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In the past when I've had a topic moved, I had to go back to my profile and check my list of topics to find it, this would be even more difficult if you weren't the topic starter because then it wouldn't be listed under your topics and you'd have to go through your posts individually. In IPB's forums if a topic gets moved it remains listed in the original forum with a notation that it's been moved. At Neowin that's not the case. The only reason I can think of that Neowin would be different is because of a mod, but why would Neowin create a mod that reduces functionality rather than enhancing it? Does anybody know why this is?

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It's not a mod, it's a choice in the ACP. And if we had it on here, there'd be no active topics on the first page of General Discussion, it would be instead full of arrows.

this would be even more difficult if you weren't the topic starter because then it wouldn't be listed under your topics and you'd have to go through your posts individually.

You'd also have to do this if the arrow was left on the forum, unless you're telling me you know where every single thread you reply to is located.

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It's not a mod, it's a choice in the ACP. And if we had it on here, there'd be no active topics on the first page of General Discussion, it would be instead full of arrows.

Indeed - our policy has been not to use links for as long as I can remember, and it won't be changing any time soon.

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In the past when I've had a topic moved, I had to go back to my profile and check my list of topics to find it, this would be even more difficult if you weren't the topic starter because then it wouldn't be listed under your topics and you'd have to go through your posts individually.

You should get a PM with a link to the moved thread.

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It's not a mod, it's a choice in the ACP. And if we had it on here, there'd be no active topics on the first page of General Discussion, it would be instead full of arrows.

What's the "ACP"?

You'd also have to do this if the arrow was left on the forum, unless you're telling me you know where every single thread you reply to is located.

I'm not sure what you are saying here.

You should get a PM with a link to the moved thread.

Never happens

Not if he's not the topic starter.

Even then it never happens unless I specifically requested the move and even then it's not a certainty.

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OK so I just moved this to General Discussion and then back to here. Did you get 2 PMs?

I did this time, but I've had two bug posts moved from one subforum to another in the past couple weeks and I was never notified when that happened, they just disappeared from my subscription list. So why didn't I get notified then?

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I did this time, but I've had two bug posts moved from one subforum to another in the past couple weeks and I was never notified when that happened, they just disappeared from my subscription list. So why didn't I get notified then?

Bug posts are moved using a different method that doesn't support the notification feature.

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Bug posts are moved using a different method that doesn't support the notification feature.

Why not? I think those are the most important ones to notify people on because they can sit in the main subforum for quite a while before being reclassified, and because they always are reclassified, unlike other areas where topics are only moved if they are posted in the wrong forum.

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What's the "ACP"?

The ACP is Admin Control Panel, if im correct, for IP Board.

I'm not sure what you are saying here.

There is usually a "topic" with the icon as an arrow, for a redirect.

This is also a very tidy way to do it.

Thanks,

David.

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I did this time, but I've had two bug posts moved from one subforum to another in the past couple weeks and I was never notified when that happened, they just disappeared from my subscription list. So why didn't I get notified then?

They shouldn't disappear if they're moved, no matter the method. As bmaher said, they won't go anywhere except into one of the bug tracker forums from there.

Why not?

Because it's a multi-moderation feature. We can apply a move or close to many threads at once.

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They shouldn't disappear if they're moved, no matter the method. As bmaher said, they won't go anywhere except into one of the bug tracker forums from there.

Yeah but if it takes more than seven days, we have to keep checking back on the status directly in the forum (since they won't stay on the subscription page longer than that, another one of my gripes), which can be cumbersome because you never know for sure whether it's been moved, deleted, or simply slid off the first page until you spend 5 to 10 minutes figuring it out. It would be so much easier if we just got notified when the status was changed.

Because it's a multi-moderation feature. We can apply a move or close to many threads at once.

Ok I kind of see why that might pose a problem for sending individual notifications although I wouldn't think it would be that hard to create a work around. At any rate, is it really that hard to move them individually? I can't imagine you're ever going to have to move that many of them at the same time. I'm pretty sure both of mine were moved individually, so why couldn't they just have moved them in the normal way so I would have gotten a PM?

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so why couldn't they just have moved them in the normal way so I would have gotten a PM?

Because they're automatically tagged using multi-moderation. I didn't type anything in the thread I moved. That was all inserted by the board.

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At any rate, is it really that hard to move them individually?

Quite often we'll do a cleanup of many threads at once, so maybe moving ten at a time. Besides, if it's moved, its either fixed, or won't be fixed, so either way, we require no further feedback from users.

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Quite often we'll do a cleanup of many threads at once, so maybe moving ten at a time. Besides, if it's moved, its either fixed, or won't be fixed, so either way, we require no further feedback from users.

What about the users, do you think maybe we could use some feedback?

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