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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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Grix Thraves wrote:
> A PC games tournament.
No programming needed, just a whole lotta
> time. Get people to download some game, freeware, or whatever, and
> people all go at each others necks over it.
Hmmm. Not sure. Me go
> think.
Must be something like chess, when you consider the slowest person's PC (i.e. mine) and the slowest net connection.
> A PC games tournament.
No programming needed, just a whole lotta
> time. Get people to download some game, freeware, or whatever, and
> people all go at each others necks over it.
Hmmm. Not sure. Me go
> think.
Must be something like chess, when you consider the slowest person's PC (i.e. mine) and the slowest net connection.
DeltaJava wrote:
> Let's consider tasks for the members of the SR froums, Big Brother
> style, not too dissimilar to the SR Survivor made by shaneo. Or, we
> could have a quiz night, with, you guessed it, a game as a prize!
That would be great, a quiz night with a game to win! Make sure you keep on and on and on (3 years later!) and on at Tony until this idea becomes active on the site, okay?
Of course, I would enter every time!
> Let's consider tasks for the members of the SR froums, Big Brother
> style, not too dissimilar to the SR Survivor made by shaneo. Or, we
> could have a quiz night, with, you guessed it, a game as a prize!
That would be great, a quiz night with a game to win! Make sure you keep on and on and on (3 years later!) and on at Tony until this idea becomes active on the site, okay?
Of course, I would enter every time!
A PC games tournament.
No programming needed, just a whole lotta time. Get people to download some game, freeware, or whatever, and people all go at each others necks over it.
Hmmm. Not sure. Me go think.
No programming needed, just a whole lotta time. Get people to download some game, freeware, or whatever, and people all go at each others necks over it.
Hmmm. Not sure. Me go think.
RastaBillySkank wrote:
> Gaming Boy wrote:
An idea that might take a while, but
> would
> be good is to make the forums 'live', so that you don't
> have to keep
> refreshing the page to see if anyones posted
> anything more. The
> messages would just appear and update as
> they came in if you know
> what I mean.
Yeah but that would
> be very annoying if you were trying to reply and the page kept
> refreshing. Also if you were trying to read something and it kept
> updating.
It would get very annoying very quickly.
Okay, then. How about this:
In the forums the browser window splits into two halves, or 'frames' in PC talk. The top half displays all posted messages and constantly refreshes.
The bottom half never refreshes until you click a 'Send' button. This is where you type your message. When you click the Send button, the bottom half refreshes so you have a blank page for sending another message, while the top half refreshes to display your message.
That would work, wouldn't it?
> Gaming Boy wrote:
An idea that might take a while, but
> would
> be good is to make the forums 'live', so that you don't
> have to keep
> refreshing the page to see if anyones posted
> anything more. The
> messages would just appear and update as
> they came in if you know
> what I mean.
Yeah but that would
> be very annoying if you were trying to reply and the page kept
> refreshing. Also if you were trying to read something and it kept
> updating.
It would get very annoying very quickly.
Okay, then. How about this:
In the forums the browser window splits into two halves, or 'frames' in PC talk. The top half displays all posted messages and constantly refreshes.
The bottom half never refreshes until you click a 'Send' button. This is where you type your message. When you click the Send button, the bottom half refreshes so you have a blank page for sending another message, while the top half refreshes to display your message.
That would work, wouldn't it?
Let's consider tasks for the members of the SR froums, Big Brother style, not too dissimilar to the SR Survivor made by shaneo. Or, we could have a quiz night, with, you guessed it, a game as a prize!
How about having a topic of the day or topic of the week thing set up by your dear selves. Like "this weeks discussion topic will be..."
This might encourage people to keep the thread going on the topic. Admittedly it doesn't happen to all topics, but too many topics descend into unrelated chatter (even on FOG prime) before the opic has been fully covered. Trying to turn the topic back to it's original point is tough to say the least!
This might encourage people to keep the thread going on the topic. Admittedly it doesn't happen to all topics, but too many topics descend into unrelated chatter (even on FOG prime) before the opic has been fully covered. Trying to turn the topic back to it's original point is tough to say the least!
Gaming Boy wrote:
An idea that might take a while, but would
> be good is to make the forums 'live', so that you don't have to keep
> refreshing the page to see if anyones posted anything more. The
> messages would just appear and update as they came in if you know
> what I mean.
Yeah but that would be very annoying if you were trying to reply and the page kept refreshing. Also if you were trying to read something and it kept updating.
It would get very annoying very quickly.
An idea that might take a while, but would
> be good is to make the forums 'live', so that you don't have to keep
> refreshing the page to see if anyones posted anything more. The
> messages would just appear and update as they came in if you know
> what I mean.
Yeah but that would be very annoying if you were trying to reply and the page kept refreshing. Also if you were trying to read something and it kept updating.
It would get very annoying very quickly.
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