Tag: news

Blog News: Forum Features Scaled Back, Plus Horoscope Videos

The ability for members to flag content has been a useful feature to help me moderate the site; thanks to those who have participated. I usually don’t take action because—at least from my perspective—a particular comment does not violate Community Guidelines, but sometimes you’ve caught some doozies. After adding capabilities like viewing forum activity for […]

New Forum Feature: View Activity for Your Friends Only

I’ve just added a feature that will limit the visibility of status updates to friends only. So if you go to your profile page and answer, “What’s New?” only your friends will see your reply. But all updates in public groups will be viewable by all. In addition, if you click on “Activity” on your […]

Post Photos and Links in Your Forum Updates

I have enabled members to upload images or post links (a la Facebook) in their updates. You can do this from your profile page, or when you are on the home page of a group. It is very wonky, but hey, if I were a Facebook developer I wouldn’t be here, would I? But seriously, […]

Help Moderate the Site

The forum currently has no active moderators, so I have enabled a feature that will allow any logged-in member to flag any comment or forum post as inappropriate. If enough members flag the same snippet of content, I will review it and take appropriate…

Do You Feel “Safe” In the Forum or Comments Section?

I have been receiving some reports over the past few months of abusive members. I unfortunately do not have the resources to moderate every conversation occurring in the forum and the comments section, as the site is so active. Allegra has been so kind as to alert me when something egregious happens, but I occasionally […]