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Fixed locally. Stupid typo.

Yeah, but I'm having "conscious sedation" to have some teeth (including a wisdom tooth) out.

That's completely intentional. The language cache is separate to the regular backend. Only the regular backend is touched by that setting.

It's done that way because otherwise you'd have quite a few queries per page. The language cache is designed to be long term and changes should be done via the admin panel.

I can see the logic of that statement, but your moderator is wrong. Go ask any counsellor, psychologist or similar communications specialist how much communication is conducted with the spoken word. The estimate will vary from teaching to teaching but the highest I've *ever* heard it quoted in 25%...  and I've heard it quoted down to 7%. In other words, 75% or more of communication is not what you're saying or even really how you're saying it. It's all the non-verbal stuff too.

But of course we don't have that additional context in a forum that is primarily textual. You're cutting off that 75%+ of context. It's even less context that you get in a phone call when you at least have tone of voice to guide you in terms of stress on the part of the speaker. All you ultimately take away is what I write.

Now, I would argue that I am a reasonably strong communicator; I have sufficient command of English - generally[1] - to be able to make my point and cover discussion in depth (when I choose to), and I tend to choose my wording fairly carefully to convey the meaning I intended, however most of that is a subtlety often lost in this medium. Sarcasm in particular doesn't tend to translate too well.[2]

Ultimately, to me, it's not cheating, it's a way to express a hint of the missing context that goes with non-verbal communication. The tone of voice, the expression on the face... with a suitably well defined smiley set, a surprising amount of additional context can be easily communicated.

1.	On a similar line of thought, I have heard it said that you shouldn't need to resort to swearing if you have a sufficient command of language. I find I resort to swearing when more erudite communication would be wasted or simply that I cannot find the words to express my frustration. There is something very earthy and primal about profanity to express level of frustration.
2.	But you will notice that I choose not to act like a grammar pedant or express pedantry over punctuation. But I see a lot of dumbness, like the guy who complained that the Cmdr Hadfield singing Space Oddity while on the ISS must be fake because sound doesn't travel through a vacuum. Or the folks who say that the Sun isn't a star, it's a Sun.

You could but it would be flawed.

In the case of a YouTube video, very often an individual frame may not have much substance in itself and it may not work out of context on its own. So too with posts of a thread, they may have little substance, or they may have everything... and out of context they may not work well.

The difference is, though, generally a video is expected to be considered in entirety, while a thread not so much. For long threads, commenting upon them is fine in reference to the last few posts/last page or two is expected, rather than reading the entire thread. Contextually we're talking about a jump-cut to another scene or location under some circumstances. It still relates to the whole but it might have a twist to it that requires new context.

Isn't going to happen. There is value to having it the way it is. Both semantically and technically, in fact.Which is why I deliberately made a screenshot in my first reply. The fact I have to repeat myself is disheartening.Except that by pointing it out, and then reiterating your point, you actually are asking for it to be like that.So, you bring up a point then tell me that I *may* mention it (even though I didn't, and have no real reason to do so)? Nice to know what I'm entitled to talk about.

So let's nail this once and for all. Bookmarks are unchanged, if a user wants to bookmark a thread, they really don't care what URL it is provided the bookmark takes them to roughly the right place (cf infinite scroll and the like). In this scenario SEO URLs are irrelevant. Why you brought bookmarks up, I have no idea.

SEO URLs are relevant when people are sharing a link to your forum on other sites, especially on the likes of Facebook, Twitter, etc because it is there where the SEO benefit will be realised, as marginal as it is. And it is there where the URL becomes important to have keywords and be nicer looking - because that's where people are going to see it.Oh, you really don't understand SEO or actual usability, do you?

That just isn't how the majority of users actually do this. I don't type in URLs to posts. I don't even type in URLs to peoples' profiles (except locally in testing)... I click on their name by their post. If they're influential, they'll have a meaningful name to click on.

And before you start down the argument of this, note Facebook. Study it carefully. People on Facebook who care about their vanity name (for that's what they call it), i.e. facebook.com/arantor or similar are usually doing it to assert their identity and/or branding. Most people just don't type it in, though, they find it, or click on a link to it. They don't type it in. Even if they know it, they still probably won't type it in. Copy/paste is so much quicker. Or, from a usability standpoint, browse then search. Browser searching is also so much more efficient than it used to be, too.Except that it doesn't.Yes, I'm going on holiday for two months whereupon I will have little time to visit or work on Wedge, and I won't have to talk to people who clearly don't understand the points they're actually trying to argue (not suggest), because how they do it is different to how 99.8% of the rest of the internet population does it.

There was NOTHING in this thread that was a suggestion. It was all 'this is how you should do it and here's why I think you should do it even though I don't want to listen to any opinions from anyone but myself'. At least, that's how I saw it. I realise English isn't your first language, and that what seems to be a suggestion comes across differently but that's why I gave it the benefit of the doubt the first couple of posts - by the last post or so, it was clear to me that you weren't interested in what we have to offer unless it suited what you want to see.

Give me a REASON why these things are so, one that actually fits with the evidence and I'll take you seriously. People don't type in topic URLs, doubly so with the topic id in it for the obvious reason that they're not memorable (which is the principle criteria for typing a URL in rather than discovery/copy-paste/search). Names are also tricky for several reasons as recently discussed about when users change their name[1]. Why is 'not having the board in the URL' better usability?

1.	Something Facebook and Twitter don't like you doing...

So, admin menu, moderate menu, what else?