Bots and managements

[Deleted3619564User]

@Dark0ne and the forum's admins

 

I am a premium member and one of the modders of the Oblivion's community. My files are published only on Nexus (I do not know if anyone else has done publications out, without my authorization) because i think this is a good site. The nexusmods has a good structure.

So, I am happy to contribute with my membership but i would voice some suggestions about the forum.

 

I remember when Nexus had different sites and it worked pretty well (also less users) years ago. As we know, after the "merging" of all sites into the new one (i dont remember if 1 or 2 years ago), the site began to be slower and often in maintenance mode; at today i see a new revision where a series of features have been cut out due to lag problems.

Nexus has a lot of users and it is checked constantly by the staff but often to ban users or alert them, while on the other site it is "heavy, slow, dispersive and full of garbage". For garbage i mean a lot of threads/posts that should be managed in a better way.

An example; if you search "grass", there are over 1000 threads that speak about the same thing/problem/argument. This is dispersive and searching is difficult.

 

You should think to add to the forum some bots (or anyway auto-functionalities, because it cannot be done by a human/staff) and re-structure a bit the site:

- when a thread is posted, it should be "classified" with a series of tags (if a problem, a request or general discussion, which category etc)

- the bot should prompt the user when he/she tries to post a new topic, making an instant search about the same argument, and asking if post anyway or jump/link to an other similar topic

- the topic could be also "merged" into a thread of the same type immediatly if found (or to prompt the user for that)

- the bot should recognize the argument and redirect you to the correct "tree section/category"

- the bot should recognize the argument and suggest a first solution (a heuristic method could be good too)

- the topic should be closed successfully when the solution is found and it should be marked (to view it well) to have a fast access to it

- put the most important/discussed threads in a very "showcase" for a fast searching (it is not the same thing of the FAQs)

- repetitive threads should be deleted after a period or archived sending eventually an alert (email or message to the people)

 

This would make the forum cleaner and faster not only technically but also in the use of the forum itself.

 

These are only some of the ideas and suggestions, obviously they can be many.

Anyway the concept to be solved (in my opinion), is that the site has a lot of features but not structured properly and there are too many topics. For example having a button "showcase" seems to be like "pinned topics" but it is totally different in the use. Often also the same functionality put in an other way, makes the difference.

 

Thanks for your work.

[Deleted3619564User]

No comments........

No answers.........

No answer at the PM to the admin.......

 

Well.......it seems a good reason to not renew the premium membership when it expires.

[Dark0ne]

I'm on holiday and about 3,000 miles away from my office, but I can say that while your ideas are interesting, it's not something we'd be doing any time soon.

[Deleted3619564User]

For a site with over 9 millions of members, you should have some co-admin while you are on holiday.

 

Anyway, Rome was not built in a day. I gave you some ideas if you want to reorganize this forum, now it is rather messed up. This forum is too big to be managed like many other ones.

 

Best regards.

[Dark0ne]

I do. They just don't handle these sorts of decisions. Because it's my site, you know? And I make these sorts of decisions.

[Deleted3619564User]

Obviously i know you are the site owner; i know the site, who are the admins and the staff and i follow often Nexus.

We are not speaking about who is the site owner. You are right, you are the site owner and you decide about what to do.

I have a company with 30 employees, between managers, developers, graphics designers and web admins. Do you know from where best ideas come?....from the customers, from the users.

 

Discussing on a forum is the "life" of the forum. Making a decision is an other thing. The first step before a decision is to open a discussion and to evaluate if/what to do, speaking about that, comparing the ideas, suggestions.....etc. If you restrict this to your hand/mind, it is difficult to manage everything and to give a real evolution.

 

I would be happy (and probably many users) to see a discussion about what i suggested.

[Dark0ne]

You called me out on needing more admins, I clarified based on that point. You've now changed the topic in to something else entirely.

 

People can discuss this all they want. I'm not going to get in to a discussion about it now, personally, because I'm on vacation, like I said. But I think the fact this has been up for 4 days and no one else has commented tells us all we need to know.

[Deleted3619564User]

The topic is the same. Simply i didnt receive any answer from nobody.

 

I'm glad you've watched at least what I have suggested.