What do you do when your moderators miss important threads?

[Zzed]

Recenty we had been difficulty with our moderators overlooking and ignoring the sticky threads in our moderator forum, which resulted into a heated discussion between all the mods and admins. There were some unreasonable demands such as mass Email or mass PM notifications for all important announcements. But those can also be very easily overlooked.

After putting some thought into this I came up with the idea of active notification. This hack will allow you to call anyone's attention to a particular thread. The notified person will see a popup window that will position itself in the middle of their browser and it will maintain its position as the user scrolls up or down or surfs the board. And unless the user clicks on the link displayed in the popup window, it will not go away.

I have allowed for the hack to notify the following: admins, moderators and admins, moderators of a particular forum, or individual users. It also allows you to see the list of all people with pending notifications.

So far I have gotten positive responses from all the moderators who received notifications. It did freak some of them out. But they all unanymously liked it.

I have set up a demo for VB.org visitors. If you click on the following link, you will be taken to the main index page and will see the popup window. you can try and scroll up and down to see the box follow you. Note that since you are most likely a guest, the popup will not follow you if you decide to surf the board before clicking on the URL in the popup. And if you would like to see the box again, you must click on he following URL again.

http://www.ls1.com/forums/index.php

Please let me know if you like this hack and would like me to release it.

[Xenon]

I don't need the hack myself, but i think it's a very good idea, and yes you should release it

[Logikos]

Nothing is poping up for me, but i do like the idea.

[EvilLS1]

What do you do when your moderators miss important threads?

I fire them and get new ones.

Looks like a nice mod Zed. It works fine for me.

[Dean C]

Nice idea indeed

[Logician]

Pretty close to what Dynamic Forum Home Announcement hack is doing but feel free to release it if you like..

[Erwin]

If your mods don't visit your Staff Forums, it's time to look for new mods.

[corsacrazy]

Originally Posted by Erwin

If your mods don't visit your Staff Forums, it's time to look for new mods.

that is true to a certain extent but remember people do actually hav other lives out side of forums !! nice work ls1 but i have read the demo announcement however the message still appears ...

[BladeZ]

i like the hack very much,please release it
maybe stupid question could it also be made as kind of torturing tool for misbehaving users?

[Koutaru]

I think it would be very useful. Please release it