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 Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:26 pm
Please don't post any suggestions in this thread. There is a new suggestion list to post in titled "GGN Suggestion List." This thread is being saved for Pirula who is going to review all of the suggestions and then tell me which are possible and which aren't.Original credit goes to Arethic for starting this listGGN 2.0 Suggestions List
Please review the full second post of suggestions before posting a new suggestion.
This way you can see if that function has been suggested yet or not so you don't repeat : )
Please note, if you suggested something, please give me about a day or two to get it listed.
I'll try to list/edit new suggestions and stuff daily, but there is the slight chance I can't always do so.
Please note, if you are making a suggestion on something unlisted,
please do try to be as detailed as you can so i've a general idea : P
Original thread was made by Angsty Shem, original credit goes to him.
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:32 pm
Current Suggestions and Modifications
This is the current list of suggestions made for the GGN.
They are sorted into sub-categories based on features/objects of the GGN 2.0.
Please keep in mind, no matter how much you would like to see one of these things implemented,
please do not actually post it redundantly and suggest it again, if its suggested, then its suggested. Styles/Layouts and Visual MODs No underline
Basically remove the underline style for sub-forum names, but keep it so the colour still changes on mouse over.
New memberlist
Make memberlist more like the main Gaia Memberlist
Basically give it more detailed member details, add sorting/ordering.
Custom Themes
Provide your guild a custom theme and layout (to a certain extent)
Pending Invites Notice
There used to be a little notice at the bottom of guilds' home pages where crew or higher could see a notice saying something like "You have invites pending", it got removed awhile back though.
Allow BBCode in invites
Get invite PMs to process BBCode to make customizing the invite PMs a bit more.
Sub-forum description
Be able to give sub-forums a sub-description that will show up underneath the main sub-forum title.
Move Moderation buttons
Move them up from the bottom a bit, or copy the section and add it near the top too
'Invite user' in profiles
In profiles, add in a type of 'Invite this User' button for users that have crew+ in any guild, where then they get taken to a page where they can invite the user to their guild (or one of their guilds, was suggested if there is more than guild, have them selectable from a drop down box)
Move 'Report this guild' and 'Quit Guild'
Was suggested to move these to the bottom perhaps
Multiple 'Sections' on Guild homepage
Make it so there are separate editable sections on the guild homepage for different things (wiki style?)
'Important' Announcement Highlight
Ability to make an Announcement 'Important' tagged, where its name will be bold and coloured uniquely for a period of time. Improvements and Add-ons Arrange/Delete Sub-forums
Title says it mostly, just the ability to manually arrange the position of the sub-forums and delete them (possibly get a refund?)
Regional category
Basically just give new regional category options for different countries/states
Select 2+ Categories
Topic basically describes this, just select a main category and sub-categories.
Topic (Thread) Subscription
Subscription system for the GGN
Find own posts
Search history for GGN similar to forums.
Sub-forums within sub-forums
Basically as the title says, structure sub-forums within sub-forums.
Hide 'Crew' sub-forums.
Hide the crew toggled sub-forums from non-staff members of a guild.
Individual status of Subforums
Allow Hidden/Private/Public individual settings for sub-forums.
Calender System
Basically have a guild calender system for guild events/birthdays/etc.
GGN Tagging
Finish the 'Tags' system for the GGN >_>
Guild Announcements
Display a guild icon beside users' avatars when a new announcement is posted in one of their guilds. Miscellaneous Suggestions Accept Forum Rules
Basically allow guilds to have a page where they request to join, where they have to read guild rules and click a checkbox stating they read them.
Inter-guild competitions and contests
I think the title sorta explains this one? o.O
Art arena
In-Guild art arena type system
Guild Crests
Guilds can have a Crest type icon that will users with that guild can use
Cross-Linked Guilds
Basically set it so fully different guilds can share the same memberlist and such.
Keywords for searching
Let users search for guild keywords rather than guild names.
GGN Voting
Similar to the main forums topic thumbs up/down voting, except for guilds.
Sub Details a) You have to be a member of the guild to rate it, b) The order is based on percentage of members who gave the guild a thumbs up. For example, Guild A has 100 members, and 25 gave it a thumbs up. That's 25%. Guild B has 1,000 members, and 200 gave it a thumbs up. That's 20%. Therefore, Guild A is ordered above Guild B
"Who's viewing"
Basically show who's all in/viewing the guild currently
Disable Donations
In short, disable the ability for anyone to 'Donate' to the Guild Donations Pool. Crew/VC/Captain Related Guild Ranks
Display the rank (Captain, etc) of the member under their name in the guild in topics.
More Detailed permissions system
Basically be able to more finely define permissions for crew members and what they can do.
Change Captain/VC Name
Be able to change the default 'Captain'/'Vice Captain' rank names to something else.
Homepage Preview
Ability to preview changes to homepage.
Keywords Search
Captains/VC can search their guild via keywords of sorts (old style searching)
Guilds Trading
Make it so guilds can be sold/transfered ownership via the bank.
Mass Moderating
Bring back the old mass-moderation system
Deleted Posts
Allow Captain/VC/Crew to see deleted posts
Log join requests better
Show who accepted join requests.
Rejection Logs
Log reasons for why someone was declined join request
'Rollback'
Completely reset a guild (Clear all posts, topics, memberlist [excluding captain], stats)
Log quits
Activity log will log when a user quits
PM Notification on joins
Can be toggled on/off, and can choose who all to send notifications to
Log all topic/post edits
Activity log will log when edits are made to posts
Temporary Bans
Allow temporary bans which will be removed after a certain period of time.
Crew Mailing
Mass PM all Crew members only
Crew self-demote
Allow crew members to self-demote themselves from crew
Mass approval/denial
Make the join requests system more friendly for doing a mass deny/approval.
