"Admin wants you to view a thread before you can continue browsing the forum"

[Alkaz]

People seem to hate notices to and would probably press dismiss rather than clicking the link going to the thread.

[Recursion]

"30 seconds isn't much" no it isn't, but when you think if you do 4 of these a week for a year, it's over an hour and a half

But that's besides the point, it's just inconveniant, like you're about to post a thread or a post or something and then bam! You're taken away from what you were originally doing, which IS annoying.

[Hecktix]

"30 seconds isn't much" no it isn't, but when you think if you do 4 of these a week for a year, it's over an hour and a half

But that's besides the point, it's just inconveniant, like you're about to post a thread or a post or something and then bam! You're taken away from what you were originally doing, which IS annoying.

there are never 4 a week.

there have been 3 this week and that is a rare occurence, we apologise for the inconvenience, most of the time there is never more than 3 of these a month.

[Sammeth.]

They didn't really bother me until today, but that was the 3rd of 4th this week and it's rather annoying. In my opinion, they should only be used for very important rule ammendments, not petty "filter changes" and "how old are you?"

pasta's idea of just using the notice option at the top of the forum would be better for those types of threads..

The how old are you thread is more important than obviously everyone thinks. When you do a survey, if you want a certain amount of replies you send out double or triple the amount. If we want a decent sample size to collect data from, we're obviously going to try our best to be able to get a wide large selection of data so therefore its more accurate and more representative.

This poll is to see the average age or target audience of our forum, which could affect current decisions and future decisions on how the forum works and how we carry out certain practices. Its just a one off question, but could affect a lot of things in the near future (and beyond that). On the outside it does seem like a petty question, but when you know the reasoning behind it, its actually way better to get a wider and larger source of votes.

Its always been our policy to force read feedback polls, and it will continue to be. IF you take a look theres been about 10 or 11 since the forum first started. Not a lot at all.

"30 seconds isn't much" no it isn't, but when you think if you do 4 of these a week for a year, it's over an hour and a half

How many times have we done 3 force read threads in one week, out of the last 52? One. And thats this week. Its hardly overkill, and it will barely happen again. As Oli said its barely 3 a month usually, it just so happens we have 3 important threads this week that we want you to see.

[Recursion]

That is why I side it was besides the point.

[Sammeth.]

I think it would be a lot more annoying and inconveniant if it was constant, which it isn't. So you should be alright.

[e5]

Most of the force view threads are for our benefit ... it's hardly a problem, you can soon click off it.

[Seatherny]

"30 seconds isn't much" no it isn't, but when you think if you do 4 of these a week for a year, it's over an hour and a half

It takes longer to moan
Anyway just don't do it for useless threads and I am happy.

[Barmi]

There are never really usually this many in a row, in fact usually they are quite sporadic. It just so happened that we created a feedback poll, something which we always force read as we want as many votes as possible to try and give us a better idea rather than just say 20 votes. After that we got 40 votes in 10 minutes, which isnt bad going and helps us a lot more. It just happened to be at a time where a few other important announcements have been made. To be fair one of the last three force reads were unecessary in my opinion, but they will be kept to a bare minimum and used as a necessity.

The whole point of a force read is so you have to read is so giving you the option wouldnt really work.

I dont think they should be used for threads such as how old are you though, although this could be being used for important purposes, I don't know I haven't spoken with Sam about his thread.

I love it when management don't agree.

[Angel-Light]

Wow people are complaining the fact they have to spend time looking at a thread on a forum? (Note sarcasm)

Honestly if they gave you the option to read it or not I bet majority of people would just ignore it. Majority of the forced threads have been for the benefit of the users. Research, notification and highlighting things that may affect you are key ideas.

Be happy management are communicating! It could be worse they could not tell you any of this information at all (much like my work :@).

Overall I believe forced threads are a good idea as long as they aren't used excessively