User feedback and questions.

Oh. This forum looks really fun. I'll probably never dare to post a thread myself :p but I'll ask others silly, friendly questions once in a while.

Things seem to be going smoothly, I think? Good initiative, anyways!

Also, question: do we have to read through a whole thread when we want to ask someone something, to make sure that the question hasn't been answered before? Or could it be enough to read through the last page?

When I've skimmed through threads now, I read the first post of course, but some threads are already long and even though it's fun to get to know more about a person from reading them, maybe you sometimes want to know something specific and would rather just post that question than skim through it all to see if it's already been asked.
 
I think it's just common sense to read through a thread to make sure the question hasn't been asked before, lol. Though after a few pages I'm sure it would be forgivable???

Ctrl+f certain keywords if you want to find out quickly, I guess??
 
Yes, I suppose that could be common sense. So I read through some threads from people I know, and after that I couldn't come up with another question to ask without thinking really hard xD Might just be my bad imagination though, hehe.

But if you can never ask old (a few pages old at least) questions anew, then threads might eventually fade and die. The purpose of these threads... Is it to keep a library on a person's answers for others to read through, or is it for people to have fun and get to know each other in? Read-and-know or talk-and-get-to-know?

If it's the latter, I think we could disable post count in this forum and allow for questions to be asked again if it's been a certain amount of time since last. If the thread owner feels like it's too repetitive, they can just state that they don't want to answer since they've done it before. Right? :3

EDIT: ok, so taking back that about running out of questions and fading, because reading Sydian's many questions is really inspiring xD
 
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double posting to get attention lol merge them if it makes you angry

Maybe silly question but, are we allowed to post in threads that have passed on to the second page of the forum index if we find an interesting person there, or should we think that if a thread is almost a month old without the OP bumping it, they don't want people to post there anymore? I'd guess the former, but just want to make sure.

If we open this place up to non-supporters, there will be mooooooore threads so perhaps the first page should be forcibly extended to be longer than usual page indexes?
 
Red's Hawt Chibi Pelippers said:
double posting to get attention lol merge them if it makes you angry

Maybe silly question but, are we allowed to post in threads that have passed on to the second page of the forum index if we find an interesting person there, or should we think that if a thread is almost a month old without the OP bumping it, they don't want people to post there anymore? I'd guess the former, but just want to make sure.

If we open this place up to non-supporters, there will be mooooooore threads so perhaps the first page should be forcibly extended to be longer than usual page indexes?
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Well for me, it's more of a "I don't want to look like an attention *****" than anything else. I haven't been as a question in about two weeks, but I still check every day (disappointment :c) and will still answer questions until the heat death of the universe. However for people who have left the forum (like Forever??) or rarely check here probably aren't willing to answer questions.

Point is, if they bumped their thread once in the past month or otherwise beg for questions -passively-, they probably (probably!) still want to answer questions. Though I can't speak for everyone.
 
So, I want to bring this discussion back to eventually bringing more people in here.

I would like to have more people around here. I don't know about you guys, but I see the same people around here that have been around here since the beginning and I see maybe one or two stragglers coming in every now and then that didn't think this idea was the best when it was suggested, but wanted to try it out anyway after some time had passed. It's getting stale, like its been said by one or two or three or four or probably more people.

For now, I don't want to open it up to omgeveryone, because I don't think that that way will work out the best. A new forum usually means high traffic, because people are curious about it. Doesn't mean that they'll post, but given the nature of the forum, I think we'd get a lot of people who would post.

So, while eventually I would like this to be open for everyone, doing it all at once would be overwhelming. I had a passing thought earlier, which I posted here, of allowing more people to request access to this forum by requesting to join a usergroup. Some of you guys may remember that beta Wifi center Audy was working on. Remember that? Well, for those who don't, it was a beta forum that Audy was testing out that would have replaced the Trade Corner in the way that threads were dealt with. Anyone could gain access to the forum by requesting access to the beta usergroup. That could be done in the group membership page of the User CP (https://www.pokecommunity.com/profile.php?do=editusergroups). Members of that group gain the ability to view that beta forum.

That's what I would like to do with this forum. Allow members to request access to this forum by requesting access to the usergroup. They'll be accepted based on the activity level here. If they aren't accepted, we'll shoot them a PM explaining why and to just try again at a later date.

So we'd pretty much be inviting them in in little herds.

Before I bring this up in HQ as a way of adding more people here, I'd like to gather thoughts on it. Thoughts?
 
I definitely agree. I mean, it's nice having it as a perk for people, but honestly it's going to get old quickly. You can only think of so many questions, or you can't just keep asking the same 50ish people questions over and over again before it starts getting completely stale. It'd be much more interesting to garner people's interest for this and see if they want to join in on the fun. The usergroup idea sounds like a fantastic way of going about that.
 
