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[Speedracer]

Since a common concern seems to be the clutter, you could have the awards go onto the persons profile instead of the sidebar. That way there is plenty of room to fit all the awards a person earns and it doesn't make the threads look cluttered to some. It would be really nice if in the profile preview (whatever the thing is called that shows up when you hover over the person name) had a line where you could see the awards.

[Strategist]

For everyone interested, this is the mod that we would be using to put it in place if there is enough people who think it's a good idea: http://community.inv...-awards-system/

 

It's quite a nice incentive system that I believe can be a lot of fun and bring activity to the forum in ways that we haven't seen before (or at least, for a long time). There are so many possibilities for different award tiers.

 

I think the 20x20 icons would be a good start. 

[ShadowLink64]

I like the 20x20 icons.

[Strategist]

Here is an example of how it would look on the sidebar AND in user profile fields.

 

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similar to this on the user profile section

 

[Dance]

Oo that sidebar's purdy. I really like that it brings a great deal of diversity to the sidebar.

[Dan]

I really hate the 'awards bar', it's really overdone and there's no need for a big black line to surround all of the awards.

 

I think it would be much better if we could mod it to look like this:

 

 

They seem a lot less intrusive that way, and simplicity is something everybody is after I think. You can hover to see the name of the award, and click any to be brought to a list of that user's awards on their profile.

 

Thanks to some smart margining on IPB's side, it looks great even when you have rows and rows of awards:

 

 

Technically this is really easy to achieve as well, IPB offers a "custom fields" part which is probably utilised by the mod you mentioned above @Strategist. It should be easy to modify.

[Sweeney]

I agree with Dan. The border is unnecessary.
The MT implementation looked exactly like Dan's mockups.

[Nymh]

Dan's mockups are exactly what I had in mind.

I love the idea of awarding site contributions and milestones in a tangible way. Incentive and motivation go a long way toward forum activity.

As to the question of whether it will spur people to post mountains of crap - people already do that.

[Strategist]

I don't mind how we do it either way I like both examples. Also, for the actual giving out of the awards, it can be a manual thing done by the mods, but I feel it would be best if we have a request system in place as well. This way, when people hit a certain 'milestone' for an award to be given out, they can bring attention to it for the mods to review/award. 

[Dan]

I don't mind how we do it either way I like both examples. Also, for the actual giving out of the awards, it can be a manual thing done by the mods, but I feel it would be best if we have a request system in place as well. This way, when people hit a certain 'milestone' for an award to be given out, they can bring attention to it for the mods to review/award. 

 

I think this is the way it would have to be until there we have someone actively developing more forum features.

It's also really really important that the criteria is nailed down for each one of these awards.

 

None of this "based on staff members discretion". Concrete goals are way better than "oh, we might give you an award if we like you".

[Waser Lave]

None of this "based on staff members discretion". Concrete goals are way better than "oh, we might give you an award if we like you".

 

 

Can we have a Not-Being-Dan award, please?

[Dan]

Can we have a Not-Being-Dan award, please?

 

Only if there are separate awards for Northerners and Southerners

[NapisaurusRex]

Only if there are separate awards for Northerners and Southerners

I vote this for Southerners.

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MERICA!

Edited by Napiform, 14 February 2014 - 07:47 AM.

[Sweeney]

That's kind of big, Napi...

[NapisaurusRex]

That's kind of big, Napi...

Go big or go home.

[Sweeney]

Go big or go home.

But... I am home

[NapisaurusRex]

But... I am home

Then you can't go big!

[Sweeney]

Then you can't go big!

Well, now you've upset me.

[NapisaurusRex]

Well, now you've upset me.

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[Sweeney]

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I don't know what to say

[best]

Fuck no, forum awards are shitty and dumb (Parentheses)

Edited by Best, 16 February 2014 - 07:51 PM.

[Grimley]

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I rather like that, Napi! 

[Sweeney]

Fuck no, forum awards are shitty and dumb (Parentheses)

That's ok.
They probably feel a similar way about you