1) Go to the last read comment (in a specific thread)

May be hard to do - how does the system know, which comment I read last?

- A least, grey out the pages, that I have already read - like you do already on the community main page.

2) Better Search-function.

3) Since I don't care for the 'rep' - Get rid of it - completely!
No, I mean it! Seriously! - Delete all the 'rep' and the stars, too! Nobody's going to miss'em, anyway.

What do you mean - No!?
Too radical for your liking?
Well, then at least:

3a) Get rid of the [-]-Button.

I mean, really - what is that thing good for?
Apart from hiding unwanted posts and upsetting people?
Exactly - nothing!

So, let the [+]-Button, and give us a seperate [hide]-Button and a seperate [report post]-Button.

The [hide]-Button is an absolute must have, and the [report post]-Button must open up a input-window, in which the 'reporter' has to state the exact reason, why he reports that post.

That way, the 'reporter' cannot affect other people in a negative way, by simply clicking on a button.

And - even more important - his own account will be connected to the report - making it harder, if not impossible - to hassle others, without being held accountable.

This gets especially important, when there is no reason for the reporting - because that can (should?) bear negative consequences for the 'reporter'.

This, soooo much this! Who's idea was this anyway?!?
The 3rd suggestion is also very good!

But I don't know what to think of the 2nd suggestion...if you realy want to attract attention to your edit, USE BOLD or something :)

This.
If there isn't a "user ignore" function for posts AND threads, downvote should stay. A very time-saving and economical alternative to "eat all the dicks and go live in a fire". Ignored threads shouldn't show up at all, ignored posts should inform the user there is in fact an interstitial post, without showing the contents and the username.

Break up General into gaming and non-gaming.

To put it super frankly: the forums are turning to shit, with a clique of idiots (users, not mods) running the show and presenting themselves as the face of the community. Said idiots are flourishing under the current system (and are whining about it anyway). As such, I don't imagine getting rid of reputation scores will improve the community for visitors, but a solid ignore function will filter out the shit for me personally, and that'll be an improvement for me personally.

Separate forums for;
GOG stuff (news, updates etc.)
Gaming GOG games
Gaming off-topic
Gaming on-topic
General off-topic
Giveaways
So that people can find the exact type of forum they are after without having to trudge through pages of things they do not want to see.


There should be a change to the rep system.
Up rep should be kept so people can show appreciation for things they like
Down rep should go as it is abused too much. Maybe a button to report unlikable content instead.

It already does if you make the right click-choice. When you have a new reply to any of your posts, there's the nut-icon (see attached pic) right at the end of the thread title both on the main page of the forum (General or game specific) and on your My Posts page. Clicking on that icon takes you directly to the reply-post.

You can see a visual explanation of the various nut-icons and other forum symbols at the bottom of the General forum main page.

Some other thing that I would suggest is more monitoring tn the threads cause some people just want to argue over meaningless stuff in every god damn thread.
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/nongog_gifting_thread/page407

Also if you guys could implement some kind of trading feedback system we could avoid scammers like him plaguing other members.

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/classifieds_list_of_reported_scammers_avoid_them/page1

Thanks a lot. Can you reply to this just so I can check it?

Yeah I have lost a bit of rep. I was at I think 112 or 113, then came back a couple days later and it was 107 or so. Can't imagine why. I don't believe I've ever been disrespectful. I've asked for I think two games in the correct gifting thread, won a giveaway and have gotten several ninja codes. I have always been polite and thankful (even when not winning or even trying to win) and have gifted a few games myself when I could. It seems pretty obvious that someone is just going around derepping people in certain threads.

I think removing the rep system and instead having a post count with the ability to search for a particular users posts would be good. The regulars (gifters and otherwise) would know who was a decent forum member and who wasn't.

Yup same here. I remember giving away a game, and having worse rep than before giving something away.

-- In light of a recent scam of three people in The Classifieds thread (posts #10655, #10657, #10659 and #10683), and
-- given that banned accounts can still use the PM system, and
-- seeing how my questioning GOG Support about retaining PM rights in such cases goes unanswered for months now,

I've added a suggestion/ request to strip banned accounts from the privilege of PM-ing others in my initial post in this thread.


EDIT: and more member revealed that they got scammed by the same person (The_maestro27).

Personally, I think two are fine: general gaming and offtopic.

@ ET3D: yeah, tagging would be a cool alternative to subforums, too, actually.

You wanted post 200 I believe, but this post should help you to check the reply system. :)

I can see that working, I was just thinking about how many different types of post we get and trying to make them easier to find amoungst eachother.
It falls to GOG how they wish to implement sub forums and even if they will.

Thanks. I see how it works now, and I'm very happy to know about this. Pity I missed this feature before.

I like the forum like it's now. It may be easy to miss some posts, but I would rather have a tag system than partition the forum into sub-forums. Let posters mark posts as a gaming subject or giveaway, and let readers of the forum filter posts with certain tags. That can easily emulate sub-forums (for example show only gaming tag posts, in which case new posts while the filter is active could add that tag automatically), but could also allow filtering out giveaways, for example, as well as reading everything together like today.

"Annoy" me via the PM button instead! :)