-Is "New Posts" Broken?
If I set "New Posts" as a bookmark & open it, I seem to end up missing new posts &/or newly-posted threads. I'm not exactly sure what's going on there. This happens on mobile & desktop, & I've seen it happen pretty much any time I test it out.
But, if I set "Whats New" as a bookmark & open it, I can definitely see all new threads, & new posts to threads, chronologically as they happen, as listed under "Latest Posts", which is what I want to see.
-Can we get rid of "Profile Posts"?
However, by setting "What's New" as my bookmark, I also have to see "New Profile Posts", which I do not want to see. What's the point of "Profile Posts"? It seems redundant & to undermine the idea of a forum to have threads and profile posts, especially when the profile posts end up being more prominent than the forum threads themselves. If you don't think that Profile Posts are more prominent than forum threads, well, I know by now without looking at the forum that kola is interested in penz & SH from highplainsdrifter, & that AlabamaDan is looking for tobacco samplers at shipping cost from some other guy, & adui's been stowed away on the black frigate for almost a couple weeks now. I know all of this because I've read it every time I check my bookmark for the sites' "Whats New" section, & I scroll through the "Latest Posts" to see what's happening, & eventually I hit that "New Profile Posts" section. Now one guy's trying to sell medicine or something in a foreign language, complete with dodgy links to presumably his web-store. I don't care about any information listed in peoples "Profile Posts". I don't want to see people's Profile Posts. But there they are every time I check the forum, the same ones oftentimes visible for weeks & weeks.
Profile Posts don't seem to make much sense to me, but more importantly, they have also proven to be a security issue , where people have been mistaking Profile Posts for the Personal Messages, & posting personal info for everyone to see. I've seen more than a few Profile Posts which were obviously meant to be Personal Messages, complete with names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, etc.
I'd argue to save "Profile Posts" for whoever thinks they need to use it, but the mistaking of the Profile Posts for Personal Messages, which I have seen happen on more than a few occasions, makes me think that Profile Posts just need to go entirely.
Feel free to comment.
Please vote "yes" in the poll at the top of this post, if you think Profile Posts should be done away with.
If I set "New Posts" as a bookmark & open it, I seem to end up missing new posts &/or newly-posted threads. I'm not exactly sure what's going on there. This happens on mobile & desktop, & I've seen it happen pretty much any time I test it out.
But, if I set "Whats New" as a bookmark & open it, I can definitely see all new threads, & new posts to threads, chronologically as they happen, as listed under "Latest Posts", which is what I want to see.
-Can we get rid of "Profile Posts"?
However, by setting "What's New" as my bookmark, I also have to see "New Profile Posts", which I do not want to see. What's the point of "Profile Posts"? It seems redundant & to undermine the idea of a forum to have threads and profile posts, especially when the profile posts end up being more prominent than the forum threads themselves. If you don't think that Profile Posts are more prominent than forum threads, well, I know by now without looking at the forum that kola is interested in penz & SH from highplainsdrifter, & that AlabamaDan is looking for tobacco samplers at shipping cost from some other guy, & adui's been stowed away on the black frigate for almost a couple weeks now. I know all of this because I've read it every time I check my bookmark for the sites' "Whats New" section, & I scroll through the "Latest Posts" to see what's happening, & eventually I hit that "New Profile Posts" section. Now one guy's trying to sell medicine or something in a foreign language, complete with dodgy links to presumably his web-store. I don't care about any information listed in peoples "Profile Posts". I don't want to see people's Profile Posts. But there they are every time I check the forum, the same ones oftentimes visible for weeks & weeks.
Profile Posts don't seem to make much sense to me, but more importantly, they have also proven to be a security issue , where people have been mistaking Profile Posts for the Personal Messages, & posting personal info for everyone to see. I've seen more than a few Profile Posts which were obviously meant to be Personal Messages, complete with names, addresses, phone numbers, emails, etc.
I'd argue to save "Profile Posts" for whoever thinks they need to use it, but the mistaking of the Profile Posts for Personal Messages, which I have seen happen on more than a few occasions, makes me think that Profile Posts just need to go entirely.
Feel free to comment.
Please vote "yes" in the poll at the top of this post, if you think Profile Posts should be done away with.