I also agree on those thoughts above, in terms of allowing members to come in if they feel devoted to ask questions and interact with other members.

Also, I notice that there are threads nearly a month old and have under 10 posts, while some as old as a week have upwards of 30-50 posts in them, which I think is a bit unfair, because the threads that have fewer and fewer posts of an older age (like mine) tend to get buried. I'm not saying to make members have to post in every thread, but it may make people feel a little under to have a thread made and see it die out.
 
I also fully agree with everyone else. I've noticed that activity here's starting to die down a bit and get stale since the beginning of the beta testing. And I feel one reason behind this is because it's supporters and staff only at the moment. There's only a a good number of members who can see this forums and there's some not active or not interested in this kind of thing. Plus everything what Jake mentioned, you can only think of a certain number of questions to ask someone before you have nothing else left to ask. So I definitely agree that a special usergroup for people who are interested is the best way to go until this forum's ready to go public to everyone.

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Also, I notice that there are threads nearly a month old and have under 10 posts, while some as old as a week have upwards of 30-50 posts in them, which I think is a bit unfair, because the threads that have fewer and fewer posts of an older age (like mine) tend to get buried. I'm not saying to make members have to post in every thread, but it may make people feel a little under to have a thread made and see it die out.
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Well maybe it could be suggested that if someone asks you a question in their thread then you should ask one in their's? I agree you shouldn't force someone to ask a question in everyone's thread, but just suggest to.

Also I'm thinking it's okay if people were to link their threads here in their signature/blog? That would definitely get people to at least check out your thread and want to ask a question or two.
 
Nick, is there actually a time or chance that I would be able to do my 2-thread idea on the main forum? It's been about 2 months now, hasn't it? I'm getting the feeling that it was just said to me (to try it after testing period) just to appease me at this point, because I haven't had any feedback about it.

Could I know what's actually going to go on with it? Or is there HQ discussion going and you're waiting for responses too? Just getting a bit ridiculous and since it's not even something against the rules, I feel like I should just spring it up in forum games anyways just for fun and to see how it goes.
Feel like I'm getting held back for absolutely no reason, and it is very frustrating, especially when I'm still adamant about it and still willing to organize it.
 
Oh, yeah. I meant to give you the go ahead on June 1st, but I've been in the process of moving this weekend and didn't get a chance to come on yesterday and it kind of slipped my mind. Go ahead, Kura.
 
How about <100 or so posts? That means they're probably a regular so they should share if they want :)
 
Patchisou Yutohru said:
Oh, yeah. I meant to give you the go ahead on June 1st, but I've been in the process of moving this weekend and didn't get a chance to come on yesterday and it kind of slipped my mind. Go ahead, Kura.
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YAYAYAYAYA Finally!!! Didn't expect it to be so quick so I should have something by the middle of next week!
 
Is there anyway that Q&A could be coded in to user profiles? Like a tab on your profile where people can submit questions / you can post answers - rather than a thread?

That way it takes out the spammy, popularity contest vibe that I feel it would get with a wider audience.
 
Sorry! I took slightly longer than I intended because I have been busy, but the AMA threads are up in Chit Chat and Polls. Feel free to move them to Other Trivia/Games if you feel it's better suited there.

Also, I welcome feedback on the two threads once the ball gets rolling.
 
SwiftSign said:
Is there anyway that Q&A could be coded in to user profiles? Like a tab on your profile where people can submit questions / you can post answers - rather than a thread?

That way it takes out the spammy, popularity contest vibe that I feel it would get with a wider audience.
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I agree with this idea. I do think it would provide less clutter to the forums. And I agree how some of the threads in here seem to be based off of popularity.
 
For the AMA threads I've created, I wanted to ask for an opinion. I'm trying to think of a way people can be notified that a question has been directed to them. Should I ask the question-asker to VM the person they are asking, that next week they will have an active question?
Or should I ask for it to be manditory to put a URL of the user ID for everyone they ask a question to and I will go to their page myself and notify them every week when I update the question?

Or should they not be notified, yet the question doesnt go away until it's been more than 2/3 weeks.. if they don't answer it in that time, I remove it from the list.. and if they happen to see their question and they answer it then they need to VM me that it has been answered so I can strike it off the list.

The member-specific questions will be in alphabetical order.

What are your thoughts of these 3 options? I'm leaning a bit towards the last one since I will be updating the general questions anyways.. and them going to someone else's page might be annoying.. and it also might take up a lot of my time if I personally have to go to their page, too.

Any other suggestions?
 
Um... I'm a bit confused by the notice. Am I still allowed to create a new thread here?

EDIT: Ah, I realized that there's a different kind of system in here. Looks like I'm way past the date.
 
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