Let's design a forum!

[Legend]

First off, this forum is associated with my indie game studio. We're on vizioneck.com/forum, and my studio info will be on the front page. There will just be a link from there to here.

Because of that, my only demands are that there's dedicated forum space for my studio and my games that users uninterested in everything else can easily find.

Also especially during these early days, I'm creating the VizionEck image. Swearing, NSFW content, etc. will have a place on this forum but to the average INTERNET traveler this place needs to appear G rated and ooze classiness.


Beyond those two, this forum is for us: the gamers. Let's work together to make it the best it possibly can be. What do you want out of it? What's our mission statement? How do we stand out? Etc.

Let's make magic.

[Dr. Pezus]

I agree!

Nice sig!!

[darkknightkryta]

Here I was about to go on a tirade and start swearing and stuff 

[darkknightkryta]

Now that I actually put some thought into this.  How about you put the top topic as your game?  That way you can place updates and videos in there and we can critique the game as you design. 

[the-pi-guy]

Not bad Legend.  Not bad at all. 

[Legend]

Here I was about to go on a tirade and start swearing and stuff 

I believe in many products for many people, verse one product for a group.

The current forum allows words to be replaced. If you put the f word in a post, it's made G. However in your settings you can disable this. Users who want swearing can have it, but it doesn't affect those who don't.

[Dr. Pezus]

I believe in many products for many people, verse one product for a group.

The current forum allows words to be replaced. If you put the f word in a post, it's made G. However in your settings you can disable this. Users who want swearing can have it, but it doesn't affect those who don't.

Man of the people!

[Raven]

Spamming is allowed in community areas but is moderated in severe cases. As in, an entire page where every post is one letter to create a word. Handled on a case by case basis. Spamming outside of community areas is not allowed unless declared otherwise.

Community areas are also to be designated NSFW environments. Anything goes in them with the obvious exceptions of anything that would be considered pornographic or display excessive real life violence.

[darkknightkryta]

I believe in many products for many people, verse one product for a group.

The current forum allows words to be replaced. If you put the f word in a post, it's made G. However in your settings you can disable this. Users who want swearing can have it, but it doesn't affect those who don't.

Makes sense, but what of my other idea?

[Legend]

Makes sense, but what of my other idea?

Seems reasonable.

[the-pi-guy]

I added a few words for censoring.

[Legend]

Spamming is allowed in community areas but is moderated in severe cases. As in, an entire page where every post is one letter to create a word. Handled on a case by case basis. Spamming outside of community areas is not allowed unless declared otherwise.

Community areas are also to be designated NSFW environments. Anything goes in them with the obvious exceptions of anything that would be considered pornographic or display excessive real life violence.

I envision community areas as hangouts for members discussing that game. I think it would be best to not have platform community threads. Those were needed on vgchartz due to that forum's structure, but they shouldn't be needed here. Especially while we're still small. This entire forum is the PlayStation Community lol.

So spamming in community threads makes sense. They're just places for fun.

NSFW should also work, but the threads need to stay on topic. A Gravity Rush 2 community thread could have NSFW cosplay, but if it starts dwelling off into a Cosplay thread we can use the split feature and make a Cosplay community thread.

Off topic NSFW comments that most of you guys like to do could be done with ghost comments. Like a user with them enabled sees the comments intermixed within the thread and a user with them disabled just sees the on topic thread posts.

[DD_Bwest]

if we are going to allow spamming, it has to be members spamming interesting stuff.   No members popping up and spammin look at these videos or make moeny from home

[Legend]

if we are going to allow spamming, it has to be members spamming interesting stuff.   No members popping up and spammin look at these videos or make moeny from home

Oh of course.

Spamming for the amusement of the community would be allowed, but spamming for personal gain isn't.

Nice Pi

[Raven]

if we are going to allow spamming, it has to be members spamming interesting stuff.   No members popping up and spammin look at these videos or make moeny from home

Some day we will have the technology to swiftly hunt down and kill those people. I can't wait.