Well Hello there. In spite of not always completing the monthly donation goal, further developing WWP remains of interest and will continue as funds come. I would like some feedback to better help me gauge which features you would be interested in, or which you think would be most useful to either yourself or the community. Do keep in mind that this is a request for your opinion and that things might not get developed in order of popularity but rather of feasibility. Explanation of features: Better Ratings and Frontpage The current forum home shows an overview of categories / sub categories. One can see which threads have had the most recent updates using the "what's new" feature. This obviously works, however I do feel neither gives a clear overview of what is currently going on or popular on the site. Ratings, likewise have recently been restricted to certain users because of censoring / shunning by sock accounts. The idea goes as follows: Keep the "category view" and "what's new" as an option but change the front page from the category overview to a list of "currently popular content". Popular content would be calculated based on: amount of views, replies, age and positive / negative ratings. Ratings would be once again available to all, however transparent to the user certain criteria would be applied as to designate weight to their rating. e.g John Doe recently signed up and liked a post would weigh as 0.1 rating, whereas an established member with a track record of positive contributions liking the same post would weigh as 1.2 rating. "Censoring" of post wouldn't any longer solely be based on the amount of dislikes but rather on the total sum of likes / dislikes and their weight. Hosted Communities Some initiatives are long term, some others have either out lived their purpose or have lost the communities interest. Lastly, aside from using private conversations there is currently no convenient way for smaller groups or initiatives to communicate amongst one another. The suggestion goes as follows: Allow you and other users to create their own initiative / forum or community and maintain it as you please as long as you do not violate a very select few rules: no planning of illegal activity. What you could do: Create a forum and moderate it, chose whether it is a public or private invite only forum. You could ban users that cause you trouble from your forum without it impacting the users ability to visit other forums hosted by WWP. Improved Data Retention Tools and Clean up. WWP doesn't log much and what is logged is routinely wiped. There are still some site aspects that due to technical limitations are logged or retained longer than I personally would like. Tools amongst other things would clean up or purge: orphaned content, soft deleted threads and posts, inactive accounts, including those that were banned and spammers. Most of this wouldn't be something you'd notice but is much rather aimed at ensuring your anonymity in the long term. WWP would reserve a small window where data is retained: beyond that point content would be fully anonymous. Better Donation System Tired of paypal, or that moonspeak payment page? Me too, if you'd like more payment options, maybe recurring payments: make suggestions here. Wiki Like system An independent wiki as an option for initiatives / groups. Better and more transparent transition between the forum and wiki wen it comes to content editing. i.e not having to know mediawiki formatting but much rather using the same editor and markup as on the forums. Event Planner Most established cells have their own methods in place to organize rallies but might lack a venue to publish them. Likewise non established cells occasionally are confined to using forum threads, which in theory works but could be greatly improved upon. There are some thoughts on how to approach this elegantly however time consuming and rather complex a system. Something Else If you have any other thoughts opinions or things to add: Please do.
I love the sound of the 'Better Ratings and Frontpage' option. I'll be happy to donate to such an endeavor when finances permit it in the upcoming weeks.
I don't know if there's any way to make searching more effective. The search is not bad now, but sometimes I had trouble finding things. Then again maybe it's just me.
that one ... you see, google makes a lot of money because search result relevancy is one of their little disputed domains. In other words, search is really hard.
I'd be grateful to be able to award funny and winner ratings like I could do four months ago. I know, bitch bitch bitch. Sorry.
http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/products_gss_pricing.html For $100 per year WWP could have google site search. I don't know if it's worth it though and whether the extra $8.33 per month is feasible.
Since this is geared towards companies that have both private and public webpages, I suspect it might not be too difficult to exclude the necessary content.
One does not need to connect their website to everything Googelized. There are many free scripts out there to search one's own site, without leaving the site. Before Googlenet, there was an Internet and it was free.
Maybe instead of overhauling the frontpage, add a "currently popular content" sidebar, similiar to the old "Latest Posts" sidebar? Bad idea. Very few initiatives proposed ever actually go anywhere. I think it's best to only establish subforums when they're genuinely required, instead of giving one to every moonbat who comes here looking for a personal army for their personal conspiracy theories.
Therefore none should get an opportunity Meaning you want sue to be the arbiter of whether a subforum is created or not? Is sue some god damn oracle, can he predict what has and hasn't potential? Can you? Wouldn't that be just great: every moonbat into a subforum so you can ignore it and never hear from it again. Identify your actual concern.
I hope that we can keep the "Classic" style instead of the "Dark" or "light". I really don't like the layout and I'm one of the olds that doesn't like change so I never adapted to it. I also would give money for a feature to ignore those pesky unregistered posts. Most of the ones I see are trolls, whether it be a clam troll, a WWP mod-in-hiding troll, or an actual 2 ft troll, and I'm getting really tired of the indigestion inducing pictures of Karen delaC.
Not none, just not all. Not all have potential, and not all need subforums. A subforum should be like a situation room - only created when there's enough threads on a subject to demand it. I prefer to ignore the nutjobs when their posts are moved to the NWO/ZEITGEIST/CERAGEM megathread, rather than give them all new subforums for their own personal brands of idiocy.
still like the old layout better. sorry And the three white "bubble heads" logo for WWP is not exactly very ominous looking. Not that it has to look ominous, but something a bit more sleek, and streamlined perhaps? Would love a "lulz" button and I am not computer savy, so I really don't know what to suggest that would help to make it more user friendly. The search doesn't work that well for me when trying to track something down. sorry I am not much help
Please delete. Sorry, I thought the poll at the top said, "I'd like to see the following be made into a thong:"
I'm with the button crowd. I liked the buttons! it's silly and shallow... and I loved it! moar buttons please!
Bad idea. They are lulzy and they have the right to express themselves. Let's don't become Scilons or Marty
I vote for buttons and the option to keep the old interface as I also find it easier to look at for insanely long periods of time.
I also still use the classic interface. And I know there are several backups, but I think the [link for the] wiki big list of ex-scilons must be available again somehow. IMHO it is one of the best WWP projects.
I have been wrestling with the ideas mentioned in my head and have given it a fair amount of thought. I love the idea of WWP being a platform for activism, where anyone and everyone has a say in content being created. At the same time, I think a lot of WWP users look at the forum as a whole, as a lot of them are used to when WWP was entirely dedicated to Project Chanology. In my opinion the Hamburg drama of 2012 was primarily motivated by the Germans not being comfortable with a section of a board. Now you can argue that that displays narrow mindedness or an unwillingness to adapt, but at the same time it seems to me that most userbases like to be comfortable with the site as a whole as much as possible. I don't envy the staff as it can be a very hard balancing act, with keeping everyone happy. Thus, I think maximum input from the userbase is key to moving forward. If users have the right to vote on a new section for WWP or whether an idea bites the dust, then complaints don't have as much ground. The idea that it's left to the hive to decide whether a project has traction or not via a poll. Afterall, that is what the success or death of a project boils down to, the willingness of the userbase to embrace it and work with it. A userbase that feels it has a say in site decisions, is a happy userbase. I feel more comfortable already that threads such as this were created by the site Administrator so I can give my 2 cents. Thanks everyone.
I come here for Chanology. The fight against scientology. I would like to continue (start?) to be able to only view (really hate to say "ignore," but, well...) the stuff in which I am active. Also, perhaps this already exists, but can I ignore specific threads?
