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After due consideration here are the results.
Everybody wants User Profiles.
RBS says lean some of the GAD prizes towards lesser forums to boost them and he suggests we include a "what's going on in the forums" or "forum news" somewhere.
Gaming Boy would like to see more input from the staff to start topics and kick-start discussion.
Grix suggests we have a tournament where we all download game to our PC and play against each other.
er-no wants a "who is here" link. You click on it and it tells you the names of most recent posters (good idea). And er-no wants the Notables to be given something to do (a request which I have just complied with in Chat forums)
TheBest_2K1 is keen on putting people in a hot seat. Everybody fires questions at the poor so...
Quazimodo would like links to your "Latest Post" and your web site url in your stats window (excellent).
Meka would like us to hold a song contest and have counters to see how many people have read a thread. pb backs this up with a similar request on reviews.
Cookie Monster suggests a Cluedo-style murder mystery event.
Dan2K1 would like on-line darts.
Dringo is keen to repeat some "Opposite Posts" - I believe this is intended to be head to head challenges on specific arguments.
Chr!stos says we should sometimes vote for Gameaday winners, instead of them being always picked by staff.
Salevunit suggested a Winning Posts Forum (view only), plus Tag of the Day competitions, Search Facilities and Caution Tags. The latter is a particularly strong suggestion, i.e. to give warning tags to people likely to face a ban.
BUT THE WINNER IS:
The prize is for the best SET of suggestions. The winner is SHEEPY for the following ideas:
FOG Lotto
Round Number Prizes (e.g. at 10,000 posts in a forum)
"Number Day" I think this means we would all be anonymous.
Vote people off the forums Big Brother style (love that).
Guess the Phantom Poster.
Complaint Button (already in place now with the report link)
Improve the message filter and the feedback from it.
Contratulations SHEEPY and I hope you enjoy munching your prize.
Thank you again to all those who contributed and sorry not to be able to mention everybody.
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These were the original rules.
This latest EXTRA GAMEADAY is for the best SET of suggestions for "adding life" to the forums.
Imagine that you are in charge of the forums. What would you do to start some interesting debate or to make the place more interesting?
Please DO NOT suggest things which require (much) programming. And don't suggest a chart of Gameaday winners as it is already being sorted.
We already have:
Top Posters chart
Notable/Regular/Newbie system with 'orrible colours
Voting for Notables
Extra Gameaday Prizes
Protected "Prime Topics" forum
"Stats" for history on contributors
Taglines
Closing date is August 1st or shortly thereafter, and it's the best set that wins. All the posts that you make will count towards your set.
Everybody wants User Profiles.
RBS says lean some of the GAD prizes towards lesser forums to boost them and he suggests we include a "what's going on in the forums" or "forum news" somewhere.
Gaming Boy would like to see more input from the staff to start topics and kick-start discussion.
Grix suggests we have a tournament where we all download game to our PC and play against each other.
er-no wants a "who is here" link. You click on it and it tells you the names of most recent posters (good idea). And er-no wants the Notables to be given something to do (a request which I have just complied with in Chat forums)
TheBest_2K1 is keen on putting people in a hot seat. Everybody fires questions at the poor so...
Quazimodo would like links to your "Latest Post" and your web site url in your stats window (excellent).
Meka would like us to hold a song contest and have counters to see how many people have read a thread. pb backs this up with a similar request on reviews.
Cookie Monster suggests a Cluedo-style murder mystery event.
Dan2K1 would like on-line darts.
Dringo is keen to repeat some "Opposite Posts" - I believe this is intended to be head to head challenges on specific arguments.
Chr!stos says we should sometimes vote for Gameaday winners, instead of them being always picked by staff.
Salevunit suggested a Winning Posts Forum (view only), plus Tag of the Day competitions, Search Facilities and Caution Tags. The latter is a particularly strong suggestion, i.e. to give warning tags to people likely to face a ban.
BUT THE WINNER IS:
The prize is for the best SET of suggestions. The winner is SHEEPY for the following ideas:
FOG Lotto
Round Number Prizes (e.g. at 10,000 posts in a forum)
"Number Day" I think this means we would all be anonymous.
