Feral Heart
Game & Forum Discussion => Forum Discussion => Forum Polls => Topic started by: Rak$ha on May 19, 2011, 11:50:55 pm
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Once you vote, it would be great if you could post why you voted what you did so we can hopefully improve.
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9, because it's so big, old posts are hard to find. Its just soooo big!! xD and whats the point of the 'see unread posts' option because I'm sure noone's intention is to read every single post xD
I think it could be a little more organized. Like in the help section, there's up to 90 somthing pages of posts, many are repeated questions. There should be a way for the forum people who do change stuff in the forum, to put solved situations all together in one of those posts(I think it was called a sticky...) that stays at the top and front everytime :D that way, people may look there to find similar situations and solutions.
Edit: Oh and also, I don't like how the posts read down to up, back to front. Alot of topics are about the first post, so I think it should be as normal, with the first posts on the first page, and most recent on the last ^_^
Otherwise, I think this forum is great!
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Eight
Why?
I do like this forum, it's well organized and the point gets across. However I think a few things could be fixed. The boards, some of them could use more a description in areas and proper capitalization where needed. Also, maybe change the "Talk About Yourself..." to "Community" because that seems to be more community related subjects. Yes, it is talking about ourselves, but that title seems a bit.. off, or 'egotistical' in a sense for one to talk about themselves. ^^;
Also, I noticed when I click "View Members" there is no "View Staff" - I can click "View Position" but that still doesn't list all staff. Being linked to all of the staff would be very helpful if something is happening and a member wants to grab the attention of a staff member. I noticed in the "Staff Team" thread that only the administrators are linked to, I think, aside from Red. The linking to accounts is helpful, so I think you should do it with them all! ^-^
Mentioned in this thread (http://feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=6319.msg96752#new) on page eleven, mainly, are some helpful ideas that could easily apply to the forum. Such as the "Game Journal" idea mentioned. =]
I also, upon glancing at "Game + Forum Discussion" it seems sort or disorganized a tad.
Perhaps you could have the top board be for all things FeralHeart GAME related. Polls, ideas, opinions. The board below it for all things FeralHeart FORUM related. Polls, ideas, opinions. No fancy names either, just "FH Game" then the subboards "Polls" "Ideas" "Opinions" (with proper descriptions) and "FH Forum" "Polls" "Ideas" "Opinions"
I know it sounds like a lot, and I'm really sorry if it seems like I'm bashing on good work, but I feel that if the time is taken to do these things, it may help out the forums appearance. ^-^
That's all. Generally, good job on the forum, and good job running it. 8]
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5
Forum Layout/Color: Some of the colors I understand, the tan-ish color. But yellow and black, all I can thin is bumble bee. Why not something that flows better, more colors that mix and blend well. The boards themselves bother me a lot. They're simple grammatical and punctuational errors, plus they lack descriptive and helpful descriptions. Why do half the job, either do it all at once or don't put anything down, lol. It can be fixed though, I've done it in the past and it does not take much time at all. o3o The mini profile seems cluttered, and most forums I know of have the avatar image above the karma, post count, gender and all. So it looks off to me. When you post a message, the preview message background isn't black in color, like it is when you actually post, which makes decorating or viewing a message .. sort of.. wrong in a sense? Idk, it bothers me. Also, I understand all of these ads keeps the forum / site / server running and up, but couldn't they at least be more neatly placed, in somewhere else in the site less noticeable? I know, that complaint doesn't make much sense, but it's a reason for why I only give a five. ;P Also, the news feed. I like it, but I didn't even know it existed for a while. Maybe make it more noticeable to people?
Code Problem: I noticed with the [ c e n t e r ] code, it doesn't work unless the center code is on the outside of all the other codes. I think there's a similar issue with the size being on the outside the color code? I've no idea why this is, but is it fixable? It's annoying. >>
Staff: I think you should make mini-mods, and those boards I've suggested before to you on MSN, like the debate board for general mature debates and other such things. Make those boards as well, but only/if after you clean up the other boards. Staff in general, it seems.. confusing. Maybe be more organized and straight forward with who is on the team in the Staff Team list, who does what, who moderates what, what is their area of specialty?
