX!  BTW this is a free points thread. Get your free points here...)

"Reset preferences, update to 11.10.9.8.7.0.1, get the latest video card drivers and treat yourself to your favourite tipple at your favourite bar".

Marked helpful, very helpful! Because I am the OP and I know best!

[JayJhabrix]

Ansury wrote:

Marked helpful, very helpful! Because I am the OP and I know best!

Cheapo! I thought i'd get at least 10 for that!!!

[Ansury]

JayJhabrix wrote:

Ansury wrote:

Marked helpful, very helpful! Because I am the OP and I know best!

Cheapo! I thought i'd get at least 10 for that!!!

Ha! You got Jived!

Hey don't blame me, blame Jive software--they're the ones who limited the "good" answers to one per thread!

[JayJhabrix]

Ansury wrote:

Hey don't blame me, blame Jive software--they're the ones who limited the "good" answers to one per thread!

See! We all know it's a piece of excreta! They won't even let you hand out points at will!!

[Ansury]

Oh, they will, if you'd like I could post a new free points thread. No problem, no problem..

I wonder if I could charge for this free points service!

[JayJhabrix]

Ansury wrote:

I wonder if I could charge for this free points service!

Unfortunately, you can give yourself points...

[JayJhabrix]

With apologies to Dave, of course, but then he whacked the idea from someone else! So, i'm not really feeling too sorry!!!