PLEASE READ - 4th gen section/thread clean up & consolidation - PLEASE READ

No way to clean it up. People simply use the Quote button and that quotes the previous post.

Sorry.

some posts are copying entire previous posts/threads incl. pics and attachments etc. - so when you read through them you have to go through page after page of repetitions while the actual new posts are often short! And if there are pics you get slowed down even more since the same pics have to be downloaded again and again.

So my question: is there any way to clean up threads so that we can see the new posts alone and not endless repetitions of the previous posts?
 
I know another forum I am on doesn't allow new people to make a 'fresh thread' until they have 100 posts. At that point the admin grants them the ability to post 'fresh threads'. The admin/mods actually spot check those posts to make sure they aren't misc crap to get the 100 posts in.




I know.. I know.. Life and the new business have taken a lot of free time.

This actually has the effect of punishing the people who do take the time to search and look at existing threads/posts. I've been using this site for 5 years, and probably have 3 posts to my name :happy: . It would be a bummer if I did have a legit question or some information that was valuable to the community and couldn't post it in a new thread!

Edit - Well I noticed I have 12 posts to my name now.... but I think its clear what I'm trying to point out.
 
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Don't know how much work it is, and what amount you are thinking of doing.
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Can you create a filter that sends user's to the FJ lift info sticky whenever they try to create a new thread asking about FJ coils and 5100's?
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I really think the seach functions on here work well. I've been on many forums that are much much worse. S2KI is definitely THE worst. I think people are just being lazy and want to be spoon fed information.
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I think I mentioned this before but I will again regardless. I'll preface it by saying I'm familiar with vBulletin and have run a forum using it. (frontrange4x4.com) There are a couple things that would help immensely.

The biggest thing this forum needs is an image resizer. Not to allow people to upload large images but one that takes any image within allowable size and resizes it to a predermined size. This would eliminate those uploaded photos that are huge making everything on the page to grow proportionately leaving the text tiny. It's annoying and so easily prevented.

There'a another one that allows users to select a bit of text to quote rather than the whole post. Much more efficent and is a step to eliminating those posts with a bunch of images being reposted over and over. Also annoying and preventable.

These two mods availble to any vBulletin owners would improve things considerably. Deleting or removing posts is a bad idea and the end result is worse than the repitition that exists.

There is another mod that does some kind of search that prevents dulpicate posts by displaying similar ones instead. I've see it but never tried it.
 
Can you create a filter that sends user's to the FJ lift info sticky whenever they try to create a new thread asking about FJ coils and 5100's?
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Can you create a filter that sends user's to the FJ lift info sticky whenever they try to create a new thread asking about FJ coils and 5100's?
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In the upcoming weeks I'd like to clean up the 4th gen section a little bit and I wanted input from everyone as to what would be the most beneficial. It's no secret that the search function isn't the greatest so I would like to make the stickies as useful as possible.
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Please..

construct individual threads for people using the fj coils AND spacers from those using only the fj coils in the fj complied thread. That 11 page thread is a total cluster of which you can barely conclude anything.
 

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