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I definetly don't want a karma system, I think it would be too easily exploited, and, like the leaderboards, people would do whatever it takes to be number one, and the members who just comeon to have fun will be rated N00bs or a loser, just because they don't have a lot of karma.

The Search Feature is not all that important to me, but, as stated above by many, I wish the Bunige team was more interactive, not just you and frankie and Achronos(and the rest of the on-line team)

  • 11.23.2005 9:21 AM PDT

Karma and paypal for the mods.

  • 11.23.2005 11:14 AM PDT

Content on the main page! Specifically: more inside Bungie stuff and forum news.

  • 11.24.2005 5:42 PM PDT

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Perhaps also a downgraded version of the site for the slow people.

  • 11.25.2005 6:31 PM PDT
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You mean the option to have Terminal as the default theme for all forums, right? :D

  • 11.25.2005 7:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sir Fragula
You mean the option to have Terminal as the default theme for all forums, right? :D


*cringes*

  • 11.25.2005 7:06 PM PDT

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  • 11.25.2005 8:26 PM PDT
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There are several things that I think Bungie should add to the list. But for sake of space I limit it to two and I'll keep them in order from the most important to the least..

1. Search Bar for all forums, including group forums. It's hard to find a thread that you posted in especially if it's been a few days.

2. Add a way to search through groups based on what they are about. The reason I say this is becuase many groups names don't reflect what they are about and it makes it hard to find a group that is in the interest you are looking for.

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  • 11.25.2005 9:12 PM PDT
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If I have to pick just two...

Updated content on Bungie.net pages like the Gallery, Webcams, and the 7th Column Community page.

And of course the forum search feature.

So basically it comes down to updating the existing content and making older content (forum content) more accessible.

  • 11.26.2005 6:11 AM PDT
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  • 11.27.2005 12:22 PM PDT
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Karma, council, search, nuff said.

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So the consensus seems to be:
some form of karma/level system on Bnet
the ability to search forums/groups/content
update the damn site more often
focus on the Groups features, 7th column in general

Anything else? With regards to search, what are you not finding or having difficulties in find that a search functionality would make easier?

What sorts of activities do you guys see the 7th Column Council doing?

Oh yeah, don't mind me. I'm just the management overhead.

  • 11.28.2005 11:17 AM PDT
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Posted by: Kuniklo
So the consensus seems to be:
some form of karma/level system on Bnet
the ability to search forums/groups/content
update the damn site more often
focus on the Groups features, 7th column in general

Anything else? With regards to search, what are you not finding or having difficulties in find that a search functionality would make easier?

What sorts of activities do you guys see the 7th Column Council doing?

Oh yeah, don't mind me. I'm just the management overhead.


Hi!

I'm thinking the council would be a bunch of active members who help keep the community side of things up to date - possibly with some sort of access to the 7th Column page (which I know lots of community members would like to see back as a sort of interactive community hub). Maybe approving news and community-wide events could be one of their responsibilites, as well as providing their own news and participating in various discussions.

  • 11.28.2005 11:44 AM PDT

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*Going along with what Psyched said*

The Council could also help to sort through submited Themes and Avatars, and filter out the useless. Maybe then pass on the hopefulls to Shishka(or whoever) for approval. I know for a fact that everyone would like to see the Spotlight up and running again, The Council could handle this.

As for the Search feature, I dont see it on the top of the list myself. It's main use would be to search for already existing threads on a subject. But half our Members cant even see an already existing thread on the subject, on the front page, so I think it would be wasted on them. Mostly I would like to see the Karma system implemented and the 7th Column Council formed, but thats just me.

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  • 11.28.2005 11:50 AM PDT

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and for the overal summery of what psyched, snow, I and many others want...We could like to see a 7th Column Council. We've been discussing it and thinking about jobs and..well everything. If there's one thing i would like to see, it would be the council. The council can restore peace and balance to the 7th Column once more.....what? starwars rip-off? pfft.

