New Member Listing? - Page 2

You should know by now my strict policy against making fun of names prevents me to linking to this.

This people in charge of all this have failed miserably in their attempt to redesign Tom's website and Forum. The stuck jan. 1, 1970 join date was an indicator. Should have just left it blank. Duh. Now were here waiting for a French tech to let Justin know if He's embarrassed enough about all this to allow Justin to put it back the way it was before. I think they were testing the new system over the past weekend. You know when the entire Forum was haywire giving error on this page on every click. The message woulkd appear magically and every one double and triple posted until they realized the Forum wasn't really broke. They were fixing it? Once none of the Forums worked properly, the French guy was satisfied. For now.

Guys this system has been planned for months and few have said anything about it. If you wanted to make comments on it earlier, you should have posted here: http://feedbacks.tomshardware.com/ [...] -for-users

I stand by my last comment there as well. If the "best answers" thing is so important then it should be more visible. Also, a person should be able to select a best answer whether they want their thread marked as "solved" or not. Currently, only a few threads are even eligible to have a best answer because the "I am looking for a specific answer" (or whatever it says) box was not checked. Even when it is checked the OP rarely selects a best answer.

If it's going to be the main way of earning points then it needs to be used. Right now it isn't, at least from my observations.

EDIT: Oh, and if you want to blame someone for the change to the moderator/administrator titles, you can blame me for that. Most people who've ever used a forum in the past can assume that mods/admins are long-time members anyway and I am not really worried if I'm not a regular, a scout or a master. It's not like it affects most of you anyway.

If they are really trying to make the forum better why cant the be a system put into place to better enable a search to find an answer?

Perhaps a forced search or possibly something along the lines of intellitext. We are forced to navigate around those damn things, so see if the can be put to good use.
When a poster starts a thread, pick out certain keywords and try produce an answer.
Lately the posts are always will this work, is this a good part, will my game work better with this etc etc...

If we all could stop having to answer grade school computer questions then and only then can the forum be what it once was.

At least I turned out to be a newbie and not a wannabe.
I know Ill sleep better tonight.

P.S. Some one mark this as best answer. I aspire to be more, maybe normal or regular
At least mundane or maybe even drunk

Maybe you can be a Tom's Old Fart?

Stinks!!!!

You didn't see the annoying "feedback" tab thing that scrolled down the right side of the forum? I had to adblock it because it annoyed me so much

You could just ask for that to be changed back I guess. RCPilot will have lost his Coors too.

The crowd over at BOM responsible for of all the change blind ambition on this forum...consider an overdose of this.

lol. I don't know about the site changes until it happens. Why? Because I usually don't check the feed back section (I doubt many did; and I have blocked it also ). Also, before Toms/BoM does change things, they should put it up on the home page for vote and a place to "beta test" the new lay out. Putting some thing like this on the Home Page as "News" is much better than some of the "news" that they actually post in the "News" section.

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Price less. AnandTech IS getting better every day. For example the quality of their testing, articles,etc has improved a LOT. This is the complete opposite that's happening at Toms. For example: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3575 was a very good one. Compare that to this: http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,2326.html
The Last Remnant should NOT have been included. Sure, I may be comparing Apples to Oranges, but fact is Anand and many others are improving while Toms is decreasing. I'm not saying Anand was always the best or they always publish good stuff, but they do try to change for the good and it's working.

Also what's concerning me most is if this is a management (BoM) problem or a individual author(s) problem. Until the problems are fixed, Toms is going down hill.
PS: Who owned tome before BoM?

OK, Why would I check the feedback section? Im not an owner/operator of this site. I only go to the feedback section if Im going to complain about the change you just shoved down my throat.

Having checked the so called 'Feedback' section who is the dimwit who named it feedback? It should be called New Ideas or Potential Changes, somethng that actually reflects what it does.

lol

Ok, maybe it's my RPG-playing nature that speaks, but I find the ranking idea not that bad in concept. But like many, I found the new title given to be a bit "diminutive"; I'm no jaydeejohn, badge or Shadow703793, guys like those made this forum useful, instructive and fun, but I would consider myself at least a regular. That aside, here is my try at constructive criticism for this new ranking system.

