Suggestions for improving QOTW
When reading through someone's QOTW answers and replies (using the "read all their answers" link) and I click on the page-icon (or ‘more’), if the reply is an answer, I'm taken to the answer and its replies, but if the reply is a reply to an answer, I'm taken to a page without any content (just the headers and navigation thingies). Would it be possible to change it so that if you click the page-icon of a reply, it takes you to the reply's context (the QOTW answer - possibly scrolled down to where the reply occurs)? This is useful if you see an interesting reply but are curious about the context.

It would be nice if the page-icon for answers was different to the page-icon for replies (e.g. one (or both) contained a letter - similar to /board competition-entries).

Perhaps there should be an option to hide replies and only show answers, or only show replies.

When viewing someone's profile and they haven't yet posted 5 answers, the "read all their answers" link doesn't appear so you don't get to see their replies.

When editing a QOTW answer, there should be a 'Preview' button.

Currently when there's a new image challenge, the old one stays open for a bit. Could we do this for new QOTWs as well please?

The web page for an individual QOTW answer and its replies only has "b3ta.com qotw" as the page-title. It should also include the name of the QOTW and the 'subject' of the answer.

On the b3ta front-page, as well as having the best of /board, there should be the best of QOTW. One place to put it could be the empty space underneath the advert for the Bumper b3ta book of sick jokes.

There should be a second QOTW running in parallel, which is basically an opportunity for people to post answers to previous QOTWs. Every week, five previous QOTWs could be re-opened in this second QOTW. These five QOTWs should have a similar theme so that the answers all have a certain theme to them (this encourages people to be more open than opening all old QOTWs at once because the stories will have something in common).

When editing a reply, I'm taken to the QOTW page instead of the answer-page containing the reply.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 13 Jun 2008, 16:04, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Add a location column in the calendar page
so we can see at a glance where the event is? Please?
( M3rx likes the Asian ladies, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 17:14, Reply)

Previews in Gazzes
Could we please have the ability to preview our Gazzes so we can check we haven't screwed up our HTML formatting?

Ta.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Wed 11 Jun 2008, 8:55, Reply)

I don't know if anybody has noticed this yet,
but having someone on ignore doesn't stop you seeing them on the popular page. Is this intentional?
( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Jun 2008, 18:44, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

a re-vamp of the FAQ
because its out of date...and a little vague...

this thread explains the confusion

www.b3ta.com/board/8434837
( Sir T. Skellington, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 18:14, Reply)

I want
a QOTW archive search. I remember reading things years ago that made me cackle like a madman, but I can't seem to recall what the topic was that caused it--things like some b3tan finding TNT and blasting caps inside his grandfather's tool shed, etc.
(FredrickPendragon found this post to be in very bad taste on:, Fri 30 May 2008, 13:54, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

/links idea
any chance of tweaking the /links faq or suggesting something to try and eliminate the conspiracy/taking over the world stuff?

I used to like /links for the cool and funny vids which did the rounds. It's now just become a breeding ground for having a go at religions, belief systems, governments, scientologists, 9/11 and so on an so forth. Inevitably, it filters down to b3ta users having a go at each other and tempers flaring, which seems pointless.

Either that, or start a mass /debate board (fnar, fnar) and let's get /links back for the fun stuff. Please
( The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Tue 27 May 2008, 13:16, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'd imagine this has been asked before,
But why is there

"has posted 1 messages on the main board
has posted 0 messages on the talk board
has posted 2 messages on the links board"

But no "has posted x messages on the qotw board" ?
( Cawl, Fri 23 May 2008, 23:34, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

I know this is a complete non-starter, but I'm going to suggest it anyway...
I love the way that on the Main board people can add artwork they've produced even if it's not for the current image challenge.

Now...what I'd like - being more of the writing squad rather than photoshopping gang - is a similar board for writing. I know we can stick stuff on qotw but broadly speaking it should be appropriate for the question.

It's no good putting a short story on the /talk board because...well...they're a bunch of mad sharks over there - as well they know it! ;)

I know there is no chance whatsoever of this happening. I know I'm also waffling.

But I've just finished writing a short story and sometimes it's good to be able to try it out on a critical audience before submitting it places. That said, if it's already had a public air many places won't take it....See, I said I was waffling.

Anyway, I'd like a Writing Board.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 23 May 2008, 13:33, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Me again!
How about having popular posts show up on profile pages as well as FPs.
( lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Wed 21 May 2008, 9:00, Reply)

Thread deletion
Thread deletion can kill some fun conversations, how about when someone deletes a thread from the board the text responses be moved to a special post in the thread above.
( lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 19 May 2008, 12:02, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

b3ta top 100
Inspired by this week's book challenge how about a b3ta top hundred cds, films, tv shows, dinners, books etc etc. We could all pick our top ten from each catergory and a list could be compiled.

