UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Suggestions and Feedback Reset 'notify' limit after edited by mod.

There should be an option for a system to be configured to allow an additional "notify" by a given user after a moderator edit, that is, reset the "notify" restrictions back as if it were a fresh post.

• If the moderator makes a mistake and blows the edit on a bad post, the whistle blower can't follow up with another "notify" for an additional correction.

• We have a classifieds forum where the poster clicks on "notify" to mark the sale closed. If the poster uses "notify" first for an edit, he/she can't use "notify" again later to close the sale and instead has to rely on a PM* to a specific moderator (who might be out of town!).

*Getting to PMs from an e-mail are so inefficient now, requiring three screen loads instead of just one under Classic. Annoying. I want my one-click back!

I support you on this one,
i hate the fact that 1 bad report blocks the others.

It a feature that's used, and not abused IMO.

I would like to see the Report Features handled by
say a pm rather than a e-mail for the reason that
i may log in else where and not be aware that a post
has been reported.

All moderators become participants of that Notify as a pm.

A work around, and its not thought of by members is
to report the post above or below

Unfortunately in this case it is a Classified's forum which is one post per topic (no replies). Under Classic we had it set to POST only, no replies. Which is another feature we long to have back.

Going full moderated is an option that has been explored but not put into action.

I can see where this would be useful; but I'd like to reuest that it be an option; my forums for one are abused from this feature when it's more than one notify... It's designed to be a "report this post for abuse" button, and when used as intended my mods get 20+ reports on a single message from "lower than standard intelligence" members

Its my hotline for gossip lol

I can see your side of it too,
but i would like to see it hooked into an "Alert" pm.
As in this modern age of wifi etc were logging on at MacDonald's
and checking things lol.

But e-mails are maybe at home as your bulk e-mail source.

Just remember, my suggestion is the post be RESET after it's edited. I'm not specifically asking to raise the limit of "notify" clicks, I just want the "notify variable" set back to "0" after a post has been edited by a moderator.

Can everyone agree that this is an improvement?

As for PMs versus e-mails, I much prefer e-mails, so perhaps there should be an "notify" option for each moderator:
• via e-mail
• via PM
• via e-mail & PM

This should be a moderator setting in their preferances vs an option users can send as it'd be quite intrusive.

Yes, sorry if I didn't have the terminology correct, that is what I meant. Set by the moderator to his/her preference—not the users, gag.

I've thrown the notify mod system of ubb out the door and use my own system.

We only global mods, so a notify mod e-mail would go to 14 people, with no idea if somebody handled it or not.

The notify's are put in a database now, and I have some code in the header that checks if you are mod/admin and if there are any unhandled notify's and if so puts up a big red flashy banner that there are new notifications.

If one of our staff members handled a notify, they click the button, and the rest doesn't see it anymore. We also have a system to view old handled notifies.

For us, this works great. No PM, No E-Mail, but a specific notify system. In our system, users can also notify as much as they want on a single post, we kinda see it as an extra alert if a post gets lots of notify hits. Our system groups those notify's.

It has a few bugs now, that are workible. Once I get those out I intend to post it on ubbdev.