UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? How Can Moderators Stay On Top if They Can't See What They've Read?

Hi, All

My site's boards get maybe 100 posts/hr at peak. We have a team of (global) moderators who read thru everything hour by hour (they don't "approve to post", they just vet and remove ads and loonies)

They're currently testing an implementation of UBBT, and are having massive problems with the "View recent messages for previous 1 hour" feature. Each time they rerun it (e.g. to catch new stuff that's come in), their browsers lose track of read/unread. So they have no idea what they've already vetted. It's incredibly frustrating.

It seems there's no easy way to get UBBT to remember which results in "View recent messages" are read/unread, per this thread: https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/showflat.php?Board=modsuggestions&Number=56676

So...are there any hacks or mechanisms or strategies to enable moderators (or, for that matter, users) to easily track stuff as it comes in, keeping up with the flow, separating read from unread?

The only thing I can imagine is to tweak the results list so it sorts totally chronologically....so the mod can simply remember what date he/she has read up to. This is far from ideal for many obvious reasons.

Also, it seems that UBBT has no more advanced capability to show a user what's read/unread other than simply looking at the previous visit info on his cookie and marking anything more recent as new. Is that really as sophisticated as it gets, or am I missing something?

thanks for any advice!

JIM

I created a hack for this some while ago. It isn't published yet, but i can give you a brief description how it works:

Mods can set their "unread" posts time to any date they whish. Works for one or all forums. A monitoring system makes it possible that mods can "share" their unread/read messages.
Example:
Mod A browses the subforums 1,2,3 in the morning and makes sure, that no offensive content is posted. He leaves at 10:30 AM and enters that value in the monitoring system. Mod B starts browsing at 1.00 PM, enters the monitoring site and just clicks on the last entry (made by Mod A). His cookie gets set to the correct date and he can start right from the point where Mod A has ended.

thanks, Astaran. But we're not concerned with "has every posting been vetted by at least one moderator?" We have a more scattershot moderating approach.

What I'm looking for would actually be of equal use for users: quite simply, a way to see ALL THE NEW STUFF I HAVEN"T READ YET. Or, at least, all the new stuff with the postings I haven't read yet somehow made distinct from the stuff I HAVE read.

And while this fairly gaping issue may start minds dreaming up new features, I'm hoping someone might suggest a more immediate cheesey, hacked-together, clever solution to allow a few harried part time mods to read thru piles of new postings without breaking into tears of frustration (as one did the other night...she begged me not to migrate to UBBT).

[]What I'm looking for would actually be of equal use for users: quite simply, a way to see ALL THE NEW STUFF I HAVEN"T READ YET. [/]

Why don't you use the new post tracking feature? It's exactly for that purpose.