The official "Sputnik Ideas and Suggestions"-thread

[Damrod]

Cleaning time. Just like in the old thread, post your ideas and suggestions on how to improve Sputnik here.

The list of suggestions so far:

Pending, not yet judged

• Style buttons (italic, bold etc)
• Band discography sorted by release date
• Dedicated Sputnik forum (to support community feeling)
• Force a comment when someone leaves a negative vote
• No Top15 list anymore, because of fights etc (maybe replaced by review of the month?)
• Search for user comments (like search posts by users in the forums)
• Report bad comment link (take to Report bad user forum/email?)

Undergoing changes/Under construction

• Change to the genre system -> more/less genres

Implemented requested changes

• copyright situation
• edit comments
• last comments of submitted reviews in User CP
• increased review title length
• new chart system
• special indication of hyperlinks in reviews
• parsing of style tags (italic, bold etc) in preview of review
• Average user rating on main page (in addition to reviewers rating)
• Release date on main page
• Change to display of 'number bands'. Change from '1' to '1-9' or '#'
• Mod: Approval of first reviews by mods
• Mod: Delete all posts by user
• 'Last page' link also at the top of comments pages
• Prohibit voting on your own reviews
• Rename 'Alt Pop' to 'Soul'
• Maybe a change to the "Useful Review" thing (different name?)
• Include Sub-Genres in all time charts
• Release date change (only year necessary)
• Display of "Useful Review" voters for Mods

Dismissed requested changes

• Different coloring for 5 star reviews
• 'Approval sign' for mods to underline good reviewers
• Alternate views for Top15 list (sorted by review count/weighted rating)
• Name of reviewer below album on main page (Too crowded)
• Different solution for chosing "Similar Artists" and "Recommended Albums" (Obsolete with new system)
• Genre for albums instead of artists (Too subjective)
• Force to use 'review helpful' link before postinf of comments

Status Explanation
pending - no decision yet
under const. - it's being worked on
implemented - suggestion that has been integrated into the Sputnik site
dismissed - like it say, the idea has been dismissed

[Iai]

/me gives $0.02

• Style buttons (italic, bold etc)
  Definite yes
  
• Band discography sorted by release date
  In time yes, just not yet
  
• Display of "Useful Review" voters for Mods
  ESSENTIAL
  
• Release date change (only year necessary)
  Yes. I don't think any particularly cares about the exact release date of anything not released this year.
  
• Force to use 'review helpful' link before posting of comments
  Oh god, no.

[Jom]

/me gives $0.02

• Style buttons (italic, bold etc)
  
  
  - By nature, I manually type the code. I don't use any of the toolbars when it comes to color changing, font organization, or what have you. If I wanted to write a lime-colored, bolded sentence, I can do so by typing in the tags manually, as opposed to using the toolbar. But hey, that's just me. If it gets implemented, I won't ever use it, but others would, it seems.
  
  
• Band discography sorted by release date
  
  
  - Not really a pressing issue, but it'll get there, I agree with Iai.
  
  
• Display of "Useful Review" voters for Mods
  
  
  - 123 w/ Iai. That way, you guys can see the goings-on, and you can answer our questions if we've been negged suspiciously.
  
  
• Release date change (only year necessary)
  
  
  - Agreed with Iai. The only time this is really necessary is when someone reviews an album that hasn't been released, I think.
  
  
• Force to use 'review helpful' link before posting of comments
  
  
  - This would do more harm than good, I think. Plus, friendlier users will get a huge surge in scores, while mindless or less-friendly users will get negged, regardless of the quality of the review.
  
  

My my, that's $0.04 you have there.

EDIT: no one saw that

[DFelon204409]

/me gives 2 cents

Kill beyondtheblueprint after taking out a heavy insurance claim on his life

Allow mods to see who voted for what.

[Neoteric]

Originally Posted by DFelon204409

/me gives 2 cents

Kill beyondtheblueprint after taking out a heavy insurance claim on his life

Allow mods to see who voted for what.

