C'jais Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi okay, so although i'm well awar that dmin do browse the forums, they just don;t post as much, maybe moderators who interact more with the members of different forums should have a certain amount of credits which they can give to people they think deserve them (not friends, but people who provide a positive cotribution to the forum). although i can already see this maybe getting out of hand as some mods may just give it to friends and such. i dunno, i thought. maybe to make members behave more and not spam as much. First of all, I'd like to hear the moderator's definition of "community contributing". It's a good idea, but the mods might just need some moderating themselves, if this doesn't shouldn't go out of hand. But if pulled through, the members would definately start behaving (I hope). It would also mean more modding work, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 well it seems to me that these moderators are bein' moderated by the admins. the admins know 'xactly what these mods do in their forums. each forum has it's own admin, or more, and each forum's sub forums has it's own mod or more. seems to me that if this were to go ahead then of course some rules and giudlines would have to be set to for the mods to follow. maybe even that if credits were to be awarded, the mods of the forum would all have to agree that credits be given to them. (i.e., if a mixnmojo mod were to give credits to someone on the mixnmojo network, then all the mixnmojo mods would have to agree). this way, the mod would have to justify why this person deserved to get credits. and you said about this being more work for mods. well as new technologies come along and new things like this come along, it's only natural that more work would be involved for the people who run this forum. the admin adn such would have to put this together, tell the people adn keep it under control as well as in the best interests of the people (like this thread). so the mods, who also help in the running of this network, would also have to have more work put onto them. the american governemnt has a president and a vice president. with more advancements in americana and the world, both of them would have more work to do. the same here. and now finally, a strict punishment rule here which i know people aren't going to like, but without rules what are we, those members who spam a lot or generally misbehave (again justified by mods or admin) would have credits taken away from the. what do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feral Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I agree with Neil's idea of having the mods take points off members for spam/misbehaviour...sure, it's more "work", but worth it if it increases the overall quality of posts in the forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR2000Z Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 This is not so much a prizes/modifications for how many posts someone makes but how long they've been here. I think we should have a private forum for the active members who been here from 1997-2000. This should keep other LucasForum veteran members in better touch of one another. I thought of this because it isnt really fair for the people who only been here for three months to recieve some recognition while the active members who been here 3-5 year who recieves nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leXX Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 My initial thoughts when I read about this new points system were that it sucks! I dunno, I can't see this working somehow. Giving such power to the spammers and trolls can only be a bad thing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 You can now buy the ability to use s in your signature. The images are limited to a size of 500 by 80, which should be enough for anybody...anything beyond those dimensions is made scrollable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 OMG! Thanks for the IMG tag thingy matt! I cant wait to save up the points!!!! Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 howabout a thing were u can have a bigger avatar (i don't mean dimensions, i mean file size)... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feral Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 I think you should lower the number of points required to change your name, but that might just be me. Besides, isn't that entire option moot, since we can just come in here if we need one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt-- Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 You can now buy an attachment for 100 credits. Notice that you only get one each time you buy. Your account can hold more than one at a time, however. Example: to post 2 files buy an attachment for 100 credits buy another attachment for 100 credits use attachment use attachment I hope that was clear enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Change Italics to 300 credits,like Glowing, becuase I dont really see a reason for it to be 200 credits more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Originally posted by JR2000Z This is not so much a prizes/modifications for how many posts someone makes but how long they've been here. I think we should have a private forum for the active members who been here from 1997-2000. This should keep other LucasForum veteran members in better touch of one another. I thought of this because it isnt really fair for the people who only been here for three months to recieve some recognition while the active members who been here 3-5 year who recieves nothing. i'm not too overly enthusiastic about this. you're telling me that people who've only been here a short amount of time shouldn't be able to get credits. may i remind you that back in 1997 not a lot of people had the internet or had even heard of internet forums. i certainly hadn't encountered them as much until i joined her last year. you're making this seem like a loyalty award when many people who were here in 1997 have left by now. new people have come in. i agree with you'r "oldies" forum as a way of keeping the oldies together (which i'm sure would be overun with newbies pretty soon after creation, but it was a nice idea) but i don't like the idea of people being treated differently because of how long they've been here, that in my opinion is just wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Posted January 3, 2003 Share Posted January 3, 2003 Originally posted by Tyrion Change Italics to 300 credits,like Glowing, becuase I dont really see a reason for it to be 200 credits more. Add a "refund credit" option for Glowing, because people that don't use Internet Explorer might not realise this option does nudda, nothing, zippo. And that is just a totally unfair ripoff (IMHO this option should be reduced to $1 anyway, because it does mean that if somebody buys it they might not