Featured Threads: Yes or No?

Psitticine · #1 October 24th, 2003, 03:36 PM

How do you like the new Featured Thread function, as was demonstrated with the How Did You Learn About Dominions poll? Should we try to keep featuring such threads, or did you find it more of a nuisance?

Gandalf Parker · #2 October 24th, 2003, 03:50 PM

Picky on the wording but I had to say no. Most web forums Im in will pin things to the top but not based on activity or user request. Usually its threads considered an important read to people who are just coming into the forum for the first time.

Psitticine · #3 October 24th, 2003, 03:57 PM

Originally, I had 4 answers on the poll, but I've noticed people give nice thorough feedback Posts with polls, so I thought I'd go with two "summary" choices and let folks explain in more detail than would be possible with a preset poll.

I'll definitely pin any important "hard information" things, such as patch release dates and so forth. I'm mostly interested if folks would like to see, say, a topic or two featured each week just because of lively debate or interesting ideas. Those kind would rotate, getting unpinned once they wrap up and getting replaced by a new highly-active thread.

I'm thinking the active ones come and go so fast that it might not be of that much help to folks, but it still has potential, so I thought the best thing to do would be to simply ask what y'all are interested in.

Wendigo · #4 October 24th, 2003, 04:22 PM

Right now this is a great topic to pin. Both IW & Sharpnel can benefit from knowledge of where the current playerbase originated.

For future I am with Gandalf: FAQs & the like should eb the pinned threads.

licker · #5 October 24th, 2003, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Picky on the wording but I had to say no. Most web forums Im in will pin things to the top but not based on activity or user request. Usually its threads considered an important read to people who are just coming into the forum for the first time.

I also voted no for this exact reason. FAQs, Dev notes, locations for patches/mods(?) are the types of things to be stickied, not just popular threads.

Pocus · #6 October 24th, 2003, 05:16 PM

I voted yes because as of now polls which get voted in but without replies are not bumped to the top. With this feature you alleviate the problem.

Gandalf Parker · #7 October 24th, 2003, 05:32 PM

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Originally posted by Pocus:
I voted yes because as of now polls which get voted in but without replies are not bumped to the top. With this feature you alleviate the problem.

Id have no problem with the admins here pinning something to the top.

But doing it do to activity didnt make sense to me (dont they go to the top anyway for activity?) and doing it for a Users request since we all would request to have our Posts pinned (I cheat now, I repost to mine so that the activity moves it up)

Saber Cherry · #8 October 24th, 2003, 06:57 PM

I like things pinned, as long as there aren't lots of them... and as long as they don't say pinned for all eternity. So pinning, while helpful, tends to be abused such that 5 archaic, boring threads from 1963 fill the top 5 slots.

I support pinning if a mod takes them down when they become irrelevant or no longer visited.

-Cherry

MythicalMino · #9 October 24th, 2003, 07:03 PM

Here are things that should be pinned (at least as to what I would think):

Fan Sites (ESPECIALLY when the mod tools are released, that way there is an easy place to find the different sites)

FAQS (or, Questions & Answers)

Important info that only the mod (or Shrapnel/Illwinter ppl) can post in, like patch dates, ect. **should keep this one though where only those ppl can post, or it would lose it's purpose with clutter**

Dominions II REVIEWS (The links to the different websites.) This one should also be closely watched, so there are not double postings of reviews

I think those are the most important items that should be pinned....important things, easy to get to....

Pocus · #10 October 24th, 2003, 07:12 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

quote:
Originally posted by Pocus:
I voted yes because as of now polls which get voted in but without replies are not bumped to the top. With this feature you alleviate the problem.

Id have no problem with the admins here pinning something to the top.

But doing it do to activity didnt make sense to me (dont they go to the top anyway for activity?) and doing it for a Users request since we all would request to have our Posts pinned (I cheat now, I repost to mine so that the activity moves it up)

polls with new votes are not considered having received a new activity as of now.