I plan on buying new software for the forum in the near future....

[anonymoose]

I think I posted there quite a bit for a while, but at some point, I think I ran afoul of the moderation- I honestly can't remember if I just got a warning or a ban. It was so long ago.

You don’t strike me as being extreme enough to have lasted ‘for a while’.

[Phoenyx]

You don’t strike me as being extreme enough to have lasted ‘for a while’.

I'm almost always polite. It's been my experience that when moderators want to get rid of someone, they first try to do so based on said poster saying some foul mouthed thing. It takes them longer to get to the point where they'll find some creative excuse to get rid of the polite ones.

[Frank Apisa]

I'm almost always polite. It's been my experience that when moderators want to get rid of someone, they first try to do so based on said poster saying some foul mouthed thing. It takes them longer to get to the point where they'll find some creative excuse to get rid of the polite ones.

I am pretty far left, so I don't think right/left is the criteria.

I got warned for almost nothing...and finally got warned for mentioning to one poster who kept busting my chops that if it continued, I would put him on ignore.

The moderator gave me a 45 day warning for a threat!

I left there...and have never felt the desire to go back.

[Damocles]

I made a post on DU saying I was a pro-abortion libertarian. I was banned for that.

I simply said I was libertarian and that was enough.

[anonymoose]

I simply said I was libertarian and that was enough.

And their software sucks.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Nobody has an opinion on this? Well dang. The most opinionated people on the interwebs are silent.

You do realize most of us are elderly and hate change and having to learn new stuff, right?

"Groans" are stupid IMO, so if you have to ditch them that's okay by me.

[BidenPresident]

I simply said I was libertarian and that was enough.

Democratic Underground is run by a centrist Democratic organization. You would get banned for not supporting centrist candidates.

[Doc Dutch]

Nobody has an opinion on this? Well dang. The most opinionated people on the interwebs are silent.

IDK much about forum software.

[Concart]

The keyword here is 'buy' so I would urge everyone to maybe chip in a little.

[ThatOwlWoman]

I hear you. It can be especially annoying if someone decides to just "groan" every post of yours so your entire CP is full of groans and you get no feedback from the people who you want to hear from. Also bad are the quote notifiers if someone just quotes all your posts to troll and you can't see the posts of folks that quoted you earlier as it only shows the last 10...

This is exactly the type of feedback I need. What would you like to see added or subtracted?

Agree with the notifications of thanks/groans. It's pointless. Wish there was a way to keep ppl you have on ignore from filling up your "Who quoted you" notifications with their unseen and unwanted replies to your posts. Yakuda and Into the Night and goat are/were good for messing that function up.

[Concart]

Agree with the notifications of thanks/groans. It's pointless. Wish there was a way to keep ppl you have on ignore from filling up your "Who quoted you" notifications with their unseen and unwanted replies to your posts. Yakuda and Into the Night and goat are/were good for messing that function up.

Into the night and his other socks constantly spam the forum. Six new quotes and all of them will be him. Agree on notifications from blocked posters.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Into the night and his other socks constantly spam the forum. Six new quotes and all of them will be him. Agree on notifications from blocked posters.

It ruins the experience when your notifications are mostly from some idiot you have on ignore, making you miss replies that you want to read and respond to.

[Hawkeye10]

It ruins the experience when your notifications are mostly from some idiot you have on ignore, making you miss replies that you want to read and respond to.

Only ten quote notices does not really work for me either, but that could be changed at any time, it is a choice made by Damo.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Only ten quote notices does not really work for me either, but that could be changed at any time, it is a choice made by Damo.

That's true. Thanks for mentioning it; I'm sure he'll see this.

[Guille]

I do not plan on remaining with vBulletin (though it is still an option) the latest version of the software is less capable of self modification (near impossible really) and we'd lose some of our cool things that I want to keep, and their server version where they host the board doesn't seem like something that I want as they don't seem to offer better options than I already utilize and you are just leasing the software on a month by month basis.

Anyway. I do like the versions that are paid for above the open source versions like phpBB though that is very capable of modifications that I can create, php is a skill that I don't seem to have much time to exercise nowadays.

If any of you are on some other forums and enjoy their setups, tell me what software they use.

My best guess is I'll be going with Xenforo or something like that, and as I said it is always an option to stick with vBulletin, though we'd lose some features that I like. I have not found "thanks/groans" for example. There is a thank you feature in there, but the groans don't seem to be available. I may go that route anyway as groans really do not add much value to the site, but they are sometimes fun.

Xenforo is currently the most likely software I'll get for the forum.

Xenforo is fine if you want to spend all your time troubleshooting.