General Discussion Forum

• Bring back the Edit link in the image viewer (with checkboxes and all on the window that appears). It is easier to handle Deletion Requests that way... I can link images that way, too (another way of doing it). Or add a Delete option... but I prefer the Edit link...
  
• Let me change captions from the image viewer. (In case the first point above is not implemented.) Now that the thumbnails are resized smaller than they actually are I find myself looking at the images on the image viewer (then pressing Back and Edit Page to change the caption) more frequently than I used to (I could use multiple tabs in my browser... but it would be simpler not to).
• While editing Images, let me Add new gallery from another game / page. (This is a very silly suggestion, I guess, and not my preferred way of doing it... I'm saying it just in case it is wanted to keep the drag-and-drop style). It would work just like Add new gallery, except that what you type for the name will be a search for a game / character / whatever gallery instead. (A Create New gallery option would be needed, too, in case the gallery doesn't exist yet). Once you select a result from the search any image you drag to this gallery will be linked to that other gallery in some other page. (This would be a drag-and-drop style replacement for the missing edit button ->Search for a new gallery to attach this image to on images. I prefer the older method. What was needed under the old system was multiple selections). Right now I have to go to the other page(s) and use Add Image -> Search Site (or My Images if I uploaded it recently).
  
• Most important of all: let me select multiple images using Shift and Ctrl combinations. Not just one by one (multiple selections where I have to click one by one). Dragging and dropping can be unnecessarily "painful" without this. One by one would be better than not being able to do it, however.
  
• While posting images inside a gallery, let me "redirect" an image to another gallery just after I uploaded them to a page. I tried deleting an image, thinking it would just remove it from the current gallery so I could drag it to another, but it just disappeared. If it could stay in the page (maybe darkened) and I could drag it again, it would work, I think. I could do this very easily before.

• Delegate the choosing of images that show up on game pages / character pages to users with a certain amount of points (10000?, 20000?). Some "changing image wars" might break out, like with the default image, but I guess (and hope) it wouldn't be so bad.... If game pages should be controlled more by mods / staff... then just for character pages.
  
• For game pages mostly, but maybe the 3 "squares" that show images should be made to be of a similar aspect ratio as most of the images that will be shown there (automatically, choosing a single aspect ratio that works best). On adult games, for example, the areas are "widescreen" but I still haven't created such a game page with "widescreen" screenshots, so the squares should be 4:3, I think, to better display the screenshots...

"Zenexo said:

"If this is suggestions for forums then this site DESPERATELY need SIGNATURES! I dont get it, how can a forum not have sigs? Also next they need to have it where you can know what threads you posted in or not. In the forums there is no indication of what thread you have posted in. It really bugs me, add these two options and you got a member for life."

Sigs will never happen ever. That's the word from the TOP of the TOP.

As for the second thing, I really don't get what you mean."

The pencil means I've posted in the topic.

"Also, it'd be really nice for a feature that only shows topics with replies to posts I've made. I hate having to manually go to each topic to see if there's any replies."

"Why the hell don't guides count for points? They're adding information, however subjective. They add as much content to pages as images do, and they take a hell of a lot longer."

"LordAndrew said:

"Chiaro said:

"Also, it'd be really nice for a feature that only shows topics with replies to posts I've made. I hate having to manually go to each topic to see if there's any replies."

There's no real way of knowing whether someone has actually replied to one of your posts.

Just the fact that someone posted in a thread after you did is enough, really. Topics I've posted in with replies.


LordAndrew said:

Chiaro said:

"Why the hell don't guides count for points? They're adding information, however subjective. They add as much content to pages as images do, and they take a hell of a lot longer."

There's no moderation or approval process for guides. You could write whatever you want. But write a good guide and you'll get real recognition for it in the form of views and positive feedback. "

Fair enough. But what about those of us that do image moderation? I get no points from that, and that's still managing new information entering the site."

"Lies said:

"O hai there Andrew.

Your complaint is valid Chiaro, but right now points are simply for measuring contributions to the wiki system you submit yourself. You can't exactly quantify a guide, whereas you can know how many images someone has uploaded, or how many articles they've edited.

However, data is being logged about things such as image moderation, and the team is planning on launching a "trophies" system later this year that will provide you with recognition for things such as writing guides and doing image moderation, which should hopefully be retroactive. They won't be points, but you should get some recognition for doing things around the site besides fuxing with the wiki.

Sounds like a decent idea, since the issue right now is that most articles have all the images/words they need, from what I've seen. The ones that don't are the incredibly obscure, which I obviously can't find if I haven't heard of it. So we're stuck in this blockade from getting any points. When a new game is announced, since we're below 1,000 points, our edits are moderated, so the others who have more than 1,000 points get priority for what the article says. The system worked back in July, but now we're at a standstill, in my opinion."