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TheShooter
11/03/2012, 06:51 am
Hello Telltale Staff, I have a simple suggestion regarding ''The Walking Dead Story Discussion- SPOILERS'' forum, can you hide the Last Post section of it?? Because sometimes the name of a thread in that forum may spoil.

Here is pic if you don't get the problem. ::

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/1554/screenshot20121103at649.png

Thank you,

Vainamoinen
11/03/2012, 06:59 am
Exactly that was a point we've debated hotly behind the scenes.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a solution in this forum's mechanics. We have to go along with it for now. :(

Cyreen
11/03/2012, 09:44 am
A little consideration and more creative titling and there wouldn't be a problem.

Pellet
11/03/2012, 06:12 pm
A little consideration and more creative titling and there wouldn't be a problem.

unfortunately ppl are either thoughtless or a$$holes lol

Cyreen
11/04/2012, 12:55 pm
unfortunately ppl are either thoughtless or a$$holes lol

It's alright, we're all grown up, you can swear here.

Milosuperspesh
11/05/2012, 09:56 am
most of the people who spoil even admit they are being (_i_)

Vainamoinen
11/05/2012, 12:12 pm
A little consideration and more creative titling and there wouldn't be a problem.

It's not that easy, really.

I've tried to put together some guidelines for creative and non-spoilery thread naming, but they all have one fundamental flaw.

If you want to create thread titles users will find when they do a basic forum search to avoid that the same topic is discussed 100 times in 100 threads, you HAVE to add some key words which will tantamount to a spoiler. Just character names and asterisks do not make an identifiable thread name.

The only solution is to not display it up there, and that seems to be impossible. I had the neat idea of adding to the "welcome" thread in that forum a creation date three years in the future, so it would always be the one displayed. But even that seems to be impossible.

Saoralba131
11/05/2012, 12:16 pm
I am trying to make sure when I make a post not to spoil anything.

xwmstormx
11/05/2012, 01:49 pm
Easy solutions:
1: Create a separate bookmark on your web browser for the threads.
- This will make sure that you are where you want to be w/o taking any risks.
-- Problematic if you visit the forums for any other game on the site.

2: Don't look at the last post in the section.
- Personally I never even look at what the last post was as I am heading into that section anyways.

Hard Solutions:
1: (easy to do as an admin) Move the current spoilers forums further down on the main forum page and create a link in the current one. Then just lock that forum so only mods/admins can post in it.

2: You can edit the VB code to disable the last post IIRC. Been a long time since I worked with VB so things may have changed. Though pretty sure you can just edit the code to remove the last post column.
- I'm half bored enough.. Might go setup a server and give a better answer.

Dildor
11/05/2012, 02:13 pm
It's alright, we're all grown up, you can swear here.

Fuck.