The all new: Ask a moderator about the forum & rules

[Foxhound]

Here:
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=74039

To be used to request new addons as well as when searching for (a) specific addon(s)/wondering if a certain addon was ever made.

[Sniperwolf572]

If you're looking for someone to make such an addon for you, I'd go with addon request. But if you want help on fixing it yourself, I'd go with the Editing subforum since I believe more people that can help you will visit there rather than the addon request thread, which might not be an obvious place..

[JdB]

http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost....6&postcount=32
http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost....8&postcount=36

I'd like to say something about the way the moderation of politics, military and economy related threads is being handled in the Off-topic section, the thread linked to above is merely the latest example. I've been following quite a number of these threads, and most seem to be evolving in the same pattern:

- Thread starts of as any other thread;
- Someone brings up the wars for oil, genocide in [insert random country] by NATO, purposely bombing things like hospitals or some other subject barely (if at all) related to the thread;
- People responding to such posts with argumentative posts, are responded to with posts full of conspiracy rants and other claims that are not backed up by even the slightest shred of evidence that completely disregard the points brought up by other members. Not posts with an opinion that is the polar opposite of what most people think (which is fine as long as it is done in a respectful manner), but an attempt to insult other members and illicit an angry response, a yelling match because the content of someone else's posts doesn't suit their agenda or political views;
- Thread is closed.

I've been looking at who is doing this, and it's almost constantly the same people that are ruining these threads, less than a handful of individuals. Their behavior has nothing to do with normal discussion or respect for the (opinion of) other members. Either agree with me or I rant. Wouldn't it be much better to deal with these people by post restricting/banning them and removing the off-topic post(s) than to ruin the thread for everyone, and continuing to enable these people to ruin the next thread that comes along? It's either you deal with it once, or you end up dealing with it over and over again, even if it's as simple as closing a thread. Cleaning up after members costs time, getting members to walk in line saves time (or gets rid of them). In the end the small investment in time starts saving time in the long run. It's not about silencing people that voice contrary opinions, it's a simple matter of enforcing respect for other members.

[Messiah]

Perhaps the Kim Jong Il thread should be renamed to reflect it's evolution into a 'The Future of North Korea' type affair.

[W0lle]

Good idea, done.

[DMarkwick]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this issue, all I know is that I experience it on this forum and not on others.

The "Go to new post" feature is very slow. When I use that feature in a thread I've been following, I get to stare at the top post for about 20-30 seconds before the first new post is automatically displayed. This means that I usually start scrolling down to manually find the first unread post, which I often do before the auto feature kicks in. It has the effect that I sometimes am several posts down when it does kick in, and it flicks me back up to the first new post

When this happens all day, it becomes tedious but, on fast-moving threads where perhaps a few pages of posts are generated, it's a feature I need to make sure I am following the thread properly.

[Tankbuster]

It's working fine for me. Same speed as it was before.

[DMarkwick]

It's working fine for me. Same speed as it was before.

This prompted me to try different browsers, it seems fine under Firefix, but Google Chrome has the issue. So I guess it might a a browser-specific problem.

[Tankbuster]

This prompted me to try different browsers, it seems fine under Firefix, but Google Chrome has the issue. So I guess it might a a browser-specific problem.

Hmm, dunno mate. I'm using Chrome here.

[Sniperwolf572]

This prompted me to try different browsers, it seems fine under Firefix, but Google Chrome has the issue. So I guess it might a a browser-specific problem.

It should be a case of some resource on the page being slow to load/not being cached properly and delaying the firing of the event which scrolls your page down to the post.
Since you're using Chrome, you can check yourself by opening the dev tools with F12, going to the Network tab and using the go to new post link, it should show you all resources being loaded. Check the timeline and you should see your culprit. Vertical blue line should be the point where the scroll happens.