marking of threads with CA posts - good or bad idea ?

**Tamur** · 10-15-2004, 17:50

I think this would be nice to show the number of threads they've contributed to. I know I'd like to see this myself.

The problem (from being on other boards who DO that) is that when people see a thread with the CA shield, they will often (not always) flock to it and start spamming it with anything and everything. This most often turns the thread into a mishmash of on- and off-topic posts, made in haste without thinking about wording or content, in the hope that a CA employee reads them.

Then again, with the user "filtering" that the org uses this may not be that big of a problem here...?

**Lemur** · 10-15-2004, 21:36

It doesn't sound as though anyone has a problem with the idea. Personally, I'd quite like to be able to see at a glance where the CA staff is contributing.

**TosaInu** · 10-15-2004, 21:53

Sticking it doesn't 'delete' the rating CA shield.

There's only 1 con to the proposal to give more shields when topics contain more info: even staff can't just change the number of shields just like that. We can only 'vote' once and not change our vote. That's only a detail though.

That's a valid concern Tamur, but I guess we can somewhat stay on topic.

**Blodrast** · 10-15-2004, 22:54

Tosa: great job, and cool ideas ! I think your proposition is a really good solution, especially, if I understood correctly, the assignment of shields to a thread won't be available to everybody - otherwise we just might get all threads with shields on them...

and Tamur, good point. Haven't thought of that, but it is quite possible. If that happens, well, I guess it would be up to the mods of that forum again to try and keep the spam/useless posts down...
Keeping this in mind, it seems that the mods may turn out to have more stuff to do, so perhaps they should also have a say if they want this or not...

Edit: one question though: would the non-CA-shield "rating" also remain in place ? or would the CA-shield rating replace the other one (although, of course, with a different purpose) ?

**TosaInu** · 10-17-2004, 13:04

Originally Posted by Blodrast

Tosa:
Edit: one question though: would the non-CA-shield "rating" also remain in place ? or would the CA-shield rating replace the other one (although, of course, with a different purpose) ?

We had a discussion about normal topic rating lately, quite a few were not in favour of it. So, instead of coding yet another system (which should be possible but I don't have a clue how) we'll just use what we have for CA shields. CA-shield will replace normal rating.

The topic/post icon will stay too as well as the CA avatars.

**Blodrast** · 10-22-2004, 23:13

cool, I noticed this is already being applied. But who is supposed to give the rating, because in the Colosseum there are 2 active (or relatively fresh, i.e. on the front page) threads, one with a rating and one without. Do the mods of that forum have to apply it manually, or ? ...