Alex? Mods? Question over here!

[DrewsLou 3]

Is there any way to take the off topic forums off of the main page? I mean... when I click "new posts" most of what comes up for me lately is Rant & Raves and not actual lapband support kind of posts.

I hope this makes sense. I know I have read several posts from new members and old alike who feel frusterated (sp?) by the amount of off topic threads they have to sift through to get to what they need.

I look forward to hearing your responses!

Thanks.

[Wheetsin 714]

As far as I know, not really - not without a significant amount of programming work, anyway. Caveat beging I'm much more familiar with the php environments than vb.

First, you're actually talking about two unrelated issues. Whether or not something is on a main page has nothing to do with what shows when viewing new posts. With a sizeable amount of programming something could be removed from the main page - maybe -, but then users would have to "happen upon it" if they wanted to find it, or know where to look - which new users don't. Posts to it will still hit the new posts view, even if it's removed from the main page.

Boards are structured so that forums appear on the first page as a table of contents type of notifier. It's a default behind how they're programmed. New posts goes by posts to hit the server, not topics displayed on the main page.

I've probably not made that very clear.

So to hit the other side of your question, I've looked and I don't see any kind of an "ignore thread" or "ignore forum" option. I don't know if we don't have it, or if I just can't find it -- I will defer to Alexandra for this. Ignoring a thread or forum is the only way I could think of to not see its replies listed under new posts... well, the only realistically do-able option, anyway.

[DrewsLou 3]

Thanks Wheetsin, I appreciate your response!

[Sin 0]

I know their's a mod for vBulletin that allows the user to specify which forums they'd like to find new posts in. The name of it escapes me at the moment, but im sure that you can find it on a vBulletin Help site.