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Luke Isham

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Hello the powers that be,

Maybe it's the Nabble software itself, and maybe it's too complicated to change and we'd loose all the debate that has occurred so far but it's disappointing not to be able to see interesting stats like how many registered users there are or who is online.  

However probably more annoying is that I noticed that Andrew B. has only a two star rating, if the rating system is only to block spam why, unless evil person hacked into his account and posted spam is his rating low?  I read the Nabble information thingo and it said posts that drop too low in stars get bumped off.  Unless it's some weird form of theological content rating, for which Andrew might deserve only two stars? (Just kidding Andrew! ) Or have you disabled that feature so it doesn't matter what gets posted? Is so how will spam get deleted?

Which brings me to my third observation. Generally the site is easy to navigate and pleasing to look at unlike the poorly arranged comment system at the Melbourne Anglican.  But Nabble, not the best looking or feature heavy forum software I've seen!

Anyway, powers that be,

Keep the documents coming, the forum maintained, the site paid for etc.  It's a great thrashing ground for the Evangelicals of Melbourne and beyond!  (When I move back to Tassie I want to be able to keep an eye on things in Melbourne.)  
Gordon Cheng

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Luke Isham wrote:
However probably more annoying is that I noticed that Andrew B. has only a two star rating, if the rating system is only to block spam why, unless evil person hacked into his account and posted spam is his rating low?  
Yeah, me too, I'm only 2 stars! What gives? I know I'm irritating, but I'm not spam!

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Jenny George-2

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I don't know who/how the ratings actually got changed from their defaults (I hadn't really noticed that each post was ratable until lately). But I have noticed that each person gets to choose at what point a rating is officially below their viewing "threshold". This is an user-specified option called a "ratings filter" at the top of each screen, and it has a default of 2 stars.

I agree with Luke that this probably isn't necessary until/if we actually see spam starting to appear. And in any case moderation can probably take care of that just as well as a rating system. So is it possible for the forum owners to turn the ratings off?
Tim Patrick

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Hi all,

Couple of comments about the site for you.

1. Stats - they exist and I look at them regularly. You all don't have access at this stage. Why not... ? Dunno. Might get around to thinking about that at some stage. Good news (from my perspective) is that we've been receiving more and more traffic since we began and can now see upwards of 60 visits per day.

2. Nabble Forum - Yup, has lots of quirks and is far from perfect. But given that the budget for this site is exactly $0, it seemed that jumping on board with their service was a good economic decision. If anyone knows of a better free, embedable discussion board program, let me know and we'll think about it.

3. Ratings - I saw that they existed but have never really fussed with them. I can't say why some people rate others up or down. I'm not particularly pleased to hear that anyone has been 'rated out' of the discussion and am glad for Jenny's advice on how we can change our settings to see their posts. I do retain the power of veto but don't particularly want to wheel that out (though I will if necessary).

Ciao, Tim

Luke Isham

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Thanks Tim,

(And Jenny) I've lowered my star threshold to zero!

Keep that spending that budget wisely Tim!

Luke  
Cat Patrick

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Hi Luke

You'll be glad to know that the forum has been upgraded - you'll notice it looks a bit cleaner and the different options for viewing messages are a bit simpler.

It might mean you need to re-register for your account, but hopefully this isn't a major issue. I think that it should work a lot better like this.

cheers
Cat
Jereth

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Ever since the forum changed, I haven't been able to view it properly at all. It seems I can only ever view the top most portion of pages. This problem occurs in both IE and Mozilla. What's going on?
Tim Patrick

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Jereth wrote:
Ever since the forum changed, I haven't been able to view it properly at all. It seems I can only ever view the top most portion of pages. This problem occurs in both IE and Mozilla. What's going on?
Yes, we've had a couple of comments about sort of thing and we're working on it. We made some progress today which has hopefully fixed most of the problem. But please let us know if you're still struggling with anything.