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Seran Jinkar
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2012.07.23 11:41:00 -
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I already suggested it once, but maybe I should do it again.
The whole thing should run like a Mindthread, which is similar to a Mindmap but incorporates a forum-like feature. Instead of the bulletin board style it starts with DUST as the main node, then we have nodes similar to the forums like general and Announcements, Tech and Suggestions.
Now people may start a node suggestion like "Balancing Issues of Assault Rifles" (just the title, no text). Now the other users might vote on the node to indicate the moderators that they find the topic useful or not. If the general opinion is positive towards opening up the node, or the devs like it, the node is spawned and any Tester is allowed to add his personal node to it which is exactly ONE Post where the OP and all the others can:
- share their opinion
- comment
- suggest
- report
- complain
The advantage will be that the spawning of topic nodes will be controlled and slightly delayed which will stop quite a lot of ranting and trolling as there is time to cool down the tempers. Addtitionally it would stop side topics being simply overrun by ten thousands of "NERF THis !*@!-º" threads. IF a player has an opinion he can look up the existing nodes ''(which is much faster than petitioning a new node, which could always fail) and add his personal opinion which can of course be edited as an opinion may change over time. If the topics isn't there yet, the player could just start a new node suggestion.
An additional feature would be to add your personal node with a node you like/support instead of the main "Balancing Issued of Assault Rifles" node (which will show that your opinion is covered by somebody else already and you support it). Another trick would be connecting nodes with red, blue and green lines (red being a dislike, green a like and blue a neutral connection - like piloting topics of LAVs and HAVs could be neutally connected)
Similar to a mind map this would quickly show positive and negative interconnectivity |
Seran Jinkar
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
214
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Posted - 2012.07.23 12:38:00 -
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Beware of the incoming troll! ;)
But seriously, this could be realised with existing Forum structures and some code lines in the posting routine to allow only one post per topic and member. |
Seran Jinkar
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
214
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Posted - 2012.07.23 14:02:00 -
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Well I for my case do develop solutions for environmental engineering purposes to fill the needs that I sometimes find in my job. |
Seran Jinkar
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
214
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Posted - 2012.07.24 05:37:00 -
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Concerning the effort it is (as already stated) just a duplicate of this forum with limited posting rights and a daily or hourly check of upcoming topic suggestions. |
Seran Jinkar
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
214
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Posted - 2012.07.24 08:01:00 -
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carl von oppenheimer wrote:These forums are also here with all their drap postings to build us a community for DUST, besides that DEVS do read these forums even if they don't post.
That's right. The Forum is for community purposes which of course include rants and trolling and all the other stuff. But a seperate way of streamlining the thoughts of the community and the Devs would be making it easier to keep track of everything.
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Seran Jinkar
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
214
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Posted - 2012.07.25 10:52:00 -
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Maybe there is somebody with an urge to create a test version of this on an own server?
Or does somebody know a free forum hosting service that allows this kind of user rights? |
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