Noimad96
Swashbuckler
Disclaimer: This is a longer post. If you want there's a TL;DR at the bottom and my ideas in relation to it are in spoilers in the the midsection of the post.
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hello guys. I'm Noimad, and I'm a fairly brand spankin' new pirate on the forums here. Have you ran into
a situation where you've wanted to format a post to make it pleasant to read, and add your own bit of flair to it? Is bbCode not enough for you? Then look no further. I'm putting this in discussion because I'm not even sure exactly what form I want to suggest.When i was 12 there were 2 games I played most, and one website that never left my history. Those games
were ToonTown and POTCO, and that website was.... neopets..... ANYWAY. If you played Neopets, you might have opened an item shop before, and in that item shop you could use php to change almost everything. Backgrounds, item locations, menus, everything. I specifically learned how to make drop down menus for that shop before i realized that it was against their terms of use to modify the original buttons and got banned...Now I know what you're thinking, that would just be too crazy, and I agree. So rather than keep this short
and just ask, I gave you my life story. But now the multi-part discussion topic. Do you think allowing posters to use certain markup languages is a good idea, if so what language do we choose (my vote is PHP {or phpBB whatever you call it} just because I'm used to it), and if everything follows through to that point, how would we limit the users so they don't abuse it. I have a couple ideas for the last one and ill go ahead and get them out of the way. I'll use the rule of threes i guess.
- Another forum rank slightly elevated from your run of the mill member that must be applied for.
Applications would be filled out for this rank which would be reviewed by the moderators in that person's region and/or hours listed. Requirements of course I would leave for the staff to decide on. This way when that player is on, the moderators that are in his reigon will know that if that person posts something, go ahead and review it to make sure they aren't abusing the code Now that's a lot of work and manpower, but I feel it's secure as long as we have a running list of who can use it.
[br]1[/br] I'm leaving this here to prove a point, basic bbCode for a line break and even that doesn't work. Luckily I found a workaround. My workaround? Don't use a numbered list just number it yourself
[br]1[/br] I'm leaving this here to prove a point, basic bbCode for a line break and even that doesn't work. Luckily I found a workaround. My workaround? Don't use a numbered list just number it yourself
-Limit the language on lower posting levels in the forum (aka sea dog, wanted pirate, moderator) and
have more features unlock scaling to your posting level. Not only would it give meaning to the posting level other than a title (which I admit is pretty cool anyways) but it would feel like a forum achievement system and how cool would that be.
-Limit the language on everyone to only very basic paragraph, text, border, etc. options. This one I like the least, just
because I have some great ideas for some guides, and would love making them look professional.
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TL;DR, I suck at making my posts pretty with bbCode mostly because of the limitations of the language
itself. I would like to discuss a safe but functional way to bring at least the formatting portion of a more powerful markup language into our posts while still playing nice with bbCode for the normies.
As I've said, this IS a discussion. I want to hear your thoughts and suggestions other than
"I'd never use it so who cares."
Thank you for reading my long winded, badly formatted pitch
Happy holidays and even happier plundering!
-Noimad-
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