- Delta 15t
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- Exalted Mythic Member
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Soffish: Do not eat!
TWP Assistant Director.
We would also get tags like:
Corrupt
Ses pool
Bk's
Lame
Hopefully not, but someone would do it.
~Delta
Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
Just had a Ken moment:
Tagging
Right now when you go to search for a group, you see this page. What if there was a subcategory called "Search by style or genre" so people could narrow down on groups that suit their interest?
Tags would be typed out by the group's administrators to communicate to others what kind of group it is. For instance, a group dedicated to general discussion could have the tag "general discussion", and groups with that tag would pop up. Or maybe a group centered around Halo ODST could have that as its tag, allowing people to see all the relevant groups and join the one they feel best. Some groups might even have multiple tags, i.e. Forum Tryhards is both a Halo and general discussion group. You'd only be able to have 5 tags.
Suggested Tags that would pop up:
>Halo
>Custom Content and File Sharing
>Clans
>General Discussion
>Controversial Discussion
>Underground (no rules)
>Other Games
>Movies, Music, and other Entertainment
>Fanclub
>Help and Support
>Bungie.net
>Other
But this raises one major concern--with all these groups showing up, how will people know which one to join? That's where a rating system comes in
Ratings
Fact is, some groups out there just have better atmospheres than others. Rather than try and join each one to find out for ourselves, there could be an automated system that helped us decide (at least when searching by tags). The system could assign a rating based on user activity relative to creation date (groups that are still active over long periods of time will have higher ratings). It could also take into account how many people leave the group per month (it could be assumed that they didn't like the group).
For now, those are the only two algorithms I could think of. We obviously don't want member count to play a role in this because people would boost with alt accounts. And we don't want it to be based on the collective trust rating of members ITG because then people will treat mythic members like messiahs who come to resurrect poorly-rated groups (I see some of you mythics smiling right now). And lastly, we don't want the ratings to be controlled manually by users because then they'd boost, as people will inevitably do.
While the rating idea is a bit sketchy, I think tags would be very helpful for finding a private group to join. I'm not sure if this was brought up and shot down but I'm still curious either way.