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Posted by: Pimp at Sea
Well for the Search, I would like it to be pretty indepth. I would like to be able to find thread/posts made on a certain date, post made by a user, threads in general, that sort of stuff. If it's going to take awhile to make it, which it has, I would like to see it be a top notch search.
I would like a Search which allows you to effectively search the forums, like Pimp at Sea said, and an improvement of the Group Search. Currently, it only looks for chapters that begin with your search term, and this is inadaquate. If you are looking for a group about a certain topic, and if this group had the topic in its name but had The in front of it, or didn't start with that word, you would never be able to find it with the current Search.
The Karma System is my second most wanted improvement. The way I would like for it to work would be that at first, only mods and above could give out points. They would just give or subtract a point from somebody when they deem it necessary while reading the forums in their normal course of duty, there could be a button for it by people's names, it shouldn't be a big deal. Then once a user got X number of points, he/she would recieve X reward (custom avatar, private forum, being able to use colors in their post, some totally awesome that I didn't think of, whatever you guys think is good). Then once a user got Y amount of points, he/she would be able to give out Z amount of points each day/week. Then more deserving people get their deserved points, without the mods having to work harder. Limiting the amount of points non-mod users can give out would help prevent abuse. Another thing that would prevent abuse would not allowing normal users to give a point to the same person twice in a row.
Posted by: Psyched
Second, I think the Column needs to change. I want to see the sidebar back, a more complex database system (as before), and many of the other cool features that used to be around. More security options would be cool too, such as a public forum.
Psyched summed up my feelings fairly well. Updating the Chapter Spotlight and implementing the fabled 7th Column Council would also greatly improve The 7th Column, which could use a revitalization. I would say that these things are as less important to me than the Karma System, but I would like to see them.
Fourth, dusting off 7themes and approving more themes and avatars would be great. Especially approving some more Myth avatars, there is a serious lack of those.
[Edited on 11/18/2005]