Suggestion: Remove Non-Compliant Showcase Threads All-together

[brad-t]

MyBB team has made it clear on repeated occasions that they don't want to talk about communities. They only want to talk about software. Kind of weird, but whatever.

Custom design is out of the question since this site runs stock MyBB only.

[Jason L.]

MyBB team has made it clear on repeated occasions that they don't want to talk about communities. They only want to talk about software. Kind of weird, but whatever.

Custom design is out of the question since this site runs stock MyBB only.

Not what I meant really, I would design a different page layout.

[Lo.]

I'd say no. If they aren't reading the rules the first time, they are likely just going to repost it.

Your posts never make any sense.

Let me rephrase.

If the post is being made right now, without them reading the rule, what's gonna stop it after it being removed the first time?

Can we just open the discussion again for having it? Really it's no longer useful. Design comments can go in the theme section.

[ZeoAbyss]

I feel like we could benefit from an entirely custom showcase all together. If it needs a custom design I will willingly do it and code it and maybe a few other members and I could moderate it and only if the users site met all showcase requirements would it then appear in the section.

Just an idea but this could definitely take a toll on the amount of bad sites that are showcased, and it would also demonstrate the potential of MyBB for others to see (especially when they're viewing the showcase section, that's what it's for after all).



Just some ideas:
-Two column viewing -- left would be a slightly larger view of a popular forum and the right would be a sidebar of the latest
-Each site will go under moderation and if it is declined you will receive a PM saying why and what you can do to fix it.
-Layout:
-site title
-high res site image
-small description (long description on the full thread view)
-site link ///// full thread link
-users with a post count under 10 will not be able to showcase their website and they must be registered for longer then a day


More of course can be suggested by the community and I feel having a "showcase team" with a pretty showcase page could really improve the looks of the scary showcase forum and also cut down on poor website, but again it's not up to me.

I second this having a showcase team would really increase the showcase section reputations and also mybb

[HostDash]

I feel like we could benefit from an entirely custom showcase all together. If it needs a custom design I will willingly do it and code it and maybe a few other members and I could moderate it and only if the users site met all showcase requirements would it then appear in the section.

Just an idea but this could definitely take a toll on the amount of bad sites that are showcased, and it would also demonstrate the potential of MyBB for others to see (especially when they're viewing the showcase section, that's what it's for after all).



Just some ideas:
-Two column viewing -- left would be a slightly larger view of a popular forum and the right would be a sidebar of the latest
-Each site will go under moderation and if it is declined you will receive a PM saying why and what you can do to fix it.
-Layout:
-site title
-high res site image
-small description (long description on the full thread view)
-site link ///// full thread link
-users with a post count under 10 will not be able to showcase their website and they must be registered for longer then a day


More of course can be suggested by the community and I feel having a "showcase team" with a pretty showcase page could really improve the looks of the scary showcase forum and also cut down on poor website, but again it's not up to me.

I second this having a showcase team would really increase the showcase section reputations and also mybb

Though the MyBB team noted several times they generally try refrain from such large modifications on the support forum trying to keep it as similar as possible to the actual release.

I like the idea +1 to it though I just don't see it being implemented, especially with the development resources being put on 2.0

[brad-t]

At its best, the Showcase is probably the most interesting forum on the site, for me. It's a good way to keep people engaged during the huge gap between releases. I would love it if more people talked about their projects here. It's great to see what people running MyBB are doing.

The problem in the Showcase comes when people who haven't really spent any time or thought on their sites come in and expect glowing praise. There are ways to restructure the showcase that could make it more palatable. A few suggestions:

Web Development and Administration could become "Development and Management" and be a catch-all forum for all web development and community development/administration threads, and "Showcase" threads could be indicated by a prefix. Combining Showcase threads with other threads that are designed to guide users during their community's development would re-enforce a more positive atmosphere.

The rules for the forum could be streamlined to be less verbose while also including a few more useful caveats, such as "common mistakes that could hurt your forum" with things like too many forums, bad domains, etc, and a requirement for a certain level of effort on the admin's part to develop content. Maybe a format like Kickstarter where they actually have to talk about their project, their motivations, their goals ...

If people just want the Showcase to be a place to spam their sites, may as well just disable replies in it entirely and make it essentially a link directory. But this will make it totally worthless IMO.

I realize I'm responsible for some of the "griefing" in the Showcase, so to speak, but it's totally exasperating to see really quality projects constantly getting hammered down the thread list by unsalvageable, worthless new sites.

[Xanth]

Agree with everything brad-t said. Great post and a great suggestion.

[ElectricShock]

I second brad's thoughts. Very rarely these interesting reads come up.

+1 for brad.

[brad-t]

Thank you.

As always, I am totally willing to take up the mantle on reforming the showcase/doing community management related stuff.

[ZeoAbyss]

I doubt the mybb team will even take a thought into doing what you said brad...
Infact this thread will probably die with the mybb staffs doing nothing about it.