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General discussion (archive)[An Idea] Some topic title sugestions(19 posts)(19 posts)
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Posted July 08, 2013
Hi with the recent rant about "forcing" giveaway creators to add "giveaway" to the thread title, I had an idea, which I've seen on other forums. Since this Minority say it's only decent thing to add it to the Title of a new thread, I think it can only be described as a decent thing to do.

Here is me suggestion, adding tags to the beginning to threads you create:
[News] = News articles = [News] Rift going Free-to-Play
[Release] = Releases of some kind = [Release] The Chaos Engine Coming to Steam
[Steam] = For threads about Steam = [Steam] Steam National Pricing Scheme One Step Closer Being Utterly Ridiculus
[GOG] = For GOG threads we make = [GOG] How many of your GOG games have worked right "out of the box"?
[F-Game] = for Forum Games = [F-Game] Word Association Game
[Giveaway] = For Giveaways = [Giveaway] Ninja Giveaway

And GOG's staff can use the same if they feel like it
[GOG News] = For GOG related News = [GOG News] Weekend Promo: Amazing Stories
[GOG Pre-Order] = For GOG Pre-Orders = [GOG Pre-Oreder] Rise of the Triad
[GOG Release] = For Gog Releases = [GOG Release] Ultimate Body Blows
Posted July 08, 2013
Well enough to start, but I think we should go beyond, adding (I'm taking your thread as example):

- [Category]: [Suggestions]
- [OP's Name]: [te_lanus]
- [Thread's Mood]: [Serious / Ironic / Humorous / etc]

[Reply] [Mischievous] So, here you go: [Suggestions] [An Idea] [Serious] [te_lanus] Some topic title sugestions. :P

More seriously, I don't wish to add more complexity to threads titles, if not necessary. ;)
Post edited July 08, 2013 by Thespian*
Posted July 08, 2013
[Comment] As long as it's optional. If it's liked by enough people it will become convention soon enough :D
Posted July 08, 2013
This would be useful if there was a way to sort or filter threads by the these tags. It might be an option for GOG to keep the variety of General Discussion instead of creating subforums, if they'd use different colors or tags for different categories (like the orange and "Q" for questions) and then offered options to filter the forums by color/tags. Then again, judging by my experience with these forums, conventions seem to be made for breaking. We'd probably have more rant threads about new or stubborn forum users not using the tags and colors. ;)
Post edited July 08, 2013 by Leroux
Posted July 08, 2013
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te_lanus: [Steam] = For threads about Steam = [Steam] Steam National Pricing Scheme One Step Closer Being Utterly Ridiculus
Yes please. Allow us to filter all the steam out of this forum! It's far too humid in here. :-)
Posted July 08, 2013
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Leroux: This would be useful if there was a way to sort or filter threads by the these tags. It might be an option for GOG to keep the variety of General Discussion instead of creating subforums, if they'd use different colors or tags for different categories (like the orange and "Q" for questions) and then offered options to filter the forums by color/tags.
I think the "hide giveaway" script could easily be adapted to add all these keywords, thus you could set it up to hide steam threads, or Forum Games, or giveaways
Posted July 08, 2013
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te_lanus: [Steam] = For threads about Steam = [Steam] Steam National Pricing Scheme One Step Closer Being Utterly Ridiculus
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Lifthrasil: Yes please. Allow us to filter all the steam out of this forum! It's far too humid in here. :-)
+1
Posted July 08, 2013
Something else I noticed recently. In the giveaways, put the expiration date at the end. Such as

[Giveaway] GameX (ends 6 July 2300GMT).
Posted July 08, 2013
Let's just do away with the forum altogether and replace it with a shoutbox. :P
Posted July 08, 2013
I was thinking more along the lines of "Lord of the Flies". Whoever has the Conch may speak, everyone else SHUT THE FUCK UP! :D
Posted July 08, 2013
Suggestion to GOG: Adopt vBulletin as your forum software.
Posted July 08, 2013
You forgot the [Not a giveaway] tag.
Posted July 08, 2013
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tinyE: I was thinking more along the lines of "Lord of the Flies". Whoever has the Conch may speak, everyone else SHUT THE FUCK UP! :D
*punches tinyE and takes the conch*

I have nothing to say!
Post edited July 08, 2013 by Shaolin_sKunk
Posted July 08, 2013
[Insincere endorsement] You have not experienced GOG until you have read him without tags
Posted July 08, 2013
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Shaolin_sKunk: *punches tinyE and takes the conch*

I have nothing to say!
I thought you were going to offer us nothing
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