Improve content to code - Remove display options, forum rules

[Hendricius]

Hey,

I find the display options and forum rules quite useless especially for guests. Usually all threads are turned visible. Here a copy+paste:

Display Options Currently Active Users Showing threads 1 to 20 of 174 1 (1 members & 0 guests) Sorted By Thread Title Last Post Time Thread Start Time Number of Replies Number of Views Thread Starter Thread Rating Sort Order Ascending Descending From The Last Day Last 2 Days Last Week Last 10 Days Last 2 Weeks Last Month Last 45 Days Last 2 Months Last 75 Days Last 100 Days Last Year Beginning hendricius

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New posts Hot thread with new posts No new posts Hot thread with no new posts Thread is closed You have posted in this thread

I had a look in the forum display template, those lines generate 50 lines of code which are if you ask me not necessary. If you ask me, it would be a good trade-off for SEO.

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Hendricius

[briansol]

the majority of those only show when logged in as mod/admin anyway, so it's a non issue.

the legend could be removed, but i think it's a moot point and borderline on anal

[Ace Shattock]

Not to mention, removing some functionality for new users of a site.

[Hendricius]

the majority of those only show when logged in as mod/admin anyway, so it's a non issue.

the legend could be removed, but i think it's a moot point and borderline on anal

It shows for me as guest as well.

Those functions seem useless to me because all posts are set to visible. Then there is no need to use those controls. Guests can't post, why should they read the forum rules?

[briansol]

If this

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shows to you as a guest, you have some serious template issues to address.

[Hendricius]

Haha. Sorry. That of course not ^^.

But the posting rules and Display Options.

[Joe Ward]

I like a very minimalistic approach. This would certainly increase your C2C ratio by a marginal amount.

If this is something you pursue, please let us know if you see any related changes in your search engine positioning that you feel may be attributed to the change.

[Hendricius]

Ok thanks