I have recently seen at least few forum threads with suggestions that were already talked over. The thing is that such topics smell like (unintended) spam and can annoy some of regular forum visitors. I do not mean myself, I've been here only for few weeks.

So, here's my proposal: let's create separate, sticky thread with list of ideas that community has already talked about. This will cause less unwanted topics and prevent users form wasting time producing long threads with suggestions that already had been denied.
Edit: I've made an example below. I don't say I like all the ideas, just wanted to let you know about them.

My second idea is rather tiny cosmetic change. As far as I know, there aren't any games priced lower than 0.99$ that can be gifted. Here's my idea: why not make those giveaways with required contribution of <1$ just show as 'Only for contributors' instead of 'Contributor ($0.01)'. I mean the notes placed on the right side of giveaway titles. That's rather easy to implement, doesn't need any changes in the database, only few lines of code. Wanted to write this in the official contribution giveaway thread but couldn't find it :/.

Third one came to my mind when I won a game here (Thanks, Lina). I have entered three The Ship giveaways and won one. After receiving the gift, the two other entries were still active. Here's my idea, would it be possible to automatically cancel entries which are for just won game? As I suppose, that should be added to the cron job. Why add such feature? It would prevent from possible double wins. Okay, they are unlikely to happen like hell but - that's just a suggestion :). Another one is rather question: is there a sync forced after winning? I could have joined The Ship giveaways about half an hour after the win, which is obviously leading to abuse (winning the same again).


Others' ideas

See part two.

Regards,
Greg

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As with the FAQ, a list of previously discussed suggestions would not be read by new people coming here. It wouldn't do a thing.

I don't see the point of the second one. Maybe a small visual change, but I don't see how this really does anything.

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What's FAQ? Is it edible? Or maybe contagious? Better keep your FAQ thingy away from me, thanks.

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That's why I've called the second one 'tiny & cosmetic'. The whole site is very clearly and simply designed - what I really like, so that change would just make the list a bit prettier.

As for the first, you're probably right, but if someone wants to suggest something, they enter the forum, see the thread I've written about and check it before writing anything. I don't expect users who are so thoughtless to not check stickies to even try to suggest anything. The thread would be aimed only at those who really have some idea to improve the site - they would have surely checked the stickies before creating a topic.

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Not sure about the first one as Lorkhan makes a good point of many users not bothering to read important stickies (stickies or stickys?). But I like the second idea, makes sense and cleans up the home-page a little.

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Bump and edit in first post, added my third idea and others' suggestions.

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Closed 12 years ago by Gregoric.