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Trying something once will increace your chances of success, because you tried it. Try someting twice, and your chances increase yet again - seeing as you've done it. Try something a few thousand times, and your chances of success is exponentially increased; this increase would likely provide success every time
So, I've been thinking about this notifications system we've all been yammering about. It's great, I love it, but what if we're thinking small? What if we could make it. . . more?
What I had in mind is a set of options in our profiles. These settings would allow us users to stay In The Know about what we like and what's important in our forum life. The settings would normally be disabled, but if enabled a sub-list would appear/become usable/drop down containing:
*Thread creators get notifications if their thread is locked. (With or without explanation.)
*Subscription to a thread could allow a member to get updates if someone has quoted them in the thread later. (W/ choice of any and all quotes)
*Likes - we don't need a visible ego stick. This would just give a "nudge" to someone with a link to the post that was "liked". This allows us to give kudos in a personal way. I mean, I wouldn't want to embarrass burrito with how many more likes I get....
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(With or without user input)
While I'm sure there's more to be thought of, these are just a few. But wait. . . there's more (but not for us)!!
*(Master Moderators) Global Notifications: This would allow the Mods to not only mess with us on April Fools, but let us know on stuff that's pretty important. Things like an update to the rules, the CoC - ToU, or stosh's nekkid pics finally going up on Ebay. (W/ Mod Only Notifications)
*(Moderators) Thread Tally: Upon locking a thread, in a separate Mod Only notification page, they would get a notification of the lock and by whom (With or Without explanation) with a link to the thread.
--To make this actually efficient, I would highly suggest a "Search" function for the Mod Only notification page. This would allow them to simply search a users name; providing the full wrap sheet including bans/warnings. It doesn't make our mods' volunteering much easier compared to searching a persons post history, but it would provide a little more detail with a lot less work.
That's really all I have; I should probably get back to writing my paper. . . but first, I hope you guys liked this little twist on the notification feature.
Please discuss, and Thank You.
Credit to CTN 0452 9:
*Receive notifications about replies on a thread created the user.
*Private Group Notifications, just a few off of the top of my head: Group Security Setting for mass notification according to rank, subscription to news, plus everything involved above.
Credit to Geegs30
*My ideas
[Edited on 10.02.2011 2:41 PM PDT]