Community-Credit feedback

Community Credit  is getting a face lift and David Silverlight  (yes a man so great that an entire platform was named after him) is asking for contributions  to this… So head on over to the community credit forum  and get suggesting…

My Suggestions:

• The ability to have blog posts submitted into a specific category, or moved to that category.  You should be able to change the category from an automatically submitted contribution. This should be possible in two ways… 1. manually: users should be able to login and change the status of an automatically submitted entry. If they change it, it would require moderation… 2. tagging: users can add tags to their posts that could automate the above process. CC would parse the page and extract the tag and change the category. I think that the first option is required, but the second is optional….

• Profile page uses username and not email address…  We don’t want spammers getting to our email addresses… Username should be used whenever displaying user data, that way our email addresses will not be visible…

• All profiles should be listed.  It is not possible to Google for your profile and this should be possible. My profile does come up, but I created a mapped URL and put it on my blog.

• Search engine optimisation / Faster load times for pages.  I think these two go hand in hand. They pages for the site should be lighter on graphics and that should make them load quicker. If a little though was put towards SEO then more people would find the pages, especially the profiles within the site.. Any page that comes up would push traffic to the site…

• Points for moderating Credits  If, like me, you are a moderator for credits (not the discussion boards) then there should be a points system for it. it should be based on how much work is involved in moderating the submission.

  Maybe a good way would be to give the moderator 10% of the points awarded to the user ![Smile](images/emotion-1.gif). This would certainly make me happy.
  

  Articles are especially difficult to moderate as you need to search the web for similar titles and correlate dates.

• Guest developers  It should be possible to drive traffic to the forums and encourage users to use them if you have guest developers for topics. This would have a specific person with a specific skills moderating and answering forum posts on a specific topic. That developer would get extra points for being a Guest Developer and all his/her posts marked as “Expert answers”. This will provide developers with a sense of Ownership of the forums without having to have everyone as a moderator all of the time. the “Guest Developer” feature should be limited to a specific forum for a specific time.

That’s all I can think of just now, but I may be back  

If you have any comments on these topics can you please use the title links to get to the forum and post them there…

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