Idea! Thread (Post Suggestions to Help Site Here)

[Sarashi]

I could name one. I'm not going to though, because I'd feel like a dick.

Ranmakuu?

[Ronthis the Werewolf]

I have a new idea, a better one.

"Author of the Month" or "Author Spotlight"!

It would be easy, I check the database, look at all the boxes everyone made this month, look at all the authors that made this months boxes, and whoever has gotten the most favs this month is in the spotlight.

I would put in my sig at the end of the month the best author and it would say "New Author Spotlight/New Author of the Month", and have their avatar and name. Plus they will get a little badge for their sig or banner saying:

"New Author Spotlight/New Author of the Month DAY/MONTH/YEAR"

[ZombieDeadpool8]

I would love a button you could press to shut people up...*cough* 5 Star General *cough*

[Flexx]

Ranmakuu?

Ranmakuu was easily the greatest member on the site. Anyone who disagrees has no soul.

[beardedwalrus]

I have a new idea, a better one.

"Author of the Month" or "Author Spotlight"!

It would be easy, I check the database, look at all the boxes everyone made this month, look at all the authors that made this months boxes, and whoever has gotten the most favs this month is in the spotlight.

I would put in my sig at the end of the month the best author and it would say "New Author Spotlight/New Author of the Month", and have their avatar and name. Plus they will get a little badge for their sig or banner saying:

"New Author Spotlight/New Author of the Month DAY/MONTH/YEAR"

Not a good idea. I don't think having the most favs should be the deciding point in the "Featured Artist". For example, YoshiStar whips up a quick simplistic box, and (no offense to him) it gets several favs because of his popularity and respect on the site. At this same time a lesser-ranked artist could have created a beautiful box, or showed incredible improvement, but it won't get many favs. In a way, your idea is a popularity contest.

[Sentroavium]

There shouldn't be rank or favs.

[Sarashi]

There shouldn't be rank or favs.

Now that's an idea.

[mchapra]

User's personal featured box on user page.

[YoshiStar]

I agree that there should be a featured box / user on the homepage! That'd be really cool. But not based on favs or rank or anything :P Maybe some kind of decision the community can make as a whole. But that would be pretty hard to implement.

[Spiner_]

The "Random Boxes" is really unnecessary, that place could be used for something much better, featured box(es) like someone said.

[Mariolee]

The "Random Boxes" is really unnecessary, that place could be used for something much better, featured box(es) like someone said.

Really? It helps me find boxes I wouldn't have otherwise.

[Spiner_]

Really? It helps me find boxes I wouldn't have otherwise.

Sometimes, yes, but 99% of the time, there are crappy MARIO STAR WARS GALAXY PAINT VERSION!!!! boxes in there...

[KoopaDasher]

I like Mub's idea. I'd like to have a User Page re-design where we can maybe organize boxes by category, have a Featured Box, etc.

[Leegion]

There shouldn't be rank or favs.

Personally, I think Rank should only signify a persons stature in the community, for example, Rank 1 - 19 (MARKER) shouldn't be there. You know, the red and blue square thing.

Instead, this site should run on a 5 rank system and here's how it works.

Rank 1 - Newbie (For all newcomers that have made a box)
Rank 2 - Amateur (For those able to make a box, with a set amount of positive feedback)
Rank 3 - Intermediate (For those with 1 or more HoF's to their name)
Rank 4 - Professional (For those who know what they're doing and have fantastic designs, with the most positive feedback)
Rank 5 - Graphic Designer (For those that have the best of the best)

As for favs, I think that should be scrapped for another, fav sort of thing. The idea I have is instead of favouriting a box, have a thums up and thumbs down, example: I like this, I don't like this.

That way it works for both the viewer of the box and the designer who made it.

Next;
The next thing I agree on is what Mchapra said, the idea of the designers page being able to be used for customization is a great idea. I'll make an example from my own library:

Featured box: Gears of War 3
Newest box: A Very Super Mario Christmas
Author's Favourite: Enslaved: Odyssey to the west
Most liked: 8-Bit Mania

Those would be the sorts of things I'd implement on my page.

Basically the way it works is simple:

Most Liked: what the audience liked the most from said author.
Featured box: The box the author feels deserves a little more attention.
Author's Favourite: The favourite design of the author.
Newest Box: what the title says.

I think those ideas are fantastic and would work out quite well.

[Sentroavium]

The point of removing favs or anything similar to it is to end website chaos. Any kind of implementation of a rating system means, biased opinions, one way or another. That shouldn't be the point.

Or if you want to do it that way, thumbs ups or thumbs downs should have no bearing on your rank.

[Leegion]

The point of removing favs or anything similar to it is to end website chaos. Any kind of implementation of a rating system means, biased opinions, one way or another. That shouldn't be the point.

Or if you want to do it that way, thumbs ups or thumbs downs should have no bearing on your rank.

True, Rank to me is nothing as all I want to do is grow as a better designer and I think I'm doing quite a good job of it.

While I'm thinking about what could help the site, I have an idea:

The HoF thing should work differently, many times I've seen great designs by lower ranked authors get bumped off the front page and the attention list by a higher ranked member. My idea here is that instead of it working on a rank point system (A rank 9 author favs a box, it gets 9 points etc) that it should work on an all member Like or dislike system.

For example, if a box gains the likes of 50 people, then it gets a HoF, but the way this works is to prevent trolls or alts from actually doing anything to an alt or a crappy design. It works both ways, 50 likes over 1 dislike won't work, it has to be clear by 50 likes or else it doesn't count.

Of course, the voters will only get to choose 1 time for either like or dislike, so as I said, it works both ways. And if it is an alt liking a crappy paint box then of course, the community can get rid of that threat of having a bad design in the HoF by disliking it.

[stevencho]

Any idea based on rank and favs will be flamed by this community.

[Sentroavium]

If the community woke up one day where there was no rank, favs, HoFs, or anything like that, they would commit suicide.

[RoarShark]

There a few pretty good ideas here. I would really like if some got implemented to the site. Here's one ban Ronthis

[eat nade]

Does anyone have means/expertise to start up a completely new site? Because honestly all these ideas really are going to go to waste, and it's a shame.
I think a whole new site is the only way to go from here....