I just think we could use more plaid around here.

But I do like that they light up. Tiny lights that go on and off are never out of style. We ADD kids especially love 'em.

thought for a second that I just got my pink slip or something!

But I can't think of any topics I want to trash without seeing the posts.

there was one feature in DU2 that I miss... that was the ability to forward a thread to others via email.. but du3 is still fantastic thanks!!!

I rarely go to the latest or greatest pages, I do mean rarely, does that mean I'll hardly ever get picked for jury duty?

I'll check with Elad and get back to you.

The check is performed on the main pages of forums and groups as well as on the Latest and Greatest pages. I've edited the OP to make that clear.

but I also wonder about the Jury Selection criteria. I never, NEVER, go to Latest or Greatest. Will that affect my chances of serving on a jury?

Sid

(Relatively speaking, of course)

Thanks!
Who knew?

(I know: "Newbies&quot

I really disliked going to a post to read it then finding the jury thing,
AND
after serving on the jury, had to go back several clicks to find the darn post again
both of which is why I have been turning down some jury alerts.

Auto trash by keyword....god, yes, and thank you!!!!

Like WyldWolf's request for a Gun Control Activism Group in the Activism section?
He submitted that request over two weeks ago. Time is critical here because of the limited window to influence public policy.

Right now I am using FireFox17 on Windows7, but I imagine the same basic code will work in most browsers (I'll do some further testing if people have any questions and/or problems). Here are the CSS selectors/declarations people can use to disable this feature:

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left: 1em !important; border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #999999;"]img[src$="tab-mysubscriptions-new.gif"]
{
[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-image: url("http://www.democraticunderground.com/imgs/tab-mysubscriptions.gif&quot !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-size: 140px 26px !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]height: 0px !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]padding-top: 26px !important;}
img[src$="tab-myposts-new.gif"]
{
[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-image: url("http://www.democraticunderground.com/imgs/tab-myposts.gif&quot !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-size: 140px 26px !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]height: 0px !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]padding-top: 26px !important;}
I actually like the idea of having an indication of new replies shown on the My Posts tab, I just didn't like the yellow so much - so I changed it to use a local image on my hard drive that simply underlines the words "My Posts" whenever the yellow tab is supposed to appear. The code looks like this (the following example also wraps the CSS selectors/declarations in a conditional that works in FireFox to apply the changes only to the www.democraticunderground.com domain):

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left: 1em !important; border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #999999;"]@-moz-document domain("www.democraticunderground.com&quot
{[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]img[src$="tab-mysubscriptions-new.gif"][div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]{[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-image: url("http://www.democraticunderground.com/imgs/tab-mysubscriptions.gif&quot !important;[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-size: 140px 26px !important;[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]height: 0px !important;[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]padding-top: 26px !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]}[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]img[src$="tab-myposts-new.gif"][div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]{[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-image: url("file:///C:\\Users\\web_browsing\\AppData\\Roaming\\Mozilla\\tab-myposts.gif&quot !important;[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]background-size: 140px 26px !important;[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]height: 0px !important;[div style="margin-left:5em; text-indent:-1em;"]padding-top: 26px !important;[div style="margin-left:3em; text-indent:-1em;"]}}
The conditional is useful because I can simply change to sync.democraticunderground.com (or one of the others) to see how things look without my User Style Sheet.

Probably the easiest way to implement User Style Sheets is to install the Stylish add-on for FireFox or Chrome. It is also possible to do this without any add-ons in those browsers, but requires a bit more computer savvy. You can also use User Style Sheets with the other major browsers - just Google "user style sheets" and add whatever browser you are using to the search term.

and see a list of the posters i have the most interest in reading. like in the old DU? is that going to happen ever? thank you!

how will this upgrade enhance my DU experience?

For starters, you can use the keyword trash feature to trash threads that are anti-pie.

Any thought on having a 2014 and 2016 one?

And yes, a seperate part for anti-NRA, anti-gun part as it doesn't differentiate, and the current one is a private forum with their own moderators and alot of people appear not to want to enter there.
(though its so important the General area is needed for a while.)

Happy New Year! and thanks again.

currently it is censorship or the worst kind. Someone can call us all facists if we dont agree with their opinion, but type "liberal pinhead" and it is censored, regardless of whatever else you said. Particularly in a liberal heavy thread, any comments not in line with the far left of the party is censored. I personally loved the one where my comments about the war in Iraq, and how servicemembers are treated was censored...on veterans day. too easy to for butthurt people to censor someone elses opinions.

talk about 'butthurt' ...

n/t

Thank you so much, Elad, EarlG and Skinner for all the hard work.

Elad you've programed an awesome site for all of us here to enjoy.

Thank you for the additional improvements to the most user friendly site on the internets...

Damn that's hard on the eyes.

I'm betting we will see more in the future. I've learned some new tricks in the database application I have created. And I believe they are deep hidden tricks that few know about.

First, thanks for continuing to work to improve the site!

I'm guessing that auto-trash is strictly literal. For example, suppose someone trashes "gun control" (I see that phrases can be trashed as well as single words). Suppose further that an OP is titled "The gun control debate has a parallel in the First Amendment." That post goes on to discuss the absolutist view of the First Amendment (no regulation of speech is permitted) versus the exceptions that have been added by Supreme Court interpretations over the years. The post has nothing about gun control except the passing mention in the title by way of analogy. Someone sick of gun control debates might want to read that thread, but the unimaginatively literal software would trash it. Is that right? (I'm just curious, not complaining. Everyone has seen computer errors that arise from such literalism.)

As an aside, it might be interesting, in a month or two, to post a list of the most trashed words and phrases. My money is on "gun control" and/or "RKBA" to be high on the list.

Anytime I go to other discussion boards, I'm always surprised that the design sucks!



Actually I probably wouldn't use Auto trash, but still--very cool!

and great site...thank you.

You have made my day!!

It appears to be one level too high for group subscription.
Thank you.

Can you also auto trash anything from a DU member?

I can check them using the buttons above the forums when I want to go there.

At first I thought it was cool, now I'm considering Unsubscribing to all My groups to stop it.

And good work as always, guys.

 http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1013&pid=2368#post58

Thank you so much and Happy New Year back to you, too!

Comes to mind. I remember a time, trashing everything with that name on it. Nothing since, really annoyed that much. But if it does...