What about an 'Ideas' forum competition?
I've been thinking that it would be really good to have a event in which the Toribash community could help contribute to the forum/game by have one of their best ideas implemented. There are a lot of smart people in the community, so essentially, this event would be crowdsourcing their talents to hopefully produce good ideas that the staff could implement moving forward - even if there is only one idea that is guaranteed to be implemented, there might be a couple more ideas that are really good that could also be implemented.
The Admins/Smods would determine the criteria for judging the competition. Feasibility, positive impact, etc. perhaps. In addition to the winner getting his/her idea implemented, it could be worth rewarding them with additional prizes, so as to entice more participants.
I'd like suggestions on whether or not you think this idea is good or not and what we could do to improve it. I'd also like upper staff to chime in with the same thing.
IRC log about the implementation of the winning idea code:
[11:11.32] <Eleeleth> Ele: what do you expect the turnaround time to be from competition close to implemented feature
[11:12.29] <Ele> that'd depend on the idea
[11:13.13] <Ele> the idea would be worked towards
[11:13.22] <Ele> so it doesn't happen 5 yaers later
[11:13.34] <Ele> but the time would depend on what it takes to be implemented
[11:14.00] <Pimp> Ele what are you thinking of like rules or features
[11:14.14] <Ele> not really thinking rules
[11:14.28] <Pimp> Idk if anyone still codes shit for this game
[11:14.38] <Ele> there's plenty of site devs right now
[11:14.51] <Ele> and I dunno about game devs
[11:15.08] <Eleeleth> Plenty of site devs doesn't mean plenty of time :v
[11:15.22] <Ele> Yeah OK
[11:15.44] <Ele> but if the site devs can't work towards one idea that's really good
[11:15.48] <Ele> then that's just a bit slack
[11:16.53] <Pimp> What's the difference between your idea I some just making a suggestion thread? Why even guarantee that said idea will be added
[11:17.10] <Ele> that's up to the upper staff
[11:17.22] <Ele> that's why I asked for them to give their thoughts
[11:17.34] <Ele> their sanction
[11:18.05] <Ele> and pimp, it's a crowdsourcing event with prizes
[11:18.18] <Ele> it attracts ideas
[11:18.25] <Ele> gives people incentive to make and share them
[11:18.47] * Yoyo ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout)
[11:19.02] <Ele> and hopefully some guy with a really good idea is incentivised to give their's
[11:19.36] <Ele> so you give people a good incentive, such as
[11:19.43] <Ele> the guarantee that it'll be implemented
[11:19.59] <Pimp> I was hiding this ground breaking Idea to change tb forever I'm not gonna give it out for free but if I get a prize I might
[11:20.28] <Ele> gives people that haven't put their thought into something like this
[11:20.40] <Ele> the motivation to think about it
[11:20.57] <Ele> plenty of smart people out there that don't go on the S&I board
[11:21.08] <Eleeleth> Ele: the idea is fine until you guarantee implementation. That's when it goes from fine to bad
[11:21.36] <Ele> the event doesn't work if it doesn't actually accomplish anything
[11:21.56] <Ele> it can be added to a queue
[11:22.13] <Ele> amongst other things site devs are already working on
[11:22.44] <Eleeleth> Ele: you'd be lucky to see the idea implemented after 2-3 years, then
[11:22.57] <Ele> then maybe it gets moved to a higher place in the queue
[11:23.35] <Eleeleth> Depending on the complexity you're still looking at a really long time unless you've got several thousand dollars to sponsor a feature
[11:24.05] <Ele> So long as it doesn't take over 2 years to get implemented
[11:24.27] <Ele> and devs give the community updates on their progress with their idea
[11:24.37] <Ele> I think people would be fine to wait
Last edited by Ele; Jan 24, 2016 at 05:40 AM.
