Forum Prefixes Implemented

[anthony]

Prefixes are a searchable means of quickly identifying specific content within a forum, as well as clear identifiers for those browsing a forum.

The [DLMURL="https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/forums/introductions.47/"]Introductions Forum[/DLMURL] is the first forum to have them. I have implemented three (3) prefixes for use when creating a new thread, they are:

• Sufferer
• Supporter
• Other

They are pretty clear. If you're a sufferer, then when you created your introduction you would choose the "sufferer" prefix. Staff will assign prefixes to threads as appropriate when the member does not.

For now, I have chosen a few threads in the Introductions forum and quickly applied sufferer and supporter prefixes to appropriate threads.

If you click a prefix type, it automatically removes all other content in that forum from your view, leaving you only with threads that use that same prefix.

See the point yet? It allows you to quickly as a sufferer, pull up all sufferer threads to review, which are still ordered by default means and can be ordered by your chosen option.

Same goes with a supporter, and same for other, being non-PTSD or non-supporter, typically therapists, researchers, etc...

A new moderator will be assigned solely to Introductions in the coming weeks, so one of their tasks will be to correctly categorise new threads from here forth in that forum. I am not really worried about past... that is just too much work.