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TFF Central => Suggestions => Topic started by: Alessia Starfurr on February 15, 2018, 02:03:35 AM
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A simple badge to see if someone has access to the adult section for easier identification of members who have access to that section.
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Is anyone else interested in having a badge added to the award system for this?
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I feel like it's a little bit unfair to make it an award, because there's gonna be people out there who aren't 18 yet, and will find that unfair, and also people who have access to the adult area who wouldn't want it publicly displayed...
Maybe allow for the option to put it somewhere in the user's profile?
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It won't be an "award" per-say, it'll just use the same system.
It'll be requestable, so only those who want it need show it.
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Maybe it'd be better if it would only be visible to others who have access to the adult area / are over 18? That would make the most sense IMO, but I don't know if that's possible with the current award system.
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Maybe it'd be better if it would only be visible to others who have access to the adult area / are over 18? That would make the most sense IMO, but I don't know if that's possible with the current award system.
That isn't something that currently exists with the system, no. Don't know if Tweak would be able to make it work.
The awards system does have three separate areas where you can display a badge near your avatar, so since it's not really an "achievement" it could be put in a different place.
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That sounds good. I'm up for that.
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Mainly my intend for this was for this to identify people who have access to help people find each other, though it could also be used as a sort of promotion of that section.
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also it seems to me the adult section is a bit.... slow this could be for multiple reasons.
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No slow as in people don't seem to post in it as often as the others, likely due to smaller population of members with access.
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The badge could be one way to show it's there.
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Making an adult section badge almost makes it seem like a status symbol. "I have access to the adult section, look how cool/adult I am". Is that something we really want?
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While technically any badge can do that, that is not the reason for this badge.
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I'm pretty sure users already know of its existence, at least I hope they do since it's right in the index of the forum, and the rules to gain access to it were made slightly less strict just a few days ago because you don't need to send an actual ID anymore (and this can make feel some people safer), but they either don't find any interesting topics or discussions to join or they're not interested in the first place, so this lack of interest generates the gap of activity between SFW and NSFW boards.
An admin can probably confirm me this, but most users who meet the requirements for the adult area, or at least the active ones of course, already have access because probably they requested it out of curiosity, but once seen how it's visibly less active than the rest of the forum most of them just lose interest I guess.
Agreed. It actually was somewhat active when we first opened the Adult Area, but activity has definitely died down. Part of the reason why we loosened the restrictions to get in is to encourage more activity there. All it really takes though are for people to make posts instead of lurking.
Making an adult section badge almost makes it seem like a status symbol. "I have access to the adult section, look how cool/adult I am". Is that something we really want?
As far as it concerns me we could make it invisible, with no actual icon, so that nobody knows it's there until you go to someone's profile and head to the awards page, where you see a little empty icon that says to the right "This user has access to the adult area of the forum", and then on the right of this again there is a button that you can click to open the list of every user who has this invisible "perk".
This is also possible. (Well, it would have to have some kind of icon with it, but it can be made invisible on thread profiles.)
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On another note what sort of icon would it be? perhaps an upsidown paw in the shape of a heart or something?
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I'm not sure if I like this idea, I feel like those who have access to the adult area should be able to "advertise" it on their own volition and we'd also have to avoid it looking like a status symbol.
Besides, merely having access to it doesn't necessarily mean that a user is very active there.
Personally, it's not really something I myself would like to have displayed just like that on my profile.
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I'm not shure if I mentioned this, but I second with Tim.
For some reason, if there was an adult board badge, I'd rather not have it shown on my profile.
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I'm not sure if I like this idea, I feel like those who have access to the adult area should be able to "advertise" it on their own volition and we'd also have to avoid it looking like a status symbol.
Besides, merely having access to it doesn't necessarily mean that a user is very active there.
Personally, it's not really something I myself would like to have displayed just like that on my profile.
As I said before this is not about a "Status symbol" any of the current rewards can do such a thing ,but this is not about that.
This is about an easier way to see who has access so that communication between those people can be smoother.
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I would suggest though, even then, I'd personally rather not advertise my having access to it even if it's only with those who also have access to it.
It's already quite easy to find other users with access to the adult area simply by checking who's been posting in there and who appears to be active in there. I just don't see much benefit in knowing who else has access yet don't spend much time there. And if you want to connect with others, why not just post something there and see if anyone responds?
Besides, I'd rather avoid suddenly receiving random PM's from other users going like "Ohai, I see you also have access to the adult area. I guess that means you're into adult stuff, yes?~ *murr murr wiggle wiggle*" ...
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Besides, I'd rather avoid suddenly receiving random PM's from other users going like "Ohai, I see you also have access to the adult area. I guess that means you're into adult stuff, yes?~ *murr murr wiggle wiggle*" ...
Yeah, that right there kind of solidifies my opinion that maybe it would best not to have one at all.
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Or make it only show up on the profile page.
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You can. It doesn't have to be visible on posts.
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Besides, I'd rather avoid suddenly receiving random PM's from other users going like "Ohai, I see you also have access to the adult area. I guess that means you're into adult stuff, yes?~ *murr murr wiggle wiggle*" ...
Yeah, that right there kind of solidifies my opinion that maybe it would best not to have one at all.
To be honest the same could be said of FurAffinity And Deviantart
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To be honest the same could be said of FurAffinity And Deviantart
Yep, why I'd rather avoid that possibly happening here too ;)
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On another note what sort of icon would it be? perhaps an upsidown paw in the shape of a heart or something?
I will make it *^*
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On another note what sort of icon would it be? perhaps an upsidown paw in the shape of a heart or something?
I will make it *^*
Pretty sure at the moment we're not going to implement this anyway, but I prefer to make the awards myself to maintain consistency.
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I would suggest though, even then, I'd personally rather not advertise my having access to it even if it's only with those who also have access to it.
It's already quite easy to find other users with access to the adult area simply by checking who's been posting in there and who appears to be active in there. I just don't see much benefit in knowing who else has access yet don't spend much time there. And if you want to connect with others, why not just post something there and see if anyone responds?
Besides, I'd rather avoid suddenly receiving random PM's from other users going like "Ohai, I see you also have access to the adult area. I guess that means you're into adult stuff, yes?~ *murr murr wiggle wiggle*" ...
People are gonna approach and flirt regaurdless.
and as I understand it you can opt out of the identifier.
Overall I think its a good idea.
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I don't think it's a good idea for pretty much the same reasons as many others have already mentioned before me.
If it has to be a thing, it should be an optional award, like the proud furry one.
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I don't think it's a good idea because it's going to lead to some sort of envy response and "I have more ability than you do, because I'm x years older."