Blogs, reviews and forum posts. Community involvement key.

I think it would be really cool if their was a way you could rates peoples blogs with a thumbs up or down. Then have a part of the main page where highly rated user blog posts will automatically be displayed. The same thing should happen for user reviews and highly active discussion threads.

This is a community driven site in the purest sense so making things like user blogs, reviews, forum posts and discussion etc a key component of the GB experience is very important. On the Bombcast you guys should then discuss what we're all talking about. 1up.com used to do that kind of thing (not so much any more) and it was a big hit with the community.

Just think about it.

I agree, because I've read some good reviews so far

Yeah, like blogs with a certain amount of thumb ups are on the front page or something like that.

"Yeah, like blogs with a certain amount of thumb ups are on the front page or something like that.
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I'm pelvic thrusting this to the top because I think it's an important issue to be discussed amongst the community.

It would be cool to have a lot of things, like a user blog page and tagging, and submissions history, and a more organized forum, and perhaps more mods, and the ability for people to send a ban request, and many other things.

Still early but the community is the key thing to this all.

Early days still so i'm not suggesting this stuff be implemented post haste or anything. Just wanting to gauge community opinion on it.

would be good, as hundreds of user reviews can appear on one game

It would be nice to have a feature similar to that. The highest rated user reviews could somehow be worked into the wiki or at least appear at the top of a list somewhere. Everyone loves the tops of lists.