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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Sep 27 2014 2:01 AM
nzlockie: I like that idea as well. Although I think it would be more practical to hide elo and other things.
I remember being judged a lot when debating on debate.org, simply for my profile status.
There is also a lot of favoritism and friend voting on DDO, and I'm forewarning Admin of having the same things happen.
Blackflag
By Blackflag | Sep 27 2014 2:03 AM
I think it's weird that you can join multiple teams, but have the option of creating only one
Vegito
By Vegito | Sep 28 2014 10:09 AM
@admin I've been a member of www.debate.org for a while now. Over the past few months, I've been taking looks at EDB8 and have been comparing the two websites that seem to have similar goals in mind. EDB8, at least when compared to DDO, has some amazing ideas for its debates; however, it appears to lack the same capacity for quick and easy discussion that DDO has.

I'd suggest incorporating a feature into EDB8 similar to DDO's poll section. DDO's poll section serves as an easy way for discussing topics in a more loose way than what either DDO or EDB8's other systems allow for. Having such a feature on EDB8 would massive improve the website by broadening what types of debates can take place.

Another idea for EDB8 is to create a system in which debates could take place in a live setting. Debates could take advantage of Skype, or something like it. People could then arrange for entire discussions to take place during one or multiple sessions of live discussions. Such a feature would allow for an instantaneous system by which people could discuss things while also allowing for a greater level of user participation.
Blackflag
By Blackflag | Sep 28 2014 1:01 PM
I agree with Vegito about live debates, but rather than argue it here, let's do it over there http://www.edeb8.com/debate/Video+Debates+should+have+the+option+of+being+live+-2/
admin
By admin | Sep 28 2014 5:05 PM
Vegito: What we do have is "quick debates" which are like very short, simple debates. They were originally called "Twitter debates" because they mimic arguments you can sometimes get on Twitter. For more general discussion we also obviously have forums, groups etc.

What do you *not* like about DDO polls? Is there anything that we can do better if it were to be implemented here? Other than giving off a ton of notifications obviously. I don't think polls should be a major feature of the site like they are on DDO, but I've been wondering about possibly allowing groups to make polls.

For live debate... well, I think it's fair to say I've been hinting at something big being in the works for a while now to celebrate edeb8's first birthday (which is pretty soon) ;)
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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Sep 28 2014 9:37 PM
admin: My thoughts were instead of implementing actual full fledged polls, we add forum polls, which are more common. They are usually made when creating a forum.
Here are a few examples...



Vegito
By Vegito | Sep 29 2014 1:50 AM
admin: In regard to polls, what we could do is have a poll section that was a bit more dedicated to ensuring topics weren't repeated over and over and over again. Like... Maybe we could make it so that we combine the poll section and the Big Issue sections of DDO. Like, the mods could setup a bunch of polls in regard to different important issues similar to the Big Issue section. But like the poll section, it would be setup so that you can have active discussions in the comments of the poll about the issue. Then regular users could add their own polls about different topics. We could have a rule so that you could only have one poll per topic so that we don't end up with a ridiculous amount of polls about the same topics. It would have to be modded pretty carefully though to ensure topics weren't repeated and to ensure that both the polls and the comments on them remained civil. Perhaps we could have more active moderators than there current are on DDO and maybe we could have some moderators that specifically moderate certain sections so that the main admins and mods don't have to spend a ton of their time working on the poll section.

And I look forward to seeing what surprise is for the birthday of the website :)
Vegito
By Vegito | Sep 29 2014 1:53 AM
admin: Oh, and just a tiny minor thing, could the messanger be a bit more like the one on Facebook? There are just a few tiny issues that I have with the current one. Firstly, when you send a message, you have to click the chat box again to send another message. It would be much easier if the cursor automatically remained in the chat box after you sent a message so you didn't have to keep re-clicking it. Secondly, it would be great if we could have group chats too like we can on FB.
admin
By admin | Sep 29 2014 2:11 AM
Vegito: Group chats are probably not possible. I don't think this clunky shared server could handle that sort of thing. It already struggles with regular chats LOL! Just a heads up.

