Front Page Idea

  • user25
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    First of all, I have been on The Powder Toy for I think about a year, or getting close, and the only time I have ever made front page was once for 30 sec. I have created what I think are considerable creations, so I devised a plan for the second and third front pages.
    That plan is for the second front page of creations that are chosen at random from the data base of The Powder Toy saves. Sort of like in math when you are taught about simple random samples and they usually show a computer choosing random students from the list of all students, it could be like that but instead of students you could have save I.D.s. When the computer chooses one, it checks that one off the selections database (separate from the save I.D. main database) and that save will be put on the second front page for the next day. After that it clears the selections database and redoes the cycle.
    The third front page would be of saves that moderators or admins or designers or developers choose. The computer would have the names of all the moderators etc. in a database and it would randomly choose 5 of them to choose 3 saves each to put on second front page. After those chosen saves get put on the third front page for a day the moderators etc. that chose for that day get checked off the database and new ones get chosen. This cycles through and 5 new moderators etc. get chosen. After each one has chosen one day the database is reset with the names getting checked off and it starts over.
    Please consider this, as I view it would promote saves that may be good without many votes or get not very well known users noticed, expanding the known variability of The Powder Toy.

    Thanks,
    User25
    Edited by user25, 2011-06-17 21:46:36
  • airstrike52
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    Good idea, but do your really want a second page full of noobish creations?
  • user25
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    It would be nice because it would not be all noobish (not a word) creations, and I feel even if they aren't the best they will help little known and new users get noticed.
  • airstrike52
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    True, but the inverse effect is that 'noobish' creations on that page may get trolled, downvoted and flamed. Not very nice.
  • Sylvi
    19th Jun 2011 Moderator 0 Permalink
    @user25 (View Post)
    How so? Database randomly selects it. The computer doesn't know good from bad.
  • user25
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @airstrike52
    Yes, but, the second front page creations, if they do get flamed, will also, if it does happen to be like that sometimes, target the people who flame or troll levels, with a good outcome and less overall people who flame or troll.

    @lockheedmartin
    It does not need to, the levels will go through a filter that takes out saves with inapropriate titles and/or tags, and also moderators help clean it up. Then the moderators would check the filtered out saves to see if they are just tagged bad by random people and are actually not inapropriate at all.
    Edited by user25, 2011-06-17 21:51:21
  • airstrike52
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    I support this idea, but I personally don't want a page full of noobish saves. But a nominated page would be good.
    Hey, what about the computer randomly selects saves that have been on the frontpage before? A kind of 'look what was here before.'
  • edza101
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    This I say is a bad idea if you want to call them rubbish 'noobish' I don't want them on the frontpage taking up spaces for GOOD creations which deserve to be on the frontpage.
  • user25
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    @edza101
    No no no no no...
    Read it through again, it says second and third front page, not replacing first front page
  • edza101
    19th Jun 2011 Member 0 Permalink
    The second page is for the creations with the most votes of all time 1200 votes + . I don't want this to be replaced with a random page filtered by a computer!?!?