Wow guys, you really came through with a lot of interesting ideas! Keep them coming if you have them!
Blackthorn Posted:
All of your ideas sound good, Evil Trout. Would the ForumBuildr score be something public or private? Regarding some of the other things people have brought up.
Yes, your ForumBuildr score would be public, and we’d probably do leaderboards for it too Log in to see images!
Skyreal Posted:
1a. I suggest giving people a base number of submissions per day, and then giving one-time bonuses based on positive votes attained, and penalties based on negative votes on the submission. This way, good submitters would be empowered to submit more, and Klan abuse would not be as serious as if long-term bonuses were given for positive votes (e.g. if a high forumbuildr score gives you more submissions).
I hadn’t thought of doing it daily (we had thought weekly) but it’s definitely an interesting idea. It goes with the whole forum visits idea of having people come back to the site every day.
Skyreal Posted:
2. Downvoting. If you keep this, it must be controlled or scaled in some way. Especially as the game’s player base grows, -5 isn’t really a fair indication of whether something deserves to be buried in minutes. As mentioned several times before by other people, there are plenty of people who just downvote everything, and -5 soon becomes a matter of luck – whether the submission gets enough positive votes before the downvoters bring it down (bumuming it is actually worthy of positive votes, of course).
2a. The first thing that comes to my mind is to limit downvotes. I think the number of downvotes you get should be relative to the number of submissions (or possible submissions). For example, if everyone was limited to, say, 20 submissions a day, you might get 20 downvotes a day.
Limiting downvotes is a great idea. Like you say it requires a vote neutral, but it seems to be a feature everyone wants so we’re almost certainly going to add it.
Skyreal Posted:
2ba. If possible I’d suggest a weighted randomizing system. The higher the rating, the higher the likeliness of the submission appearing.
2bb. I imagine I would probably have three month’s worth of nightmares and bumorted erratic deams trying to implement something for that, so alternatively I suggest a tiered randomizing system. Everything within -20 and +20 votes has a higher chance of appearing. Everything else (because they’re relatively established) has a lower chance of appearing.
Actually we already have a weighted randomizing system. You are slightly more likely to see a higher voted submission than a regular one, but not so much that you know that the subs at the top of your list are going to be the highest voted. It just needs a little work, and certainly will need some tuning after we make some of these changes Log in to see images!
