If you ran NSC...

[Bozza]

What 2 things would you change (where changing can also include adding or removing something) on the site?

One thing you're certain would make an improvement.

One thing that might be chancier, and you'd reverse if it didn't work.

 

[Gritt23]

1. New Threads can't be started by people with less than a certain number of posts. 100 seems reasonable, just to stop wind-up merchants appearing from various clubs and flooding the site with a number of pointless provocative site.

2. Favourite Threads. Be able to tag threads so that you can always go back to them easily without having to search. For instance we'll have a season-long NFL thread, that I'll refer back to every so often, but sometimes I get bored looking for it as "NFL" is too short for the search engine.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

2. Favourite Threads. Be able to tag threads so that you can always go back to them easily without having to search. For instance we'll have a season-long NFL thread, that I'll refer back to every so often, but sometimes I get bored looking for it as "NFL" is too short for the search engine.

You can do this by subscribing to a thread can't you?

 

[Reinelt12]

Not necessarily an answer to your question but here is as good a place to say it - I really like the NSC Spy feature, was a godsend yesterday when all the CMS stuff was kicking off and meant no F5 refreshing required, just a glance every now and again at the screen... I highly recommend it!

 

[brakespear]

You can do this by subscribing to a thread can't you?

yes.

 

[Gritt23]

You can do this by subscribing to a thread can't you?

Ooohhhhh, news to me. I'll have to look into that.

 

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On the information under the username (on the left side of each post), I would replace the word 'Posts' with 'Loyalty Points'. No real reason, it would just amuse me. Of course the number would still be the person's post count.

I would also try a rumour rating system. Whereby if a user correctly called a rumour (colour of kit, player signing, exclusive reveal of new training kit) they would get +1. A user would get -1 if they incorrectly called a rumour. However, this relies on someone administering the process (time consuming) and would also require other users to point out correctly called rumours.

Crap ideas, I know!

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I'd bring back the birthday cake

 

[The Merry Prankster]

Get our next seasons shirt sponsorship deal sewn up now for CMS.

 

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I'd bring back the birthday cake

Bring back the cake, bring back the cake!!

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Defintely bring back the birthday cake, I miss that. I don't like the notifications thingy at the top, that tells me when I've been quoted (which seems to get it wrong some of the time). Oh, and I'd ban Terry1 from slagging off Andy Murray any more. Apart from that, purrrrfect.

 

[Gazwag]

Get our next seasons shirt sponsorship deal sewn up now for CMS.

Now that is a good call

 

[Albumen]

One thing you're certain would make an improvement.

'Football only' forum with a 'general' forum for all things non-football.

One thing that might be chancier, and you'd reverse if it didn't work.

The reputation feature. Usually the cream rises to the top. It let's you rep a post and put a little note if you think it's a good post. Also it lets you provide a negative note. Those with 1000+ can only have this feature to avoid newbies negging everyone.

I've used it on another forum and it's fun. It also brings you a bit 'closer' to other forumites with the notes.

 

[Superphil]

1. Outright bans for wind up merchants & trollers, fishers, one warning, then out, for good.

2. Posting restrictions on new members, 10 posts before they can start a thread, including compulsary 'introduce yourself' post in appropriate thread, 25 posts before they can post links.

 

[Seagull Steve]

I think I would remove the post count from the username box. That way we wouldn't get newbies posting shit, just to get a higher post count. We did this successfully on another forum. It has the added benefit of new people coming onto the board and being somewhat intimidated by people with 20,000 posts.

 

[Woodchip]

There is a "rep" button for vBulletin that would be good to have. This could then work like a "Like" button on Facebook, and people could then decide (with the aid of that) if someone is trustworthy or not. Any over use (or incorrect use) of the rep option results in that person having their ability to rep someone disabled.

Also I'd add a "lightweight" skin for those viewing on mobiles. Tapatalk is okay, but it's £4 on the Blackberry. No way am I being stung for that much!!!

Finally, add a vBookie so people can gamble for virtual cash (maybe with a small cash price for the person who made the most money in a given timeframe - say £10).

 

[MrShaun15]

i like a rep feature gives us a chance to find the people who post utter tosh and it lets us know that if there is a new thread and they have lots of bad rep its probably not worth believing (rumours...)

 

[Was not Was]

Oooh, I like NSC Spy. It makes me think: can this be set up as a twitter feed in any way so that social media addicts can have the 'Spy' stream streaming on tweetdeck?

 

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I would also try a rumour rating system. Whereby if a user correctly called a rumour (colour of kit, player signing, exclusive reveal of new training kit) they would get +1. A user would get -1 if they incorrectly called a rumour. However, this relies on someone administering the process (time consuming) and would also require other users to point out correctly called rumours.

This would actually probably be solved by [MENTION=15579]Albumen[/MENTION] 's suggestion:

The reputation feature. Usually the cream rises to the top. It let's you rep a post and put a little note if you think it's a good post. Also it lets you provide a negative note. Those with 1000+ can only have this feature to avoid newbies negging everyone.

I've used it on another forum and it's fun. It also brings you a bit 'closer' to other forumites with the notes.

 

[Simster]

One thing you're certain would make an improvement.

'Football only' forum with a 'general' forum for all things non-football.

One thing that might be chancier, and you'd reverse if it didn't work.

The reputation feature. Usually the cream rises to the top. It let's you rep a post and put a little note if you think it's a good post. Also it lets you provide a negative note. Those with 1000+ can only have this feature to avoid newbies negging everyone.

I've used it on another forum and it's fun. It also brings you a bit 'closer' to other forumites with the notes.

Personally, I think reputation is crap and reinforces some irritating cliques. However, like your "football only" (or "sport only"?) forum idea. As the site gets bigger and busier, I think there is more of a case for it.