Dearest 7th Column,
Recent events have sparked curiosity. [url=http://halo.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=75377461&postRepeater1-p=1]For those of you that were active in 2012, you may remember an idea I have mustered up before[/url], what if private groups had titles, awards, emblems, acknowledgements and/or ways to become visually special?
Some factors to consider:
[quote]-Group creation date
-Group activity feed[spoiler]In the old site, we had news blogs for articles. Currently we have the activity of public threads within groups displayed on the groups homepage. I'm completely unsure of how to implement this, lets just focus of vague brainstorming instead.[/spoiler]
-Group followers
-Group members
[spoiler]More doesn't always necessarily mean "better". This could be scaled with the trust rating of each individual member. It'd be much better to have consistently active members, than hundreds of inactive ones.[/spoiler]
-Hosting your own public events and creating activity
-Get your group featured in Bungie's Blog? Get X amount of awesome points and maybe even a cool emblem on your group's homepage.
For kicks, here are the ideas for a rating I had from my old thread:
[spoiler][b]General[/b]:
Creation date of group (IE - "Join date")
Number of homepage views
Number of entries linked to homepage
Number of outgoing links clicked from homepage
Being mentioned in the Bungie News Blog (link to your group)
Number of members in group (should have algorithm, more doesn't always mean "better")
[b]Membership/News[/b]:
Average trust rating of all members
How often each member logs into bungie.net
Average PPD for group
Average PPD of users Averaged within the group
Number of new threads created daily (averaged over X amount of months)
Average number of news feed posts over X amount of months
Have a set algorithm to prevent maximum news feed spamming for points
[b]What doesn't gain you trust points[/b]:
Having multiple accounts on the same IP address (alt accounts)
Having 0 linked gamertags
No new threads/posts (a "dead" group)
Spamming the group with threads/posts
Spamming the news feed with loads of submissions
Constantly banning your own members/includes kicking
Getting in trouble with the webteam
The bungie webteam could also give your "group" a warning/ban/lock to lower your group trust points[[/spoiler][/quote]
Even if you think "this wouldn't be for my group", think of the impact this could have when paired with Destiny. We know [url=http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post?id=61944670&path=1]groups are in a prototype state right now[/url] and they're due for an update soon. If groups could become special snowflakes, I'm sure there would be talk to have the best group on bungie.net. Organized gamenights, awesome community members and serve a purpose for the larger community.
Forget the ideas about what the names of the awards/titles/emblems would be. [b]The question is would you like to see private groups get some visual recognition for various benchmarks?[/b]
Keep it classy 7th Column.
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Edited by Hylebos: 1/21/2014 11:30:17 PMThem feels when you set out to do the Joe Staten "What if the Phones Rang?" meme only to find when looking for templates that you were beaten by yourself two years in the past... Some things don't change. And amusingly enough, I STILL need to find a larger template for these things.
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Edited by Messax: 1/25/2014 4:58:12 AMI would love a group feature that makes organizing games easier. We do Community Carnages all the time. Why not make it easy for a group to create games? People could add themselves to a time / slot in the roster, and an email would be sent to them the day of to remind them of their commitment. It would certainly add a lot to the whole idea of "groups" in the first place. Actually.... this doesn't seem that hard. A couple of webforms and dynamic options. It's acquiring a user's email that's difficult. I wonder if Bungie's API lets me access notifications on a user's account...
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I read that as titties I leave disappointed
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Absolutely. I would love that :)
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It would be great if the admins could make their own titles and was to earn them if they wanted.
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For sure
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I like how the "prototype state" is the ability to do the exact same things as you can already do in the mains.
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Yes. That could be FUN!
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To answer the main question, yes. Yes, absolutely have. Always will.
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Yeah, why not? Then I could act classy with my friends in a classy group with a classy title.
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This sounds like something along the lines of a good idea. Hopefully the groups' update is coming sooner rather than later...
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I would love to see private group titles return.
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I think it'd be pretty cool if private groups became more unique than they were before. Titles would be pretty cool, even custom banners given to trusted groups would be sweet.
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I would like to see these types of things for groups! I don't think it would hurt anybody if they were added. I believe only good can come out of this idea :3
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Edited by Mobi: 1/21/2014 8:09:32 PMEdit: Ok
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Sure.