EPTStrategy Forum Highlighting - Page 8
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
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thesideshow
930 Posts
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Hrwa
Croatia147 Posts
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danl9rm
United States3111 Posts
Hopefully it works as intended. | ||
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shindigs
United States4795 Posts
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Crissaegrim
2947 Posts
Nice going. | ||
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BrodiaQ
United States892 Posts
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On February 18 2011 03:48 Chill wrote: I think people are getting too hung up with highlighted posts. They're not meant to be magnets. People shouldn't be scouring the forum searching for highlighted posts. They're just posts that demand attention if you happen to come across them in the normal process of reading the forum. People want all these features for skipping the entire thread and jumping to highlighted posts, but that's seriously not the intent we had with highlighting users. Yes that's essentially saying that no one elses posts in the strat forum are worth reading - which is just not true. I dread the day when someone opens a thread saying "only highlighted posters plz". When someone does that I will ban them. | ||
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Saracen
United States5139 Posts
On February 18 2011 03:20 Antisocialmunky wrote: Like I said before, I don't see why this wouldn't be helpful as well. Because that would tend to alienate non-highlighted posts, which is definitely something we don't want. There are plenty of intelligent and insightful posts by non-highlighted users. If we have features like that, it would be a huge "screw you" to the people who put plenty of effort into their posts but might get less feedback because their posts are being skipped over. Especially in short threads, where you should be reading the entire thread anyways. The point is to see the progression of discussion of a particular thread, and having a highlighted poster post should only contribute to the discussion, not be definitive be-all and end-all. | ||
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Chaosvuistje
Netherlands2581 Posts
Is there a way to get highlighted status through other people suggesting you? Like in a poll? Or is it mainly through selection of mods and admins? Either way, this will be good to experiment with for the TL staff. I hope it works as intended and that more posters will visit the strategy forum  since its definitely my favourite forum on here. | ||
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BattRoll
100 Posts
On February 18 2011 00:30 zatic wrote: We have discussed this, but for one it's technically not feasible, and also we want to avoid that people think they know what they are talking about because they are high diamond. Or that they think their opinion is more worth than someone's a league lower. If you can name highly ranked players that post in the forum and are not in the list please nominate them in the thread in the Website forum. The list in the OP is meant to grow over time. I was thinking about this earlier and another solution that (I think) would be better than trying to upkeep some elite player list would just be to simply have a thumbs up/rating system for responses like youtube or yahoo answers. I think that this would probably give more incentive for people to respond to threads in general, as well as let peers review the content. I guess this wouldn't interfere with your current plan to highlight elite users but it could be used to determine who those elite users are based on quality contributions instead of just being a biased popularity contest. I think that given the heavy moderation of this forum, this system would actually work very well. Anyway, I'm sure you have considered this option and I'm wondering why you chose not to implement it? Or if you are planning on doing it. | ||
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Rokk
United States425 Posts
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
On February 18 2011 05:02 Chaosvuistje wrote: Interresting development. Is there a way to get highlighted status through other people suggesting you? Like in a poll? Or is it mainly through selection of mods and admins? Either way, this will be good to experiment with for the TL staff. I hope it works as intended and that more posters will visit the strategy forum since its definitely my favourite forum on here.If you read the entire OP, there's a link to a nomination thread where people can nominate others for highlighted status. I'm guessing the mods will regularly check it and see whether the nominations are warranted or not. Either way, I like this idea. Previously, I'd more or less skim threads but pay more attention to posters who I know give damn good advice. Now it just makes it easier x] | ||
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Saracen
United States5139 Posts
On February 18 2011 05:02 Chaosvuistje wrote: Interresting development. Is there a way to get highlighted status through other people suggesting you? Like in a poll? Or is it mainly through selection of mods and admins? Either way, this will be good to experiment with for the TL staff. I hope it works as intended and that more posters will visit the strategy forum since its definitely my favourite forum on here.Staff will have the final decision over who gets highlighted. You can nominate anyone, of course, to make sure the staff knows about them and keeps an eye out for them. | ||
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Tschis
Brazil1511 Posts
On February 18 2011 05:06 BattRoll wrote: I was thinking about this earlier and another solution that (I think) would be better than trying to upkeep some elite player list would just be to simply have a thumbs up/rating system for responses like youtube or yahoo answers. I think that this would probably give more incentive for people to respond to threads in general, as well as let peers review the content. I guess this wouldn't interfere with your current plan to highlight elite users but it could be used to determine who those elite users are based on quality contributions instead of just being a biased popularity contest. I think that given the heavy moderation of this forum, this system would actually work very well. Anyway, I'm sure you have considered this option and I'm wondering why you chose not to implement it? Or if you are planning on doing it. I'm member of a forum where they have this system, and it's not useful at all. Of course it completely depends on the maturity of the community, but in this particular forum, this system ended up inciting the creation of little groups of users who thumbs up themselves, no matter what kind of content they posted, and thumbs down their haters (or people who do not agree with them) just for the sake of doing them bad. The highlighting system gives more power to the administrators, since they can analyze the posts of nominated users and decide themselves if they are worth of being highlighted or not. //tx | ||
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TheNessman
United States4158 Posts
it's kind of funny to see him on that list but i'm ok with it ! I wonder if we were to do something like this with LR threads? like ZONA for instance... that would make sense :m ThankS TL! Always glad to see new things, as long as they aren't too new. | ||
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Saracen
United States5139 Posts
On February 18 2011 05:06 BattRoll wrote: I was thinking about this earlier and another solution that (I think) would be better than trying to upkeep some elite player list would just be to simply have a thumbs up/rating system for responses like youtube or yahoo answers. I think that this would probably give more incentive for people to respond to threads in general, as well as let peers review the content. I guess this wouldn't interfere with your current plan to highlight elite users but it could be used to determine who those elite users are based on quality contributions instead of just being a biased popularity contest. I think that given the heavy moderation of this forum, this system would actually work very well. Anyway, I'm sure you have considered this option and I'm wondering why you chose not to implement it? Or if you are planning on doing it. This would get really messy really quickly, and probably wouldn't lead to the most accurate answers being picked, but rather the answers that appealed to the most people. For example, it could be popular consensus that doing X is the correct response to Y, whereas there could be much better responses that would just tend to get glossed over because the opinions wouldn't be "mainstream." Also, the system is really open for abuse and difficult to moderate. What happens when people start spamming the "thumbs up" button for a stupidly "entertaining" post? Or posts that contribute nothing to the thread? Basically, letting the masses decide posts they "like" is often times counterproductive when what we want are to highlight posts that are useful. | ||
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LuckyMacro
United States1482 Posts
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Chill
Calgary25998 Posts
On February 18 2011 05:18 Tschis wrote: I'm member of a forum where they have this system, and it's not useful at all. Of course it completely depends on the maturity of the community, but in this particular forum, this system ended up inciting the creation of little groups of users who thumbs up themselves, no matter what kind of content they posted, and thumbs down their haters (or people who do not agree with them) just for the sake of doing them bad. The highlighting system gives more power to the administrators, since they can analyze the posts of nominated users and decide themselves if they are worth of being highlighted or not. //tx This is exactly why we haven't gone to the thumbs/up down system - it leads to politics and loses usefulness quickly. It's also why we haven't added the ability to highlight an individual post - it leads to people clamoring "Why the fuck isn't this highlighted?" and "Highlight NOW!" etc. If there's a longterm process, it avoids all these derailing political issues. | ||
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schimmetje
Netherlands1104 Posts
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