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| 28 Aug 2014 04:10 PM |
NOTE: I reposted this because the last thread had started losing popularity and I just kept bumping it and bumping it with little replies. So far, this idea has had 13 supporters, and 1 non-supporter. Don't believe me? Here is the original thread: http://www.roblox.com/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=144364497
The ROBLOX forums are so primitive compared to other forums. All we can do is make threads and reply to threads. I think that the mods should give the forums a major overhaul that uses BBCode. If the change is so big that no users can be on the forums during the update, then shut down the forums for a while until it's done, but try not to remove threads that used the old format in the process. Here are my ideas for what BBCode can do with ROBLOX.
1. Reply with quotes. If we want to reply to somebody on the forums, we have to say "@Username". But with reply quotes, we can properly reply to them, and we can even quote what they had to say at the same time, so that no curious bystander has to go digging around for what the person we replied to had said.
2. Automatic signatures that are split apart from the main post. There are automatic signature extensions for ROBLOX on Chrome, but the signature would still be part of your post. Many other forums have a divider between your post and your signature, so that when a user is quoted, only what they posted is quoted, and not their signature. If we were to add quotes to the forums (See above) but not add automatic signatures, then a person's signature would still be part of the quote.
3. YouTube videos. ROBLOX allows YouTube links, so why not allow YouTube videos actually being part of the post? BBCode does make this possible, plus it saves the hassle of copying and pasting the YouTube link.
4. Images. I know what you're going to say, but here's the thing. ROBLOX could either only allow images that are from ROBLOX (Decals, Character images, etc,) or automatically allow images from ROBLOX, but also allow images from offsite links, but with moderation. If you were to upload a post with an image from an offsite link, a forum moderator and an image moderator would both have to review it before accepting it or not.
5. Emoticons. Not as important as the rest, but still a good idea. Maybe have the emoticons stylized to look like yellow ROBLOXian heads. :) would produce a smiling head, :( would make a sad one, D:< would make an angry one, and so on. I will post my ideas for ROBLOX emoticons on a separate post.
6. Edit and delete posts. We've all made an embarrassing mistake before or have accidentally posted in the wrong forum or in the wrong thread. So that's where editing posts and deleting them comes in.
7. Bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, and text size. This should be pretty self-explanatory. The essentials for firmly expressing things in a post. Though there should be a small limit to text size. We don't want little kids spamming with HUGE text.
So yeah, those are my ideas. If you support all of them, say support. If you don't support any of them, give a reason why you don't for all seven of them. If you support some of them but don't support some others, then list which ideas you support and don't support and tell me why you don't support the ones that you don't. If you have majority support (Ex. support 4 ideas and don't support 3) then it will be counted as a support. If you have a majority no support (Ex. support 3 ideas and don't support 4) then it will be counted as a no support.
The current ratio is 13:1.
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:24 PM |
| Support. And good luck on your long and ardouous quest for replies, people just don't like to actually post on good and well thought out ideas. |
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:28 PM |
The current ratio is 15:1.
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:32 PM |
Everything but number five. I hate emojis and emoticons.
>I will rip out your duodenum |
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:34 PM |
I should've mentioned, emoticons can be turned off so that they only appear as text, and there would be a 4-emoticon limit for posts so that people can't spam them.
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:35 PM |
*Engineer's voice* Heck yes.
>I will rip out your duodenum |
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:44 PM |
16 supports, 1 no support (Counting last thread)
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| 28 Aug 2014 04:51 PM |
17:1
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| 28 Aug 2014 09:56 PM |
Ratio is 18:1.
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| 28 Aug 2014 10:00 PM |
This is badly needed, but not emoticons, they are SUPER annoying.
u sicko! |
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| 29 Aug 2014 07:10 AM |
| I'll count that as a majority support, so 19:1. |
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| 29 Aug 2014 07:46 AM |
| Despite the fact that ROBLOX doesn't revolve around its forum section. |
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| 29 Aug 2014 08:20 AM |
SUPPORT
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| 29 Aug 2014 08:32 AM |
| support,with this,we can use forum weapon |
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| 29 Aug 2014 08:48 AM |
"Despite the fact that ROBLOX doesn't revolve around its forum section."
That... shouldn't be an issue at all actually. Even browser-based games have Forums that are more modern to the year than ROBLOX does. It wouldn't hurt if ROBLOX updated the forums at least once in forever.
I support everything but Emoticons, as mentioned with the above posts. Also (as a suggestion I suppose), they should reveal to the readers of the thread that the OP has "edited" their post. Similar to how Youtube does it for their commentary. |
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| 29 Aug 2014 09:04 AM |
To prevent people from saying "BAD PEICTURES WULD SHUW YUP!!!!1!", it's possible to remove the picture functions at all. BBCode can be customized to remove certain features.
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| 29 Aug 2014 02:52 PM |
Ratio: 23:1
Have you guys even seen the ideas for emoticons I posted? They're not like those annoying emoji on iPhones that are painfully annoying to look at. It was the second thing I've posted on this thread. Please check them out and tell me what you think. I'm also thinking of adding more, like an R logo and BC, TBC, and OBC logos for emoticons.
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| 29 Aug 2014 08:36 PM |
Okay, then I support emoticons.
>I will rip out your duodenum |
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| 30 Aug 2014 09:09 AM |
Did you see what they looked like?
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| 30 Aug 2014 04:08 PM |
*Gulp* This is the first time I've had to bump this... Let's hope it doesn't turn out like the last thread.
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| 30 Aug 2014 10:15 PM |
Then I shall bump it for you.
>I will rip out your duodenum |
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