So, can we get a option to totaly ignor some friends. I really dont like the alerts thing.

Alright.
You know how on facebook, if you type in the symbol @ and then type in said persons name, it tags them and they get a notification?

 
How about we have something like that here on lw?
If someone types your name using the proper livetag in a topic or reply, you get an alert saying so.
I'm thinking something like this..

davjs mentioned your name in topic title.

And if it is a reply in a topic, then have the url in the alert be the reply in the topic.

Yay?
or nay?

Official topic

1) If you aren't logged in, you shouldn't be able to view member IBs. Everything else is private but that.
2) Since there's a topic tracker for sustainers. We should be able to monitor our profile trackers as well.

All moderators who view anonymous topics should not see the identity of posters automatically. The moderator should have to click a button, Which will bring them to a form that requires them to submit a reason why they want to see the identity. All of the viewings should be submitted into a log and someone should observe the log at the end of the week/month and question any moderators who have an unusually high amount of viewings.  

Discussion/Suggestions/Opinions

let me explain how it would work:

it would start with one person randomly chosen to be "it". once they're "it" their username would turn purple
(possibly also something thats says "it" where the sl and sustainer things are).

when they post in a topic, the person who created the topic would be "it".

then their username would turn normal and the other persons would turn back to its usual color. also they would get a message or alert explaining the rules.

if  person who is it isn't active or doesn't post in any topics for a day, then another random person is chosen to be it

thats pretty much it.

David, as I know you severely limited the original feature after realizing you needed to cut back on a lot of features back a few year's ago in order to keep the site going as smoothly as possible... it has left the email feature rather pointless for everyone on here. Since 2001, when you first created this site with your buddy, many things have come out that are just simply incredible and awesome- for example, gmail and it's seemingly neverending pit of space for it's users emails. Anyway, back to the main point---

Limit the email system to just the mod team and just get rid of it for the normal member. The mods could use it when dealing with offsite issues in order to look professional and to maintain the professional manner. Right now, the average member don't know how to use our current email system, therefore leaving it completely pointless... and well, going against your original intentions when you first limited the feature by instituting ways to prevent spam and abuse.

For messages that are stored it should be able to store the whole recent messages part too without having to also save them so they are viewable. Kind of bad when you have to save a whole conversation and it takes up 25%+ of your storage. The storage limit is too small :(

There should be an icon added next to threads that contain a video, Simmilar to the [E] that is used to mark explicit topics. This would avoid members viewing topics that only contain a music video or something like that.

Ok, I think there should be a space on the side of a topic..

*EX;
link

 
This way the link that are to long and don't post correctly will be able to work.  

Ok, so before people start saying "YOU CAN TINYURL LINKS! DURRR". I know you can, but unlike most people, I don't click on tinyurl links unless I know the person. Cause I do not trust tinyurl links.  

 
I already know this idea was suggested before at least once (because I suggested it on my old account). But, I just thought I would bring it up again, for the fact that long URLs still suck when trying to post them into a topic.

*EDIT; HAD TO TAKE THE PICTURE OUT BECUASE IT WOULDNT LOAD*

Here.

on the page for point transfers i think that we should put how many points that person has til the next level. it would encourge people to give more points and would make it easier for people to rank them up.

I don't understand why we are able to write on our whiteboards. It's embarassing when you make a mistake in a whiteboard conversation and end up writing on our own.

Delete the option please.

I think making, or taking a quiz should be part of out basic memberlist. This will encourage more members to participate in the quizzes aspect of the site.

When you click someones avatar or name, you should be redirected to either the user's profile or IB.

This not only saves time for us lazy people, but also makes the site more accessible and user-friendly.

I, for one, would like to have an exclamation mark in my name. But, unfortunetly, it can't be done.

It would be nice.

I think that when someone clicks on a posted link it should open in a new window instead of directing you away from LW.

as an american it would be nice to be able to find people by the state their in

And moving transgendered to the gender list.

Maybe you should add a thanks button, where you click it and it says that you (and if other people did, them too) thanked the person for that post.  It could also show on their profile how many times they got thanked, and maybe even give them a point for getting thanked or something.

When a reply is quoted, you should get an alert. There's been too many times when I've had a quote (on my old account) and missed it completely.

Currently, our Alerts page could look like this:

"[Friend] added a new picture to [photo album]"

"[Friend] added a new picture to [photo album]"

"[Friend] added a new picture to [photo album]"

"[Friend] added a new picture to [photo album]"

"[Friend] added a new picture to [photo album]"

- - - -
I think it should look like:
"[Friend] added 5 new pictures to [photo album]"

The current gender and sexuality options - though far better than most options on the Internet - could use a few updates.

For gender, it would be awesome if you could make it:
Male, Female, FtM, MtF, Inter-sexed, Androgynous, other, etc.  Or a write in your own option. But including the off-the-spectrum genders would be great, as it's not that I'd "rather not say".  At the very least, adding "trans-gendered" and "other" would be a step forward.

For sexuality, not much ought to change:
Please remove the trans option.  It's not a sexuality, it's a gender... It gets confused enough as it is.  Adding pan-sexual would be good, but other than that, it's fine as it is.

In the misconduct report reason menu, "Drug Forum Content Violation" should be changed to something like "Subforum-specific rule violation" in order to apply to all forums that have specific rules.

I feel really stupid every time I report a topic in the School & Homework Connection forum where somebody is trying to get help cheating on schoolwork, because there is no reason in the menu.

Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, Bajo Nuevo Bank, and American Samoa are U.S. territories, please put them under U.S. (since they aren't their own countries).

Please add them to the operating system list.

It would be a good idea to make it so people can click the image uploading icon before the pic has been approved. That way people who don't care if it is not appropriate can see the pic without having to wait.

Why not have a meter/gauge/counter that shows you how many days left until you can change your Username again?

http://www.golivewire.com/forums/peer-ysynyyp-support-a.html

Members should be able to respond to arguments from moderators in their MERs allowing more effective MER processing and more attention to legit MERs.

This topic was somewhat inspiring towards this idea.

It seems that some members don't exactly remember how or when they were given their penalty points and that mods aren't able to find exactly how either. So my suggestion would be to have a penalty point log (much similar to say the transfer log) in which it accounted for:

• Which mod added the penalty points to an account
• Why they were added to an account
• When they were added to an account

most people probably wouldn't use this, but it would help people like me who are blind and use specialist equipment to browse the web (which run pocket IE6) if there were buttons like "go" or something like that added to drop-down menus. take the favourite forums feature for example: i can change the selection in the drop-down menus, but i have no way of saving my changes so i am stuck with some random forums. this also applies to the actions menu in profiles: i am unable to make a selection which means i cannot transfer points for example unless the member in question sends me a link i can use to send them points. this feature could be enabled/disabled in the appearance settings or something like that and would be available to all members, regardless of donation status or sl/mod status.