Quick edit homepage
Add a button for captains/VC on homepage to take them directly to edit homepage page.
Split Topics
Ability to 'Split' topics into seperate topics Members Related Homepage skip
Members registered to the guild go straight the forum and skip the home page
Different ranks
Ability to have different 'rank' like titles for members
Membership statuses
Pending, Active, Passive, etc statuses.
Report a post/Topic
GGN Reporting system for posts and topics (would go to guild staff)
Ranks Point System
Basically allow a guild to have some sort of Ranking Point system
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:34 pm
Accepted Suggestions
Suggestions which will be implemented in time The ability to PM all members at once (Mass Member PMs)
Manually Assign Subforums Order Implemented Features
Suggestions/Features Implemented in Ability to toggle feature to recieve invites on/off
Planned Features
Features to come which weren't 'Suggested' so to say. Guild Quests (More details on this to come eventually)
Guild Halls (Towns integration, more details to also come soon)
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Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 8:35 pm
List of all Suggestions
This is a list of all the suggestions people have always made.
These basically fall under the unlikely to happen category.
However listed for sake of avoiding repeat reports and to explain what makes them difficult.
(Please note, these are not 'Impossible', as some day they may -actually- be put in) Individual Topics Permissions System (Anthon Noire)
This is basically a system similar to something suggested in the past by people. It would allow you to create individual topic permissions so that you could assign only certain users (or users with a certain 'flag' of some type) the ability to read or post in said topic.
GGN Search System (Xynk)
Basically implement a 'Search' system like the main site used to have waaaay back, except only for the guild being requested to search from, not the entire GGN. (User must be a member of the guild to search from said guild, etc etc)
Restore 'New topics' flag for subforums (Anthon Noire)
Title explains it pretty good xp Officially Rejected/Unlikely Ideas & Suggestions
Some suggestions are impossible or too problematic to implement.
This is a list of those suggestions following with a reason why after it.
(Portions of the list taken from an edited version made by Vague) Directly access the guild funds for events hosted by the guild
Guild gold is only intended for purchasing guild features/use in guild quests.
Assign Crew for a specific thread/forum only
Subforum wise it would require massive coding and permissions implementation, thread wise it's not even be possible in phpBB to do so.
Fine members who misbehave
Users are not fined for breaking the TOS in the Forums. Users are warned when they break the rules in the Forums, and they should be warned here as well. You can enforce fines with banning if you choose, but this is unfair as it penalizes poorer users more.
Track poster IP Addresses
According to Kokoryta: "You can't track IPs in the forums and you have no need to do so in the GGN. neutral If you have problems with a member or members then contact a moderator."
Move posts from the GGN to the forums or vice versa
The GGN and the main Forums are on completely separate databases, so moving threads from one to the other is impossible.
PM saying you were added to the Captain's Guild
This required too much coding when the CG was mandatory, and is a moot point now that it functions like a regular guild.
Certain Member-Only Forums/Threads
A feature of this type would require too much coding and permission modifications to make, subforums however you do have the option of making crew only, but to implement it for certain member only threads would be massively difficult.
See names of those who voted in a poll
While you can usually see the names of those who have voted on Livejournal, Gaia != Livejournal. It would involve too much coding in both the forum and the GGN code to implement a feature that is not necessarily needed. If you want to see who has voted on a poll, ask voters to post their answers.
Replace the Gaia banner at the top of the page
"You cannot, will not, replace the Gaia header, it bears the logo of Gaia and there are probably copyright issues involved with it. Besides, it's embedded into the [site] code." This also makes custom colors/layouts unlikely.
List guilds (in search) alphabetically/by date created
The guilds are listed in the order they are for a specific reason. These statistics will be taken into account when guild questing has been implemented. In lists of a specific user's guilds, they are ordered by Guild ID #.
Threads in different colors
Again, would require massive coding, and it's not implemented in the main Forums, so it's not implemented here.
Music on the homepage
You may not embed or link to copyrighted music anywhere on Gaia, and use of other music is discouraged because some people find it startling or annoying, and it takes forever to load on dial-up.
Guild-run shops
While a nice idea, it would be difficult to implement. It is instead recommended that you create a thread in you guild's forum reserved specifically for selling items.
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Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:57 pm
Temporary membership-
The accepted user is allowed membership to the guild for an amount of time set at acceptance of the request; Trial end would be set in a number of ways, from Review, in which moderators would be alerted when the end of their trial is near, then whichever crew member gets to it decides if that user should be allowed full member status; to statistic limits such as # of posts or some sort of activity average.
On the review page it would display statistics about the user, such as in guild posts, threads made, maybe some sort of interaction calculation to see if they've just been spamming buy themselves off in the corner, as well as links to pages about the user, profile, friends list, guild list, main forum activity.
A practical application of this would be, for this guild, to allow gaian's who have yet to buy a guild, but are seriously considering, to join and actively seek info. We would set it to review, at the end of their trial period we would check if they've become a captain, if they have we make them a full member, if not we go on with our daily business, the trial expires, and they're removed from the guild at the appropriate time.
This would solve the problem of having criteria for membership then having to manually make sure people live up to it, or in the case of review having to remember.
Also for the sake of time I suggest a system of save-able trial templates where all the criteria, periods, maybe notes, are all preset and accessible via drop down.
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Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:28 pm
Just had a thought; is there currently a 'developers blog' directly and exclusively relating to the guilds? If not could we get one? Somewhere Pirula said that in the begining most of the changes are going to be fairly transparent, changing the framework to support what it missed so there's not really any way for us to judge how and what is going on. I'd mostly like this in terms of changes that cause glitches or solve glitches but also it would help to sustain hope in the future of the GGN.
If it's not practical to dedicate any one dev's journal to the guilds we'd gladly host it here as a locked thread
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