seriously, I don't get to easily choose the features I want in this software. If we want bug fixes and security updates, we need to take social networking crap that comes with it.
We CAN lock most all of that stuff down, and when tube gets here I won't be surprised if he makes me do exactly that, but I for one enjoy a bit of random clutter from time to time.
I'd just like to throw in that the new features were kinda neat, but overall kinda unnecessary. The profile comment section would most likely lose its pizazz quickly, and I didn't even figure out what the Friends feature was for!
Tags were...iffy, I liked the concept, but I get uneasy when I start seein' new things floatin' around the thread I'm viewin'.
Tags would be cool if they were limited in some way.
For example one time I was drunk and complained about the search function. Granted I'm drunk now but I won't create a thread about it like a jackass but it still kinda sucks. I think tags have potential, but people are dumb so there would have to be some sort of limitation as to who could create them, or just infract people who are retards with them.
But the facebook features like friends and comment walls I couldn't give two shits about.
I think the tag system could work with some modifications and rules. Most people will follow the rules, and the rest could lose the ability to tag. Or they could be infracted.
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I think the tag system could work with some modifications and rules. Most people will follow the rules, and the rest could lose the ability to tag. Or they could be infracted.
Do it the Google way. Same tag must be given by several different users (I'd say two to four) to actually show up.
No rubbish, and the system might actually work.
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the tags ain't a bad idea but it's all about usage.
perhaps it could be relegated to the creator of the thread that way it's just one specific jackass abusing something instead of a bunch of eager kids scrambling to put "cuntslime" as a tag or something
i mean, it'd work on the same principle of the thread creator being able to change thread title i guess
I like this idea. I think the usefulness of tags is ambiguous at best; but it increases with an increase in tag quality, and I can see how over time it would make certain like-minded threads easier to find.
I think the tag system could work with some modifications and rules. Most people will follow the rules, and the rest could lose the ability to tag. Or they could be infracted.
Do it the Google way. Same tag must be given by several different users (I'd say two to four) to actually show up.
No rubbish, and the system might actually work.
This, though; aside from this sounding like a nightmare to get functional, I think all it would mean is that the more insightful tags would be replaced with the least creative of trolls.
GoslingLooking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, ProbablyWatertown, WIRegistered Userregular
edited September 2009
You get a new feature on a highly-trafficked forum, people are going to play with it a lot at first. It's what happens.
I remember over at Fark, when the Ha Ha Guy became a meme, people would flood every single thread with it. Eventually a mod made a specialized thread titled something like 'Okay, dipshits, here's a Ha Ha Guy thread, get it all out of your system'. Everyone did. They calmed down soon afterward.
I'd just do that. Give it about a week, go 'here, play with it for a week and then we lay down the law'. The week should be enough time for everyone to get the silliness done and over with and for the mods to get a good idea of what exactly they're going to be dealing with.
The friends list, though, I'd keep that off. Just makes for cliquishness.
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RamiusJoined: July 19, 2000Administrator, ClubPAadmin
edited September 2009
Hi Gosling.
Between Tube and I, we have over a decade of experience administering high-traffic internet forums. I'm not saying we know everything, but the really basic stuff like what you describe is not something we are really in need of being informed about.
It seems odd that the xFire username is on one page of the profile when the info for PSN, XBL, Twitter etc is on another. Is this something that's easily altered or should I shut up about massively low-priority stuff?
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RamiusJoined: July 19, 2000Administrator, ClubPAadmin
edited September 2009
The xFire thing is a carry-over from the old profile fields implementation and I'm not positive it is even working properly. It might need to be pulled, but I need to see how many people are using it, first. Do you use it? I'm not sure what to do with it actually because I don't get the sense that xfire is the leading service for that sort of thing. Steam and mygamercard seem to be more popular around here.
The xFire thing is a carry-over from the old profile fields implementation and I'm not positive it is even working properly. It might need to be pulled, but I need to see how many people are using it, first. Do you use it? I'm not sure what to do with it actually because I don't get the sense that xfire is the leading service for that sort of thing. Steam and mygamercard seem to be more popular around here.
