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Zurich15324 Posts
On February 18 2011 00:20 BattRoll wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 23:56 zatic wrote:On February 17 2011 23:45 BattRoll wrote:
This is a terrible idea, elitist attitude. I occasionally post advice in strategy and each strategy post is filled with feedback from different mindsets/users and there's probably thousands of people out there with valid strategy points. Are you going to add them all? By the size and scope of this list, it looks like you're just making a list of well known players and stroking their egos. No we are only going to add top players. Can you expand on why this is a terrible idea? We are not adding them to stroke their ego but to make it easier for the reader to find meaningful advice. I have no problem with you tagging people - but why not do it in a more constructive way? Why not link team liquid profiles to the sc2ranks database and show their ladder ranking? And let users search for posts based on this? That way if somebody wants to read master league strategy, they can filter this way. I am certain there are plenty of occasional posters that are highly ranked competitive players - that would not be included on this elitist list and have their opinions discredited by the fact that they aren't on "the list"
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.
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I think this is a great feature. From now on I have a much easier time go see replys from users like Darkforce.
I also hope that highlighted users feel encouraged to most more since they now have better visibility. This change will not reduce the amount of low-tier advise but could increase the number of high-level advise.
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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 don't know how this is supposed to be bad.
The quality of posters there is REALLY REALLY bad these days, and I usually don't even read threads there anymore, usually I see what the first post is about and scroll down looking for known names and read only those posts.
Years back it wasn't an issue, but today it is totally justified to have these.
On February 17 2011 22:00 mrdx wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 21:57 Plexa wrote: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. How about an "Ignore this user's posts from now on" link?
And I second, third and forth the petition to have a "ignore poster" button that makes all this poster's posts invisible!
But that not only in strategy forums, but forum-wide.
On February 17 2011 22:05 Starfox wrote:Feedback for additional features: This looks alot like the blizzard "blue posts", as in their forums posts from blizzard employees are very distinguishable from the posts of normal users. Would be nice to also get the other features the blizzard forums have: 1) Mark threads that have at least one "highlighted" post 2) Links on highlighted posts that go directly to the next highlighted 
I agree with above and second that too.
And if I may suggest, give the power to highlighted posters to highlight posts they deem worth, even if it is not from a highlighted member (and lock edit in that post after that).
On February 17 2011 22:57 Saracen wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2011 22:01 BLinD-RawR wrote:
what if I make a really good post on the strategy forum,will that one post at least be highlighted? Hopefully there will be a highlighted member who quotes it and agrees with it. Generally speaking, outstanding posts will be spotlighted one way or another (or so we hope). I actually made this suggestion internally and the argument against it is that it encourages "you should highlight X post" spam.
I just saw this. But what if this kind of post was a warnable/banable offense?
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Canada6683 Posts
On February 18 2011 00:28 Synystyr wrote:
My question is, what distinguishes a quality poster with a blue star (like infinity21), from one of these highlighted members? I look at blue starred posters the same way I would now look at these highlighted ones. Should these members get highlights as well?
The blue star is given to members who contribute to the community in general (i got mine for translating, for instance). The highlight is specific to the sc2 strat forum.
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Very nice idea, will make browsing strategy much better. The list of players looks pretty good, but what about VTWhiplash? 3200 masters is good enough for this? I have not browsed that strat forums very often so maybe he just makes nice posts, but if this is chosen by skill I think 3200 is a low bar to set.
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United States4796 Posts
Looks like a respectable idea. Good luck and hope it works out! :D
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Awesome addition.
This may not be the place to suggest it, but what are the chances of adding a feature that allows you to either only see highlighted posts in the thread, or skip to the next highlighted post? I find it tedious to wade through the 90% theorycraft to get to the 2 actual posts in each thread (this is only intended for really large threads obviously, as I'm not too lazy to click through 3 pages to see if anyone noteworthy responded).
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I think this is a step in the right direction. The influx of new members to this new community has inflated the need for people to be heard and feel important. This can help quiet the uniformed and insubstantial posters, but in the end it will have to fall on the masses to maintain a certain level of quality.
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Great, great idea, I think this is going to work really good, or at least I hope that
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On February 18 2011 00:43 CheeseGrater wrote:
Very nice idea, will make browsing strategy much better. The list of players looks pretty good, but what about VTWhiplash? 3200 masters is good enough for this? I have not browsed that strat forums very often so maybe he just makes nice posts, but if this is chosen by skill I think 3200 is a low bar to set.
I don't think ladder ranking should have anything to do with it (not does it have much to do with skill for that matter). You can basically 4 gate your way to high masters, and be none the wiser.
As OP said, good and helpful posts in the strategy forum will get you listed.
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This is a step in the right direction =) Looking forward to more features that help the strategy forum.
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Calgary25977 Posts
On February 18 2011 00:53 JamesSwift wrote:
Awesome addition.
This may not be the place to suggest it, but what are the chances of adding a feature that allows you to either only see highlighted posts in the thread, or skip to the next highlighted post? I find it tedious to wade through the 90% theorycraft to get to the 2 actual posts in each thread (this is only intended for really large threads obviously, as I'm not too lazy to click through 3 pages to see if anyone noteworthy responded).
The idea is that you just read the strategy forum as usual, and then a highlighted post jumps out at you. The intention isn't that you go around fishing for the highlighted posts.
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Good to have a way to easily find useful information when reading a thread instead of having to go over every single thing.
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Great idea. I approve.
Hopefully this helps users sort through the shit and find the good posts more easily.
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I don't know why you guys are asking for casters to be highlighted. Like the OP said, "Some combination of tournament results, high-level play, and Starcraft 2 Strategy Forum activity will earn you Highlighted User status."
I'm pretty sure neither Day9 nor any other major caster have shown us high-level play and tournament results in months if not years.
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On February 17 2011 21:57 Plexa wrote:Show nested quote +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.
True, but this is also one of the reasons why there aren't that many highlighted posts in the first place. I imagine that the top players don't have a lot of time to spare for the forum but if they could filter the meaningful posts quickly, they might get more active.
What if the feature is configured to jump to the next post in any thread on the strategy forums? This way it would return more content and not just a handful of posts.
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Thanks for this new feature, unfortunately I don't agree with the fact the Idra is highlighted.
I can't wait to see his "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA" posts being highlighted.
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I like it, but I would also love to see this in every SC2 forum.
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