More organized help threads also. I noticed a lack of well laid out, helpful threads in noticeable places to new members. o3o And maybe at some point, someone go through and fix the horrible grammar in the "Documentations" of the site? And rename that to tutorials, because that's WHAT they are. They're not 'documentations'. Just call them tutorials, people may ACTUALLY look there more often. xD
Maybe to be nice (this isn't needed but it has always bothered me) make a list of people who helped make this game? After all, there are a few unnamed people who have markings in game. Credit should be given, m'thinks. o3o
Otherwise, it is a nice forum, with somewhat productive and helpful staff members and members alike.
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go with ze 9!!!
Good organized for most parts, slim and easy to look at for being such a big forum. Only thing that puts away from a full score is some minor bugs that lays around and that it could use some organizing on some of the child boards in the future, but they don't really bring down the whole forum score in my eyes.
Summed things up very well.
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9. Definitely 9. I like this forum, well constructed, but it STILL needs improvement. Also very old topics and threads make me uncomfortable because they're useless. Nobody's posting on them anymore. I am sure FH forum will get into a great community soon!
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8
-Its pretty organized and taken care of, colors are ok and Love the pic banners.
-Id like to see perhaps a background rather then just black, maybe a light design fading into the black so its not bright either for our eyes (no highlighters i beg u lol )
-The downloads page would be nice advertised on home page when u log on for any new patchs, i dont really see when theres a new patch until someone tells me, game doesnt work, or i happen to see the moving banners above.
-Love all the variety of threads made for member use, but perhaps the News Icon at top be used more?
Either way love the site and how it runs :) Keep up the good work
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9...
Why?
Because sometimes people choose white for their text colours. And I can't see them on the white background sometimes! But I still can read them by highlighting it... but its sometimes a pain in the butt.
The rest of the fourm is awesome! I love the font and colours, and its well organized. :3
~Hopp
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9. Not much I would change about the forum, its fast, easy to load and doesn't nom my bandwidth up. I do however get annoyed with this "Session verification failed" ect messages that keep popping up when I try to post something
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9...
Why?
Because sometimes people choose white for their text colours. And I can't see them on the white background sometimes! But I still can read them by highlighting it... but its sometimes a pain in the butt.
The rest of the fourm is awesome! I love the font and colours, and its well organized. :3
~Hopp
The forum background shouldn't be white. o: It's black with tans and yellow colors.
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9/10
I like the overall forum, with it's colors, and things like that. :3 It's very neat.
The only thing I see bad with it is that I think there are too many old posts, and repeated topics. Things like that. xD But other than that, I really like it! It's very easy to use. :D
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I say a 7-8 mainly because sometimes when I am reading, the fint color & text starts to hurt my eyes.
And also, I believe there should be a few more boards.
The good thing is the layout is well-layed-out, say, as in things are easy to find, and a lot of people on the forum are really nice. ^^
I could say a lot more, but sadly, I am lazy. xD
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I would say eight, the forum is excellent, but I would like it more if there where posts things that are currently coming along.
Unless that's put in news...
As said earlier, old posts and a blank black background aren't the most epic things that could be on the forum...
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8.
Honestly, I think alot of the topics combined together should be seperate--for instance, in the "Have Your Say," there should be a separate board or something for polls created by members, and polls created by staff.
I'm not sure if you think it's fair to grade the forum on this or not, but I think it's something that can decide the quality of a forum. I think some of the mods are a little harsh...I found a topic in The Randomz Talk that was locked after 1 person replied, and in my opinion, I think it was unfair.
I think Off-Topic Discussion boards are created so users can express opinions, and personal views(as long as no one is discriminating against someone else, or breaking rules) they have. So, I think some topics are locked that shouldn't be. (Sorry if that was a bit off-topic xD).
