Pretty much what he said. lol

 

Suggestion:

Disable automerge in WBA. If you want to post two chapters in succession, it leads to rather unpleasing aesthetics.

 

You did not appreciate the first two chapters of "Alexandra Potter" being smooshed together?

 

"minimum number of posts before reccing fics in For Review?" idea should be relatively easy to implement. It would be a great thing - I am really new here, but it would stop my embarrassing first recommendation, recent post by person that used "For Review" forum as AR thread and other people unable to read stickies.

It is posted on feedback site: http://dlp.uservoice.com/forums/135...bout-a-minimum-number-of-posts-before-reccing with "Need a larger quorum for this." by Lord Ravenclaw.

136 votes, fourth place - I think that it qualifies as "a larger quorum"?

Reply to obligatory "LOL, necro": I posted in this thread, as popular and relatively uncomplicated idea reached "larger quorum" mentioned as requirement for implementation. Creating a new thread would be bad idea, as this one is linked from http://dlp.uservoice.com/forums/135547-dlp-improvement And yes, I think that this post was good enough to qualify under "If you still feel it is necessary to make a new reply, you can still do so though." mentioned in warning box.

 

I am strongly opposing this.

These days the worst recommendations come from members with way more posts than what we would require, i.e. Alexx has almost 200 posts. If we would set the limit that high the number of good recommendations would sink even further.

And people really wanting to promote their own shit would simply start spamming the board even worse than the TaureBot.

 

Maybe the forum needs a more active role of the admins and mods, banning annoying people that don't follow the basic rules (both written and implied), like they used to do in the past.

That's exactly one of the things I love about DLP, it is not a democracy and is heavily controlled by the staff.

 

This one would need mods.

But there is a noticeable amount of recommendation from people below 25 votes - and almost always it is obvious that they failed to read stickies or submission fails for other reasons (like first mine - see https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=24107 - I really would prefer to be unable to post than irritate everybody, including author and myself).

 

There is also a considerable amount of recommedations from people below 25 votes which end up with 4 or 5 stars, i.e. two recs posted for review by Liechtenstein (17 posts by now).

When I go through the recommendations of the last months I am convinced that the quality of recommendations has almost nothing to do with the number of posts someone has.

Thus I strongly oppose any implementation of that idea.

 

I've got what maybe a small suggestion.

Each time I pull up DLP I go to the Latest Post page and click through the various links to open up several tabs at once. I then go through them, etc.

Would it be possible that when I click that little green button to go to the latest post it would automatically open it in a new tab?

(Or is me opening numerous tabs frowned upon? If so, then disregard and I'll make a point to stop.)

 

I knew about the CTRL+Click, I use that. But sometimes I just browse with my mouse. It works since I lurk a lot.

However, I didn't know about the wheel-click. You sir, just made my day!

 

On a mac, Command + Click works too.

 

Account verification could be streamlined. If the goal is to prevent bots, was a captcha not sufficient? It works for most other sites. reddit.com also makes new users fill out a captcha before each post to discourage bots and spammers. A similar system could be implemented here.

 

Fun fact: The captchas you see on some of the shadier sites? Redirected captchas from 'proper' sites. That input is used to 'prove' that their bots are human.

 

That's amazing. And disturbing.

 

Membership

I think Work By Author should be available to everyone