Re: Questions about the forum mechanisms + suggestions for topics titles
Thank you all for the detailed explanations.
I finally understood now the counter for total time logged in - 15 minutes
Thx OmegaStarScream! I was sure the session is detected a active only a few minutes, I just didn't know how many. I use to keep myself connected 24/7, but I never saw after 1 day of being online to have the counter raised also with 1 day. So you should navigate from a page to another at maximum 15 minutes in order to keep that counter ticking. I know it's an irrelevant information, but it was a big curiosity of mine
Everything clear about the autoban and unfollowing threads where I posted using the Watchlist. Thx rosezionjohn, DdmrDdmr!
About nuking I understood from DdmrDdmr that the users become Brand New as they have their posts deleted. However, I didn't understand why rosezionjohn said that nuking applies only to Newbies. A Full Member / Hero account can't (technically) be nuked and by having all its posts deleted, to turn the respective account into a Brand New one? This measure (nuking) applies only to Newbies? And if yes, why?
About the custom to close the topics, indeed, when I said "custom", I meant the... how to say... the "habit" from Meta to have the topics closed, not the ability itself to close them. I know this is possible in other section as well, technically speaking. And I agree with Ddmr - closing topics may lead to opening new ones, so the I'm not sure if this "procedure" helps avoiding spam, if that was the idea behind this habit. I guess we have to stick with the respective custom in Meta, as many have this idea in mind - to close the topics after the questions are answered After all, where you go somewhere, you have to follow the customs from the respective place.
Finally, about the length of topics titles, thank you Ddmr and SFR10 for the suggestions. I think I'll follow your advice, although I personally prefer to have a crystal clear topic title, thus everyone to understand what it is about straight from reading the title. But in cases like current topic, where several subjects are discussed, this is really impossible. I'll try to do my best in the future for such cases, and, in the end, I will write "[...]" if I just run out of characters.
Thank you all once again, I appreciate!
I finally understood now the counter for total time logged in - 15 minutes
Thx OmegaStarScream! I was sure the session is detected a active only a few minutes, I just didn't know how many. I use to keep myself connected 24/7, but I never saw after 1 day of being online to have the counter raised also with 1 day. So you should navigate from a page to another at maximum 15 minutes in order to keep that counter ticking. I know it's an irrelevant information, but it was a big curiosity of mine Everything clear about the autoban and unfollowing threads where I posted using the Watchlist. Thx rosezionjohn, DdmrDdmr!
About nuking I understood from DdmrDdmr that the users become Brand New as they have their posts deleted. However, I didn't understand why rosezionjohn said that nuking applies only to Newbies. A Full Member / Hero account can't (technically) be nuked and by having all its posts deleted, to turn the respective account into a Brand New one? This measure (nuking) applies only to Newbies? And if yes, why?
About the custom to close the topics, indeed, when I said "custom", I meant the... how to say... the "habit" from Meta to have the topics closed, not the ability itself to close them. I know this is possible in other section as well, technically speaking. And I agree with Ddmr - closing topics may lead to opening new ones, so the I'm not sure if this "procedure" helps avoiding spam, if that was the idea behind this habit. I guess we have to stick with the respective custom in Meta, as many have this idea in mind - to close the topics after the questions are answered
After all, where you go somewhere, you have to follow the customs from the respective place.Finally, about the length of topics titles, thank you Ddmr and SFR10 for the suggestions. I think I'll follow your advice, although I personally prefer to have a crystal clear topic title, thus everyone to understand what it is about straight from reading the title. But in cases like current topic, where several subjects are discussed, this is really impossible. I'll try to do my best in the future for such cases, and, in the end, I will write "[...]" if I just run out of characters.
Thank you all once again, I appreciate!