If you were admin what would you change, add, or remove in planetsuzy?

[jaydogbones]

As we touched on a little previously, filehosts aren't really searchable at PS. I still think it would make perfect sense to make it a rule that the file host name has to be included in the required file data.
Rule 6 at present in PATM Video threads with examples in Green and my idea in Red.
File Size: 85 MB
Playing Time: 4:37
Video resolution: 640x480
File type: AVI
File Host: DepositFiles, Fileboom, FileJoker, 1fichier, Garbagefiles, etc

The benefits are obvious, by making the filehost searchable it would positively help the good Samaritan Posters who use the "Goodguy Hosts" with no thought to monetary gain, and it might also cause some of the "MoneyGuy Posters" to add a better Filehost to drum up traffic to their posts? Come on Admins & MODS let's get this done. You know I'm right and if you don't believe me, do a forum wide search for Garbagefiles.This would be easily implemented and older posts would of course be exempt from RULE:6b

[DoctorNo]

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the reason filehosts aren't searchable is because links aren't searchable. So if that could be changed, that would be easier and more effective than changing the rules, since we do not enforce changes to the rules retroactively.

[BooBootheBear]

People often include host names but they are usually abbreviated. So Filejoker becomes FJ. Depositfiles DF etc etc etc.
That being the case it would be impossible to search filehosts unless the complete name were used and that would have to be a rule or you'd have to change search limits from the 4 characters and over that stands now.
Searching links capability I don't think is a rule change so much as how the pages are set up by the cybermonkies who program them. Searches would have to be able to turn up the first part of the link only and what do you do when people embed the links in the filename like this? Would you ban that?

[jaydogbones]

Originally Posted by DoctorNo

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the reason filehosts aren't searchable is because links aren't searchable. So if that could be changed, that would be easier and more effective than changing the rules, since we do not enforce changes to the rules retroactively.

You're right links aren't searchable nor should they be. All I'm saying is that if the full unabbreviated name of whichever filehost(s) were being used in a given post was added to the mandatory file data required for each video post that any filehost used could now be searched for.

[DoctorNo]

Originally Posted by jaydogbones

You're right links aren't searchable nor should they be. All I'm saying is that if the full unabbreviated name of whichever filehost(s) were being used in a given post was added to the mandatory file data required for each video post that any filehost used could now be searched for.

True, but given the massive amount of existing posts such a rule would take a very long time for it to be effective. In other words, a search would only find new posts since the rule was added.

[BooBootheBear]

Originally Posted by DoctorNo

True, but given the massive amount of existing posts such a rule would take a very long time for it to be effective. In other words, a search would only find new posts since the rule was added.

True. But most rule changes are not retrospective and given the sheer volume of new posts here, anything positive going forward can only be a good thing.

As an aside on the search thing, one tiny change I'd like (it may be possible already but I've never been able to figure it out if it is) when you do a search for a particular scene/file/movie and you get your list of posts in the search results. why when you open one can you not just open the post? Why do you have to open the entire thread page and have to wait for it to unfold like garbage spewing out of Mary Poppins' handbag?
The time energy and bandwidth saved by that one little adjustment would be immense!

[mental]

Originally Posted by BooBootheBear

True. But most rule changes are not retrospective and given the sheer volume of new posts here, anything positive going forward can only be a good thing.

As an aside on the search thing, one tiny change I'd like (it may be possible already but I've never been able to figure it out if it is) when you do a search for a particular scene/file/movie and you get your list of posts in the search results. why when you open one can you not just open the post? Why do you have to open the entire thread page and have to wait for it to unfold like garbage spewing out of Mary Poppins' handbag?
The time energy and bandwidth saved by that one little adjustment would be immense!

If you use advanced search you can select posts instead of threads.

[BooBootheBear]

YES!
And there's a corresponding little selection dot in the dropdown search at the top of the page and in the top corner of each page or section or whatever. Amazing how that works, eh?

BUT! (and it is a big BUT to the power of 20 on the JLO scale)
When you open one of those posts you have searched for so cleverly, the whole bloody page opens and not just that one post. It's like watching idiots spill out of a clown car, and depending on how many graphics are contained there, can take an absolute bloody age to load, causing the page to constantly jump about like an epileptic and making fast navigation nigh impossible till it's done.
THAT is the facility I'd change. The capacity to open a single post from a search and not the entire page on which that post is contained.

Pretty sure you misunderstood my initial observation.

[mental]

Originally Posted by BooBootheBear

YES!
And there's a corresponding little selection dot in the dropdown search at the top of the page and in the top corner of each page or section or whatever. Amazing how that works, eh?

BUT! (and it is a big BUT to the power of 20 on the JLO scale)
When you open one of those posts you have searched for so cleverly, the whole bloody page opens and not just that one post. It's like watching idiots spill out of a clown car, and depending on how many graphics are contained there, can take an absolute bloody age to load, causing the page to constantly jump about like an epileptic and making fast navigation nigh impossible till it's done.
THAT is the facility I'd change. The capacity to open a single post from a search and not the entire page on which that post is contained.

Pretty sure you misunderstood my initial observation.

Ok i understand now, open just the single post and not the rest of the page, not sure if search can do that, at least i don't know how.