TOM

WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO PULL A FINGER OUT AND TURN THIS FORUM INTO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T JUST MAKE ME WANT TO DESTROY HUMANITY?!

Sorry dude, but it has to be said!! Listals group section is a complete joke! You need proper mods and a proper set up here, every time I come on now to check a few of my lists etc the site just seems to be a corpse. There must be people using this, but only horrible children seem to post anything. How hard would it be to just delete groups and hook up a regular PhP forum or something? It'd take about half an hour to work out if that, and you'd have better control surely as you can password areas and see who is using it etc, easier to ban members too I think?

Hope you do something mate as its been a long time coming.

A lot of spammers are getting through, even without profile pictures. I think it's time to set a minimum points total before anyone can post in the forum, that would stop some of the people using this place as a myspace surrogate as well.

People have to use the site before they stumble across a problem, so I don't think it would restrict people asking for help if the points total was, say 1000. You could have a 'Help' link in that grey box at the foot of the page that takes you to a private message screen with you in the target.

But it annoys people more that Listals forum is so poor, Tom. The reason it is poor is because people are just using it to spam, talk rubbish and irritate legit members. Most people have said they think a minimum limit before posting would prevent this and it would. It would also cut down on multiple accounts being made by people to get around bans or to post etc. Listal has started to go down hill a lot to be honest.

It would annoy me if I joined a forum and had to do lots of things before I could post, but it wouldn't annoy me if I joined a listing site and was required to list items before I could start using a feature I cared much less about... This is madness!

Having it show who is viewing the forums would be a nice addition to prevent people asking "anybody there?!" and it lets people know that even though the last post was say 15 hours ago, if you post now people are there ready to reply if its interesting. No idea how hard that would be to implement though to be honest, it would just be a nice feature.

While I remember, I'd love for the emails you get when you receive a vote or a comment to tell me what the comment says and what they voted/commented for. Its so much easier than having to log in every time.

It is unneccesarily long winded to have to log in and then find the post/comment/vote to see what it was about. If it said "as voted for your list titled..." or gave me the comment, I would be able to see if it was worth me responding to without having to sign into listal and find it.

It's not laziness, it's inconvenience. It's almost as retarded as getting a picture SMS, only to find your network provider has instead send you a link that you have to access online to see the image, instead of just sending the picture itself to your phone. Everyone hates that. It's a good idea to elaborate the email considering it costs nothing.

Just like it would be nice to know what someone has voted/commented on on your feed without having to click on it. Just a mouse-over image would be nice. If you mouse over the comment/vote blue text now you see the link in the corner but unless you've got every listal item number memorised, it means nothing!

No need to be embarrassed MovieMan. But the more you go on, the more humiliating the climb down!