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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 11:14:00 -
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Consistency is thread locking would be a great thing to have.
I see a consistent amount of threads needlessly locked for 'lack of content' but am amazed that these threads all found in General Discussion are allowed to continue
- The like and get likes thread (i mean, if this isnt mocking the ridiculously pointless 'like' system i dont know what it is)
- What is the avatar above you thinking
- Rate the avatar above you
- Hate the avatar above you
- What would you say if you woke up to the avatar above you in your bed?
If you were moderating the forums consistently these would/should have been locked a long time ago as they are all pretty much nonsense threads with no content, what makes them special?
While im not here to really talk about the issue of whether the forum community needs volunteer moderators at all (i think we got on just fine before they arrived) I think you should leave the issue of whether a thread needs to be locked up to the forum posters themselves.
If a thread is useless, redundant, duplicate or whatever, people will eventually just ignore the thread and let it fall through the pages. If you lock it yourselves, you often just incite the OP to create a new thread along the same lines.
If you are serious about maintaining standards i will be expecting you to lock all the previous threads that i highlighted above, OR, on the other hand, expect you to stop locking threads so often and let the community decide what threads they want to post in.
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 12:31:00 -
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ISD Suvetar wrote:To remark on your last paragraph, I'll quote CCP Gargant: CCP Gargant wrote:
I will reiterate what I have said many times now since joining the Community Team. Post constructively, leave out unneeded insults and personal attacks, and bring something to the table and you can post to your hearts content.
I didnt think my last paragraph was an insult or attack... a little demanding maybe :p
Maybe you need a new forum area then, as threads like those i previously mentioned arent really 'General Discussion' about EVE, they are just fluff.
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 13:17:00 -
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Have you discussed allowing people to create Polls?
As its easy to lose the general consencus of opinion sometimes when a bunch of people 'go to war' as it were within a thread
I guess 'likes' were kinda of a first step towards this aim, but as many have said before, likes are irrelevant when there is no method of 'disliking'
I like the reddit style of upvote/downvote karma, to see who is appreciated by the community and who isnt (or just who is controversial). Much like reddit, it would be great if you could see the player score (positiv or negative), and the score for an individual post.
Another thing, that doesnt really affect the forum use much, but is more visual, to have some kinds of 'post count' underneath the player avatar, either in number form, or visual, like colored pips or something (im thinkign like the level indicator on Bejeweled 2 Endless mode :p). This would also be useful if you allowed dislikes as well as likes, as currently, 'likes' are a basic form of identifying the more prolific forum posters
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 14:06:00 -
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MailDeadDrop wrote:Restricting voting from characters in non-player corporations will irritate those players who insist on remaining in non-player corporations (frequently die-hard carebears), so you (CCP et al.) would need to be prepared. But to my thinking it would simply be another inducement to get into a player corporation (just like the NPC tax rates).
As satisfying as it would be to remove NPC corp players from voting, in the interests of fairness, they have to be included.
The best reason for this thinking is they might be voting on something that influences their decision to stay in the NPC corp in the first place.
The only way i can see polls working is if they are restricted to 'one vote per account'
edit - in response to your above post, you could argue the case for 'authority figures' like ISD's and DEV's to be removed from the up/down votes all together
As for the players being subject to 'block voting', well, thats just a reality that people will have to accept
edit2 - in regards to the 'what would polls do for moderating', you might be able to gauge the public reception to ideas or behaivor with more clarity to see if it is a prevailing mood of the community or just a grumpy forum poster pushing his agenda to the front of the queue
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 14:15:00 -
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Hehe, maybe its social conditioning, that whenever rules are quoted people instantly asume they did something wrong :p
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 14:37:00 -
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Compare 'post count' with 'karma recieved' and you can soon make a snap judgement on whether the poster has been 'spamming to get the status symbol'
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 14:48:00 -
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MailDeadDrop wrote:I agree: just exclude CCP, GM, ISD, and perhaps CSM characters (*characters*!) from karma votes.
MDD
Not CSM characters, it'd be a good test on whether they are actually a representative of the people
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 14:55:00 -
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Roll Sizzle Beef wrote:New board features can be its own whole topic because this can get a little passionate. The complexities in the hows, whys, whens of votes and what-not would be a bit convoluted to pan out for moderator discussion. maybe i went slightly off topic then
http://imageshack.us/a/img822/5618/forumtest.png
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Skippermonkey
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Posted - 2012.10.18 15:18:00 -
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MailDeadDrop wrote:when the OP creates a poll, they need to have the option of a system-imposed deadline
I would argue that all polls need to have a short 'polling period' as the whole point is to capture the current prevailing mood.
There is little point in having a poll that is open for a year, as many things can happen in that timeframe.
I would suggest 7 day and 30 day polls
edit - i would also suggest that 'poll posts' should be limited to one active poll per person and that they recieve forum moderator approval before being posted to the forum
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