Suggestion - SD/IC "I wus here" tags.

, which is basically a Blizz forum ripoff.

from Sins Forums

A wise man said: "making use of other's good ideas that you can put to good use is a good idea itself; unless they're patent"
Well, ok, nobody said anything like that. But it still makes sense, doesn't it?

My suggestion is that a small new feature is coded into the Forums that would inform users of where they can find replies of SD/IC employees.

That feature is present on Blizz forums and it tremendously helps in filtering endless spam from reliable info. There, a small Blizz logo appears near the thread name when a Blizz employee has posted inside.
On our forum, there are only two ways you can find SD/IC posts: 
- in the heavily outdated Sins News section where nothing interesting has shown up for some time (sry ;p)
- by going into every IC/SD group member's profile and filtering threads by their posts
In both the above ways, the posts show up in "last reply first" order, so a spamthread where 1000 people replied rubbish after, say, Blair's last post 3 weeks ago would pop up first, while the thread where he posted three days ago but noone visited would end up below. This makes looking up for official statements very hard.

How could that be handled?

Right now, our thread tags are:
- Normal Topic (Unvisited /New Posts / Read)
- Sticky
- Hot thread (Unvisited /New Posts / Read)

Suggestion is to add one of the following features: 
1. A new thread tag that would indicate that "a SD/IC official posted here".
2. Right now, you can put a smiley near the thread name as you create it. A new smiley resembling a SD/IC/whatever icon could show up in that slot if a SD/IC official posts in that thread.
3. The thread name could change color to pink/blue/yellow/peanut butter jelly/whatever if a SD/IC official posted inside.
4. actually any other way is ok too, the above seem to be easiest to code though.

PS. An option to view a list of threads, where a certain users posted, sorted by the date of HIS last post, would also be very welcome.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Agreed.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

agreed, Bungie had something like that too, once i went searching through i think 20 pages of thread just for a 2 line post by a Bungie employee to find out what he said. i definitly think Impulse needs something like this

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Ooh, yes please.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

I wuz heer.

 

But more seriously, this has been suggested before and it's on Bara's list of things to see if it's doable, but last he'd mentioned it IIRC he didn't think it'd be easy given the internal structure of the forums. Plus since we've got a variety of sites and a variety of people involved with each, you could pretty easily end up with a lot of "blue" posts that were just people from other parts of the company making random comments.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Blair, reply 3
Finally, if you do see something posted by someone with an "Ironclad" or "Stardock" logo and/or the "Moderator" logo you know what they are saying is official (look at my logos for an example).
End of Blair's quote

Just tag everyone satisfying above. ;)

Thanks for replying.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting kryo, reply 5
I wuz heer.

 

But more seriously, this has been suggested before and it's on Bara's list of things to see if it's doable, but last he'd mentioned it IIRC he didn't think it'd be easy given the internal structure of the forums. Plus since we've got a variety of sites and a variety of people involved with each, you could pretty easily end up with a lot of "blue" posts that were just people from other parts of the company making random comments.
End of kryo's quote

Fair call. Still, it'd be a handy start.

In light of that, I'd suggest that any indicator was subtle, so as to not get people too excited about a non-event. :)