  • 11.28.2005 12:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kuniklo
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update the damn site more often


Right! Or remove those pages so they don't taunt us like that.(webcams, 7th Column page, and The Gallery.)


focus on the Groups features

Yes, alot of people including myself miss the group features. Features like the front page poll, the "who is online" feature. Those are the ones that come to mind right now.

With regards to search, what are you not finding or having difficulties in find that a search functionality would make easier?

Posts by Bungie employees. Most of the time these are the posts that give official answers, sugestions, and ask for feedback that we can be involved in. Threads such as this thread or Ninja on Fire's posts in the Optimatch forum. Occasionally I will be looking for an old post of mine or another post from some other member that was helpfull.

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Wow. I've never even heard of Kuniklo before. That's cool.

And what they all said for te Council, is correct. I, myself, am not on it(they already have like 20 chosen), but it would be quite nice. Community events, a weekly or monthly chapter spotlight(it's still on The Marty Army). Things of that nature.

The only time I would use the search feature is finding threads of mine in the flood. Going back 5 pages for a thread I made last night gets a little old. I envision a search bar. This bar would be where you type the name of a thread, and there would be two options on it: Current Forum, all forums. Then, there would be the advanced search. You could search by thread creator, title, number of posts even. There would be boxes you can check for all the forums, so you could limit a search to say, The Flood, The Septagon, and the Underground(useful if you can't remember what forum something was in).

  • 11.28.2005 1:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kuniklo
What sorts of activities do you guys see the 7th Column Council doing?

What it all comes down to is: You are busy. We have free time (sort of).

I see the council being a group of individuals that have shown their ability to work on the seventh column side of things. The council could, like others have said, organize events, manage seventh column news, and maybe work with avatars, themes etc. The trick is to give the council enough power to be productive, and make sure they're not crappy people/lazy bums.

One thing that I'd really like to see is the transformation of the Seventh Column webpage. I don't know if any employees share my vision, but I'd like to see that webpage transformed into something like a hybrid of the mainpage and the layout it has right now. News could be submitted and it would be shown under the "Overview" and "Spotlight" that's there right now. The news would be approved and often submitted by coucil members. Some of the things that the council members would do is already done by people scattered around here, but some of it isn't. There are some things we just can't do by ourselves.

Really, people's ideas of the council vary from person to person. It's hard to make out what they should do without knowing what they could do.

  • 11.28.2005 3:40 PM PDT
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Woohoo! Bungie showing interest in the council again!

Well everyone pretty much said what i wanted to say about the council.

  • 11.28.2005 3:52 PM PDT
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Woohoo! Bungie showing interest in the council again!

Well everyone pretty much said what i wanted to say about the council.


Yeah.

See, although the bnet web team works very hard, they are relatively small when compared to the size and scale of bnet. There are so many things we want/need, as mentioned in this thread. But the team just can't handle all of them. It would be great if the people of bnet could help do some of this stuff. Such as approving themes/avies.

  • 11.28.2005 4:03 PM PDT
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A cooler webcam and a karma system

  • 11.28.2005 5:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Kuniklo
Anything else? With regards to search, what are you not finding or having difficulties in find that a search functionality would make easier?


Just a thought. This would i assume be separate to the forum search, but it might be umm "nifty" to be able to search for members who joined on a specified year/month/day.

I say "nifty" because it isn't top of my wish list, but it may be quite cool and useful to have sometimes.

[Edited on 11/29/2005]

  • 11.29.2005 2:26 AM PDT

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  • 11.29.2005 6:58 AM PDT

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Posted by: Kuniklo

What sorts of activities do you guys see the 7th Column Council doing?



Chapter Spotlight. 7th column news page! Member spotlight, that would be cool.



Haveing the option for non-members to view your group forum would be nice.

[Edited on 11/29/2005]

  • 11.29.2005 4:05 PM PDT