Customer Feedback (NOTE: Topic split, read first post!!)

[Skyone]

It's time for a revamp! The moderation is asking for your help with improving these forums to make your experience here more pleasant. Of course, who knows the forums better than you all! We're looking for realistic and constructive criticism and suggestions relating to the way that the forums run in its current state. These suggestions can regard specific issues or possibly ideas that you've been brewing up for a while.

Current ideas (will append user suggestions):

• An integrated wiki to replace the reference forums which will create a more organized and included.
• Combining less active forums (convert 'Arcade' forums into a 'Miscellaneous' forums).
• Purging and cleaning existing forums - namely the Trading Post's age-old threads. Also, auto-purging of thread in the Trading Post set to ~2 weeks.
• Wiping out spambots and old users with 0 posts to clean up our members list.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated and constructive towards a better forum!

Thank you all,
Skyone & The Moderation

Edit by Bic: The whole LOTWRDB debacle took over the thread, and it was locked for that reason. Since we still want your suggestions on ways to improve the forum, and still want to settle the other issue, I split the topic and unlocked both halves. Please keep the discussion/debate on each subject in the appropriate thread.

All discussion regarding the LOTWRDB issue is now in the 'Let's clear the air' thread, linked here.

[underclocked]

Well, for starters, all the locked threads in the trading post could be deleted. No point in having a thread still there when everything is sold, bought, gone, etc.

Deleting all the zero posters would be okay as long as they are completely inactive. When I first started coming here I never posted but was still always on here reading work logs or gathering information for projects. Maybe if they've been registered for a certain amount of time and have no posts or something. Or we could just force them to post I guess

A wiki system or something would be very nice, but we all know how that always ends up. POD was great. I use to visit that site daily for all my portable help.

Someone needs to make a list of what we need for what consoles( voltages, size, pinouts, etc.) and then just copy and paste from stickys or whatever until we have a nice page of info for each console. It would be nice for new comers to go to one page and find the dimensions of the SNES board, how much power they need, where to wire the screen they're using, hell even where to cut the controller so they can split it into two. And were gonna needs pictures. LOTS of good quality pictures.

Didnts someone make a 'How to take good pictures' guide a few years back?

[nevermind1534]

• Wiping out spambots and old users with 0 posts to clean up our members list.

Maybe ones who haven't logged in for a good amount of time.

Well, for starters, all the locked threads in the trading post could be deleted. No point in having a thread still there when everything is sold, bought, gone, etc.

They are saved with the idea that we can reference back to them. Maybe move them to an archived completed deals forum?

[underclocked]

Why do we need a reference for a NES that was bought a year ago? I don't quite understand what you mean. Whats the point in keeping threads older than a couple months in the trading post. If someone got jipped on here keeping the thread longer than a month wouldn't help any.

[nevermind1534]

Why do we need a reference for a NES that was bought a year ago? I don't quite understand what you mean. Whats the point in keeping threads older than a couple months in the trading post. If someone got jipped on here keeping the thread longer than a month wouldn't help any.

We can see what they sold for.

[underclocked]

Maybe just a sticky with a list of prices for things. NES in mint condition, 30 bucks. SNES with broken shell, 15 or whatever; you get the idea. That seems like it would be more helpful and simpler for people. If that's what your getting at anyways.

[ghosstt]

I'd say put all the done deals into a merged thread titled "Done Deals". You never know what you might need it for, so it's always good to have.

My 2cents on the wiki;

I think the reason the wiki has failed so many times is obviously from lack of contribution. It seemed like the first one we had, there were a bunch of people contributing, but none of the (I don't know how to put this) "Big name posters". I think if everyone, even guests that read through the topics, saw people like Life of Brian, Sky, Bacteria, Bic, Triton, LifewithKetchup, etc, they would be compelled to read it, just like they are compelled to read the topics they make. I'm not saying that no one else should help, but if the regular members saw the big guys helping, it might make them help too.
We also need A SET LAYOUT for the wiki. Each console page should have something like:

(Just a rough idea)
TITLE
intro paragraph about the console | Info Box
[Little shortcutbox thing] |
[Screens] |
[Cases] |
[Tips and Tricks] |

If every page were like that, things would be much smoother to get to, and add information to. It also should HAVE THE INFORMATION on the wiki. Not links to people's posts on the forums, which I recall happened a lot on the first one. We could even do pages for people's completed work logs, and have it on the wiki, not a link.


tldr;
We need an organized structure backed by the big names, with good info.

[Aguiluz]

• Wiping out spambots and old users with 0 posts to clean up our members list.

Maybe ones who haven't logged in for a good amount of time.

I say people with zero posts and have not logged in for a good amount of time. Who knows, they could return!

[schmellyfart]

I think that creating a completed deals forum would be uneccessary work for the mods, after all, we do have a Feedback thread.

[nevermind1534]

I think that creating a completed deals forum would be uneccessary work for the mods, after all, we do have a Feedback thread.

But that just shows the seller's name and if they were good or bad, usually nothing about what was sold, price, etc.

[mikeyg]

I think that creating a completed deals forum would be uneccessary work for the mods, after all, we do have a Feedback thread.

But that just shows the seller's name and if they were good or bad, usually nothing about what was sold, price, etc.

Why do you need to know what was sold and the price? Can't you just decide on the price between the seller and buyer. Find something reasonable.

[nevermind1534]

I think that creating a completed deals forum would be uneccessary work for the mods, after all, we do have a Feedback thread.

But that just shows the seller's name and if they were good or bad, usually nothing about what was sold, price, etc.

Why do you need to know what was sold and the price? Can't you just decide on the price between the seller and buyer. Find something reasonable.

That's how you find something reasonable. If you don't want that, you don't have to use it

[wallydawg]

I think that creating a completed deals forum would be uneccessary work for the mods, after all, we do have a Feedback thread.

I like how Digital Press has it, everyone has their own thread for feedback. It's a lot easier than navigate then one giant thread.

[nevermind1534]

I think that creating a completed deals forum would be uneccessary work for the mods, after all, we do have a Feedback thread.

I like how Digital Press has it, everyone has their own thread for feedback. It's a lot easier than navigate then one giant thread.

That's how we also have it on TheBestCaseScenario. The way that it is now, though, you can just use the browser's search feature to search the list on the first page, to see whether or not they're a scammer.

[Basement_Modder]

We need a forum for computer-related questions, and perhaps allow guests to post again. That will make it so that those people who post one question, read the answer, then never post again don't clutter up the member list. Also, the zero-post people deletion is good. There are 68 pages of no-post members, we cant expect them all to come back, can we? I say, if they haven't logged-in in the last 8 months, trash it.