I agree, I don't like beyondtheblueprint either

[Dave de Sylvia]

/takes all 6 cents

Style buttons (italic, bold etc)
Couldn't care less, as I type my reviews out in MSWord, complete with tags.

Band discography sorted by release date
In time yes, just not yet

Display of "Useful Review" voters for Mods
ESSENTIAL

Release date change (only year necessary)
Yep.

Force to use 'review helpful' link before posting of comments
Oh god, no.

Wow, barely had to change anything. Dunno why I bothered. I think I just wanted the money.

[Iai]

Everyone agrees with me.

Cool.

[DFelon204409]

Pending, not yet judged

• Style buttons (italic, bold etc)
  How about you stop being a little girl and just use the vB html tags that most people know.
• Band discography sorted by release date
  Agreed
• Display of "Useful Review" voters for Mods
  Of course. This should apply to mods elsewhere like me, not just Dammy and Meddy.
• Release date change (only year necessary)
  I don't care but I think that the recently released albums thing should have more overall. Maybe a side column all the way on the right.
• Force to use 'review helpful' link before posting of comments
  No no no no no no no no no no no

Undergoing changes/Under construction

• Change to the genre system -> more/less genres
  Add post-hardcore. That's pretty essential from my stance. Also, in the future maybe make an electronica section and make subgenres like breakbeat, trance, etc. but that's way off in the future.

[DesolationRow]

Not voting before you post a comment, but you should HAVE to state your reasons in a comment if you vote 'no'. Not voting before you leave a comment, but just leaving a comment for voting no.

[Jom]

EDIT: nevermind

///

Originally Posted by Twist

Not voting before you post a comment, but you should HAVE to state your reasons in a comment if you vote 'no'. Not voting before you leave a comment, but just leaving a comment for voting no.

That's the thing: people SHOULD do that, but people don't.

[DesolationRow]

Ummm, who's Twist?

I know people should, but they should make it so they HAVE TO, if they vote no.

EDIT: Oh, twist is the letters in my name. Silly me. Sorry.

[DFelon204409]

Originally Posted by ::Entwistle::

Not voting before you post a comment, but you should HAVE to state your reasons in a comment if you vote 'no'. Not voting before you leave a comment, but just leaving a comment for voting no.

That's dumb because I read through a lot of reviews but comment on many less than I read. I end up giving the yes/no vote to way more than I comment on. Maybe mods and Top15 don't have to backup their voting but regulars do?

[Iai]

Gee, give people another reason to scream elitism from the hilltops, why don'tcha.

[masada]

It'd be nice if there were to be a "Country" genre on the site, or at least merge it to be be "Country/Folk"

[Shadows]

Can review lists be organized? Whenever I go to 'User CP' and then 'Edit My Reviews' it takes me ten minutes to find the one I'm looking for. Would it be too much to ask to have it alphabetized by artist?

[Jom]

Originally Posted by ShadowsFallen

Can review lists be organized? Whenever I go to 'User CP' and then 'Edit My Reviews' it takes me ten minutes to find the one I'm looking for. Would it be too much to ask to have it alphabetized by artist?

Ctrl + F

[Shadows]

Originally Posted by Jom

Ctrl + F

I suppose that would work. I always thought it would look nicer if the list was organized in some way, but there's no point in making more work for mx and the mods if it's something I could easily do. I'm surprised I never thought of that before.

[Dave de Sylvia]

Originally Posted by DFelon204409

That's dumb because I read through a lot of reviews but comment on many less than I read. I end up giving the yes/no vote to way more than I comment on. Maybe mods and Top15 don't have to backup their voting but regulars do?

No, everybody should be writing a sentence.

[Neoteric]

A lot of people dumped it but I'd like to see a mini forum dedicated to Sputnik. There could be a forum for Sputnik General Questions, there could be a Rate My Review when you can get your review rated and commented on and the site forum could be moved in there.

"Where would we put the link?!?"

I made a brilliant picture:

http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/5480/sputnik4lj.png

[Damrod]

Basically not a bad idea. It could support a sense of community that a lot of people stated the new site lacks.

But a link to the Site forum would be enough though in my eyes, a complete move there not really necessary.

Added to the pending list