My Favorite New Features

As the Senior Administrator here, I have had the chance to play with all of the new features of the new site, and have grown very fond of some of them. I will touch on only a few of them, even though there are many that deserve a mention. ReputationThis is by far my favorite new feature. What is it? It is a way for you to see how reputable someone is while reading thier posts. When you read a post that you agree with, just click on the little Icon to add to persons reputation. See that attached images, that shows the two icons that I am talking about. Why is this so cool? People who regularly post helpful things will earn reputation with the community. When browsing the forums for helpful information, you can easily tell who can help you the most, and who to avoid. Unfortunately, because reputation starts today, there is no prior history of reputation, and we have to build it up. In a month or so, it will be really helpful, and you will see waht I mean, and why I am excited about this feature. Quick ReplyThis new feature will allow you to, well, reply quickly... There is an icon at the bottom of every post next to the "Quote" Icon that you click and it activates the quick reply section at the bottom of the page. You don't have to wait to load a new page, and can get around faster. Why is this so cool? The underlying feature, is that the new forums now tracks what post in a thread you are replying to. The old forums considered that all of the posts in the thread were replies to the first post. You can change your "Display Mode" to Hybrid, or Threaded to see the reply lineage, instead of the traditional Linear Mode. I will list more great features later...