Can we have a "report spam" button please, which
a) does NOT show up in our post count.
b) hides the button when it's already been reported as spam.

> Donate
I do - time, and lots of it (as do the ~100 or so regulars who help out here).

How is that any less valuable than $5 per month subscription?

Paying the server bills is one thing, but...

I agree. They're just another road hazard for noobs to trip over as it stands.

Leaving rep no longer causes an immediate page refresh.

The old version seemed pretty smart about how much redrawing was necessary (not much usually).

> >>Forum Threads Started: 3,668
That's how many posts you've reported (more or less).

There are a lot of reported posts on the main site entrance (see pic)

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread208776.html
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread211532.html

Given the number of spammers (and other 1-posting drive-by's), how about designating certain threads as "fly paper".

Fly paper threads have a high post count, and lots of buzz words, but are...

Vote for me, and I'll delete on sight all those useless "project title" threads which pollute the forum, which never go anywhere useful.

> You don't have to be here long to learn the nature of...

I only subscribe to threads which are actually useful to me longer term.

I don't want to subscribe to every passing dweeb's thread who can't use code tags.

> Why not just use the threaad subscription feature?
Thread Tools (1 click)
Subscribe to thread (2 clicks)
Faff around with notification (3 and 4 clicks)
Hit subscribe (5 clicks)
Wait for a...

Can we also have this, to complement the other quick forum links.

# My threads
* Subscribed Forums
* All Forums

A "My thread" is any thread that I've either posted or replied to. ...

Ads are there to see who's smart enough to figure out how to get rid of them.

> They make a master load for each semester.
Do "They" know about the problem, and are in a position to do something about it with a better s/w load for next semester?

And the 75% of the membership which have ZERO posts, what contribution are they making, apart from puffing up the numbers?

> then it will be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
You mean by relying on the relentless annoyance of the regulars in contributing to keeping the forum spam-free?
I feel another phase of...

At least for those people with say less than 10 posts.

There is no end of dross from people bumping threads with 1-line of pith which is either off-topic, or just vaguely relevant.

Most seem to...

Firefox +
Adblock+ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
If you want to allow ads on your favourite site, then you can do this, otherwise, they're history.

Noscript...

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread185352.html

Looks 'sheared', but OK when clicked on.
10118

> "where's the love?"
It's been downsized :D

There were others, which have now gone.

Yes, it's been suggested many times before, and implemented elsewhere.
Still nothing :(

I click on "send PM to xxx"
How at that point is it not possible to figure out that sending a PM to xxx will fail?

How about saying this BEFORE I spend a good deal of time composing a message and not afterwards :(

Remove all phrases like this
- When posting programming code, encase it in [code], [code=syntax],

Remove all announcements like this
- Please use BB Code and Inlinecode tags

Remove all...

In the blurb to encourage guests to sign up, there's this line.

"In fact, there are 4,267 IT professionals currently interacting right now!"
Nope, not by a long shot.

I bet a lot of people...

> What should I do?
Find another forum.

Not that I'm suggesting you leave or anything, but you need to understand that no matter how great you think DW is, it's not the only show in town. A...

And you'd still get posts in it from the Turbo C luddites as well.

Most of the time, they don't have a clue what their question is. Is it an OS question, a C++ question, a compiler question or an...

Can this be disabled for the "report post" feature?

It's all too easy to see two posts in succession which both need code tags, and report them both within the time limit (and be told not to).
...

Well are you?

So, irrespective of the type of rep you give, why is the word "lucky" in the popup? Surely receiving rep is far more deterministic than the pure blind chance it suggests.

Perhaps...

I'll have to go with the "a few days ago" answer as well.

I'm seeing some of these on occasion.
"This forum requires that you wait 15 seconds between posts. Please try again in 14 seconds."
But I always see my reply below it, but somehow the board though...

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/memberlist.php
Can the solved threads column be made sortable, like all the other columns of information?

Hell, with only 2 posts, you've already joined the top 25% of posters on the board.
Only 8 more posts will get you into the top 2%!

In order.

People don't use code tags
People don't use code tags
People don't use code tags
People don't use code tags
People don't use code tags
People using leet speek
Spammers

You mean like the ones at the end of this list?
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum2.html

I saw the same thing a couple of weeks ago-ish, using Firefox, but it didn't last long enough to get worried about.

> But then you're only willing to help people because you get points out of it
So we have now 4 "metrics" which tell the world how we're performing, yet none for those people asking the questions?
...

How about the other "incentive" of working out which people are worth helping?

If two posters have started 100 threads (say), where one of them has marked nearly all of them as "solved", and the...

PM'ed some details.