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Offline Rawrplus

Best Answer System
« on: June 01, 2015, 10:55:56 am »
Today we've launched a new system on forums, called "Best Answer".

This allows users to mark the most helpful replies to a topic. This should be preferably used in Support section, Suggestion and Feedback., Graphic Requests and sometimes maybe even in other boards.
Users who will be able to mark the best answer:

- Users who create the topic can mark one of the replies as a best answer.
- Moderators of the board it was posted in
- Forum Administrators.

It's not an update of a huge significance but we hope this will improve the browsing of our forums. If you use the best answer system to highlight something for no reason, or because of subjectivity, moderators reserve the rights to warn you and progress with further punishment. We have given this feature to you, because we entrust you to not abuse it, so please, don't go around marking every single reply.  :D
« Last Edit: June 01, 2015, 11:06:22 am by Rawrplus »


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Offline bucK

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2015, 11:05:39 am »
happy to hear that
thx rawr+ . we wont abuse it  ;)

Offline Jake

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2015, 11:08:01 am »
Sounds cool

But if we were to vote up an comment, Like its usefulness - Does it go to to the top or just get highlighted?

Offline Rawrplus

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #3 on: June 01, 2015, 11:10:23 am »
Sounds cool

But if we were to vote up an comment, Like its usefulness - Does it go to to the top or just get highlighted?

To avoid confusion, likes system is to share sympathy with the author of the post and it's content, or even a particular reply to the post. The Best Answer system is used to highlight one particular reply that either the moderators/administerator/or the user wishes to highlight.

For example, let's say I have an issue with my graphics card. I'll post in support section. Somebody posts a solution, so I will highlight the reply for everybody to see so they can see, which reply helped me to fix the issue, instead of having to try to search through every method posted.

Likes have no direct influence on the Best Answer System.


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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #4 on: June 01, 2015, 11:11:35 am »
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Offline Jake

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #5 on: June 01, 2015, 11:14:16 am »
When i think of it, Wouldnt it be better if the reply went up as the top comment & Highlighted?

Cause i see some subject has pages to scroll through & Will probaly arise again, And yet people needs to scroll through em all to find an highlighted one

The idea is alright, And helps out a tad bit ... but still lots of searching for the highlit reply

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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2015, 11:15:53 am »
When i think of it, Wouldnt it be better if the reply went up as the top comment & Highlighted?

Cause i see some subject has pages to scroll through & Will probaly arise again, And yet people needs to scroll through em all to find an highlighted one

The idea is alright, And helps out a tad bit ... but still lots of searching for the highlit reply

It basically works like this. On top of the topic it informs you that a topic contains a best answer, and you can click on redirection link if you wish to see it immediately and also highlights the particular post, when and by whom.


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Offline Jake

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #7 on: June 01, 2015, 11:26:12 am »
Ohh man, That is crazy!
Heck yeah, This'll be darn useful :O
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Offline bucK

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2015, 11:38:12 am »
and you can also see wich Topic has a best answer

Offline CoiNNN

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #9 on: June 01, 2015, 12:32:12 pm »
Im not sure if this is with the update, but he stars and some other things looks broken on my phone. Which is an Iphone...



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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2015, 12:44:54 pm »
Can my posts be highlighted by default?  :-*
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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #11 on: June 01, 2015, 12:47:00 pm »
Can my posts be highlighted by default?  :-*

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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #12 on: June 01, 2015, 12:48:22 pm »
Can my posts be highlighted by default?  :-*

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My usual fee is much higher, but i guess i can make that work
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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #13 on: June 01, 2015, 01:42:05 pm »
Sounds awesome, nice job. :)

Offline Darki

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #14 on: June 01, 2015, 01:56:14 pm »
The color green takes way too much attention and the borders are way to big

What i would suggest is to change the default green color from the plugin to something more darker like this? #1B951B Also changing the borders size px to 1-2?

Offline Rawrplus

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #15 on: June 01, 2015, 02:00:08 pm »
The color green takes way too much attention and the borders are way to big

What i would suggest is to change the default green color from the plugin to something more darker like this? #1B951B Also changing the borders size px to 1-2?

Yeah I could potentially. This was just the initial build.


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Offline tajski

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #16 on: June 01, 2015, 02:01:20 pm »
The color green takes way too much attention and the borders are way to big

Shouldn't it be like that? It's meant to grab peoples' attention and tell you that THIS is the best solution thus I wouldn't change anything with this as it looks okay to me.

Offline Darki

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #17 on: June 01, 2015, 02:05:19 pm »
Shouldn't it be like that? It's meant to grab peoples' attention and tell you that THIS is the best solution thus I wouldn't change anything with this as it looks okay to me.
That doesn't mean it must take full attention of the visitors as there might be other-similar solutions which work just as fine but just because they are not highlighted doesn't mean people should ONLY follow the one which is?

Don't you think?
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Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #18 on: June 01, 2015, 02:18:37 pm »
Today we've launched a new system on forums, called "Best Answer".

This allows users to mark the most helpful replies to a topic. This should be preferably used in Support section, Suggestion and Feedback., Graphic Requests and sometimes maybe even in other boards.
Users who will be able to mark the best answer:

- Users who create the topic can mark one of the replies as a best answer.
- Moderators of the board it was posted in
- Forum Administrators.

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could you make the colors slightly more like the forum theme?

I love the idea, though i think it can be made less hurtfull to my eyes :D


Offline tajski

Re: Best Answer System
« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2015, 02:24:54 pm »
Shouldn't it be like that? It's meant to grab peoples' attention and tell you that THIS is the best solution thus I wouldn't change anything with this as it looks okay to me.
That doesn't mean it must take full attention of the visitors as there might be other-similar solutions which work just as fine but just because they are not highlighted doesn't mean people should ONLY follow the one which is?

Don't you think?

It seems that you're completely missing out the whole idea behind this mod.. Also, this doesn't take the whole page so why would you want even smaller? It doesn't scream, "I'M THE ONLY SOLUTION IN THIS TOPIC!" but "I've been selected as the best solution out of others in this thread." I'm doing web design just like you and I know you'll just throw your thoughts and completely ignore mine but you can't argue about 1-2 px's of the border that's not gonna do a huge ass difference..