Well I emailed devs and they said to point this towards the community to get support and that devs lurk forums apparent. Devs if you do read forums prove me wrong Idea : it's a short and simple idea with the sole purpose of reducing the amount of spam and low effort threads within forums of both games. Basically just adding a limit to the required number of characters needed to post a thread to stop threads like... Yes I have used pimd as a example if you don't like it my news is always open just keep your needless hate off thread thank you Pros : • less work for mods when having to lock these threads • reduces spam within forums • forces people to explain, and put effort into threads Cons : • none that I can foresee Id suggest the count to be 250 - 500 because people can spam a image witch uses up quite a bit of characters. And writing more than 500 characters can be quite easy is like writing 7 - 10 lines of text. There are many other forum improvements I have in mind that id like to happen as well. For example : • Enabling smart phones to edit posts. People know how horrible it is to make a thread that failed with bb codes or you said a naughty word and don't have PC near • deleting your own posts. This would be helpful when you say something you should have and know it or the post is no longer required and you don't want to leave links here and there • locking your own tread so only you can post and enabling it to be posted on again. There are times you just want to lock your thread due to it's purpose is no longer needed, or there's a noob that's flaming your thread, also it can be helpful when creating a guide or thread that requires many posts then enabling it again so people can support. ( if mods lock it's perm locked ) • flagging threads / posts straight to mod or dev for lock or deleting. It would be helpful if all mods got a notification about a post that's a bit naughty or just flagging the thread to devs so it can be review and deleted. •adding a support, like and dislike feature People could like and dislike posts as a social feature ( this isn't really needed but would be a nice thought ) But the support feature would be helpful as people don't like to post to a thread, for personal reasons but they can press a button for support. Listing the number of supporter next to thread name. ( you can only support / like / dislike a thread or post once ) List your comments below Or support if you like
I don't think you should be able to toggle on/off locks on your thread. I support being able to lock your own thread but requiring a mod to unlock. Flagging idea would get very spammy for mods, I feel like almost every post would get flagged. However I like lots of the ideas so support.
I did think of that troll with flagging So it can be limited to sending it to devs instead, also it would be silence able / forum ban for spamming the flag button
Lol moose I can ensure you that my phone is currently on charge now it's not dying anytime so. You lot have to deal with me that bit longer
Actually troll I have sent a few bypasses, and comments to support with devs and they have been dealt with accordingly. Yeah they do rely on mods for most of it but they will actively act on trouble makers if it calls for it
There is a flagging feature on PC. When I used it I got a notification from KaW asking me to stop. I also got several mods asking me to stop as well.
k. i'm always for making the forums more user friendly. i don't like the character limit thing. sometimes things like is nuff said.
I got a bloody good idea too, how about a update that includes a fix for the forum back button issue? So it actually returns to the current active topics and not ******* last weeks! Grrr
What!? How is anyone gonna write a guide in 500 words? This will just increase spam cuz posts are cut off