I like the idea of having a content/member specialist, for lack of a better description. There is no doubt that some of the moderation staff know more about some forums than others. It could also help avoid having to step on that person's toes by asking another staff member for an explanation about why someone else did what they did. Many of us have had things reversed based on decisions someone else made that may have been incorrect.

jray225 said: <snip> I would like to see a reply button to the message that allows you to respond to the original moderator alert, and then have it opened backup [sic] for the moderation staff to review.I agree that this would be useful.

good idea

glxpass said:I'd like to see a WYSIWYG user interface for posts that will allow different fonts, including fixed-width fonts. The current option of using the code tags requires guesswork and constant previews in order to ensure the text lines up. This makes one of the most easily read rate Quick Summaries, located in the FWF Best Nationally Available High APY Liquid Accounts Thread the hardest to maintain. Thanks.A while back I had suggested allowing embedded spreadsheets, I think that would be a better solution than allowing multiple fonts.

For example:
http://testing-blogger-beta.blogspot.com/2006/10/testing-embeding-zoho-spreadsheet-into.html

If the FW staff doesn't want to roll out this feature globally, it should be pretty easy for a mod to add the spreadsheet code to just the High APY thread.

jayK said:glxpass said:I'd like to see a WYSIWYG user interface for posts that will allow different fonts, including fixed-width fonts. The current option of using the code tags requires guesswork and constant previews in order to ensure the text lines up. This makes one of the most easily read rate Quick Summaries, located in the FWF Best Nationally Available High APY Liquid Accounts Thread the hardest to maintain. Thanks.A while back I had suggested allowing embedded spreadsheets, I think that would be a better solution than allowing multiple fonts.

For example:
http://testing-blogger-beta.blogspot.com/2006/10/testing-embeding-zoho-spreadsheet-into.html

If the FW staff doesn't want to roll out this feature globally, it should be pretty easy for a mod to add the spreadsheet code to just the High APY thread.
There have been a number of occasions where I simply wanted the text on different lines to be aligned properly, or to use more than one space consecutively. While your suggestion of allowing embedded spreadsheets is a good one, I don't want to always have to use one in order to accomplish this. I'd even settle just for a fixed-width font WYSIWYG option to replace the code tags.

jayK said:glxpass said:I'd even settle just for a fixed-width font WYSIWYG option to replace the code tags.In the meantime, you can use Notepad with word wrap disabled for a preview of what a block of fixed-width text would look like.
An interesting suggestion, but I haven't figured out how to do this for fixed-width text and the tags that FW uses, especially the http and https tags. I've converted the [ and ] to < and >, but apparently FW doesn't use pure HTML even with that modification. And I'm getting error messages from notepad saying there are incompatibilities between plain text and some of the formatting I'm using. There are no issues when I post on FWF, using these features, of course.

It would be great to have the option to mark PM's as "unread" after you read them; sometimes you have time to read a PM but not respond to it. It would be helpful as a reminder to reply later if it still appeared unread.

footn200 said:How 'bout the link to forum preferences in customizable forums nav? Either in default set or not?If you mean putting the "customize" link next to the other forums, I think this is a bad idea - the customize screen involves setting preferences, setting it apart from every other link in the forums nav. IMHO the forums nav should be for choosing a forum, and that's it.

There's plenty of room in modern to reproduce the "forum tools" bar from classic (new topic/customize/user profile/today).

ninad70 said:It would be nice if the actual message (from OP) can be included as a header on each subsequent page on all the threads. Probably, not in it's entirety but at least some of it with a link to expand it.

This is an interesting idea. Perhaps a little plus sign or something that can be expanded if users so desire. It should definitely be off by default