joemagiera
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Which would you rather have, KLOV fixes, or forum fixes?
I have been reading with interest all the work Greg M (and presumably other admins) on the work he/they are doing in updating and upgrading and setting rules for the forums.
This is not a knock on Greg at all, I much appreciate his efforts. But my thought is that if he's willing to spend this much time in this area, I'd rather see updates and upgrades to KLOV itself. Like being able to submit a picture on a game, whether it be a CP or full game or PCB or whatever, and actually have it show up in KLOV immediately, kind of like how the pinball database website is administered. Or make corrections to an entry and see them accepted in a reasonable period of time and not just see things submitted just go off in a black hole of cyber-space. Really, I've seen people post on corrections to KLOV entries, and Greg was the one to fix them. Why does he have to fix them, why can't we just submit them and have them fixed? There is no way Greg will be able to keep up with all the requests of error fixes.
So, does anyone else have thoughts? Where would you prefer to see Greg and other admins spend their efforts? I for one could care less if someone changes their user name, but I just read this morning about Greg contemplating rules for this. What a waste.
If people feel otherwise and I'm in the minority, that's fine, I'll STFU. But if people have a view, let's let Greg hear it and maybe he'll put his efforts more towards what the majority really want fixed first, rather than what he thinks needs to be fixed first.
Again, this isn't a knock on Greg, just hoping/trying to let him know that the majority of people here might rather he spend his efforts on fixes updates and upgrades to other areas first.
My #1 request/preference? To have KLOV searchable the way it used to be many, many years ago. You used to be able to search on almost any aspect of a video game. You could search by joystick type, track ball type, monitor type, or any other number of other fields or combination. I used the functionality many, many times, and I miss it a lot since it's been gone. I was told it was lost due to "progress". Making it harder (if not impossible) to get targeted information doesn't sound like progress to me. If the new type of data base doesn't support this type of thing, maybe we shouldn't have switched to it.
Just my "random thought" for this morning.
I have been reading with interest all the work Greg M (and presumably other admins) on the work he/they are doing in updating and upgrading and setting rules for the forums.
This is not a knock on Greg at all, I much appreciate his efforts. But my thought is that if he's willing to spend this much time in this area, I'd rather see updates and upgrades to KLOV itself. Like being able to submit a picture on a game, whether it be a CP or full game or PCB or whatever, and actually have it show up in KLOV immediately, kind of like how the pinball database website is administered. Or make corrections to an entry and see them accepted in a reasonable period of time and not just see things submitted just go off in a black hole of cyber-space. Really, I've seen people post on corrections to KLOV entries, and Greg was the one to fix them. Why does he have to fix them, why can't we just submit them and have them fixed? There is no way Greg will be able to keep up with all the requests of error fixes.
So, does anyone else have thoughts? Where would you prefer to see Greg and other admins spend their efforts? I for one could care less if someone changes their user name, but I just read this morning about Greg contemplating rules for this. What a waste.
If people feel otherwise and I'm in the minority, that's fine, I'll STFU. But if people have a view, let's let Greg hear it and maybe he'll put his efforts more towards what the majority really want fixed first, rather than what he thinks needs to be fixed first.
Again, this isn't a knock on Greg, just hoping/trying to let him know that the majority of people here might rather he spend his efforts on fixes updates and upgrades to other areas first.
My #1 request/preference? To have KLOV searchable the way it used to be many, many years ago. You used to be able to search on almost any aspect of a video game. You could search by joystick type, track ball type, monitor type, or any other number of other fields or combination. I used the functionality many, many times, and I miss it a lot since it's been gone. I was told it was lost due to "progress". Making it harder (if not impossible) to get targeted information doesn't sound like progress to me. If the new type of data base doesn't support this type of thing, maybe we shouldn't have switched to it.
Just my "random thought" for this morning.


