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      NSWGR8022 Chief Train Controller

    Location: From the lands of Journalism and Free Speech
    Please make the title of news items longer than it is the current length is too short.

    Very frustrating adding a story or two as i need to hack the title and the meaning is lost.
    Posted: 06 Nov 2015 17:46

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      michaelgreenhill Administrator That's Numberwang!

    Location: Melbourne
    Please make the title of news items longer than it is the current length is too short.

    Very frustrating adding a story or two as i need to hack the title and the meaning is lost.
    NSWGR8022
    Headlines are for grabbing attention, not conveying a message - that's what the lead paragraph is for.


    The ideal length of a headline is 6 words

    How much of the headline for this story did you read before you clicked?

    According to a post by KISSmetrics, you might not have read it all.

    Writing for KISSmetrics, headline expert Bnonn cites usability research revealing we don’t only scan body copy, we also scan headlines. As such, we tend to absorb only the first three words and the last three words of a headline. If you want to maximize the chance that your entire headline gets read, keep your headline to six words.
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    Posted: 06 Nov 2015 22:03
      seb2351 Chief Commissioner

    Location: Sydney
    For people on mobile devices, is there a way you can return the option of "jump to forum 1,2,3...x" back to the bottom of the thread list.

    The one at the top is fine, but when you scroll all the way down to the bottom to find that the thread you want is on the next page, is annoying to have to scroll back to the top again to click next.

    Thanks!
    Posted: 02 Dec 2015 12:20
      michaelgreenhill Administrator That's Numberwang!

    Location: Melbourne
    For people on mobile devices, is there a way you can return the option of "jump to forum 1,2,3...x" back to the bottom of the thread list.

    The one at the top is fine, but when you scroll all the way down to the bottom to find that the thread you want is on the next page, is annoying to have to scroll back to the top again to click next.

    Thanks!
    seb2351
    Done Smile
    Posted: 02 Dec 2015 14:35
      mikesyd Chief Commissioner

    Location: Lurking
    Yes, its been 18 months since the last post, but the recent attack by that Spammer from the sub-continent no doubt aggrieved quite a few mods and effectively made the forums unreadable for a while - and thanks to those who put in the time to clean up the mess.

    It gives rise to a couple of thoughts which were posted in the now closed thread, which I think are worthy of consideration, depending on the difficulty of course :

    1. Limit creation (i.e. - mod approval or even a blanket ban) of new threads/topics for new users for a period of time - perhaps a month.

    2. Some of these Spammers perhaps lurk for a while after joining, thus 'new' would pass without them getting noticed, so a restriction on posts (be they new threads or within existing) would be appropriate (which affects everyone of course). For me, anyone who can post more than 1 a minute would cause alarm bells, even longer than that perhaps.



    A blanket ban on certain IP addresses is rather useless these days with the use of VPN etc (I even use one (not right now) as I like to watch Sport which is often geo-restricted and can't be seen from a Taiwan address where I am at present).
    Posted: 09 May 2017 23:12
      MetroFemme Chief Train Controller

    I saw this too amazed at how many posts this idiot posted clogging up the system.

    Does this happen regularly because it is the first time I have witnessed such a large number of stupid repeated posts.

    Lastly and worthy of mention was the excellent way and speed this issue was addressed. Imagine this crap on Facebook (amongst the usually crap) and asking a large company like them to have it removed? I am really impressed about how well managed this was compared other experiences.
    Posted: 10 May 2017 07:51

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      Graham4405 Minister for Railways

    Location: Dalby Qld
    Other forums impose a time limit between posts. This would seem to be a great idea. If a "user" is using something to automate SPAM posting perhaps this could be detected by the number of posts over a time period, the user automatically banned and their posts removed. Not sure how hard this might be to code though!
    Posted: 10 May 2017 13:11
      KRviator Moderator

    Location: Up the front
    Does this happen regularly because it is the first time I have witnessed such a large number of stupid repeated posts.
    MetroFemme
    Fortunately, no. I can't recall the last time we had such an aggressive attack by a spambot, and I've been a Mod here for nearly a decade. Shocked

    It's the nature of the internet that these things happen, and no doubt Bevans & MGH will have a good look at how things can be improved without overly limiting the usability of the site for the rest of the membership.
    Posted: 10 May 2017 16:27
      michaelgreenhill Administrator That's Numberwang!

    Location: Melbourne
    My initial thought is to limit the number of posts a new user (less than 6 months old) can make in any 24 hour period, rather than all posts from new users requiring staff approval, which would become very high maintenance.
    Posted: 11 May 2017 18:24

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      mikesyd Chief Commissioner

    Location: Lurking
    In view of the current 7000+ attack by Shastri and his mates, who appear to have joined the forums today, perhaps the registration of new users should be temporarily stopped until appropriate defenses can be put in place.
    Posted: 21 May 2017 21:24

    Last edited by mikesyd on 21 May 2017 21:26; edited 1 time in total
      awsgc24 Minister for Railways

    Location: Sydney
    Is it possible to search for a string in "My Post", whether
    * in a title
    * in the text
    * in a title or in the text?
    Posted: 20 Oct 2018 17:35

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