Topic: Ideas for the site

If we could just 'rec' comments I'd be happy. It's such a pain to have to wade through loads of comments, to find a good informative comments. I'm sure this would benefit the site, comments are basically free content for the website anyway, so why not allow us to highlight the best ones for you?

Ugh, I hate sites that have you rate comments. It just starts stupid people bickering about "why'd my comment get rated down?" Even if there's not a thumbs down thing, it still makes everything a competition to get the highest rating, and you lose any personality shown through comments. If you want that kind of format, there's places like Destructoid. I like reading through all the comments here, to see what everyone has to say about the subject. If there is a thread specifically for the purpose of getting information, it usually gets through pretty quickly.

Everyone here has an equal voice, unless we don't like what you say, then we ban you. That seems a fair system to me.

no offense, but who are you (or anybody else, for that matter) to choose the 'best' comments for me to read? you're not me, lol. i hate having to go through and expand comments on other sites because they're hidden due to low ratings. when i visit a comment thread on a website i want to read everything that everyone has to say, good, bad, silly, or serious, not just things that other people have chosen as 'good' or 'best'. :3

personal tastes aside, though, rated comments don't make an inviting scenario for newbies to enter into. James is right, we want everyone to have equal voice here — and of course if people abuse our desire for fairness and start trolling, we will ban them and that'll be the end of it. :3

[clicks 'Thumbs Up' on theblackdragons comment]

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And plus if we did have rep, Jay would have it all.

Please not this. The simplicity of the NL Forums is one of the reasons its great. No large stupid pictures in signatures, the "leveling up/ranks" thing, and especially colors in the text. Some people would abuse it and put rainbows in their posts and stuff. All of that is a pain to look at.

it's true, our jealousy re: JR's natural awesomeness is the real reason we're not interested in a comment rating feature. D:

Guys, let's keep this to ideas for the site: we don't want off-topic posts obscuring the good ideas.

Thanks.

I have a forum suggestions, i hope this goes in here too.
I'm new here but found something rather annoying: The spam threads.
Most people should be aware that many people enjoy those, even i sometimes find them amusing, but i think there should be a designated place for such things, like a dungeon or spam corner. I'm talking about things like "Your latest retro purchase" for example, everyone loves to brag, i understand that, but it's a example of a topic that would go in such a place, in the "General Discussion" board those literally taken over, and i find it obscures "regular" topics. So i think a designated board for those would be an improvement.

@Ludwig: 'Your Latest Retro Purchase' is located in the Retro section of the forums. I don't know how much more section-appropriate you can get, really...?

I never criticized that and as much as this may be true, it's still a spam topic, i find those make a board untidy, that's why i suggested a own board for topics like those.

I dont know how is Your Latest Retro Purchase a spam topic? This is a video game site after all what else are we going to talk about the weather?

@Ludwig: I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I don't see how that topic is 'spam' — It's a thread for people to discuss any retro goodies they've purchased lately, and that's what's happening in there. If we were to go down the line making a section for each and every style of thread on the forums, pretty soon we'd have about as many sections as we do threads, i think :3

that said, i know i'd love to see a separate section of the forums for all the 'game' threads (stuff like 'This or That', 'Island game', the old Vending Machine thread, comment on the signature above you, etc. and so forth) up in General Discussion... now that's clutter, haha :3

I can see that TBD it should make it easier to find alot of those games and keep them going as well.

...and clean up the boards in which they currently are, which was the point i wanted to get across with my original post.

create a section for user written reviews and guides

While I don't want to say "I beat you to it"...I beat you to it.

I thought about this for a week or two, and since the thread I created about it hasn't been looked at (to my knowledge), I'm just gonna re-post it here.

Nintendo Life really needs to get a chat room.