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Zimmy Zeta
Perkone
Caldari State
#41 - 2012-10-26 14:51:56 UTC
Klymer wrote:
Let's inject some risk into the forums and make three buttons, like, dislike and add bounty. To eliminate forum alts change it so that only the pilot on your account with the most time in space, as in the one you undock with the most, can post.

If a dislike button were to be added and some sort of ranking system used where by dislikes purged the thread from the system, I would prefer it be an individual setting that only effects what I see. By this I mean i go into my profile settings and say 10 dislikes will cause a thread to not be displayed. This way I can control only what I see, this way it's more pure content control and not just a popularity contest or some more ******** meta gaming. I mean what happens when two big alliances go to war and they start disliking each others posts? There's enough hate in the game as it is, allowing it to spill over into the forums via a ranking system is recipe for disaster.



I like your ideas, especially those on eliminating forum alts.

You could do this a little easier by just handing out a "Main" tag to every player (not account).
Players could assign this tag to a single character and it will display on the forums (like a little M in the corner of your avatar portrait).
This way you could know if you are dealing with a main or a forum alt and could react accordingly.

I'd like to apologize for the poor quality of the post above and sincerely hope you didn't waste your time reading it. Yes, I do feel bad about it.
Shederov Blood
Deadly Viper Kitten Mitten Sewing Company
#42 - 2012-10-26 14:52:47 UTC
Klymer wrote:
There's enough hate in the game as it is, allowing it to spill over into the forums via a ranking system is recipe for disaster.
Everyone will be playing the game with alts for fear of someone hunting down their main on the forum and disliking them.

Who put the goat in there?
bbb2020
Carebears with Attitude
#43 - 2012-10-26 21:57:58 UTC
Me think you / we should only be allowed to post once pr. half hour pr. player.
As is, its the same xx number of players that post in every thread in here, some times many times in every thread, and many many times they just post nothing of interest to bump the thread and get as high a number in the "posted most time number game".
By only allowing players to post once pr. half hour, the're forced to think before posting. Every post has to mean something.

NB: Should of course not apply for the OP.
Touval Lysander
Zero Wine
#44 - 2012-10-26 22:01:33 UTC
Zimmy Zeta wrote:

You could do this a little easier by just handing out a "Main" tag to every player (not account).
This way you could know if you are dealing with a main or a forum alt and could react accordingly.

The quickest road to mediocrity.

"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#45 - 2012-10-27 07:59:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Arduemont
OP Updated.

bbb2020 wrote:
Me think you / we should only be allowed to post once pr. half hour pr. player.
As is, its the same xx number of players that post in every thread in here, some times many times in every thread, and many many times they just post nothing of interest to bump the thread and get as high a number in the "posted most time number game".
By only allowing players to post once pr. half hour, the're forced to think before posting. Every post has to mean something.

NB: Should of course not apply for the OP.


This is moderation in it's extreme. And I don't think it would really help much. You may get fewer trolls posting, sure. But you would also end up with many massive walls of text, where people try to cram as much content into each post as they can. Aside from the idea just leaving a bad taste, it's also a little inconvenient for everyone.

Klymer wrote:
Let's inject some risk into the forums and make three buttons, like, dislike and add bounty. To eliminate forum alts change it so that only the pilot on your account with the most time in space, as in the one you undock with the most, can post.

If a dislike button were to be added and some sort of ranking system used where by dislikes purged the thread from the system, I would prefer it be an individual setting that only effects what I see. By this I mean i go into my profile settings and say 10 dislikes will cause a thread to not be displayed. This way I can control only what I see, this way it's more pure content control and not just a popularity contest or some more ******** meta gaming. I mean what happens when two big alliances go to war and they start disliking each others posts? There's enough hate in the game as it is, allowing it to spill over into the forums via a ranking system is recipe for disaster.



This is pretty cool, although I'm not sure about the way of deciding which character is your main. That sounds a little extreme, although it would work fine for me, I'm sure there are ways this could be exploited.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
Lin-Young Borovskova
Doomheim
#46 - 2012-10-27 08:08:07 UTC
Hazen Koraka wrote:
More power to the trolls? They will just keep mashing the DO NOT WANT button? Uh... No.


You forget to add "power to the trolls and their army of alts"

Please edit you post and do things right will ya? Lol

brb
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#47 - 2012-10-27 08:11:03 UTC
Lin-Young Borovskova wrote:
Hazen Koraka wrote:
More power to the trolls? They will just keep mashing the DO NOT WANT button? Uh... No.


You forget to add "power to the trolls and their army of alts"

Please edit you post and do things right will ya? Lol


That's already how it works with the like button. I don't think there would be any more exploitation, just different exploitation, in a generally better system. Blink

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
Davon Mandra'thin
Das Collective
#48 - 2012-10-28 10:24:15 UTC
Supported.

The details will have to be worked out, so that the new system is better without creating more room for exploitation (I don't mind there being the same amount of room for, but more would be bad). Also, changing it as little as possible would be nice, any massive changes to how a forum works would make it less intuitive to use, which is bad.

[rant] Oh, thinking of unintuitive changes, why do the new damage bars on the new targeting UI go ANTI-clockwise? Wouldn't it be more intuitive to use the direction of something similar to things we use in real life, like for example.. a clock. [/rant]
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#49 - 2012-10-30 18:03:04 UTC
Thanks for the support/rants/discussion/criticism so far guys, keep it coming.

There's an especially high number of terrible threads at the moment.

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
Davon Mandra'thin
Das Collective
#50 - 2012-11-01 18:02:50 UTC
Your welcome.
Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#51 - 2012-11-01 18:44:25 UTC
People are dumb and don't like to think.

It's a lot easier to toss a meme at a troll than post a well reasoned response to a considered OP.

It's just the way of the net. Love it or GTFO.

Mr Epeen Cool
Diesel47
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#52 - 2012-11-01 18:47:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Diesel47
If I wanted eve reddit I'd go to the eve reddit.

The forums are fine as they are.


New layout won't stop terrible threads, the source of terrible threads are terrible players. This one being a prime example.
Wodensun
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#53 - 2012-11-01 19:55:16 UTC
Mr Epeen wrote:
People are dumb and don't like to think.

It's a lot easier to toss a meme at a troll than post a well reasoned response to a considered OP.

It's just the way of the net. Love it or GTFO.

Mr Epeen Cool



Self fulfiling prophecy Twisted



Diesel47 wrote:
If I wanted eve reddit I'd go to the eve reddit.

The forums are fine as they are.


New layout won't stop terrible threads, the source of terrible threads are terrible players. This one being a prime example.

Do not give me likes them 101 likes arent a accident...
Arduemont
Rotten Legion
#54 - 2012-11-01 21:15:17 UTC
Diesel47 wrote:
If I wanted eve reddit I'd go to the eve reddit.

The forums are fine as they are.


New layout won't stop terrible threads, the source of terrible threads are terrible players. This one being a prime example.


You didn't read any of this thread, did you?

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." www.stateofwar.co.nf
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