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(...) Actually, newsgroup searching is allowed, but has been partially broken lately for unknown reasons, see this thread: (URL) a usage perspective, it looks like various keywords have not been recorded, or have been removed from the indexing at (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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Apparently the statistics section of Lugnet is not searchable: (URL) was trying to find information about when a set was added to the database. No search term I could think of would yield any result. Even for a set I know appears in the listings (...) (21 years ago, 12-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Does Lugnet have a parts "Wish List" page?
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(...) expire! (...) expired? (...) they (...) Ah, ok. Thanks for that Larry. (...) I'll use this reply to officially submit my request for such a page on Lugnet. Dave S. (21 years ago, 6-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Link to multiple post authentication page
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(...) No problem, that's FTX so any admin could do it, and one did. (...) Makes sense to me. Todd has to do it though, I think, as that page isn't stock FTX, near as I can tell. (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I see that the link has been added to the admin sidebar, but could we also add a link to this page: (URL) seems the most logical place (and the first place I looked) as there are already a set of links (Posting Setup, News-by-Mail, Skip-Filter (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Link to multiple post authentication page
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(...) added to .faq thanks for making this! (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Could you clarify that? I was not aware that any posts on LUGNET ever expire! That's not the design intent. Can you provide a link to a post that's expired? Sometimes the picture links go bad though, but that's a function of where they are (...) (21 years ago, 3-May-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Just another Perl Hacker? I am behind on getting the suggestions into the list, sorry... soon, soon. (actually ANY admin that has curator can do it but I've been doing them all...) I agree that putting a link to this from various places is a (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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I would suggest that a link be added from the /admin sidebar (and perhaps from other pages, such as /admin/news, FAQ pages, help pages, etc) to the page that allows users to look up and authenticate any posts that are pending their action: (URL) (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Vote to unhighlight?
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(...) How about by author request also (since not necessarily everyone would be able to unhighlight their posts). Frank (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) I would have no problem with the author having that ability, but the only time I would consider allowing Admin to do it would be with "murfled" posts (as described in the leaked p&p doc). And I would probably say in that particular case, it (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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Today while helping someone via the LDraw help desk I refered to them to the color chart located at (URL) so that they could get the ldraw color id for silver chrome, which is 383. However, I soon discovered that there is a "?" for the silver chromo (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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| | Re: Vote to unhighlight?
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(...) I would probably suggest 2 bits tagged on the post: 1) Author has prevented highlighting/spotlighting 2) Admin has prevented highlighting/spotlighting The effect of the bits would actually be pretty hidden. Instead of preventing people from (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | New Train Club Newsgroup Request
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Would it be possible to create the following newsgroup and have it listed on the Trains Organizations page ((URL) lugnet.trains.org.spltc Thanks, Ray SPLTC www.spltc.org (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) This is something I would support, though it might be hard to do from the NNTP or SMTP interfaces (unless there is some flag that could be put in the post or a header). It might be nice to be able to do after the fact also, but verification (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Yes, I picked this up too. (...) Yes, Larry I had offered the ability to prevent or remove any highlight to my own posts. This would give me a bit of control, and send message to others about my highlighting desires, but still prevents abuse (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Vote to unhighlight?
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(...) Hi Dave, I was asking for the ability to prevent or remove any highlighting only from my own posts. I guess I felt it would be only the author's perogative (i.e. I wouldn't have the ability to lowlight anyone else's post.). (...) Kevin (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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(...) Thanks for the elaboration, Steve. LUGNET DID have such a system, and it was not uniformly positively received. This has been alluded to in other replies as well. A suggestion to again allow both negative and positive weighting should not be (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Steve Bliss wrote: <snip> (...) Well then that,s different, isn't it? The ability to choose whether my post should be able to be highlighted or not--that's a pretty neat little thing... Would that 'non highlighting' flag (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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| | Re: Vote to unhighlight?
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(...) LUGNET history note: we already went through this. When highlighting was first available, it was possible to give a negative rating to messages. This feature was abused/misused almost immediately -- or at least, people perceived that it was (...) (21 years ago, 27-Apr-05, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)
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