What if you could change things here radically? What major/minor changes would you make?

There are just a few jellies I would silence if I was king of the world.

I’d like to be able to edit typos in posts. I so often notice typos well after the editing ‘window of opportunity’ has closed.

It would be nice to see how many people are following a question. That would be very indicative of the popularity of the question (not necessarily the quality).

I’d have a spam shocking machine. So when spammers post, there’d be a button I could post to send them a minor electric shock. Nothing deadly just a bit .. ouch!

I’d completely scrap the 10-minute editing window and add a little “edited on” stamp, as well as a time stamp on every question/answer.

I’d also scrap the lurve limit – if I didn’t scrap lurve altogether, that is.

Maybe on every jellies anniversay, give them back their capability to give lurve again that gives points.

Even if I could, I wouldn’t.

I fell in love with this place as it was. Why would I want to change that?

I would make it so the blondes were never ever ever allowed to leave. EVER.

And I like the idea of giving back the ability to lurve on everyone’s anniversary. Every year, on that day, your lurve max is reset, and you get to lurve the hell out of answers up to the max again.

I’d give oreo’s instead of lurve.

I’d have a “Contact a Mod” button, so you could send a message to any mod who’s online at that moment. I’d also rejigger the lurve limit, maybe increasing it, maybe resetting it after x amount of time. In my wildest dreams, we’d also have a lot more members!

@livelaughlove21 There actually is a timestamp on every question and answer, but it’s ‘hidden’ on the answers. If you hover your mouse just to the right of the ‘Great Answer/Flag as’ line, you’ll see a little red paragraph symbol. Hover over that, and it’ll show you when it was posted. :)

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I am so glad I’m not in charge. Some things in life I do well. I doubt being the god of Fluther would be one of them.

@augustlan Ah. I only visit Fluther on my phone, so all of that is inaccessible to me.

@Hawaii_Jake Don’t be too sure about that!

I’m still fairly new. I’m not sure I’d change anything.
I wasn’t aware that there was a “lurve limit”. What is it?

@ZEPHYRA Nah. I’m quite happy being mortal and ungodly. :)

@Katniss You can give only 100 lurve points to any one individual nd have it count. You can keeep giving them lurve, but it doesn’t count.

@marinelife are those 100 lurve points an annual limit or forever?

@ZEPHYRA Forever for any one individual.

^Well now that sounds just dumb. lol. But it makes sense. Errr. I hate my life. I’m not giving out any more lurve. Ever. I passed 100 on all my friends along time ago. I need new jellies who love oreos. Flutherfrigginriffic. Wunderfilled.

Oooo, the temptation. The changes I would make:

• Scrap the 100 lifetime lurva limit.
• Have an award for greeting new members.
• Up the limit to 6 daily questions.
• To answer NSFW questions you have to have some form of age verification in file, (there would be more than one way)
• Allow edits up to 72 hours after posting.
• Have a feature where you can upload jpeg illustrations (because often the link is somehow broken or changed).
• Increase in questions asked daily and a special Fluther Skyscraper section which only those above 30k can ask on.
• An “Ask the mods” button up there with the general, social, just for you, etc.
• Have a preview in PM, so you can see what you are typing will look like before you send it.
• For those above 30k they can give someone up to 3 lurve for questions or answers.

There were a few more but I can’t think of them, and I won’t get to edit them in later, buggers.

@Hypocrisy_Central Very thoughtful list!

Ohh, I would love to have a live preview on PMs. Good thinking, @Hypocrisy_Central.

I would change it so that a great question was worth more that a great answer.

I would like to be able to attach a picture here quickly, or add an album to each user’s profile page.

@KNOWITALL Yeah, I’d also get the avatar issue fixed…some know what I’m talking about. Changing your avatar, but it only changes in your profile and doesn’t show on the questions until like, days later. :/

I would add scent and taste buttons, so people could smell and sample the recipes I post : P

I would like the chat rooms to be way more populated!

Also really like @Hypocrisy_Central‘s idea of live preview for PMs. I’ve thought of that myself before.

And, because I’m a curmudgeon, I’d kinda like to extend the electric shock to the FollowMe’s.

Another thing that would be nice is a troll alert alarm. Whenever a troll posts a Q or an A, an alarm button would go off, alerting all of the other Jellies and the Mods that there is a troll on the site.

@Kardamom : How would we make an algorithm to identify trolls? Sometimes it is a subjective matter, or it’s not apparent until later in the conversation…
Well, I guess one flag would be use of the phrases “the homosexuals” or “the homosexual agenda,” LMAO.

@bookish1 We’d have to ask the Mods. There have been people who have been described by the Mods as re-ocurring trolls, so they have some type of criteria in which to define them.

I’ve noticed several odd phrases in posts that turned out to be trolls. “What did he mean when he said___fill in the blank?”

Another has to do with descriptions of married boyfriends impregnating their wives or girlfriends.

Anybody who describes someone as standing too close to a married man or younger woman who used to be friends with an OP, but who has now stopped communicating, but is sitting too close at hand while the wife is in the same room/meeting. This situation can also happen at church.

Anybody who claims to be having a casual flirtation with a married boss, while at the same time, describing their relationship as akin to Bonnie and Clyde. Especially if they post a very similar Q that describes a casual flirtation with an un-married boss, but also says that relationship is like Bonnie and Clyde, but then points out that these two guys are not the same person.

Any talk about a “stamy evenings” especially when one describes oneself as not wanting to sleep with internet dates on the first evening, and then asking what he meant by what he said, after such stamy evening, especially when he didn’t call afterwards.

Anybody named Randy that asks for only nice people to answer, then goes on and on about some record store in Canada.

Woop! Woop! Woop! Red Alert! Red Alert!

well, we do have a flag button…:p

I’d make it so you could change your profile name without having to make a new account or 2 or 3 or 10. Welcome to my carousel of highs and lows or the carousal of highs and lows I guess it really depends on what you are doing. Anything can happen. lol.

I’d add an ‘Ignore User’ option, a forum or message boards to cut down on the non-questions-just-for-chatting questions, and re-do the point things.