realise a portion of viewers won't see it regardless Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-s/<itzo- Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Originally posted by Lynk Former howabout a thing were u can have a bigger avatar (i don't mean dimensions, i mean file size)... ? yeah i agree with Lynk. extend the limit for the av size to an extent where it don't hurt the loading time that bad. i was thinking 35-40,000 kb and about the dimesions 80x80 if ain't pushing it. but the file size is whats really important here. admins, put this idea to some consideration. i think everybody (av makers) would love this feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi okay, so although i'm well awar that dmin do browse the forums, they just don;t post as much, maybe moderators who interact more with the members of different forums should have a certain amount of credits which they can give to people they think deserve them (not friends, but people who provide a positive cotribution to the forum). although i can already see this maybe getting out of hand as some mods may just give it to friends and such. i dunno, i thought. maybe to make members behave more and not spam as much. I love this idea. Getting points for being a positive contributor can only bring positive things in the hands of good mods. Although, greed corrupts, but that is the way of the dark side. Anyway, with some work, I think it could be a great addition. After all, some of us contribute, but it could take forever to save some of the points to change titles and such. *doing the math in his head* I need like 4500 credits to do the stuff I want. Grrr! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Originally posted by -s/<itzo- yeah i agree with Lynk. extend the limit for the av size to an extent where it don't hurt the loading time that bad. i was thinking 35-40,000 kb that don't hurt the loading time? that's a good 35 megs you'r talking about, and on a normal 56k modem, that would take about an hour to load. witha 128 broadband, or even a 256, it would take at least fifteen minutes. i think you accitentally hadded a couple of extra 0's there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'jais Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 Right, I want the lowdown on how points are gained. In detail. Do I get points for people just viewing my thread (views, not posts)? Do I get a varying amount of points based on the length of the post I make? If so - how is this calculated? If a person spam, do you deduct points equalling exactly the points he gained from the spam posts he made, or do you pusish him further, taking away more points than was gained through spam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue15 Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 posting new threads should cost some credits, at least 5. it'll make people think before they post a thread that's already been posted before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 please remember that money is only paper and copper and stuff, but it's still valuable. the way you'r going on, putting a price on everything (like threads) it seems to me that these credits could become more than just a little fun. we have to watch what we do with these and be careful not to make everything available via credits, this is meant to be a free site. in other words, i think we should have freedom to post threads without paying for them. and what about maybe a newbie who just wants to post something really important to say (maybe some guy has inside information about a new game). well in order to post it, he'd either ahev to put it in an already open thread, or post ni a thread and waith to get 5 credits. no, i think of this as a bad idea, we shouldn't put a price on everything. plus, this just seems like a way to make things easier for mods, yes, it is a hard job, but if someone post a usekless thread, it's up to the mod to close it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acrylic Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 I dunno if i posted this somewhere else, but we should get more points for posting, instead of the 2 points, we sould get 3 or 4, then points will go up faster, and spamming will go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted January 5, 2003 Share Posted January 5, 2003 oo, you know what i just realised and remembered. we don't actually rate threads that much anymore. how about more points for a higer rating. that will get people rating threads again and make people come up with better threads. i'm not sure about AG's idea there, it could work, but then spamming could just go up when people realise that less effort needs to be done to get more points. it may sound stupid to you, but not teh spammers, they won't get that they would actually be spamming more then if more effort was involved to get more points. i know someone out there knows what i'm talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al-back from the BigWhoop Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 could u point him out for me, plz? cause i think i lost u when u said "oo". jk, but seriously, i agree with u (i think) but also ppl should get points for rating too, that would really make ppl rate (ok, not REALLY, but really...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-s/<itzo- Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi that don't hurt the loading time? that's a good 35 megs you'r talking about, and on a normal 56k modem, that would take about an hour to load. witha 128 broadband, or even a 256, it would take at least fifteen minutes. i think you accitentally hadded a couple of extra 0's there. do you ever check out the forums down at filesnetwork? the limitation on avs are 100x100 pixels and up to 40000 bytes. the loading time there isn't bad at all. i've check it with my friends comp who is a 56ker. probably has the same loading time as Lucas Forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Originally posted by Neil Joshi that don't hurt the loading time? Same could be said for the tags... sure they're offsite... but it still takes time to load... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deft Aklin Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Originally posted by -s/<itzo- do you ever check out the forums down at filesnetwork? the limitation on avs are 100x100 pixels and up to 40000 bytes. the loading time there isn't bad at all. i've check it with my friends comp who is a 56ker. probably has the same loading time as Lucas Forums. Maybe I'm not doing the math right, but the comparison you are making is 40,000 bytes to 35-40 Megs. If I am doing the mathc right, what you are saying is that somehow, .04mbs is comparable to 35-40mbs. Please let me know if I am doing the math wrong, or if I simply didn't read the post properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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