New Forum Likes and Dislikes: Redux

**Walrus**

The original thread went away with the forums reboot, so let's start it up again now that you've had more time with the forums. What do you like and what do you dislike?

I'm still a big fan of the moved post links, myself...

Chuui

After using the forums today I have to say I now have concerns about how easy people can mess with the rating system. It seems some people just like to hunt through someone's posting history and rate all their posts with one star. Are there any plans to help stop such behaviour?

**Outlaw**

The new forums are okay, but is there going to be any chance that we can upload our own icons instead of the ones given? I didn't see it when I was going through my preferences.

**Kaspanova**

Have to agree with both of you Walrus & Chuii.

the moved links are a neat neat touch, bit of humour with administration.

The ranking system is a middle subject to me, its to easy for a bunch
of people to rate you low, even on a good post, although peoples
opinions on a good post differ, but a general helping post shouldn't be
rated down, or rated 1 for the hell of it.

I'm liking it because it give us a chance to give props to the helpers that they deserve, but not liking for above issue.

fragss

these new forums look's so plain... i guess is not the look of matrix :smileysad:

and well have alot of new options like the emoticons is ez to use now.

**Rogue**

I like the new forums, but I'd like a link back to the beta forums,
there was alot of useful info on them. I do not like the rating system
however, it's just a way to flaunt ego's.

Also, Walrus, your sig is gone so I found a link to it for you.

Thanks to the MxO Rumbaar for that link.

Fozy

I think admin will eventually spruce up the forum look - or so I
hope. Overall, I like the new forums. They are very quick,
with a much better search option, and overall easier to use.

Cal

I personally have loved the Lithium forums from my old/current SWG days and the bookmarks, Dev Tracker are all for the win.

Only things are possibly subdividing the discisplines down to the 10-mem discs:

Medical Lab - Patcher

Viral Warfare Lab - Virologist

Loading Construct - Programmer

Construction Lab - Code Shaper

Dojo - Soldier

Espionage HQ - Spy

For example, as those names suck.

Would really focus the discussions as Patcher and Viro share only their
love of Evade Combat and Dodge Ranged and are otherwise very different
playstyles (but an old gripe with the old forums)..

... and Discipline icons!

To the people worried about "one-star bandits": it really isn't too
much of a problem, and since we don't know the ranks and how they
incorp. star ranking, it would be even less of an issue.

Message Edited by Cal on 08-16-2005 12:24 PM
Message edited by Cal on 08/16/2005 11:24:20.

**lithium**

I'll again say that the rating system is pointless and exploited. Drop it.

Also the WYSIWYG editor does not work in Mozzy.

Also for some reason the l in my name is lowercase maybe and option to change display names.

**0verdrive**

I like the navigation of the new forums. It's very easy to get around. These new forums have really grown on me fast... at first, I'll admit, I was a bit unsure, but now I really enjoy them! SMILEY

Good to see you back Walrus.

**Menos**

After using the forums for a little bit longer, i am still liking these
more thatn i did the old forums. Lots of nice features, like the
ability to edit your posts in HTML. I understand some might not
like the plain/simple look of the new forums...but i feel this is one
of the good elements. It's simplicity doesn't detract from the
purpose of the forums as well as keeping them nice and quick.

It was mentioned in the old thread that it might be nice to have the
option to turn a background picture on, for those that don't like the
plain black. I thought this was a nice suggestion.

I like how customizable everything is, all of the options we can change
etc and the Dashboard is an excellent addition to the forums.

The moved posts links are a nice touch, helping to keep track of
things, as we all know this can be difficult in a large community.

I'm especially liking the Technical Support Area, and TSR-Joel seems to be working his virtual fingers to the bone :smileyvery-happy: This area has been most helpful.

Some new avatars would be nice, or even the option for custom
avatars. I would like to be able to post a picture of my
character or even something to match my sig, but i'm quite happy with
the lil' alien dude at the moment.

My main concern, as is already mentioned here, is the rating
system. Again we are seeing it already getting abused with people
adding a single star rating to posts that really didn't require rating,
or at least don't deserve a single star. If this continues the
rating system will become useless, although i would not like to see
that as it could be extremely helpful and informative.

-Menos

Chuui

I'll again say that the rating system is pointless and exploited. Drop it.

It's pointless becuase it's exploited. It should only be for indicating good or bad posts and that can only really be controlled if the rating is done by a moderator at the request of users. If that isn't possible, then I agree, it should be removed altogether.

Also the WYSIWYG editor does not work in Mozzy.

You can use the preferences setting to turn the WYSIWYG editor off, if you so wish. I know that doesn't exactly help those who want to use it, but it might be something to test in Mozilla.

***edited for typos at 4.30am (I wish I could sleep, darn heat T_T)***

Message Edited by Chuui on 08-17-2005 05:29 AM
Message edited by Chuui on 08/16/2005 11:29:25.

**TheEx**

I do like the new forum navigation, and I must admit it is a bit easier
to get around but I do have the same general concerns expressed by
Chuui. The rating system (I'm not currently using it because of
this) is way to easy to mess with. Kaspanova brought up a good
point early on, that it does allow us to give props to those who
deserve it, but it is also a tool for some people to unjustly
manipulate the system. I also miss the feature whereby you could
reply to a specific person's post in the thread, not just the thread
itself, as far as I can tell there isn't a way to do that here.

Those are my concerns for this new board, but overall I do like the
change, I'm just hoping something can be done to more fairly moderate
the ranking system.

Chuui, I'm using Firefox (v1.0.6) here at work and everything appears
to be workin for me. I did tweak some of the settings for
it though, perhaps that is it.

**Edited to add the firefox stuff in**

Message Edited by TheEx on 08-16-2005 12:33 PM
Message edited by TheEx on 08/16/2005 11:33:22.

**Menos**

Also the WYSIWYG editor does not work in Mozzy.

I'm not sure why or how, but i can now use the WYSIWYG editor, or the HTML editor in Firefox, which is cool :smileyhappy:

In the bottom right is an option to edit as HTML, once in the you can
go back to the WYSIWYG by selecting an option, again in the bottom right

*edit* rather than post again, thought i should just mention
here...Using the "Reply" button next to someone name should definitley
note to which person you are replying, after you have posted the
message....it could help save a lot of confusion. :smileywink:

Message Edited by Menos on 08-16-2005 12:40 PM
Message edited by Menos on 08/16/2005 11:40:57.

Chuui

Chuui, I'm using Firefox (v1.0.6) here at work and everything appears to be workin for me. I did tweak some of the settings for it though, perhaps that is it.

It's possible but I don't know. I'm not currently using Firefox much as it still has trouble handling Japanese language input and I need that a lot more so I'm stuck with using IE =) And I think finally, I can get some sleep...

But I agree about the reply to thing, it would be nice to have it indicate a reply to someone's post if we use the reply link right next to their name.