If you could change something one the escapist(for the better) what would It be?

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Dan E

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So isn't even having a religion\politics forum kinda saying hey trolls heres your playground. I do not support trolling by the way.
 

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Dan E said:
aschere van she said:
Destroy the entire site and roll it back to when it was actually good.
Ouch, kinda harsh. How about just improve it by bringing back what was good?
Even though I miss some aspects of the community awhile back, ultimately we've also shedded some rude members and tendencies, so I don't really want to go back.

The only thing that immediately comes to mind is make stickies for overly common topics (I attempted this by making a collective anime recommendation thread).
 

Dan E

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kman123 said:
Sticky certain popular threads to the first page of the forums, so we don't get bloody repeats of the same 200 threads, along with promoting potential big ones.
Completely agree It would help a lot with the forums. Also There has been an increase of similar threads as of late
 

AgDr_ODST

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Marik2 said:
AgDr_ODST said:
Marik2 said:
AgDr_ODST said:
Dump the entire Religion and Politics Section(or just make it the Politics section )...its nothing but a cesspool of Anti-religious bigotry and jerks acting all high and mighty bashing anyone who so much as mentions God while proclaiming to be religous
Nah its not as bad as it use to be, trust me.
I don't doubt it...but I wouldn't know personally since I've not bothered to see for my self if its changed since I last went there
I go there from time to time, theres only like maybe 5 anti theists really.
good to know....I'll keep that in mind and maybe word my posts better if I create a topic there
 

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Zap Rowsdower said:
If someone quotes you, and then that quote gets quoted, you don't get a message. That always bugged me.
Really? 'Cause I do.
EDIT: Never mind, I was think of something else.

OT: Unforgotten Realms must return. NAOW.
 

Super Toast

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aschere van she said:
Destroy the entire site and roll it back to when it was actually good.
Were you banned and had to make a new profile or something?

OT: I'd like the site to stop crashing so often. It's inexcusable and annoying.
 

Mr. Omega

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kman123 said:
Sticky certain popular threads to the first page of the forums, so we don't get bloody repeats of the same 200 threads, along with promoting potential big ones.
This.

Zap Rowsdower said:
If someone quotes you, and then that quote gets quoted, you don't get a message. That always bugged me.
And this.
 

Hateren47

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Add "" to the page select, inside topics on the forums. Maybe a line under the current page as well. Nothing major, the site is pretty good as it is. It's just a little hard to see what page I'm on when using the site on my TV.
 

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Maybe I'm just blind and haven't found it yet, but I wish there was a way to log-out when on the forums. The little...bar thing with the link to log-out is gone when you click the forums tab. So I always have to go back to another tab just to sign off.
 

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I would make the "quote" button work flawlessly..

And the poll button when you make a new thread.

Sometimes when writing a post, it does not show in the thread that you have written anything there.. But says on your profile that you have written in that thread.

So, generally i would make the Escapist less buggy..
 

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+1 to Unforgotten realms, ,removal of religion +politics section, Maybe the facebook style comment thing, save for, if you've seen youtube recently, a ton of people will go "Thumbs up if you agree!" Which gets really annoying.

And, inb4 'get rid of that D&D stripper show' .
 

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Dan E said:
So as of now the changes include rehashed forums, no forums, more interesting games, no review scores, no quote quoting, and bring back Unforgotten realms
this i need closure on unforgotten realms
 

JourneyThroughHell

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Create a blog system with entries and comments from the users. And with subscribtions.

That way, if you want to share something with the Escapist that isn't a review, you don't have to create a forum post about it.
 

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I'd move polls to below the OP. That way, people are far more likely to read the post before they vote on it.

I'd also make it possible to add a 'page=last' code to the end of forum URLs that made it possible to save the most recent page as a bookmark. At the moment, I have to save the first page then click to the last one every time (which is more annoying than it sounds).

Also... messages for being quoted in an edit would be good, as it was mentioned earlier, as long as people didn't get messaged every time an edit was made.

Zap Rowsdower said:
If someone quotes you, and then that quote gets quoted, you don't get a message. That always bugged me.
That doesn't happen anyway...

At least, it's never happened to me. Maybe I just misunderstood you.

Diagonal Horizontality said:
Wardnath said:
Also, allow Pub's Club members to have signatures.
Go have a look at the WarCry [a href=http://www.warcry.com/forums/index/12-Off-Topic-Forum]forums[/a], then tell me with a straight face that it's a good idea. WarCry being The Escapist's sister site, signatures would be implemented in exactly the same way.
Oh gawdz... that just crippled my connection many times over...

You know there's too much when half the sigs don't even finish downloading before they time out.
 

Casual Shinji

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Don't get rid of the Religion/Politics section; snakes need a pit too, ya know!

Other than that, I'd say this place is fine as it is.

Though, free slippers and backrubs wouldn't hurt either. Just FYI.
 

JourneyThroughHell

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Tharwen said:
Zap Rowsdower said:
If someone quotes you, and then that quote gets quoted, you don't get a message. That always bugged me.
That doesn't happen anyway...

At least, it's never happened to me. Maybe I just misunderstood you.
He's talking about it being a permanent feature, not a glitch.

AgDr_ODST said:
Dump the entire Religion and Politics Section(or just make it the Politics section )...its nothing but a cesspool of Anti-religious bigotry and jerks acting all high and mighty bashing anyone who so much as mentions God while proclaiming to be religous
Never seen that, AgDr...

In fact, that one thread I had an argument in was severely anti-atheist.
 

MiracleOfSound

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aschere van she said:
Dan E said:
Ouch, kinda harsh. How about just improve it by bringing back what was good?
Like the community?
Now, a comment like that makes you look bad.

If the 'old' community were so much better, you're certainly not representing us so well by implying that the new community sucks.
 

AgDr_ODST

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JourneyThroughHell said:
AgDr_ODST said:
Dump the entire Religion and Politics Section(or just make it the Politics section )...its nothing but a cesspool of Anti-religious bigotry and jerks acting all high and mighty bashing anyone who so much as mentions God while proclaiming to be religous
Never seen that, AgDr...

In fact, that one thread I had an argument in was severely anti-atheist.
Well the once or twice when I went there and joined in thread discussions when I was new to the site there were either many anti-thiests or the same group of 5 or so repeatedly coming back and bashing/arguing with people of faith