Topic: Ideas for the site

Any option to move the right-hand sidebar to the left, or something like that? I don't like the way basically every page shoves the main content to the left with a big empty spot once you scroll just a little, or a large 'table of contents' style listing that scrolls with you, so an alternative would be nice.

@antdickens
Dear Mr Anthony.

Could you give an option from created thread to block the blocked users to post their comments on created threads ?
Because I found some users including the blocked users keep trying to trolling around and derailing my created threads when I created my new threads to get some nice discussion but those pesky users intentionally want to derail my thread with off topics comments or inappropriate comments then followed by other users keep derailing even more.
With this option, the blocked users will unable to post their comments on my created threads so they will not messing up my threads with their inappropriate comments.

I'm really sorry to ask this after three times I deleted my created thread Life Sim & Sandbox Games Thread because I found some blocked users intentionally want to derail my thread in order to make my thread get locked by moderator. They are really jerk peoples.

Please consider that option as I also saw other user's thread got derailed by pesky users with off topics and inappropriate comments and got locked by moderator after that.
I don't want my threads with nice intention to get nice discussion get detained by those pesky users.
Thank you.

@Anti-matter Not all Sandbox games are cutesy type games. Games like Fallout 4, Grand Theft Auto etc are considered Sandbox games and are perfectly fine to discuss in a public thread you created. If you want a private thread all to yourself where you can govern who posts in it and who doesn't. Maybe create a blog or something.

That'll be me "trolling" Anti-matter unfortunately!

For clarity, my post was:

"I have no issue with “kids games”, the issue is that generally games targeted at that audience are, to be blunt, a bit sh*t, from the perspective of an adult with the majority of his/her faculties intact."

I think if you thought I was trolling you, you'd have been best off reporting me, and I'd have accepted having my post deleted quite happily if admins were in agreement with you.

It's a public forum, most of us seem over 18 and I am certain I didn't break the rules, but I am happy to be corrected.

Cheers!

@Tasuki It takes all sorts, I suppose. I feel like he'd do well to be less insular but what can you do.

@Anti-Matter unfortunately we’re not going to add that as an option. When you post a thread you are posting it for the whole site and therefore anyone can post. If you see any comments breaking our rules then we will remove them and any persistent offenders may see their accounts banned. Deleting a thread and reposting it again over and over would be considered as a spam technique — just because you don’t agree with the opinions posted doesn’t mean you should delete/repost multiple times.

@antdickens
I see.
I apologize if I deleted my own thread for three times. 😓
I will be careful with my actions.

Is there a pc gameing site on the list of sites on here

@Ninfan hey there... we (Hookshot) don't run a PC gaming website, but our friends over at ReedPop run one called Rock, Paper, Shotgun which you can find here: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/

I know there has occasionally been discussion of having player-reviews linked to the game page on NintendoLife which would be great.

Assuming the above is not about to happen, how about a 'game reviews' category on the forum as a less formal alternative? People occasionally drop reviews in the 'games you recently beat' thread and a few other random places, but having an official spot for player reviews to live would be convenient and make them easier to find.

Adding onto what @FishyS suggested, I think having a 'favourite game on a Nintendo console' portion on your profile (underneath stuff like Date Joined, Location, Website, etc.) would be a nice little touch that lets people know what kind of games you're into.

For a more visual example, I made a quick mockup for what something like this could look like

@Fizza That's actually an awesome idea you had. I'm not sure how often people visit each others' Nintendo Life profiles, but it would likely give more of an incentive to do so. Maybe a personal top 5 game list or something.

I’ve noticed the page tends to be weird on my iPad when I go vertical/portrait mode.

The page changes to resemble the mobile version, but the menu drawer at the top of the page gets glitched and only shows the “Manage Topics” option, so any other option you would normally get in mobile mode is lost, and you need to switch back to landscape mode to get the desktop-style menus back.

It’s an iPad Air 4 in case that means anything.

@FishyS I'm actually still very keen to get some kind of user-review system happening. The biggest issue is around how we verify someone is posting a fair/valid review and not just making it up to review-bomb/spam etc. There will need to be a certain barrier to entry to avoid it being misused. Any thoughts?

@Fizza the 'Games' part of the profile kind of does this, you can see what games someone likes by what they have rated games... I think we would likely expand that side of things rather than having a user select a specific 'favourite'. Interesting idea though!

@Eel yeah there is some oddness with rotating, especially on tablets, it will get better the next time we have a big design refresh... promise!

@Rambler yeah, I was thinking maybe 50 (posts/comments) across the site(s) and a member for more than 30 days or something as a starting point. I don't think that is too much to ask.

I think something like that should be enough to stop spammers. In some sense we shouldn't care too much if a non-professional review is perfect; for games with a professional NintendoLife review and/or at least 3 user scores it will just be an alternative opinion and for games with no other reviews it will at least be some type of information.

I would say the worst 'danger' is if e.g. a game dev writes a totally inaccurate glowing review of their own game. To partially defend against that I might suggest some way to rate either individual reviews or reviewers and have that information be visible on the review. e.g. if someone has 80 review points, 80 people have said that person makes useful reviews so are maybe trustworthy or if on an individual review maybe put a button to agree or disagree with the accuracy of the review.

The majority of NintendoLife users presumably would still only click on actual articles rather than scanning through a game page and clicking the player-review button or whatever so in some sense this would be for a minority of 'super-users' who hopefully would know what they're getting into; as long as it is sufficiently segregated from official content, I don't think the bar has to be extremely high.

Maybe there could be some sort of hidden exp system that combines time, participation, and agreeability (hearts on comments), and at a certain threshold it unlocks the feature.

I’m not sure why, but the background of the site started looking like this on my iPad:

@Fizza @FishyS @Rambler @antdickens
I like these ideas. I really do. Just wanted to say that.

There's so much untapped value in user opinions here. Like, the aggregate experience of members on the site covers a staggering number of games played. And not just games that perhaps went under the radar for official reviews, but it's good to get a broader sample of opinions on games too.

Sometimes I'll read Ralizah going off on a 6 paragraph mini-review on some random thread and think, "wouldn't it be nice if stuff like this was consolidated in one easy to find location on the site?" A dedicated section could potentially also bring a lot of lower quality posts. Not spam or troll posts, just... not very informative or well thought out.

Is there any possible way to integrate reader feedback loop that promotes higher quality user-reviews and/or reviewers? Idk, a like/dislike or even just how many heart likes it receives. Something to give the user an idea of what others feel is quality and worth reading.