Chat box re-focusing sounds do-able though.
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Vegito
By Vegito | Sep 29 2014 2:24 AM
Whoops, don't know why that posted twice. Sorry!
admin
By admin | Sep 29 2014 2:27 AM
Vegito: No worries, I'm pretty good at catching and removing accidental double comments like that :)
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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Sep 29 2014 4:50 PM
Porn section!
admin
By admin | Sep 29 2014 4:59 PM
Blackflag: No way. This site is designed so that kids can browse it safely. If you want that kind of thing please go elsewhere.
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9spaceking
By 9spaceking | Sep 30 2014 10:30 AM
Blackflag: very inappropriate.
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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Oct 2 2014 1:44 PM
I have no idea what was posted here and my inability to focus is going to make actually bothering to read this too much of a pain in the rectum to bother endeavoring.

Therefore,I shall post great ideas with 0 poops given about repeats:

First set of ideas from this layout:



Visitor Counts to profile would help (perhaps a different count, one per IP, the other per view)

video/song embdedde dinto profile to autoplay or not when someoen visits one's profile.

backgroudn coloring to bio and stuff

background image being able to be tiled, or stretched and other things.

Next set of ideas form my brain:

a way to forcefully uncoach someone. there is a way to make someoen coach you against their will but no way to uncoach them that I know of. The evidence is what I have done to admin.

A troll/sandbox section where truly fun debates with a little spice and insulting is permitted. These can't count to elo, etc. (perhaps a tab or something else and to use it you are forced to turn off adblock and to view a video of 30 secs to fund this site, I'd do it I promise).

A "screw you, Debate.org" page of reasons why DDO sucks as a separate tab athat we all add to and laugh at. Don't bother making one for createdebate, that would be like laughing at a down'd syndrome kid for havinga big tongue. DDo tries to be smart but really is corrupt, createdebate is just gneuinely retarded in every manner and can't help it.

A way to create multiple ranking of friend, obviously fave and non-fave bu talso diff lists (maybe even diff clors per rank so ppl u hate get a 'death cross bones' symbol as an avatar or over their username.. maybe offer people to make allie sand enemies (this is the only smart thign createdebate offers).

admin
By admin | Oct 3 2014 1:57 AM
Blackflag: Thoughts:

Enemies on the site can be blocked. I really do prefer blocking as it discourages attacks on each other, which are against the site rules.

Edeb8 should not be involved with attacking other sites specifically. If you want to make a post on the resources section as to why this site is so great, I'd support you in that.

The problem with allowing too much profanity etc is that it could get edeb8 taken down. I'm personally not against it but I don't own the server. The TOS are based on what the owners of the server would remove the site for if it comes to their attention.

I will look into adding an uncoach button. That's quite sensible. Also, the fact you can assign somebody as your coach is an issue that's a little harder to solve. I'll have to think about it.

Background image options are already going to happen.
Other profile customizations - maybe. In general, I don't want to annoy users, and I do want a consistent user experience, but beyond that I have no real issue.

Visitor counts to forum threads + profiles could be done. They'd start as 0 for every page this is currently not being tracked for though.
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admin
By admin | Oct 3 2014 3:01 AM
... and on that note, additional profile background customizations are now here! Also, I've come up with an elegant way to deal with the cache issues. Only implemented so far for background images but if it's a success I'll extend it to profile images as well.
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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Oct 3 2014 3:07 AM
admin: what about the profile videos/audios tho. (even better with autoplay)

Also, there is a flaw with the update. if you tick the box to show everyone your settings (which is the only way to let anyone see it), you have to be uploaidng the image as wlel at that time. if you first upload an image for ur background and later decided to let people see (or unsee) it, it doesn't swithc unles su reupload while u alter the tick.
admin
By admin | Oct 3 2014 3:10 AM
Blackflag: I'm not seeing that error happen for me.

Can you check my profile right now and see if you can see a background?
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Blackflag
By Blackflag | Oct 3 2014 3:12 AM
admin: I cannot see it
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