Idea for the 2010 hurricane season

[Orlando_wx]

Is there any way to just have storm2k automatically shrink images posted even more. Perhaps down to the size of a thumbnail? It is far easier to post an image with the IMG tags. If it automatically shrunk the images even more than it does now, that could work.

I seen this feature on other boards so it does exist but not sure if it will work here or not

[ColdFusion]

And if only you could prevent images from being quoted in following messages. Annoying when someone posts 4 huge maps, then someone replies to that post, reposting ALL the images, only to add the word 'YIPES' at the end.

[KWT]

As for the age thing, sorry but IMO you can write utter rubbish no matter what your age...as someone who is very high up on another weather forum, I've been real surprised how often some sane and VERY good posters were under 16, and equally people I thought were childish brats...turned out to be born in the 60s and 70s!

Sure there are some people who are young and write rubbish, but not enough of them to justify going to that extreme...esp because as I said there is probably as many older people spouting nonsense as the young!

[DESTRUCTION5]

And if only you could prevent images from being quoted in following messages. Annoying when someone posts 4 huge maps, then someone replies to that post, reposting ALL the images, only to add the word 'YIPES' at the end.

Well man I'm quoting you because your Av makes me want to move to Colony, TX....

[southerngale]

Well man I'm quoting you because your Av makes me want to move to Colony, TX....

one track mind...

[Cookie]

I wasn't expecting so much feedback.

thanks for explaining well.

[DESTRUCTION5]

Well man I'm quoting you because your Av makes me want to move to Colony, TX....

one track mind...

Hey now....I heard your batteries ran out 5 times on your Bon Jovi life size dancing statue....Giddy-up....LOL

[Cyclenall]

I also agree, though the problem is there will be BIG overlap I feel between the discussion thread and the Sat/Graphic threads, because in the end you need images to show what you talking about...

I also see this as being a major problem, the overlapping of discussions which is the main reason I think it's not a good idea. It would also add to the number of threads I would need to click on to see all information on one particular system (Recon obs., Recon discussion, model thread, main discussion, advisory thread, etc.).

Maybe the site can also automatically refuse to post any messages with less than, say, 10 words in them. That would screen out all the "I agree!", "me too", "OMG!", and other useless comments. -which are often the ones that people add after they quote a quote (and another quote!) to say!

There was something similar to that on another forum I was on and it didn't work. It was a huge annoyance and they just ended up getting rid of it.

As much as I support young folks being interested in weather and science, I wish there was a way to exclude those under a certain age from here unless they are "sponsored" by another older member. -maybe who knows them personally or knows them from another such site and can vouch for their posting behavior. There were many times over the last especially 2-3 years when we both were finding ourselves so frustrated just trying to weed through the garbage to get to the "good" weather discussion and get to the critical information that we were looking for. -and I know there were many others who felt as we did, since the comments about waiting "...until the kids go to school...", or "...go to bed," were common amongst the "old timers" who wanted to return to the site's original quality discussions.

Ageism.

[vbhoutex]

Staff has an open "order' to get rid of "one liners" and such that do not add to the discussions. If a member see's a continued problem with this please contact one of the staff and they will make a decision and deal with it. Unfortunately we can't find everything so we do need members help in this regard.

[HeatherAKC]

Just putting this out there....on another non-weather related forum I visit often, they have a button you can click when you read a post and it keeps a tally at the bottom of that post with your screen name that says something like, "(screen name here) thanks (poster's name) for this useful/infomative post". Really helps keep the one-liners down. It's sort of a way to say "I agree", "absolutely", etc...

Maybe a something like that would help??

[thetruesms]

Is there any way to just have storm2k automatically shrink images posted even more. Perhaps down to the size of a thumbnail? It is far easier to post an image with the IMG tags. If it automatically shrunk the images even more than it does now, that could work.

I love this idea and will check on it.

People would still need to save the images and upload them through Imageshack, TinyPic, etc.

While I definitely appreciate pictures being saved elsewhere before being posted to keep the image secure from overwriting, this does bring up a downside I have with it - if I come across something that I haven't seen before and interests me, I like to check its source site out. When it's hotlinked, finding out where it came from is a right-click away. If not, I have to hope that there's some kind of identifier in the image, or ask and hope I get a response shortly which is no guarantee. Perhaps we could remind people to make a note of where their image came from if it's not readily apparent in the image already? A link would be awesome, but at least some kind of agency identifier or site title, or something we can search for.

That would be great, it's very annoying when someone quotes a post with an image, and it's even worse when someone else quotes that quote.

I know other boards where the number of posts shown in quote is limited to one or two in order to keep those quote chains short - perhaps that's something that can be enabled here?

[meteorologyman]

I have an idea

For EVERY POST, there should be hide post or delete post between post subject and posted, when you select hide post, it will all disapear except for the user mame , post subject and posted. the word hide will change to unhide, that way you can click on it again if you want to view the post. When you log off all settings will be saved that way you don't have to go through all the posts again when you log on.

