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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.
I agree that people shouldn't be scrolling through threads for highlighted posts, but that is probably exactly what they will do 
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this is great! Been visiting the strategy forum way back but due to what it has evovled into it just was a pain. This will hopefully change now.
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Is there a way to revise the highlight color that was chosen? It gives me a headache reading the text written inside that highlight.
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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.
I agree that people shouldn't be scrolling through threads for highlighted posts, but that is probably exactly what they will do
The very first thing I did when I saw this functionality added was go to the strategy forum and try to search for highlighted posts. I was disappointed when I realized I had to actually search through the threads. I guess i'm just a spoiled brat like so many other people these days, where I whine if I don't get what I want.
I see many other people complaining about not being able to search for highlighted posts and getting warned/banned for it..
I also see this turning into something similar to the WoW forums, where someone comes up with the equivalent of a blue tracker and people just look at that instead of the actual forums.
If i manually go through all the threads in the strategy forum, and collect all the highlighted posts and make a new topic so they are all in one place, will i get banned?
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Is this just for the sc2 strategy forum or for BW as well? Because people like Fyre_Dragon definitely deserve to have their BW strategy posts highlighted
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Calgary26003 Posts
On February 18 2011 06:29 Gwaltgw wrote:Show nested quote +
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.
I agree that people shouldn't be scrolling through threads for highlighted posts, but that is probably exactly what they will do The very first thing I did when I saw this functionality added was go to the strategy forum and try to search for highlighted posts. I was disappointed when I realized I had to actually search through the threads. I guess i'm just a spoiled brat like so many other people these days, where I whine if I don't get what I want. I see many other people complaining about not being able to search for highlighted posts and getting warned/banned for it.. I also see this turning into something similar to the WoW forums, where someone comes up with the equivalent of a blue tracker and people just look at that instead of the actual forums. If i manually go through all the threads in the strategy forum, and collect all the highlighted posts and make a new topic so they are all in one place, will i get banned?
Why would you possibly be banned for that? Of course you wouldn't. I think it's dumb and I'd advise you not to, but you can do it if you want.
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Calgary26003 Posts
On February 18 2011 06:31 xxpack09 wrote:
Is this just for the sc2 strategy forum or for BW as well? Because people like Fyre_Dragon definitely deserve to have their BW strategy posts highlighted
This is only for the Starcraft 2 Strategy Forum.
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On February 18 2011 06:27 sc2lime wrote:
Is there a way to revise the highlight color that was chosen? It gives me a headache reading the text written inside that highlight.
Currently, no. Maybe it will be added in the future, we'd need R1CH to answer that.
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I thought that something is wrong with my eyes when i see blue coloured posts lol
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kcdc should be highlighted.
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On February 18 2011 06:52 wentzA wrote:
kcdc should be highlighted.
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It would be kinda cool to have the thread maybe stand out more as well from the forum index. I'm not sure what this requires or if even feasible, but a neat idea IMO .
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I like this quite a bit. It's been frustrating to read the strategy forum because of so much spam posting by people who have no idea what they're talking about. This is a nice subtle way to highlight the good posters efforts. Thanks TL.
Edit: Did you guys consider doing an upvote system?
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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.
First of all, I love the idea, but I too think it's only a start.
I agree with the sentiment behind this, but given how many pages some of the threads are, it seems daunting to me to read through the whole thread (or even a large portion of it). Sometimes I only really have the time/energy to read 1-2 responses to the OP, so it would be quite helpful if I could skip through to ones from a respected/known player. Maybe that makes me lazy? Regardless, I'm just trying to be realistic - not sure if others have a similar experience.
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On February 18 2011 06:54 Plexa wrote:...
Well Plexa back to the drawing board, the highlighting color is clearly too difficult to read. Any votes for white?
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thanks for picking me hope i can bring good quality to the sc2 strategy section!
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Has anyone considered adding some sort of eye-grabber in the forum index as well? Maybe not even based on user submission, but perhaps custom updated by moderators?
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On February 18 2011 07:20 CecilSunkure wrote:
Has anyone considered adding some sort of eye-grabber in the forum index as well? Maybe not even based on user submission, but perhaps custom updated by moderators?
I'd settle for just having the best threads (e.g., iEchoic's TvT) stickied. Also, showing which threads have highlighted posts might be nice because then you'll know that there is some real discussion going on in there. With those I'd say you then wouldn't need the "jump to highlighted post" button and stuff. It also helps to keep it more inclusive like you guys are saying (which, by the way, I like the idea of; good job thinking of that!).
Thanks for sticking it out here and addressing all of our questions/complaints/flaming/etc.! :D
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i'm loving the new change, i do wish it could be a darker color but thats just personal preference. Reading the strat forum now is quite a joy, just looking for the gem posts. Would love the possible future feature of showing only gem posts. Thanks TL!
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