Threadmarks - We need Rules and Permissions

[Sanny]

So the introduction of Threadmarks to OT has been chaotic to put it lightly.

Problems we've encountered so far:

Serious Issue: Anyone can edit anyone's threadmark. So people can use it to troll, insult and cause general mischief by overwriting what you have originally wrote. At present your thread can have its threadmark index changed by absolutely anyone simply by changing individual threadmarks, despite not being able to edit or delete entries in the actual index yourself without navigating to the post and changing/deleting it manually.

Flaw: Threadmark Index are ordered by threadmark creation time and not by post # order. Should be the other way round. This will especially be needed for AARs and Mod Threads. As a result your index is now unorganised under the current

Required: We need permissions to set up who exactly can write and edit threadmarks in a thread (needed for Mod Teams).

 

[loup99]

Flaw: Threadmark Index are ordered by threadmark creation time and not by post # order. Should be the other way round. This will especially be needed for AARs and Mod Threads. As a result your index is now unorganised under the current

This is something you yourself can fix. You can chose whether or not the post is at the end, or remove old threadmarks to ensure they are. So it isn't a flaw.

The rest has already been reported, the bug is that only threadstarters are meant to be able to use it.

 

[TinyWiking]

This should be fixed now as I tinkered with the Permissions settings. I also tested this with my other account and I wasn't able to add threadmarks to threads others had created so it should (in theory!) be sorted now.

As for giving threadmarks rights to others, that's not possible. Permissions are set based on what groups a user is in and as such it's not possible to, for example, give user X permission to add thread marks in thread A but not thread B.