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- LG Stylo
Had a good convo with @Axiom @ImanHackeR in chat this morning regarding the 'Must hit reply to see link" setup this forum has. I'm gonna preface this with I am merely suggesting this for the cleanliness and readability of the site, as I hardly download anything, but I like browsing the forum for interesting comments.
The problem with that is examples like this: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4485 , 94 posts, THREE actually are important posts for the modder to address. Obviously he did so thats not an issue, however try weeding through all the "thanks want to try this" or "gimme gimme" you get the idea. The forum itself has over a 10:1 posts to thread ratio, and if the % of quality posts are similar to every thread (about 3.5-4%), you MAYBE have about 700 out of over 20,000 posts that are even worth reading. I could also see this being horrible for modders, I def wouldn't want to subscribe to a thread i start to try to maintain a mod if all im having to keep checking is 'ty' posts?
Solution? Go to a 'Hit thanks to reveal links' instead. The link would serve the exact same purpose (tracking hits/dls, making people have to register to download) without all the clutter of useless posts that show no sincerity to their thanks, in fact youll be able to see more appreciation in the posts after this kind of change, they would be genuinely wanting to post a real thanks vs just posting to d/l. Modders would appreciate the change as well, being able to easily keep track of posts needing support and not have to remove subs to their own mods to avoid spam notifications.
So anyways thats my 2 cents on the topic, what do you all think?
The problem with that is examples like this: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4485 , 94 posts, THREE actually are important posts for the modder to address. Obviously he did so thats not an issue, however try weeding through all the "thanks want to try this" or "gimme gimme" you get the idea. The forum itself has over a 10:1 posts to thread ratio, and if the % of quality posts are similar to every thread (about 3.5-4%), you MAYBE have about 700 out of over 20,000 posts that are even worth reading. I could also see this being horrible for modders, I def wouldn't want to subscribe to a thread i start to try to maintain a mod if all im having to keep checking is 'ty' posts?
Solution? Go to a 'Hit thanks to reveal links' instead. The link would serve the exact same purpose (tracking hits/dls, making people have to register to download) without all the clutter of useless posts that show no sincerity to their thanks, in fact youll be able to see more appreciation in the posts after this kind of change, they would be genuinely wanting to post a real thanks vs just posting to d/l. Modders would appreciate the change as well, being able to easily keep track of posts needing support and not have to remove subs to their own mods to avoid spam notifications.
So anyways thats my 2 cents on the topic, what do you all think?