# As long as we're making suggestions:

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 11, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504 "2001-01-11T13:23:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504/21 "2001-01-17T02:13:03Z")

</div>

How about seasonal thread? Would make things easier in MPSIMS, GD, GQ, and the Pit . . . though it a designation similar to Robyn’s ideas.

Homer said: “I don’t like the idea of removing last post. I don’t get to post as often as I’d like, so I depend on the last post marker to tell me when I’ve gotten to threads that haven’t moved since I last read.”

Can’t you just click on the link “view new posts”?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504/22 "2001-01-17T02:42:54Z")

</div>

I’d personally like to see a new forum for sports discussion and another for discussion of books and movies, but I recognize that both might be comfortably fit under IMHO and MPSIMS.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504/23 "2001-01-17T10:48:24Z")

</div>

Religious discussion? Sign on at Beliefnet (not the greatest boards, admittedly), or, better, try the Mind and Spirit boards at [Salon.com](http://Salon.com) Table Talk- although one Table Talker has quipped that Mind and Spirit threads always deteriorate into an argument over the existence of God.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504/24 "2001-01-17T13:11:17Z")

</div>

I’d like to see each member’s **posts** field split up into two sections: one side for number of posts when they posted the thread you’re currently reading, and the other side for the number of posts they currently have. To use a moderator as a fictitious example:

**DISCLAIMER: All information regarding threads and post counts presented in the following paragraph is entirely fictitious. If I knew the correct information, I wouldn’t have made up fictitious information.**

Let’s say yet another thread about the third word ending in -gry comes up. Someone posts a link to **TubaDiva** ’s very first post, which is where she asks that very question, and **Alphagene** answers it correctly and distinctly. When a person reads that oh-so-old thread, **TubaDiva** ’s post count will look like this: 1/2099. When someone reads **TubaDiva’s** more recent posts, her post counts will look like this: 2097/2099, 2098/2099, etc.

Get it???

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-long-as-were-making-suggestions/49504.md?page=1)