Site Discussion Thread

[timocomsmbx2345]

Perhaps the abilty to type in a different font as more sizes.

That just sounds pointless and messy

i mean like a different typeface

[HeroLinik]

i mean like a different typeface

Yeah, but what's the point? How will it benefit the site? All it would lead to is people abusing it and writing in several fancy typefaces, which would be distracting.

[TDK]

I just noticed a bug. If 2 thread gets merged, the title of the merged thread becomes the second thread's title instead of the first.

That's not a bug, just a phpbb feature because topics don't get changed. You can change the topic title in any post you make anyhow, but generally that's considered a dick move.

Weird, I always remembered the merged thread having the title from the first thread.

[kr4k1n]

Fonts are boring anyways

[ElectriKong]

Fonts don't have any necessity in a community forum or any text outside of advertisements and posters.

[Snessy the duck]

I don't really see the point of the whole "You need as many screens as the world amount" project rule. It just seems unnecessarily complex and pointless to me. I'd suggest changing it so the project must have at least 10 screens no matter what.

[Quantix]

I don't really see the point of the whole "You need as many screens as the world amount" project rule. It just seems unnecessarily complex and pointless to me. I'd suggest changing it so the project must have at least 10 screens no matter what.

There's literally nothing complex about that rule.

[Thehelmetguy1]

^^^^^
This is made to guarantee that the person has considerable progress with the project

[ElectriKong]

I don't really see the point of the whole "You need as many screens as the world amount" project rule. It just seems unnecessarily complex and pointless to me. I'd suggest changing it so the project must have at least 10 screens no matter what

That does not really work because projects are of different sizes. Even the current rule is not perfect, but at least it is better than your suggestion. Also the current version is not very complex at all.

[Cedur]

The problem is not the rule itself but the fact that it's easy to miss out. Guess there's not much that can be done about it.

[ElectriKong]

The problem is not the rule itself but the fact that it's easy to miss out. Guess there's not much that can be done about it.

What do you mean by 'it's easy to miss out'?

And Snessy's suggestion is like asking for those who upload projects with little progress to upload more screens of the same level.

[Snessy the duck]

Well, I just felt like it was kinda complex, but it's really not when I'm looking back at it, my bad. The thing is that people could simply only list 1 world and get away with 1 screen, even if their project doesn't have only 1 world, and even if they didn't do that, they could still post many screens of the same level to get around this rule. Also, projects don't always have worlds. A better suggestion would be to have there be at least 1 screenshot no matter the length.

[ElectriKong]

Well, I just felt like it was kinda complex, but it's really not when I'm looking back at it, my bad. The thing is that people could simply only list 1 world and get away with 1 screen, even if their project doesn't have only 1 world, and even if they didn't do that, they could still post many screens of the same level to get around this rule. Also, projects don't always have worlds. A better suggestion would be to have there be at least 1 screenshot no matter the length.

The old projects forum rules had this but then that would allow one to post their project without even 1 level complete (which I did when I first posted Super Mario World at War).

[HeroLinik]

Also, projects don't always have worlds. A better suggestion would be to have there be at least 1 screenshot no matter the length.

The hub requirement is already included as part of the rules, in that you need 20% of levels in the project in screenshots, like for example a 40-level hub episode will need 8 screenshots at least. While it discourages people from posting projects which have only barely started, a problem that arises is that sometimes people will try to exploit this rule and make it seem like they've posted the screenshot requirement but have only really posted like two screenshots from the same level (or even the same section) or every single screenshot is from one world, which gives the illusion that they're far into the project but in actual fact they're just as far as if they'd only posted one screen, with no way of knowing.

[ElectriKong]

I think if have done 1 world then you probably made enough progress to post your project.

[Knux]

Why not add a thanks system? I know a few forums that have an option to 'thank' a user if their post was useful/helpful/good. a positive reaction to a post basically, and a number showing on the user's bio. it's essentially the rep system but you can't downrep a user. may be a neat little feature to the site.

[ElectriKong]

Why not add a thanks system? I know a few forums that have an option to 'thank' a user if their post was useful/helpful/good. a positive reaction to a post basically, and a number showing on the user's bio. it's essentially the rep system but you can't downrep a user. may be a neat little feature to the site.

Depends if phpBB allows that.

[Cedur]

I guess this also has been mentioned before and also falls under the conundrums of "no mods available". And besides, while there wouldn't be any downrating abuse, I'm still unsure about it becoming another popularity contest.

[Snessy the duck]

Why exactly do we need the "Specify why you reported this post" page? I'm pretty sure the mods can easily see if something's wrong with a post, so I don't really see why it's there. At least make the "Doesn't follow common posting habits" option the default one, since it used much more frequently to my knowledge.

[TLtimelord]

We should install the Facebook reaction system.