AlteredTundra
But then again, giving everyone such a brainless+simple way to send negative vibes just doesn't seem that great of an idea. At least on Reddit it's an anonymous number that increases or decreases. But on the Guild it'd be like "SomeDude69 disliked something you did". Fuck off, SomeDude69. Just talked myself out of this kind of feature.Yeah, it's going to exacerbate the problem of "Who would downvote this post?!" Then it becomes, "SomeDude99 downvoted this post! I'M GONNA WRECK HIM!"
<Snipped quote by Shienvien> There are many people (not unlike myself) who never read their notifications anyway. Personally, I never miss reading a post on threads I'm subscribed to, so the notifications become superfluous. Others simply won't care enough to check them, and not allowing anyone to disable them won't change the fact that they won't check them. Making the option available won't cause it to happen more frequently, and virtually every other site with notifications has the ability to customize which notifications you'd like to receive.I think auto-dismissing notifications when you read the post in question would be an easy enough fix. The other notifications that get useful are when someone rates an old post of yours, or @mentions you in a thread you're not normally part of as a means to get your attention. Or quotes for a similar reason.
I still would like a dislike button on the rate. There is a like, laugh, and a thanks button. A dislike button would just get overused like the other ones. Why did we add them since they can get overuse as well?Because this isn't reddit?
<Snipped quote by Shienvien> I think you should just quote-mention. Clicking in to a quote-mention from the notifications menu clears it. Though I need to improve notification auto-clearing and allow users to delete specific notifications from the list. But altogether I think it's better to err on the extraneous side. Eventually notifications will be auto-cleared when you view the page of a topic that created them, so it won't even be an issue. And I expect most people are happy to see a number next to the bell icon even if they were gonna check the topic anyways. I personally use notifications as a to-do list and often forget to respond to posts that don't notify me, so perhaps other people are similar.Oh, huh, I totally thought it auto-cleared already. Hmm.
Oh, and what about the quote/quotemention matter (as right now, the only way to make "normal" quotes is to remove the '@' by hand or type the name in manually)? I'd rather avoid sending unnecessary mentions, since with threads that will be browsed by the person anyway, it just means they will have to separately go to the alert tab to dismiss the alert.I think that's fixed now. Whenever I get a notification about a quote, if I visit the thread in question before visiting the notifications, the notification is dismissed. Not sure if it's fixed for multiple notifications in the same thread yet, but I think it definitely works for single mentions/quotes when you read the post in question.
<Snipped quote by Teknonick> But for the player looking for RPs to join, does it really matter how much the GM wants new players? If it's open and they're interested in the RP, then it's open and they're interested in the RP. To them, it doesn't matter if the GM is looking for ten more players or just two.Pretty much this. Open is open, if you're the person who needs more information about the exact state of openness, then read the thread. This is intended to be at-a-glance information, so it should be simple and clear about what it means. The fact that the question had to be posed about what the difference between the suggested tags implies that more than one player on RPG is going to question the same, misunderstand what Open and Recruiting mean, and miss a possible RP because of it.
Hmm... well, 'Open' would possibly mean you're allowing new RPers. 'Recruiting' or 'Applications' would mean you're specifically crying out for more people. I've had plenty of RPs where I would like to advertise I need a lot of people, then slow down the pace with a simple "Okay folks, thanks for the help! We're still accepting though, but no need to go advertising the fact." sort of thing. Off Topic: YOU FORGOT THE PAGECLAIM! NOoOoOOooOO!Sounds like a GM issue, not a tag issue. I could see a distinction between Open and Recruiting if the game had yet to begin. But it's usually easy to tell which games have started yet by the number of IC posts they have. So I'm not sure I see the need for all the different status tags.
Perhaps "Recruiting" would be better than "Looking".What's the difference between 'Recruiting' and 'Open' or 'Applications'?
<Snipped quote by Captain Jordan> The only problem with that is that any "hover" options lead to double clicks for mobile users.Savvy use of @media queries can disable such things for mobile users.
