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I think it would be really useful to have a special tag made available for use by mentors only when giving advice in their capacity as mentors. The effect of the tag should be to put the text in a new box, indented left and right, with a border and a slightly different color background.
Using the "code" tag to give an approximation, it would would look a bit like this, but with a normal font and with "Mentor advisory notice" instead of "Code" as the label. It might be handy to let such notices be given a time of entry automatically as well.
It would be expected that only mentors should use the tag. That could be enforced by software, or if that is too hard then simply by mentors correcting any improper usage by others.
Advisories could be easily added into an existing post, requesting (for example) no followup on an off topic remark, or advising of a deletion, or advising of a thread move, or anything else.
I think this could really help make more clear some of the guidance being supplied, and in some cases could work as an alternative to making edits of someone's post; just to give a caution or advice for future reference if the problem is sufficiently minor to mean an immediate edit is not necessary.
I'm basing this suggestion on remarks I made in [post=2486680]msg #2[/post] of the thread "Why can posts be deleted from threads at the will of a single Moderator?" I think it is worth its own suggestion thread.
Cheers -- sylas
Using the "code" tag to give an approximation, it would would look a bit like this, but with a normal font and with "Mentor advisory notice" instead of "Code" as the label. It might be handy to let such notices be given a time of entry automatically as well.
Code:
Mentor advisory...
It would be expected that only mentors should use the tag. That could be enforced by software, or if that is too hard then simply by mentors correcting any improper usage by others.
Advisories could be easily added into an existing post, requesting (for example) no followup on an off topic remark, or advising of a deletion, or advising of a thread move, or anything else.
I think this could really help make more clear some of the guidance being supplied, and in some cases could work as an alternative to making edits of someone's post; just to give a caution or advice for future reference if the problem is sufficiently minor to mean an immediate edit is not necessary.
I'm basing this suggestion on remarks I made in [post=2486680]msg #2[/post] of the thread "Why can posts be deleted from threads at the will of a single Moderator?" I think it is worth its own suggestion thread.
Cheers -- sylas