First, if points are going to be awarded by "subject", there should be an inheritance/hierarchical concept with or without different scales. Let me try to explain. Imagine something akin to a genealogical descendant tree of forum subjects with "forum" being the topmost element. Each time you earn points in a specific subject (sub-subject or else) some or all of the points should also go toward the more global "forum" score. This way, high scores in a subject would be regarded as a specialization and not penalize the overall status. Let me try with an example (sorry for the [ code ] use, but it's the only thing I know to preserve spacing):

The numbers in parenthesis simply means the score would be the sum of the children's score (and I just realized a topic isn't necessarily in "leaf subject" categories, but you get the idea). With the above example, the guy could still be a veteran (I know score to low, but have a specialization in both CPU & Components and Homebuilt Systems and with no extra mention for NIC.

On another note, I would also suggest to either divide the scale by 8 or multiply the current points by 8, this way most "old timers" will probably end in the Addict or Veteran category.

As for attracting new people, how about a forum RSS feed that would send information about all new postings (at least title & full category so people can filter by interests). For people like me who often just look at the "Hot Questions and Replies" section of the homepage because we are at work and don't want or have time to search for new topics, this would be a great way to promote participation.

This was my 0.02$, feel free to critique my ideas if it can improve them.

Then you can vote-up my answer . Does that even give points???

The thing can be highly flexible if they want, I wouldn't even mind seeing "Tom's Veteran / <subject>'s newbie", but if they can, I would drop the "/ <subject>'s newbie" unless you reach the "regular" status.

As for the "different scales" thing I didn't really explain, I simply meant that for the forum, they could keep the 150,000+ for Master, but as you drill down into specific subjects, this number should decrease because no-one would ever be a master at anything.

I don't believe in problems, only in undiscovered solutions .

Not only that, it's belittling the guys who have been here for maybe 7-10 years like TheGreatGrapeApe and others. After three+ years of calling this Forum a 'home' I am relegated to a Tom's Regular. I was like almost a gigalo or guru. Now I'm barely above a scout. And I need 150,000 points to become a Tom's Master. It tok me three years to accumilate 1700 points. A little less than a thousand times that and I will make Tom's master. That's three thousand years.

Anyway, we have Justin, GreatGrapeape, and randomizer from this continent. Jake Barnes left when He realized He had to deal with a bunch of French kiddy men. I think those guys have a much better grip on what would improve Tom's and how the forums should be run. But no. They have to deal with the French. Do you know what that's like? Well, do you? Oh, I forgot you are Canadien . Have a crack a the French buddy...



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I'm from Australia mate, not the US.

You know how you grew up with a strict, formalized way of life and when the nuns corrected you in school and told you when to jump and how far? I wasn't like that.

So you were the kid stuck in the headmaster's office?

So.. how exactly is that related to this topic, if at all? I don't really follow. I'm thinking this is the part where you will post a link with a very long text string.

There's not much to elaborate on really.

They come up with the ideas, they implement them, we find out about them when you do (well maybe Justin knows a bit before hand since he has direct contact), then we deal with the result. That's how I see it anyway.

When preparation for the latest SBM got under way WE were asked for our input for the $1200 est. Lan Box.
I see this Forum going that way but not offically.
I, like alot of people easily adopt ourselves to the problem and not the solution.
A boss will say, I can make it better. Do it this way.
A Leader says, How can We make it better?

So JB I suggest a fresh approach with boundries surrounding the solution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg_EDCeCsJk

Weird, Badge if your talking 500 points = Tom's Scout. Then I'm still a Newbie?!

I think I have like 520 points lol.

Anybody do a reverse google translation for scout or wannabe ? Maybe in French it carries more respect, and this is but a "misunderstandiiiing" no?
How the hell does scout translate into anything applicable to Toms forums? And as was mentioned, wannabe is just dimunitive. Maybe someone could tell them here, and elsewhere (outside of France) alot of these terms are considered racist heheh

I can't believe the Tom's Hardware server is in France in the hands of the French. It's like. Well like. You know. Embarrassing..ah man.

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Edit for Writer's embellishment.