Vote people off the forums Big Brother style (love that).
Guess the Phantom Poster.
Complaint Button (already in place now with the report link)
Improve the message filter and the feedback from it.
Contratulations SHEEPY and I hope you enjoy munching your prize.
Thank you again to all those who contributed and sorry not to be able to mention everybody.
*********
These were the original rules.
This latest EXTRA GAMEADAY is for the best SET of suggestions for "adding life" to the forums.
Imagine that you are in charge of the forums. What would you do to start some interesting debate or to make the place more interesting?
Please DO NOT suggest things which require (much) programming. And don't suggest a chart of Gameaday winners as it is already being sorted.
We already have:
Top Posters chart
Notable/Regular/Newbie system with 'orrible colours
Voting for Notables
Extra Gameaday Prizes
Protected "Prime Topics" forum
"Stats" for history on contributors
Taglines
Closing date is August 1st or shortly thereafter, and it's the best set that wins. All the posts that you make will count towards your set.
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I'm not expanding on what Who Knows? said... really, I've had this idea for a while.
A caption contest. Just a picture of a funny/compromising situation in a game, everybody writes a caption for it, and the one that makes the judge laugh the most wins.
A caption contest. Just a picture of a funny/compromising situation in a game, everybody writes a caption for it, and the one that makes the judge laugh the most wins.
I was who knows once.
Chr!stos wrote:
> I think there should be a system where the Gameaday and Filmaday
> prizes are voted for by us and not by the SR staff on special
> occasions.
Of course this wouldn't need to happen every day, you
> could select a list and we could vote for the one we think is
> best.
It would make it more fun and rewarding for the winner
> because they wouyld know that people saw it and voted for
> it.
Maybe this could be done at the weekends when SR staff seem
> to have vanished. It would save time waiting during the next week to
> find out who has won.
I thimk that's an excellent idea.
> I think there should be a system where the Gameaday and Filmaday
> prizes are voted for by us and not by the SR staff on special
> occasions.
Of course this wouldn't need to happen every day, you
> could select a list and we could vote for the one we think is
> best.
It would make it more fun and rewarding for the winner
> because they wouyld know that people saw it and voted for
> it.
Maybe this could be done at the weekends when SR staff seem
> to have vanished. It would save time waiting during the next week to
> find out who has won.
I thimk that's an excellent idea.
I think there should be a system where the Gameaday and Filmaday prizes are voted for by us and not by the SR staff on special occasions.
Of course this wouldn't need to happen every day, you could select a list and we could vote for the one we think is best.
It would make it more fun and rewarding for the winner because they wouyld know that people saw it and voted for it.
Maybe this could be done at the weekends when SR staff seem to have vanished. It would save time waiting during the next week to find out who has won.
Of course this wouldn't need to happen every day, you could select a list and we could vote for the one we think is best.
It would make it more fun and rewarding for the winner because they wouyld know that people saw it and voted for it.
Maybe this could be done at the weekends when SR staff seem to have vanished. It would save time waiting during the next week to find out who has won.
How about having polls / voting that could be attached to posts, so people can choose something without having to write a long message.
It would be easier to look at, and could be used for notable elections too. Plenty of other forum sites allow this, but I don't know how much programming it would require......
See Ya ;-)
PinkPig
It would be easier to look at, and could be used for notable elections too. Plenty of other forum sites allow this, but I don't know how much programming it would require......
See Ya ;-)
PinkPig
Who knows? wrote:
> I think people should be able to make their own "information
> site". They could write where they come from, what kind of
> consoles they have, their favourite games and other cool stuff. And
> also a link that enables people to chat to each other.
Excellent idea. Talking about 'orrible colours can I get mine changed to blue like Staff regulars Please? Please? Pretty please? Oh and can you announce the winner soon please.
> I think people should be able to make their own "information
> site". They could write where they come from, what kind of
> consoles they have, their favourite games and other cool stuff. And
> also a link that enables people to chat to each other.
Excellent idea. Talking about 'orrible colours can I get mine changed to blue like Staff regulars Please? Please? Pretty please? Oh and can you announce the winner soon please.
Yeah when is the winner announced? :D
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