[wp-forums] Forums heat map

[Les Bessant]

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> Lara @ Anubis Marketing
> Sent: 28 September 2006 00:33
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> Subject: RE: [wp-forums] Forums heat map
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> I'm not surprised at all. I knew that the only people who 
> really used the
> Latest Posts was the volunteers/mods. 

Is it possible that the heat map is showing activity on *particular* links?
Most of the time, nothing stays in one place long enough to register much
activity


> I'm also apt to agree that the "big honking [closed]" is an issue with
> people not clicking on the rules. Why can't we just have a 
> regular, old
> fashioned, text-link there, that points to the forum thread 
> (if we can't get
> rid of the "big honking [closed]" for some reason)?

Wouldn't it be better all round if the "forum rules" were distinguised from
forum content? An actual static page, or a Wiki that selected people can
edit?


> 
> I like the first thought about just having the thread name be 
> the link, and
> then in much smaller, non-linked letters AFTER the title, have it say
> (closed to new replies) or something like that.
> [closed] looks so much like a "stamp" or something - I 
> dunno... like some
> forum Nazi came along and deemed it unworthy or something. ;)

That would be friendlier

> 
> (FWIW - I like the phrase "big honking [closed]" - can ya tell?) ;)

Naah, I'd never have noticed :)


Les