Here's how the ranks work now.

Manually defined rank category	Post-count variants
default (user)	0(Nobody) 1(Lurker) 4(Newbie) 30(Member) 100(Active member) 500(Vested member)
Banned user
(a player)	0(Lurking player) 4(Quiet player) 30(Player) 500(Active player)
Master player
Ninja
Master ninja
Coder
Precursor
Robot
Site manager

Change it so that it's automatically generated from several aspects:

• Movie activity (# submissions, # published movies, ~ ratings)
• Number of posts
• Other, possibly manually defined aspects (rating, seeding, coding, administrating, judging, policing, especially helpful posts)
• Age of last activity

The rank could be represented as (choose one):

• A word selected from a large list with an algorithm (possibly many words)
• Numbers or graph measuring several of those aspects
• A graphical shape that denotes the different aspects as different features (spikiness, colors, radius, …)

Some people don't like manually granted ranks. It is accused of not being completely fair. There is also some maintenance labour in them.

A page could be created which is composed of an empty text box. A user would write in the name of a game they'd wish to see. After the game is entered, it gets a score of +1. All games start with a score of 0, and when a game's score gets to be above 0 it is placed on this list. After a game is on the list the user can click it to add 1 to the game's score; submitting the game into the text box also adds 1 to the game's score. This way, every user that browses the webpage has a say in what movies need to be done moreso than others. All spaces in the game name would automatically be removed after being submitted so that one game is not entered more than once. The same game cannot be voted on more than once per IP. Though games can be done in completely different fashions(1 player/2 player, etc), it is probably generally assumed that a 2 player version would be superior to a 1 player version, and needn't be included in the submission. -Blechy

I don't think there is really reason for implementing this. ListOfIdeas isn't a mandatory obstacle or guideline in order to be able to submit a movie. Anyone can play whatever game they wish. ListOfIdeas can be considered a little like a site admin's wishlist, but really, the forum discussions already cover this goal you were describing. -Bisqwit

My reasoning is that "whatever game they wish" is often difficult to pinpoint, and by having a simple page(which would be easier to access than browsing the forums) which not only listed desired games, but in the order in which they are desired, it would be even easier to decide. But I seem alone on this, and so I understand. -Blechy

I understand what you want to say. I think it is a good idea because some people are shy and don't write in forums. Also, it will be more encouraging if I know that there's a lot of request for game than a game I'm not sure of it's popularity. Ex. I'm currently working on LoZ and Ogre Battle and I prefer doing LoZ because I know of it's popularity. For Ogre Battle, I know it is popular but I only know 4 guys that want me to do a timeattack of this game.-Phil

I see this as both useful and unnescessary. We have the forums for making game requests, and the end result popularity of a game will be found once a submission of the game is made and people start voting; yet many of Blechy's ideas would be a nice feature to have, especially for newcomers or perhaps those wishing to keep track of the most popular worked on TASes at the moment without browsing through 6 different forums. If this would be implemented, a feature I'd like to see is not only +1 votes but also the statistics of who is watching the run, and who is making it. And possibly a link for each game to its respective thread, since occassionally people create new threads of games for already existing ones.-comicalflop

• Personal rating page:
  • Basic sorting ("sort by entertainment/technical/overall rating")

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TODO last edited by FractalFusion on 2008-10-16 05:32:07
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