[JonathanBelles]

I have an idea

For EVERY POST, there should be hide post or delete post between post subject and posted, when you select hide post, it will all disapear except for the user mame , post subject and posted. the word hide will change to unhide, that way you can click on it again if you want to view the post. When you log off all settings will be saved that way you don't have to go through all the posts again when you log on.

S2K already enables the Foe Feature (last I checked). If you place somebody on the foe list, you cannot see their posts unless you click on a button enabling their post.

[meteorologyman]

True, however it hides all their posts. I was talking about some here and there. stuff that people say that are waste to post. for example. Everyone on the board likes cycloneye. so I certainly don't want to foe him, however he may say something irrelavant to a certain topic which I thought is waste of post, so I may want to hide it, not hide him totally.

[meteorologyman]

This could be extremely tricky to web designers but maybe there is ways to hide forums

So if I am interested in (for example) countdown to 2010 season hurricane season , idea for 2010 hurricane season I can hide all forums but those 2. that would eliminate the 724 pages down to 1. Only those that can't be eliminated are Anouncements posted by storm2k administrators.

[Cryomaniac]

If you have to send me more than one text, so be it!

I once sent an sms that was 10 messages long lol.

[jinftl]

I get what everyone is saying...it's just the idea of people having the ability to determine whether a post is relevant or not makes me a bit uneasy. There is the section for pro mets, and I think that is a great thing. But isn't this a discussion board? What brought me here is being able to interact and learn from people all over the world that have this same interest. Sometimes even if a post may not add to the overall analysis of a storm, it is nice being able to come on here...and of course keeping that from going overboard...just be heard and seeing your dialogue as part of the overall discussion.

Like I said, I really do understand the point of this thread, but I just don't think having to scroll through some chit chat amongst the science talk is really a big deal. If folks are here to interact with folks who share an interest, are not being rude or disrespectful, and aren't going too off topic...i say, the more the merrier! I don't think it is a direction we want to go on...to starting letting posters know a post they made is not relevant. They are on the board with good intentions and didn't come here to be turned away because they post, 'i agree' or put a smiley or wink that has been made available to us to the left of every post template.

True, however it hides all their posts. I was talking about some here and there. stuff that people say that are waste to post. for example. Everyone on the board likes cycloneye. so I certainly don't want to foe him, however he may say something irrelavant to a certain topic which I thought is waste of post, so I may want to hide it, not hide him totally.

[CajunMama]

I have an idea

For EVERY POST, there should be hide post or delete post between post subject and posted, when you select hide post, it will all disapear except for the user mame , post subject and posted. the word hide will change to unhide, that way you can click on it again if you want to view the post. When you log off all settings will be saved that way you don't have to go through all the posts again when you log on.

Facebook we're not!

Why go through all the posts again? I click on the last page and then notice the date and time. I may have to go back some pages to where i want to restart reading but it's not a problem. It'd be nice if others can do this as you can tell when one doesn't read previous pages

[southerngale]

That would be great, it's very annoying when someone quotes a post with an image, and it's even worse when someone else quotes that quote.

I know other boards where the number of posts shown in quote is limited to one or two in order to keep those quote chains short - perhaps that's something that can be enabled here?

We have a limit of 3 embedded quotes enabled. That will likely remain unchanged, at least for now. A few years ago, there wasn't a 3 quote limit and the quotes really got out of hand sometimes. People tend to mess up their replies more often when there's a gazillion quotes as well.

As mentioned by others, removing the image tags when you quote an image makes a world of difference. Hopefully, we can get more members to do this and that should help. When I see a large image embedded in a quote, I'll remove the tags. I'll mention this to the rest of staff as well.

[TreasureIslandFLGal]

Sorry if I offended anyone regarding the age suggestion. I know we have some AWESOME teens in here that really give great input and analysis. Many of our pro's and students now started as teens here themselves--and that is really cool! Kudos again to all of you that contributed. I would list some in particular, but won't so that feelings aren't hurt if I miss someone!

I suppose if this was your first weather site, then there would be no way to be "sponsored in". It was in place at another site I visted, and worked wonderfully. But if enacting it here may cause us to lose a potential great contributor, then I agree that we shoudl just rely on reporting the bad ones (kids or adults) who don't understand respect and etiquette.

But I still think my "ageism" here is appropriate. I remember a day when there were a few (more than 2) <12 year olds having a pissing match about something totally off topic and it was beyond annoying. I figured the site was just "taken over" and wouldn't be any good for during the storm season any more. But luckily, they either dropped off or cleaned up their act, because come July those converstions seemed to have abated.

I still think that having a reasonable age limit would be ok (no <14?), and otherwise a sponsor would be required.

And I also totally agree that sometimes the age is irrelevant to one's ability to be a disrespectful a$$ online. Many of our older posters have also overstepped those lines while acting childishly. (hopefully I haven't been one of them!)