19th April 2018, 12:20 AM
(18th April 2018, 8:51 PM)bls1999 Wrote: I went ahead and removed top donors because, to be frank, I don't think that role will ever do anything. As for the rest, I physically cannot give certain users access to some forums without giving them a secondary usergroup. If I could do that, I would only have one group for all of the members. Regarding staff colors, they are meant to stand out on the forums as they do on PR2 so people know who's who.
I also removed my referral link from that post and removed myself from the top referrers board.
If someone has a suggestion for that space, I'd be happy to hear it. It's there currently 1) because I don't have anything better to put there and 2) because I want people to have an incentive to invite more members to the site.
I just disabled thank counts on author panels on posts. Let me know if they appear anywhere else.
See above re: staff colors and usergroups.
I'll have to think about a different way to differentiate between users who do and don't have those perks.
The reason I made it into a contest was 1) to give an incentive to participate and 2) to stimulate the community. We got tons of fantastic submissions and at the time of posting have had over 30 people vote in the poll.
How do you feel it's a status thing right now, other than that to which I've responded?
It's my mission to make this website as welcoming as possible. There are many hierarchal features that come stock with MyBB, such as a reputation, thread ratings, etc. I disabled all of that because that's not where the community's attention should be focused.
This is some great feedback that I cherish. Thanks for voicing your concerns here. If you have any more suggestions, please let me know.
Great!
I'm not suggesting getting rid of all user groups, but making them purely administrative. You could have a group for people who can change their usernames without giving it any particular name people care about.
I suppose encouraging new members is an ok reason to have a top referrers ranking. It's not zero-sum, so there's a point to it.
I'm not too sure about contests, but they did get weird on JV.
