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ts great to see how far this is going guys! Mabye someone can make a mockup of this? we also need to think about time limits, how long a user can stay up for before they are kicked of the front. Otherwise one user could constatnly stay on the front page, getting more and more thank yous!

Xkhaoz wrote:

I'm pretty much everything on that list, I've never made front page, except for newest projects. I'm friendly and helpful, I have less than 25 friends, but I don't have at least 50 views on 3 projects. My highest view count is 22 on DF:CS. I think I have at least 10 love-its. My stuff is good, but nobody views it, yet people get their projects on front page and my stuff is better.

dito that 

THis would be my ideas:

1. You need to have at least 50 thank yous
2. the scratch team has to agree you belong there
3. You have to be friendly and helpful (once again, the scratch team picking)
i really dont like the idea of you can't have been on the front page because many people have been and i think everyone should get a fair chance

This idea seems nice. I like it......

Uber-Post Time!

Okay, I have several Ideas. I like the idea of "thank yous" and Karma points. What if you have around three(Like earlier stated) Thank yous to give out and that you would give them to poeple for just being nice. Maybe having a button next to their name in the fourms, underneath every comment and on their homepage would be good because it would allow for someone to read a nice, well thought out comment/post and allow them to give the thank you right out on the spot. Having to switch pages to do so would discourage people from taking the effort.

You guys were talking about how their should be a limit on how many times an account could get featured. I think that is a great idea, no more than three times every five months sounds great. I however, think that making it so they can't get featured based on how popular their projects are is completly biased. Unfortunatly, many of the most helpful people, (Archmage, Paddle2See) get on the front page alot and that would not be fair to them. Both of them have nearly 20-40 tutorials in their accounts.

I also like the idea of how surprise projects should go for projects under 50 views, which is more than half of the projects on this site. Anyways, that seems to be a great idea and one that keeps popping up. (The multiple Least Viewed Threads)

Going on what Paddle said in the HP comparison, I think that although a group of people with unlimited number of thank yous would be great, alot of those would probably become impersonal. Yeah, they were nice to someone else but I think that these should mean something.

Branching off of that, maybe their could be a message that says "________ gave you a thank you!" That would make these more personal. However, this could lead to people giving thankyous to people who gave them a thank you and therfore would ruin that whole system. Just a thought. 

You also talked about how you should limit it to people who have been active for a while. How about making it so they must have been active for at least a week, must have 25 comments and one project.  The reason I made it only one project is because for people like me, it takes around a month to release one and that would just make others discouraged.

Youtube has a great comment rating system, although that could lead to feelings getting hurt. It also may lead to better posts though.

One last suggestion is that you could put recommended users on your homepage. Maybe like 3 per person. It would just say "______ recommends _______, ________ and ________." Just a thought.

Sorry for the length of this Uber-Post, but I just wanted to share my thought with you people. And I was bored. 

Last edited by TheSaint (2009-02-08 12:01:19)

I think that there should be collective ratings, so if you reply to, for example, "What are variables for?" in "All About Scratch", the person who started the thread could select a "Was this post helpful?" button. However, this button would not exist outside of All About Scratch, Advanced Topics and Sensor Boards as they are the only ones where questions are supposed to be answered.

I also think having flagged projects take away "karma points" should be neatly sidestepped to avoid flame wars with multiple accounts.

Favorites should also be factored, because I love-it above-average projects, but stunning projects I would like to be reminded of I love-it and favorite. So a favorite alone could be worth 1.5 love-its, but a favorite and love-it could be worth 3 love-its.

There could be an average of love-its per project (for users with love-its, to avoid diluted results.) If anybody has more than thrice this average, they will be deemed "already famous enough" and will not be featured.

I'm sure others will iron out the wrinkles in these ideas, but I think "Featured Users" could really be awesome! Oh, and let's not forget the theoretical "Most Favorited" section on the frontpage. 

I love this idea! Generally I look at all the new featured projects, so featured users would make themselves known fast.

I like the idea, I might promote friendlyness in the scratch community because if users want to be featured they know that they will have to be friendly and helpfull. I think that there should be somthing like that.

Ther sholud also be a random new user space(kind of like surprise projects) where it has a random user that less more than 1 project, less than 10, and dosen't have more than 25 views on any of their projects