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[Suggestion] Make the stickies more obvious.
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Post by
blademeld
Suggestion 1:
Bold stickies/make sticky font larger.
Suggestion 2:
The profiler tool has a Javascript box that says "Fill this out to see your character."
How about something similar for making new threads?
If it's a person's first time on a subforum making a thread (or once a day), have a javascript pop out and ask "Have you read the stickies or used the search function?"
Suggestion 3:
First time Wowhead users get a tour to the stickies, when they click on the subforum, they're lead directly to the helpful threads link.
Post by
Skyfire
Suggestion 1:
Bold stickies/make sticky font larger.
What perceived problem are you trying to fix?
Suggestion 2:
The profiler tool has a Javascript box that says "Fill this out to see your character."
How about something similar for making new threads?
If it's a person's first time on a subforum making a thread (or once a day), have a javascript pop out and ask "Have you read the stickies or used the search function?"
A good idea, but how are we to know their first time of viewing (for example, I think the profiler help notice is cookie based, because it still shows up sometimes for me)?
Suggestion 3:
First time Wowhead users get a tour to the stickies, when they click on the subforum, they're lead directly to the helpful threads link.
How?
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Suggestion 1:
Bold stickies/make sticky font larger.
What perceived problem are you trying to fix?
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=144435&p=1844736
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=144105
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=143896&p=1837881
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=143710&p=1832752
http://www.wowhead.com/?forums&topic=134629
...
Need I continue?
Post by
Federalagent
Suggestion 1:
Bold stickies/make sticky font larger.
They already have an icon, dont need to make them bigger or bold.
Suggestion 2:
The profiler tool has a Javascript box that says "Fill this out to see your character."
How about something similar for making new threads?
If it's a person's first time on a subforum making a thread (or once a day), have a javascript pop out and ask "Have you read the stickies or used the search function?"
Wont do much good. Users will just click "Yes" and move on. Who wants to read through endless stickies anyways. If it is relivent to their issue, they will read it. Heck, that's a normal rule for forums anyways, read stickies before posting. No one seems to do it.
Suggestion 3:
First time Wowhead users get a tour to the stickies, when they click on the subforum, they're lead directly to the helpful threads link.
While this might be a good idea, they still wont read it. What do you do when the TOS pops up every patch in the game? Im sure you dont read it every time, tho the information does change.
Post by
Skyfire
Suggestion 1:
Bold stickies/make sticky font larger.
What perceived problem are you trying to fix?
Need I continue?
Perhaps I should rephrase: How does this fix the problem? While I would agree that it places emphasis on the links, the jump from "Let's bold" to "This fixes the problem" is a long one, and possibly even unfounded.
IMO, the 2nd suggestion (even 3rd) fixes the problem much better than the 1st, but then we return to the question I posed to those two, as well as others that come to me as I write this, such as "How would the forum recognize the correct links"... so on and so forth.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Suggestion 1:
Bold stickies/make sticky font larger.
What perceived problem are you trying to fix?
Need I continue?
Perhaps I should rephrase: How does this fix the problem? While I would agree that it places emphasis on the links, the jump from "Let's bold" to "This fixes the problem" is a long one, and possibly even unfounded.
IMO, the 2nd suggestion (even 3rd) fixes the problem much better than the 1st, but then we return to the question I posed to those two, as well as others that come to me as I write this, such as "How would the forum recognize the correct links"... so on and so forth.
You're assuming people choose not to read the stickies. I'm assuming they don't read them because they aren't looking for them, and thus pass right over them.
We can't know either way
until something is done
.
Post by
blademeld
What perceived problem are you trying to fix?
A good idea, but how are we to know their first time of viewing (for example, I think the profiler help notice is cookie based, because it still shows up sometimes for me)?
How?
Lack of visibility which leads to people skipping over the stickies.
There's three parts to my suggestion, any of the three would work for meDo it every time someone creates a new thread.
Do it if they have no threads in their profile.
Do it every once every day.
Instead of being taken to the forums, they're taken to the helpful threads link and told they're not at the forums yet.
They already have an icon, dont need to make them bigger or bold.
Wont do much good. Users will just click "Yes" and move on. Who wants to read through endless stickies anyways. If it is relivent to their issue, they will read it. Heck, that's a normal rule for forums anyways, read stickies before posting. No one seems to do it.
While this might be a good idea, they still wont read it. What do you do when the TOS pops up every patch in the game? Im sure you dont read it every time, tho the information does change.
Wrong, not everyone is used to Internet forums and sticky icons are different in most forums, my guild forum uses the sticky notes for every thread and a "i" for important threads.
I'm assuming that there are some good in people and they're not too lazy not to read the stickies once they're pointed out.
ToS != stickies, it's shorter for one, for another, most of the time people are coming to get information, and lastly, there are no technical terminology to bore and confuse the users.
You're assuming people choose not to read the stickies. I'm assuming they don't read them because they aren't looking for them, and thus pass right over them.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.
I'm only looking at the paladin forums, I remember a couple of them saying "I didn't know what the stickies were" or "Where are the stickies?" and those couple happen to be more than half of the threads I remember.
Post by
Federalagent
Well its pointless Blade... you will always find failure in what others say, always have. I even agreed with you on much of it, but you still say Wrong. You even contradict yourself. no point....
Post by
blademeld
I said you were wrong on the part where you said that the icon is enough, the icons are ambiguous.
As per the contradiction, I meant to say "ToS != Stickies", will fix that right away.
And what do you mean "No point" there's at least one other person who agrees that it's not that the people don't want to read the stickies all the time, but just happen to miss them, he even provided examples.
Post by
Malgayne
Let me recommend this approach—does anyone know of a forum like this:
Has stickies which everyone should read.
Posts which ask questions that are answered in the stickies are not deleted.
Most users read the stickies.
If anyone can find a forum like that, we can look at how they handle stickies and possibly base a change on their setup.
Post by
blademeld
Let me recommend this approach—does anyone know of a forum like this:
Has stickies which everyone should read.
Posts which ask questions that are answered in the stickies are not deleted.
Most users read the stickies.
If anyone can find a forum like that, we can look at how they handle stickies and possibly base a change on their setup.
That's really hard because when most users read the stickies, they don't ask questions answered in the stickies.
Post by
pelf
I think he was trying to bait you into saying, "But, Malgayne, no forum is like... oh."
Post by
blademeld
Oh, hum, I have a tendency to take things literally.
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