It worked before, but I don't think people really do Xfire anymore... I think Steam has pretty much usurped 70%+ of what XFire did.
The friends list, though, I'd keep that off. Just makes for cliquishness.
See, this is hilarious, because the friends list was there for years. People only noticed it when vBB redid the profile pages.
Tt created confusion! It was dubbed as Friends in the older version for a while, which was just addin' a guy to the list. When this new version came around, Friends became "Contacts", and the new Friends was some sort of mutual acceptance thing I didn't really understand.
But naw, I don't think the friends list thing would've made for cliquishness. And that's a silly thing to worry about, anyway!
Maybe tagging should require the same requirements as Report For Awesome?
I'm pretty sure most of the abusers had 5-50k posts.
1.Make it so that tags show their taggers names once moused over in a little drop down.
2.Put a warning down next to that glorious, magic window that says offensive/frivolous tags are infraction worthy.
One thing I've noticed and like (if it hasn't been mentioned) is that the search feature now works on Chrome. Before, one click changed the page to the search page, instead of the drop down thing.
Chrome seems to ignore middle-or ctrl-clicking links in those menus and just opens it in the current tab. Right-click, open in new tab still works, though.
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I can has profile features?
You picked the wrong state to live in, then
I think tag abuse would have petered off in a day or two, but whatever
Maybe. Some day.
EDIT: though adding as a contact still seems to be on, like before.
Tags were...iffy, I liked the concept, but I get uneasy when I start seein' new things floatin' around the thread I'm viewin'.
For example one time I was drunk and complained about the search function. Granted I'm drunk now but I won't create a thread about it like a jackass but it still kinda sucks. I think tags have potential, but people are dumb so there would have to be some sort of limitation as to who could create them, or just infract people who are retards with them.
But the facebook features like friends and comment walls I couldn't give two shits about.
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No rubbish, and the system might actually work.
I can't see your edit history so I'm assuming the latter. Could it be possible to see anyone's edits in the future, though? I feel it would be useful.
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I like this idea. I think the usefulness of tags is ambiguous at best; but it increases with an increase in tag quality, and I can see how over time it would make certain like-minded threads easier to find.
This, though; aside from this sounding like a nightmare to get functional, I think all it would mean is that the more insightful tags would be replaced with the least creative of trolls.
I remember over at Fark, when the Ha Ha Guy became a meme, people would flood every single thread with it. Eventually a mod made a specialized thread titled something like 'Okay, dipshits, here's a Ha Ha Guy thread, get it all out of your system'. Everyone did. They calmed down soon afterward.
I'd just do that. Give it about a week, go 'here, play with it for a week and then we lay down the law'. The week should be enough time for everyone to get the silliness done and over with and for the mods to get a good idea of what exactly they're going to be dealing with.
The friends list, though, I'd keep that off. Just makes for cliquishness.
Between Tube and I, we have over a decade of experience administering high-traffic internet forums. I'm not saying we know everything, but the really basic stuff like what you describe is not something we are really in need of being informed about.
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It's probably worth polling somewhere more visible, though.
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It worked before, but I don't think people really do Xfire anymore... I think Steam has pretty much usurped 70%+ of what XFire did.
See, this is hilarious, because the friends list was there for years. People only noticed it when vBB redid the profile pages.
I'm pretty sure most of the abusers had 5-50k posts.
Tt created confusion! It was dubbed as Friends in the older version for a while, which was just addin' a guy to the list. When this new version came around, Friends became "Contacts", and the new Friends was some sort of mutual acceptance thing I didn't really understand.
But naw, I don't think the friends list thing would've made for cliquishness. And that's a silly thing to worry about, anyway!
1.Make it so that tags show their taggers names once moused over in a little drop down.
2.Put a warning down next to that glorious, magic window that says offensive/frivolous tags are infraction worthy.
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