Widescreen Gaming Forum

another suggestion for the forum that I thought of once it's upgraded

maybe the ability to approve a single post ("+1" it)
and view the total number of approbation a single post received could be helpful in this forum

for example a guy says : "this solution works"
3 other persons click "+1" and then when someone else view the thread he knows that at least 4 persons got it working.

Just a thought though, discuss or do whatever you want with it.
:wink:


PS: of course that's for the future, after upgrading the forum...

Isn't that something like the "thank this person" option? I believe that's a standard feature of phpbb3.

Isn't that something like the "thank this person" option? I believe that's a standard feature of phpbb3.

yeah it's something along this line, I wasn't aware that it's a standard feature of phpbb3... (if that is really the case)

though I prefer to use the term "approbation" rather than "just a thanks"
because it applies to more things

you don't thank a person which has the same problem as you with no solution if you see what I mean.

Reputation systems are nice, as long as people with high reps don't act like mods.

Reputation systems are nice, as long as people with high reps don't act like mods.

that wasn't at all what I had in mind
and I think User Reputation brings nothing to the table after having experienced it in Rage3D.com ...

the main point is the "NOT per user, but per post"
example:
you "thank" or "give +1" to a post, and this specific post displays that it has been approved one more time... no user "score" is kept ...

A 'Post' score I'd be more in favour of than a rep system, to be honest. The only forum I've seen where rep isn't used as a form of one-upmanship is OCN.

Rep orgy!

[quote]Reputation systems are nice, as long as people with high reps don't act like mods.

that wasn't at all what I had in mind
and I think User Reputation brings nothing to the table after having experienced it in Rage3D.com ...

the main point is the "NOT per user, but per post"
example:
you "thank" or "give +1" to a post, and this specific post displays that it has been approved one more time... no user "score" is kept ...

Ah, a lot of blog comment systems do that.

I wouldn't be opposed to it.

As long as you cant give negative 'points' I feel that its great. It creates an incentive to help out.

I don't really see how this would differ from giving a person points. Posts are not anonymous after all.

Then again, everyone may just ignore the scores if they object anyway. It's not like there are any actual consequences ;)