Hey everyone,
I see a lot of people suggesting things for gamemodes, but not so many for the forums. I’ve been around since December and figured I’d offer my two cents on what could be improved. While I understand the forum may not be kept, it has been over seven months since the forum’s creation and it seems to be going strong, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be suggesting some changes.
Also, if this doesn’t belong in the suggestions category because it’s not for a game, I’ll happily move it.
Now without further ado:
- Lower the character requirement from 20 to either 10 or 5.
The character requirement is meant to prevent spam, however for many things on the forum (especially forum games) a perfectly good post will be below the requirement and require people to add on “20 chars” to allow it to be posted. While this is merely an annoyance, it is a quite unnecessary one that can be quickly amended in Site Settings → Rate Limits (unless Discourse has moved it recently).
- A more comprehensive guide and rules for the forum
While there is a set of rules, it can be hard to track down. I suggest to make the rule set globally pinned, along with a short guide of sorts and directions on Hivebot. For many users this is their first interaction with Discourse and indeed, any forum, and a guide on posting and the difference between forums and chatrooms would be helpful.
I’d also like to see a more comprehensive set of rules, since the current one is a bit vague in my opinion. However, the Hive community seems to be doing a great job so far, it’s very positive and seems to be pretty healthy.
- My final suggestion is a formal forum reporting system. Why?
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Not everyone has Discord
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The format of a forum is more suited for the matter, with easy tracking of reports and the ability to use tags and the discourse-solved plugin to help facilitate an effective reporting system. I’m not sure if the admin team would want to put that much effort into the category, but they do already have at least one plugin installed (discourse-voting).
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Less likely for a report to get drowned out
The problems I could see with this is potentially more workload for the admin team, and I’m not entirely sure how Hive handles reports where the user is currently offline, but still I’d like to hear what everyone thinks about this suggestion.
Thanks!
Nice suggestions, especially the decrease of the minimal characters and the reports section !