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Gibby wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:14 pm

Gotta say, I personally would prefer to keep any Reddit-like crap off here. Any kind of "like" or score system would be too trendy for me. ¬_¬

I've been on a couple of forums that use this sort of system, and it doesn't really behave like Reddit as the 'upvotes' don't actually do anything to raise or lower a post's visibility. It's just a quick way of agreeing with someone without having to make a post yourself. You could argue that it would be better for the agreeing person to post as it's more activity, but in reality people don't bother.

Indeed, it just saves a lot of the 'This' or 'I agree' type posts. And just a nice way to show someone you appreciate their post without the need to post something yourself saying that.

Pew-Pew wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 10, 2018 1:31 pm

NONE OF THAT.

This is my view. I suspect people will quickly come to see a "thumbs up" as a suitable alternative to an actual response. ¬_¬

Low population forums it's probably a bit redundant really, but if/when the place does get busy in the future it could become a handy additional feature to gauge level of agreement on certain things. After all, a lot of the time one person makes a counter argument and there's no other way for a lot of other people to agree, other than posting "I agree". So it does have a purpose in debates.

Something to perhaps 'whip out' in the future if the place really does take off.

It would be pretty easy to implement, but I would only add the option to thumbs up/like something as I find that adding in negative reactions never provides anything beneficial at all.

I'll keep it in mind if we ever get a boost in numbers.

Meh, I just think it's unnecessary and will lead to less activity.

I have arrived! Bang the gong and bring out the women!

Great job here Mantis, this is looking very good. Look forward to happy times

Rossell wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:02 pm

I have arrived! Bang the gong and bring out the women!

Great job here Mantis, this is looking very good. Look forward to happy times

Alright Rossell, you been AWOL recently too?

Is there any way to get the avatars back to the left hand side. I find my brain needs to see who's written something before I start to read it. Being on the right I tend to read it first then see who wrote it. Is it a theme thing?

Rusty wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 10, 2018 6:55 pm

Is there any way to get the avatars back to the left hand side. I find my brain needs to see who's written something before I start to read it. Being on the right I tend to read it first then see who wrote it. Is it a theme thing?

Yup, Mantis is going to look into it, but he's out and about at the minute so it might take a few days by the sound of it.

This is my first time accessing the forum on mobile, and I must say it's infinitely better than Preys World ever was. You can read things without having to zoom in and everything.

Hello new members.

Is it also worth setting up a new Steam group for this forum? Just wondering if Prey was looking to close the existing one for PWF as well as the old forum...

Hey all.

Thanks Mantis for this. It'll take getting used to

Makes sense mate.

Who's Maturin on the forum here by the way? PW wise I mean.