It'd probably be a pain to implement but i know people would like it, heck you could even make it into an awards ceremony each year.
( lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 19 May 2008, 8:45, Reply)

Some sort of backwards clique
so that new people are allowed to post pretty much instantly, but that people who are likely to post "OMG FAIL" or "You'd better look out because everyone is about to flame you" (unless the new people just aren't getting the point) don't actually see them.

That way newbies would only be seen by nice supportive people for the first week/month/whatever and the only real way for people to join this "clique" is to just be nice to people.
( gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Sun 18 May 2008, 8:40, 7 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

the new spanky search thing
doesn't find results for fragments
so if i search for, for example 'micto', it won't find any instances of 'mictoboy'

that would be handy, and while i'm here, that wonderful feature on glassco.cx to show the results 'oldest first' was rather useful on occasion too
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Fri 16 May 2008, 23:38, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Can we have a NSFW button or a "Thumbs down" button...
...and if enough people click on it the thread gets hidden by default. Say if 10 people click the thumbs down button.

I've seen this sort of thing on other forums.

This will reduce the need for mods to be constantly vigilant with regards to NSFW images.
( Barbarossa is not my real name, Fri 16 May 2008, 11:41, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

In the "search" option you can click the example of "pictures of cats or dogs"
but it doesn't define the way one specifies "picture posts only" in the search bar. The only way is to pay attention to the address bar in the example and use that, which is hardly streamline.

Can you indicate on the main search page what exactly to type so as to limit results to those containing pics (or those not containing them)?
( AgentMuu hentai coordination, Fri 16 May 2008, 1:11, Reply)

Male/Female/Other indicator
it would aid in some discussions when you're not sure of the users' gender... ?
( c_kick or, as some people call him, Thu 15 May 2008, 16:54, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

popularity
Can't we have a counter to show how many clicks a particular post has received?

I'd love to know how many B3tards liked my best QOTW answer (which made it into the newsletter I might add)
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 11 May 2008, 16:52, 2 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

Further to HumptyDumpty etc's post.
In which he suggests:
'BUT... when clicking on "see all their posts" it sucks to see each and every inane "reply"'

Wouldn't be better to be able to show the rest of the thread that the reply is part of?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 11 May 2008, 16:51, Reply)

is it just me
or is there not a new question...
(Katzilla Follow Me! @Kat_Zilla (I don't promise funnehs), Thu 8 May 2008, 12:36, Reply)

You should give out cash prizes all the time to people.

( gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Thu 8 May 2008, 10:09, Reply)

How about a feature similar to the 'popular' button on the image challange, only on QOTW
When you press it, it arranges the post in order of popularity, rather than time posted.

Saves time trawling through dross before the 'Best Of' page is up, and it would allow you to keep track of how well your answer is doing.
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Wed 30 Apr 2008, 1:43, 4 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

A location for calendar events
When creating an event, could there be a separate field for the location?
Then it could be displayed on the list of events, so you can see if any are near you, without having to click on each one.

That would be nice
( SocialRobot, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 23:02, Reply)

Can we use anchor tags in our profiles?
I have a rather long profile, so I tried making a table of contents so people could jump to sections. It didnae work. It was possible I was doing it wrong, but

<a href="#section1">Jump to Section 1</a>
<a name="section1">Section 1 Header</a>

should work, shouldn't it?

Can anchors be made allowable? Or are they already and I'm thick at html?
( Bob Todd whee, Sun 27 Apr 2008, 12:34, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

how about
an "I don't like this" button and a "least popular" board
b3ta.com/links/182516
( finnbar has officially retired, Sat 26 Apr 2008, 0:08, 1 reply, 17 years ago)

ok, now a serious request
everyone likes to celebrate a bit when they reach 1,000 or 5,000 or 10,000 posts so could we have a warning that these posts are approaching? Just a countdown on the write.php page when we're getting towards the next thousand?

L@@K! I mocked it up in client script, there's half the job done for you. Assuming it's reasonably easy to translate Javascript into the open-source communist-sympathising non-Microsoft PHP gubbins you hippies insist on using ... www.gilgamesh.zen.co.uk/postCountDown.htm
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Fri 25 Apr 2008, 4:15, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

/talk lunch thread RSS feed
let users flag a post as "lunch related" then publish it as RSS so that spotty herberts can write facebook applications that list what other people have been eating

I WOULD DEFFO USE THIS!
( Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Thu 24 Apr 2008, 23:14, Reply)