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Suggestions to Ryan
1king wrote
at 9:54 AM, Wednesday June 4, 2008 EDT
I have a few suggestions most would require a lot of coding.

1. Introduce a sort of probation period. To reduce the powers of newly registered members to some degree for example not able to post on the forums or rate or leave comments on other players. After a new player have been playing for certain amount (5 days for a example) or after a person has enough points (1500) to let all of the normal things be available.
I think this will help prevent a lot of problems with people re-registering.

2. Remove word vote.
I suggest having a remove word page where people will vote for removing the word from the database by typing it. So if the word comes in the rotation enough times and people vote to remove it, then it can be taken out of the rotation and put under consideration to admin.
This would work best with my first suggestions so the newly registered members will not be able to vote away anything as well as suggest words.

3.Player rating.
Another suggestion to attempt and do something about the newly registered rude people. If members could go to a person's page and give them a negative score then some sort of automated banning system can be introduced. (for example ban until the end of the day, so Advisors can make have a look and decide what to do next).
Again this would only work well with my first suggestion so the new players wont be able to give negative score to everyone.


4.Word filter.
Introduce a word filter for chat and guess box. Where swear words would be replaced with ** . Also a penalizing system could be introduced by taking away points for example.


5.Reporting.
This would require a lot of coding though.
Adding an option for reporting sketch chat or guess. So if someone draws or says something rude their chat or drawing can be logged. Again some sort of limit on the amounts of reports in an hour or two hour period before temporary ban can be introduced.

Thank you for taking the time and reading. I realise that if you decide to implement any of my suggestions it would take a lot of your time. Its just some ideas i had to make XSketch a better place.
And its already such an awesome place. Thank you soo much Ryan.


P.S.
Ideas section:
http://xsketch.com/ideas
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kingskitty wrote
at 11:41 AM, Wednesday June 4, 2008 EDT
i think a lot of these are amazingly good suggestions but yes hard to implement...
especially the needing points before posting
Minieggs wrote
at 2:07 PM, Wednesday June 4, 2008 EDT
I think a simpler idea would be to have more moderator/advisors so that when there is a problem there is always someone to ban or mute the player in question. There also should be a way of finding out which advisors are online instead of having to search all the tables.

I'm not sure if you know but there is a post on the forum where you can suggest bad words to be removed.

1king wrote
at 7:11 PM, Wednesday June 4, 2008 EDT
2 mini eggs that post was made after i wrote this.
1king wrote
at 7:23 PM, Wednesday June 4, 2008 EDT
um ... never mind the above post ... the thread about bad words have been around for ages ... im just blind
kingskitty wrote
at 9:08 PM, Wednesday June 4, 2008 EDT
yes, sry he is a blind old man..... sooooo old and absolutely blind :P

its amazing he can code at all...
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Discoveria wrote
at 7:24 AM, Thursday June 5, 2008 EDT
I heartily support these ideas. When players start quitting because of cheaters we need more firepower.

The automatic banning system might be quite effective, especially when there are no moderators around, because a few cheaters can paralyse the lower tables completely. Players could appeal to the higher tables for help to ban cheaters.
kingskitty wrote
at 10:59 AM, Thursday June 5, 2008 EDT
i have appealed to the higher tables and gotten help but there is a life outside of XSketch *gasp* and there is not always a moderator here. yes good players quitting is a shame and a waste of a good gaming site.
Beerliqour wrote
at 4:57 PM, Saturday June 7, 2008 EDT
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