The newest FAC - what do you all think?

Blade · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 264

[quote="unfocused"]Quit double posting.

What do you mean by that?
Posting twice in a row?

NorseGodOdin · Oldbie Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 2194 Location: Bulgaria

[quote="Blade"][quote="unfocused"]Quit double posting.

What do you mean by that?
Posting twice in a row?[/quote]

Yes.
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Blade · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 264

Well, if that's what you mean, I don't get whats the big deal about it.
I'm not going to edit a whole bunch of stuff into an earier post just because I have something else to say 10 minutes later. That is rediclous.
And I'm not doing this to spite you....I was actually going to talk about something else:

Anyway, good to hear that they're still linked to this site. I didn't really think they wouldn't be, but ya never know.

And please remember I'm playing devils advocate here...It's a reasonible point to bring up.

cstdenis · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject:

Actually, admins can't unblock (you get the buttons, but it doesn't work at the moment)

Stratadrake · Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:25 pm Post subject:

I'm a big fan of if a button appears it should work, or if it shouldn't work it shouldn't appear in the first place.

[quote](you get the buttons, but it doesn't work at the moment)[/quote]
Oh, I see. The way the blocking/unblocking URL's are constructed, it only works on [i]your own[/i] blocklist. I can live with that, but in that case admins shouldn't see the "Unblock" buttons on another user.

Oh, and the buttons that appear along the header row for a picture, they need to be organized better.

How about organizing them like this?

[img]http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h316/Stratelier/fac_icons.jpg[/img]

Viewer level functions on the left, self-level functions in the middle, staff/admin level functions on the right.

Or something similar, where there's at least some visible dividing space between each group.

Also, since we now have the "Add/Fave artist" option displayed on user profile pages, do we really need it anymore on individual submissions?
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Sora121 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: Additional Suggestions

I was browsing through FAC's main site, looking through some artists art and was struck by an idea.
What if FAC had ranks and titles for its users. These would be based on the number of votes, comments, pieces of art, ect. that the user has.

More so, special ranking for those users who have had featured art on the front page and so on.

What do you think about this?

Also, the "Add/Fave artist" on the user's page as well as the user's submissions, I would see as ease of access to the other users.
I like the organization of the user level icons.

Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject:

I think that all art should either go through the approval system, or should somehow be viewed by the moderators, so that all artwork has a chance of being featured and doesn't have to rely on whether or not any given user who sees the artwork knows about the Featured Art proposal thread and actually suggests the work be featured.
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Sora121 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

[quote="Papercut_Dragon"]I think that all art should either go through the approval system, or should somehow be viewed by the moderators, so that all artwork has a chance of being featured and doesn't have to rely on whether or not any given user who sees the artwork knows about the Featured Art proposal thread and actually suggests the work be featured.[/quote]

But making sure all the art goes through a panel of moderators would be a pain, and would take a lot of time that most aren't willing to spend.

The idea is a good one, though. So instead of having all the art go through a panel, or waiting for a small few to put the art up for review here on the forums, Why not just make a system to let a user put a picture up for the featured art section.
Similar to the icon system for faving and and voting.

Benk · Elder In Training Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 3733

I think we should have a quality control
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Sora121 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

[quote="Benk"]I think we should have a quality control[/quote]

I like that thought too, but it would open us to a form of discrimination.

Benk · Elder In Training Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 3733

Blah blah blah
Too many shitty pictures
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Blade makes me laugh,

a lot.

I'ma charge mah WATERMARK.

edit:
AP would be a lot faster if Denis somehow worked magic with flash so each picture's approval takes y or n and it goes over to the next picture.

Probably bad for the dial-up fags but whut, who uses dial-up nowadays.

I'm lactose intolerant.
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Papercut_Dragon · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

[quote="Sora121"]
The idea is a good one, though. So instead of having all the art go through a panel, or waiting for a small few to put the art up for review here on the forums, Why not just make a system to let a user put a picture up for the featured art section.
Similar to the icon system for faving and and voting.[/quote]

Only then every user would see something they like and put it up there. And we'd end up with poorly drawn Sonic art all over the front.

Is that why the automatic approval thing was put in place? 'Cause it was too much work to look at every single picture?
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Sora121 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject:

[quote="Benk"]Blah blah blah
Too many s**tty pictures[/quote]

I'm with you, but I would want to see FAC closed down because some little kid's crappy art.

[quote="Papercut_Dragon"][quote="Sora121"]
The idea is a good one, though. So instead of having all the art go through a panel, or waiting for a small few to put the art up for review here on the forums, Why not just make a system to let a user put a picture up for the featured art section.
Similar to the icon system for faving and and voting.[/quote]

Only then every user would see something they like and put it up there. And we'd end up with poorly drawn Sonic art all over the front.

Is that why the automatic approval thing was put in place? 'Cause it was too much work to look at every single picture?[/quote]

I'm not to sure about that.
What I meant there was that there would be a panel to look them over, but based on the number comments and good votes, ect. we could make the system a little more automatic.

Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

http://www.fanart-central.net/pic-574804.html

Watching tentacle rape porn is one thing, drawing is another.
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Blade · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 264

[quote="Sora121"][quote="Benk"]I think we should have a quality control[/quote]

I like that thought too, but it would open us to a form of discrimination.[/quote]

I second that. People aren't going to be encouraged to get any better unless they post their grabadge and get flames and suggestions, as well as encouragement to improve.

[quote="Brianhjh"]Blade makes me laugh,

a lot.

I'ma charge mah WATERMARK.
[/quote]

Lolz. Blade tends to do that doesn't he? XD

and it's rediclous to approve every piece of art. It takes the approval panel too long as it is already. It doesn't need any more stuff to shift through

Though I love the idea of a button to recomend art for features. That would be beyond awesome.

Benk · Elder In Training Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 3733

But when I flame, and even when I critique, my comment privileges go away.
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Sora121 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject:

[quote="Brianhjh"]http://www.fanart-central.net/piccies/s/Sora121/574804.jpg

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I'm sure you're blind. Confused

Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

half of these people who posted won't be here if select group of people decided to nitpick on what's allowed and what's not.

Do you see the biased selections of featured art? that's because there's only half a dozen people who does AP/and can feature stuff, if we actually decided to allow only "good art" in here, it's gonna be Furry Fiesta Friday, Everyday.
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Sora121 · Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject:

[quote="Brianhjh"]half of these people who posted won't be here if select group of people decided to nitpick on what's allowed and what's not.

Do you see the biased selections of featured art? that's because there's only half a dozen people who does AP/and can feature stuff, if we actually decided to allow only "good art" in here, it's gonna be Furry Fiesta Friday, Everyday.[/quote]

Thats a really good point.