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Guzzista |
2 simple Discussion Forum suggestions
Nov 2 2009, 6:04 AM EST
| Post edited: Nov 2 2009, 6:07 AM EST
I know I've been harping on about the forum for a while now, but that's because I think it has awesome untapped potential to allow Wetpaint to grow further...hell, that's in all our good interest. Firstly, congratulations Wetpaint on the last discussion forum release. The fact that categories can be managed and sorted is a big step forward as it has made it infinitely more useable by simply being able to organise posts. Here are a couple of simple suggestions to further enhance the discussion forum which I think will totally transform it into a superb tool. 1:- A set of smileys/emoticons. Non-visual communication is a factor of online community membership. Human communication however involves far more than what is just being said. Smileys/emoticons are a simple way to enable peple to interact better by displaying the mood of the post, thus preventing mis-interpretation. Online communication is worldwide and regional cultural differences can result in people interpreting a message in ways that may not have been intended by the writer. An emoticon can help the reader to tune in to the mood of the writer. 2:- Images/Links It would be a great improvement to be able to post images on a discussion board post. Even if it is just images from the wiki's photo gallery. Doing this would allow members to really brag about their passion and would facilitate more detailed discussion. Similarly with links. Allowing external url links into the body text of a discussion post will enhance the discussion forum experience and at the same time willpropagate Wetpaint further. Just these two simple additions will imo transform an ok wiki feature into a fully interactive useable tool. Keep up the good work guys. Regards Joe Do you find this valuable? |
edwardandbellafan |
1. RE: 2 simple Discussion Forum suggestions
Nov 2 2009, 12:08 PM EST
That is a great suggestion, I have not heard of anymore updates on the discussion forum yet, but this is a great suggestion.Andrew Do you find this valuable? |
shadowmlb |
2. RE: 2 simple Discussion Forum suggestions
Nov 2 2009, 5:06 PM EST
Interesting suggestion on number 1. Haven't heard much about people demanding smileys since they usually make their own (For example. :D :) :( >.< etc.)Overall though I'm going to disagree with what you have suggested. Smileys can be created yourself, and I find smileys made for the purpose of posting on websites are ugly. I do not think that images would be a good idea, there is simply not enough room in the threads where images could be posted without taking up a huge amount of space. I will agree that there should be external links that are not limited to our sites. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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Guzzista |
3. RE: 2 simple Discussion Forum suggestions
Nov 10 2009, 5:54 PM EST
Yep, smileys can be created by each person using the symbol keys but I have to say I have no idea myself what they are beyond a happy one :-) or a sad one :-(Any forum you use will have a basic selection to pick from...and if the ones you've come across are ugly, I'm sure wetpaint would be able to design ones that look good and fulfil the purpose. As far as images taking up room in a post, this is not necessarily so. If you look at the space taken by my original post above, there would be ample space there for a 500 pixel size image. If, as per my suggestion, images on the discussion posts are limited to images already on the wetpaint site it would be possible to insert an image using the html link from the site's photo album and thus negating the need to upload them sepparately. Do you find this valuable? |
Andering_J_REDDSON |
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Nov 11 2009, 9:49 AM EST
HTML/BB codes. I’d really like to see the ability to underline, italicize, bold, and strikeout material in threads (as it converts to the same if saved as a page).
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