Just to add, when I look at the way a forum is moderated, I think it can effect the quality of the forum itself. If I think someone is being a bad moderator, or I think it's not moderated enough, it gives a bad "environment" to me, and makes the forum look bad. On the WQ forum, a moderator was extremely rude to me, and I've never returned to the forum since.
Also, the "News" page isn't used, and I think it should be used more often. The Game News and Site Updates is fine(which I also think should be combined), but I don't see why you have both.
I mainly think the board could use some room, so combine Videos with FeralHeart Creations, possibly?
Oh, and, I'm not trying to compare Feralheart with Arokai, so don't take this the wrong way, but on Arokai's forum they have a little like button, and I'm not sure if you can add that to this forum, but I think it's a good idea.
So, basically, the moderation could use some work, some of the boards could be combined, and little things here and there.
I'm not saying these things are things that you HAVE to change, I just think these are some things you could fix(in my opinion of course) if you really want to improve.
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I gave it a 9 :D Simply because its fun in here and the people are nice. :) And.. Not 10 because theres not enough action, tough this is (just) a Forum.
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9
I love the fourm... I post too much sometimez D: :D but the only reason its not 10 for me is cause I think there should be a How-To place XD
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Eeeh, I say 4.
It's less than I want from the Feral-Heart forum, but it will do, if I must be here for everything Feral-Heart related. Also, keep in mind I never wanted this to be the official FH forum.. I want to stay on Stacey's Forum, I still like it more, but this forum just murdered it with a cleaver. I'm the most stubborn person you'll meet, ask anyone, and I had planned on staying at the proboards forum.. so moving sucked for me, and still sucks. Anyway, here's what I think:
General Look 5/10: I don't like the color scheme; tan is fine and dandy for lions, I understand it, but yellow and black.. ew. Black is alright, since it goes with everything and it's easy to see any kind of text on it.. but yellow is a hideous color. I don't care what anyone else thinks.. just no. It's too happy, too bright (like it's trying too hard) and too obnoxious. It pretty much describes every trait I can't stand in people, but it's in a color. I want the option to change to skin to tan, black, and blue - it would look so much nicer to me. Plus, tan already goes with blue, in a beach and ocean sort of way, so all you'd need to change is the awful yellow! I know, it'd look like Stacey's forum, but let's face it - I've never met one person who said they hated the color blue, in my entire life.
As for categories, boards, and the like, it could use improvement, mostly with grammar and generally odd placement (Like having news and updates in it's own Category - it looks strange to me, I think it would look better with a board under the rules.) Not to mention the incredibly intrusive ads - I never noticed these until I switched to Firefox for something, where I don't have AdBlock, and I just had to switch to Google Chrome because they bothered me so much. However, I'm sure these are placed there by default by your forum software (Phpbb, right?), but still.. it's just so annoying. They really should be moved, or you need a donate button so people could give money to keep those ads off this forum. :P
Code Problems 6/10: I haven't noticed much, besides the center bug, and sometimes my URL code doesn't like to work - but I thought this may simply be due to Google Chrome. Also, we need a Spoiler button, really. It would be great for people with slow computers, because images could be posted in spoilers on boards - not to mention if the debate board is added, spoilers would be very useful, for the obvious.
Staff 5/10: There are some nice, great staff members, yed; but I've seen my fair share of corrupt staff here, I'm not going to lie or cover it up, because I shouldn't have to, but I will be kind enough to mention no names. These are staff who do actions for no reason, like banning people, and those who, for some reason, can't see both sides of a story, or choose not to because they are stubborn, or simply crude.. I see this on these forum, and occasionally on the game, and saw it in the IT community back then as well. These people should not be in any sort of power; a mod or admin needs to remain fairly neutral in debates if they get involved in the community, and needs to know how to separate their opinions and emotions from their moderating duties. They should be allowed to state their opinion, don't get me wrong, but they have no right to simply ignore the points a normal member is making if they disagree, just because they can. They are supposed to do their job; which is to make sure things do not get out of hand, not to suppress any disagreeing thoughts, assuming these thoughts against their ideas are not disrespectful.. but some people seem to think disagreeing with someone means you don't respect them. This is just my thought.