SUGGESTION BOX

Discussion in 'General Site Information - Guidelines' started by webmaster, Apr 17, 2006.

  1. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    Tell us what you like (or don't like) about the site. What you'd like to see changed or added.
     
  2. SardonicGenie

    SardonicGenie New Member

    Hey,

    I just wanted to say that I think that you are doing a pretty good job. I like the way you advertise the site on the main/front page, you know, with the pictures of white women/black men couples engaging in everyday activity with one another. I also like the way this site has many more features other than just a personals section, or just a message board of forums...

    but, we need less trolls! Other than that, keep up the good work.
     
  3. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    Thanks, but there will always be trolls. Perhaps we can all come up with more effective ways to deal with them.

    Some other ideas on the drawing board are:

    - Privacy photos in the personals. Where folks can make their photos viewable by request only.

    - Splitting off the adult ads and moving them into the "adults only" area.

    - One username/password for everything on the site (forums, chat, ads, etc.)
     
  4. SardonicGenie

    SardonicGenie New Member

    Those COULD work, but I'm not sure. I guess we'll see.
     
  5. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    What problems do you see with any of those items? If any?
     
  6. SardonicGenie

    SardonicGenie New Member

    It maybe a little tougher to manage, I imagine, since the site may get cluttered up with accounts here and there.
     
  7. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    Hopefully it would have the opposite effect. Right now, someone can create a separate login for the forums and a paid membership. Under the new system, they'd just have one login and their permissions would change accordingly -- lettting them in and out of certain areas.
     
  8. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    - Blocking paid members from sending more than X amount (probably 20) of responses to personal ads per day. Basically, to stop those who write one response and then emails it to every woman in the personal ads area.
     
  9. SardonicGenie

    SardonicGenie New Member

    OK, I see what you mean. As I've stated, I wasn't very sure, but I just wanted to see where you were going with it, you know, just to be helpful if I can.
     
  10. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    True, that is why I am I asking for suggestions. I hope others will weigh in too.
     
  11. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    Some other possible ideas...

    - Automatically thumbnail photos in the forums. If someone posts a large photo in the forums, it will automatically shrink to the size of a thumbnail so it does not distort the width of your screen. This is a module that can be added to this type of forum.

    - Post rating? Where you can rate posts as to whether you agree or disagree. Similar to what they have in the AOL forums.

    - "Hot or Not" -- where you can post your own photo and have it rated by visitors to this site.
     
  12. lainarain

    lainarain New Member

    YES!!!! Will this shrink the size of photos in signatures too?

    Ha! Ha! I think some folks have done this on their own. I'm sure it would be very popular. You won't see me up there, though.
     
  13. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    YEP!
     
  14. LA

    LA Well-Known Member

    Excellent idea!

    Sounds like a good idea as well. The more media interaction, the better. Which is why AOL and Myspace, and facethejury.com do so well. On the flip side, it could mean more interaction with trolls, but that's inevitable anyways.
     
  15. SardonicGenie

    SardonicGenie New Member

    :lol: When I saw your name in this thread, I started chuckling, knowing what you would say.
     
  16. heartdesire

    heartdesire New Member

    I would like for the members to be able to interact with each other without any problems. I have attempted to contact some of the female members and would like for a messageboard for both men and female members to contact each other without any problems.
     
  17. webmaster

    webmaster Administrator Staff Member

    No, we can't do that. That is what the personals are for. We want to keep the disussion and personals separate. Also, the personals/adult areas is what makes money for the site. It would be nice to make this site free, but then who pays for the server, the bandwidth, approves the ads, etc.?

    Having said that, if anyone wants to be contacted through the forums, all they need to do is to set their email address to be visible in their profile. Then they can be emailed (or instant messaged) directly by anyone who comes to this site -- for free. Perhaps the women who have their emails hidden would rather not be contacted by just anyone.
     
  18. tuckerreed

    tuckerreed New Member

    monitoring of trolls
     
  19. Bryant

    Bryant New Member

    I think that the post rating is a really good idea webmaster. There are some people (like me) who don't know how to take a compliment, so just having somebody rate my post sounds much easier. And the Hot or Not thing sounds cool for those of us who are brave enough to have our pictures judged. :D
     
  20. Silvercosma

    Silvercosma New Member

    maybe there is a possibility to add a kind of "chat counter" to the page, similar to the "In total there are [number] users online" note at the bottom of the forum page. Something like: "there are currently [number] users in the chat room" This might be helpful for users interested to chat.
     

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