- sharpace77
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
Basically, I make the best topics ever.
Feedback!
Duardo: This thread is locked for being stupid.
cortana 5 : It's perpetually my time of the month and I'm just grouchy.
Foman: I see absolutely no reason, either theoretical or practical, that this is not a superb idea. Excellent work, my friend.
Disclaimer: I've been pondering this idea for a while, and I would just like to state that I realize that this feature isn't really essential nor will it necessarily improve functionality. I almost didn't even create this topic because it's more experimental and idealistic than practical, but I'd still like to get the Community's feedback on it.
THE IDEA
The basic premise of this idea is to replace the current forums with one forum with every topic in it. Now before you guys go all crazy on me, there would be filters so that you would only see the posts you're interested in. Say you wanted to browse The Community and The Flood at the same time, you could set the filters to sift out everything that is not tagged with those two key words. In addition, the filter would include a search function (much like the search bar we already have) that filters through topic content to find certain words or phrases.
TECHNICALITIES
The system would operate like so:
1. User creates topic. Between their body and the 'functionality' buttons, there would be another field that allowed the user to check the topics that their thread is relevant to (i.e. Community, Reach, Off-Topic, etc.). There would also be a custom field in which the poster could add whatever tags they wish.
2. After topic is posted, all users would see it on the forum page without filters. Say a user wanted to filter the topics they can see, they would alter the filter where the forum banner currently is. There would be check boxes for each of the main topics (community, universe, flood, reach, halo 3, optimatch, gallery, etc.), a field to type in other custom tags, as well as a search bar that would go through and filter by thread content. This would also include a 'match all' or 'match one' option.
3. After the filter is applied, topics are only shown that relate to the user's specified criteria.
4. Once a topic is clicked on, there is a drop down menu under the post title that shows the metadata for the topic (main topics, tags, creation date, etc.)Obviously this would require a complete overhaul of the current system and probably isn't practical, but do you think this would be beneficial or just cause problems?
BENEFITS:
-Can view multiple forums at the same time.
-Search bar is more useful/obvious.
-Posting to more than one forum if applicable (i.e. ideas about site improvement for game tracking. This would apply to both the game in question's forum and the community forum.)
-Easier moderation with off topic posts (Instead of locking or moving a topic if it's in the wrong 'forum' a ninja would simply change the tags.)
-Greater unity among the forums (No longer would we have Floodians or 'Reach N00Bs' because they would all be in the same 'forum')
-Greater visibility for underrated forums (Posts in the News, Universe, or Gallery forums would no longer be ignored since they would show up on the front page with all the others.)
DRAWBACKS
-Potential for abuse.
-Spam now could be sent to all forums (a way to limit this would be to limit the number of topics a thread could be in)
-Could get crowded.
TL;DR
HEY! LET'S MAKE ON FORUM WITH FILTERS WHERE WE CAN SEE ONLY WHAT WE WANT TO!
NOTE: Again, I know we don't NEED this, but I'm still interested in The Community's thoughts on this subject. Would it improve things? Would it make things easier? Is it even practical (for a site update way in the future)? Try to steer away from the fact that this idea probably won't happen soon and ask what it would be like if it were implemented.