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A few updates - Darth-Apple - April 3rd, 2020 We've been working hard on the forum over this past week. A few quick updates that I wanted to share!
Regards, -Darth Apple RE: A few updates - MofaMF - April 6th, 2020 Someone is spending their quarantine time wisely! Well done dude, excellent job. RE: A few updates - Darth-Apple - April 8th, 2020 Thank you, MofaMF! One quick note. New feature in profiles. Check out the ratings: Every user will have a new field in their profiles for their average thread rating. This rating is an aggregate average of all threads that you've created on the forums. We are giving a pilot test of this for the next few weeks and we will see how it goes! RE: A few updates - s3_gunzel - April 8th, 2020 (April 8th, 2020 at 10:05 PM)Darth-Apple Wrote: Every user will have a new field in their profiles for their average thread rating. I can't remember the last time I even rated a thread, so imagine *my* surprise when I found out today that there was a plugin that not only utilised, but expanded upon, and even pushed the importance of that feature. RE: A few updates - Darth-Apple - April 8th, 2020 Haha glad you like it. I'm threw it together tonight, going to release the plugin soon. The idea is that it will give a good overall "content rating" for users on the website. RE: A few updates - Guardian - April 9th, 2020 Content rating is a good fit for MS due to the nature of the place. May not be as great for say a general discussion forum. That said, hopefully it will generate some interest/action for people by choosing to actually rate things more often now. RE: A few updates - Darth-Apple - April 9th, 2020 (April 9th, 2020 at 12:08 AM)Guardian Wrote: Content rating is a good fit for MS due to the nature of the place. May not be as great for say a general discussion forum. That said, hopefully it will generate some interest/action for people by choosing to actually rate things more often now. It should work out well for us just because it provides an incentive to write good quality content. That said, I've never seen a plugin like this anywhere, so if we have issues, we'll evaluate on an as-needed basis. I'm putting a minimum threshold setting in to prevent averages from being calculated until at least a few ratings are available. This should (hopefully) help prevent abuse. Edit: Should I have a forum select feature as well? Allows certain boards to be included and others to be excluded, might be useful for keeping it to project-journal type creations here. RE: A few updates - Guardian - April 9th, 2020 (April 9th, 2020 at 12:12 AM)Darth-Apple Wrote: I'm putting a minimum threshold setting in to prevent averages from being calculated until at least a few ratings are available. This should (hopefully) help prevent abuse.Good thought, makes sense Edit: Should I have a forum select feature as well? Allows certain boards to be included and others to be excluded, might be useful for keeping it to project-journal type creations here. [/quote]That would be awesome. At minimum I would say exclude the forum games, and maybe even off-topic. If you could include speciffic ones you get more the overall result you're looking for. RE: A few updates - Darth-Apple - April 9th, 2020 Just added the feature. We haven’t set it up yet. The functionality is there and I’ll throw some boards into it later! RE: A few updates - Darth-Apple - April 9th, 2020 I just set it up to only count ratings in project/creative arts related boards. It skips out on the general discussion sections, makestation related sectons, and so forth. Ratings will fluctuate a bit as we adjust the boards that are included, but it should be a little better now. |