Hilaryâ„¢ said:
The shoutbox will definitely take away activity. If we were to add it at all, I say we wait until we have more members. We have a lot of bots, but only a few real people who post here daily. If we add it later, we will have a bunch of people posting and a bunch of people chatting. The thanks would be nice but rep for posts isn't needed. You can just link to the post. It isn't hard to visit somebody's profile. Uzi made it even easier. Example: Instead of
www.uzigaming.com/uid=9392928392489438
it is
www.uzigaming.com/<USERNAMEHERE>
Well if you read the whole thing, I said we could put a requirement for it like 200 post count, wich would most likely drastically add activeness, And yea you can rep by going to someone profile but who does that, more rep would be given.
Spork said:
I say no to all suggestions.
Shoutboxes
I've been on plenty of forums and I can say that most successful forums didn't have a shoutbox. For example, look at Hackforums. They keep a good amount of active posting because everything they want to share, they make it in a thread. If you add a shoutbox, people would share in the shoutbox and posting would decline dramatically.
Thanks
I would say no to this as we already have reputation. I see where you're going with it, but members don't have to be awarded for something funny they post. If it were numerous things, perhaps an award if they made many people laugh. I say no.
Reputation
I say no to this as well because the user could just PM the giver why they rep'ed them.
Cleary your a negative person.
Thanks- Didnt even respond to my suggestion, you said something else, then say no,
reputation- Thats cleary not my point, and you can already comment why if you havent noticed.
Shoutbox- you cleary havent read my topic fully either but, whatever.
I Have also been on many sites, and probably more then you, yes some with shoutboxes are un-successful but I have seen the same amount or even more without that have no shoutboxes
And If you havent noticed there are sites more succesful then HF with shoutboxes. TTG, XMB, etc.
Cleary the goods outway the odds,
And if there is no change, how will there be evolution?:yes: