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Calgary26003 Posts
Strategy Forum Changes - Highlighted Users
TL has been aware of the issues with the Starcraft 2 Strategy Forum. Users' frustrations can easily be found with a simple search http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/search.php?q=strategy forum
The goal of the TL Starcraft 2 Strategy Forum has always been to elevate the level of discussion without alienating newer or weaker members. Strong players feel helpless when posting advice because their advice is easily ignored or immediately attacked, while creating a pros-only forum has the possibility of becoming an inactive waste.
To maintain the level of activity in the Strategy Forum, while placing emphasis on the opinions of strong players, TL has created Highlighted Users:
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Whenever a Highlighted Poster makes any post in the Starcraft 2 Strategy Forum, it becomes highlighted. A Highlighted Poster is a poster who can be counted upon to provide accurate comments. Highlighted Posters are those who show the highest level of understanding of the game. Highlighted Posters will not always be right, and highlighting should not be seen as a substitute of lively debate in the strategy forum. But we believe that posters who contribute to the strategy forum should be rewarded and given the respect that their diligence deserves!
The criteria for becoming a Highlighted User is quite subjective. Some combination of tournament results, high-level play, and Starcraft 2 Strategy Forum activity will earn you Highlighted User status. Requesting status will never be approved. Below are the list of pre-approved Highlighted Users.
Current List of Highlighted Users:
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This list is by no means final. We will continually be adding users as we see them posting in the strategy forum. Obviously a lot of top level players are missing from this list, and there is very good reason for that. Up until now top level players have tended to avoid the strategy forum and refrained from posting in it. Without any prior posts in the strategy forum it is impossible for us to assess whether the information the top level player is providing is helpful or not. If top level players choose to participate in the strategy forum and contribute good advice they will be added to the list. The same goes for anyone - people contributing consistent accurate top quality advice will always be added to the list.
Also please keep in mind that just because you are on the list, doesn't mean you're going to stay there. If we notice that your advice and posts start to become unhelpful in the strategy forum your highlighting will be revoked, simple as that. We have also implemented strategy forum temp bans for users who are being unhelpful and annoying in the strategy forum.
If you would like to nominate someone for post highlighting please use this thread.
Congratulations to our foundation highlighted posters! And we look forward to welcoming many more over the years to come.
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This is a cool way! Good job
COngratz to all the highligted posters
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Wonderful. Would love to see SjoW on that list as well, he contributes from time to time doesnt he?
Anyway, great idea. Hope it helps to improve the Strategy forums.
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This is great. Would be awesome to see MrBitter on there 
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Great idea imho, looking forward to see this and the highlighted users in action.
Thanks TL!
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Doesn't look like it with the current list, but I have to wonder if this will some day become a sort of "I'm a highlighted user you need to listen to me" as a replacement to general debate and discussion as to why something is the case... or even if the list gets quite large, people may begin to ignore non-highlighted users just on the basis that they, well, aren't highlighted.
I suppose it depends how long this list eventually gets, and who happens to be on it. We shall have to see.
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Hyrule19224 Posts
How you gonna give Artosis highlighting and now Tasteless?
Also, Day9? Raelcun? Wolf? BigT?
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Cool feature. Will make looking for useful info a lot more easier, thanks. :D
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Incredible idea, but I think I would almost prefer if the forum was more heavily moderated so that crap posts were deleted.
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On February 17 2011 21:39 TheValley wrote:
eee day9? :D
He doesn't seem to post any more really.
i think MrBitter seems a good shout, i[echoic] (is that the right way of putting it?) too maybe. hopefully this'll be helpful
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Awesome. Been waiting for you guys to implement it since the idea first popped up. It's really nice on the eyes too. <3
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Awesome news, I hope that you also include a way to filter posts or some way to note when a highlighted user has posted a reply in a topic and go immediately to that post.
Can't wait to see what this brings. =)
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On February 17 2011 21:42 tofucake wrote:
How you gonna give Artosis highlighting and now Tasteless?
Also, Day9? Raelcun? Wolf? BigT?
The list isn't final >_>.
I like this idea very much, even though I never post nor frequent the strategy forums this seems to be a good solution to the problems people are experiencing.
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a very good first step, i hope there will be more.
The list is also very good, i hope it will get extended a bit
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On February 17 2011 21:41 phyre112 wrote:
Doesn't look like it with the current list, but I have to wonder if this will some day become a sort of "I'm a highlighted user you need to listen to me" as a replacement to general debate and discussion as to why something is the case... or even if the list gets quite large, people may begin to ignore non-highlighted users just on the basis that they, well, aren't highlighted.
I suppose it depends how long this list eventually gets, and who happens to be on it. We shall have to see.
I think the people TL have specifically selected do not have a reputation for this kind of abuse of power. Chill stated that if you want to be a highlighted user then you can't demand it so I'm sure they will only select more suitable people that aren't going to deter others from posting. The forums are highly moderated so I think if someone abuses this power they will probably have it revoked.
I think perhaps you have a point about people not listening to non-highlighted users, but the strategy forum is for well, strategising. So it's whatever opinions people want to express, there are often many ways of doing one thing, it's just up to the highlighted users to give a well-informed outlook on what they think is best.
I think the highlighted users is a great idea because it means when I want to look up something I don't have to constantly read useless posts about people arguing about balance which often works its way into a lot of strategy threads.
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My main problem with the strategy forum at the moment is scrolling through lots and lots of pages in search for a familiar post. Would it be possible to add a toggle-able feature that hides other posts apart from those by highlighted users? Or a "jump to next highlighted" button or something like that?
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
On February 17 2011 21:55 xtfftc wrote:
My main problem with the strategy forum at the moment is scrolling through lots and lots of pages in search for a familiar post. Would it be possible to add a toggle-able feature that hides other posts apart from those by highlighted users? Or a "jump to next highlighted" button or something like that?
If we were to implement this at the moment, it wouldn't be useful in most threads due to the small number of users on the highlight list. This is something we will consider once the list has grown more.
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Seems like a simple, elegant solution to what has been a major problem on the TL boards. It's going to be quite interesting to see the influx of professional advice onto the boards, and hopefully more pros commenting will elevate the level of discussion on TL. I for one am very happy with this brilliantly simple solution.
It also really reminds me of the "blue posts" on the Battle.net forums, which have been a major source of information over the years.
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Being automatically highlighted every time you say something does bring in some level of expectation/pressure.
I hope this doesn't scare the highlighted users off posting. Especially when sharing their personal, subjective, controversial, experimental, or innovative thoughts.
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