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I'd like to see some sort of 'standard actions' macro system

In example, over at SDRP, as I always reference, we run a number of subforums with a number of specific purposes, and specific practices on how a thread gets to some of those subforums.

Ideally, an RP created starts a thread in the main forum soas to best be able to attract members in the beginning, then someone in the crew reviews their RP and sorts it into one of three categories by quality, or the 'deadzone' if the thread completely failed to take off as many do. This creates room for five standard actions

1. The thread gets moved to level 1
2. The thread gets moved to level 2
3. The thread gets moved to level 3
4. The thread was created in a level subforum and is being locked for not following the rules
5. The thread has been deemed dead

the first three actions would consist of moving the thread, turning it into a sticky, then, currently, posting a list of it and any other threads that were moved by that person in that sitting in a sticky, more ideally would be to PM the thread creator, congratulating them on whatever level they achieved and making sure they have a link to the thread. something like:


The system would fill in the []s automatically so when I use the standard action to sort a thread I only push one button instead of moving it, turning it into a sticky, and typing or copypasting then altering a PM to them.

4 and 5 are pretty much the same, move the thread to the deadzone, make sure it's not a sticky or announcement, lock it, and send the owner a PM ether telling them the thread is dead, or scolding them for not following the rules

As I see it the options should include moving, locking, delete thread, delete post, thread level, ban creator, last poster or both, and message creator, last poster both, or in the thread; possibly for the last two giving a checklist option of all people that posted in the thread. The actions should be defined on a guild wide basis and accessible by dropdown menu, one for each post and one for the thread as a whole.

maybe add an option for whole thread actions to be applied en mass by checklist

I'd like to see some guild affiliation support; mainly right now my idea is for gaia to provide for each guild a url that will redirect to wherever their minibanner is set to, so if my guild is affiliated with yours and we choose to change our banner we don't have to send you the new link, it just does it automatically. It'd also be useful in the same way for signatures, with photobuckets exorbitant bandwidth limits nowdays it shouldn't be a problem for people to use my account's copy even with a very active guild.

the url could look something like this


But potentially there could be an actual system to affiliate through that will produce a page or [bbcode] inserted list for the homepage. such a list should have a way to specify how many columns wide to return it, and whether to use the minibanner or just the guild's name, plus maybe a divider. Also, in an affiliation system affiliated guilds should be informed when the membership of a guild changes, so they can make sure they still want to be affiliated.

yea, but that's more difficult, and you can't expect people to do things that are more difficult, plus maybe the guild did change management with out changing names, so the new people don't have access to the old host/account.

I suggested this because at a guild I crew on I was reviewing our affiliates and a number of them had new banners that they had not told us about, so we were still using the old banner

yano, since gaia and photobucket are practically the same company, they should get a deal where when a guild is made a photobucket account is created in it's name, or the process to creating one is completed as far as it can be without the user


I was having a thought before that I typed up and decided not to post; there should be a second way to remove a person from a guild, one that doesn't result in the member being marked Banned, being sent a letter saying they were Banned, something less hostile to denote that that they were not removed from the guild for doing anything wrong or breaking any rules or so on, maybe the guild changed hands or was clearing out inactive members. Instead mark them as Removed or something similar; I've been given more reasons for this. As any large guild crew knows, sometime you do have to ban people for breaking the rules, most guilds keep a list in a post about this, but gaia allows users to change their name so that list could easily become invalidated. So if only actually banned members were listed as banned, we wouldn't even need to keep the list because bans would be based on user ID #, not name, look at the user list and sort by membership and it will always give the name they have now.

again, you can't expect people to do it the more difficult way.

1. Photobucket =/= Gaia Interactive.
2. A 'dismiss' option has been pleaded for.
3. This is the GGN, we are used to doing it the work-around way. Like friends@gaia before that too was removed.

hey, here with another SDRP inspired suggestion.

As stated numerous times before, over there we house a large number of RPs, currently we are dealing with a situation where two members who are involved in a number of threads, some of which their own, will likely be removed from the guild. Obviously this presents a problem in that it will mess up more than just these two people and the people that were harmed by their actions. In my eyes the best solution to this would be to tell them that they will be removed at such and such time, giving them however long to settle things with the GMs of RPs they're in and put somebody else in charge of the ones they run, but the problem is nether I or any of the other crew are really on regularly, or have exceptional memory.

So what I'm suggesting is a 'Ban At' or 'Ban In' feature, that would allow us to take action now and have it carried out at a specified time or after a certain amount of time, ether one works just as well in my opinion. This would help to minimize the harmful impact of long standing members being removed for their actions. My only worry is that I can't quite imagine situations outside of RP guilds where it would be useful.