Ideas Hub Guide

[Administrator]

◤ Ideas Hub

The forum is shaped around you and your ideas - our Ideas Hub gives the community a platform to post suggestions on ways in-which we can improve. This section allows you to express the thought process behind your idea and allow the rest of the community to vote and comment on their favourite ideas. Those suggestions that show an obvious expression of interest will be reviewed by the Administration Team for implementation!

◤ Submitting an Idea

Firstly, you must check Closed Ideas to see whether your suggestion has been proposed previously. If it has and wasn't implemented, you can see how you can improve on what was discussed before.

Once you have an idea of what you want to suggest, start a thread in the Ideas Hub section. Title your thread something appropriate. The content of your thread should provide as much detail as you can - remember, the community are going to vote on your idea so you should make sure you are clear as you can possibly be. If your idea is vague, it may still be worth posting if your intention is genuine. The community can build on and adapt your idea to where it's suitable for review.

When your suggestion is posted, it's down to the community to how much further it goes. Players will now have the ability to comment and vote on your idea. The higher the votes, the more interest shown by other players!

We endeavour to respond to all suggestions once it has generated a reasonable amount of attention from the community - this is gauged by the amount of views, comments, votes and interactions with your thread.

◤ Voting

You may notice a number at the bottom of the original post between an up and a down arrow (︿ ﹀). These arrows are where the community are able to interact with your idea by up-voting or down-voting a suggestion as they feel appropriate, by clicking the appropriate arrow. It's as simple as this: the higher the number of upvotes, the more interest shown by other players in the community, increasing the likelihood of implementation on the forum. With that being said it is highly encouraged that on other peoples post you make use of the voting feature so the staff can best gauge the opinion of the forum as a whole rather than a small minority.

◤ Feedback

As has already been mentioned, this is a suggestions section and it is extremely likely that people will have a difference of opinion whilst others may endorse your idea as you've presented it. Do not be offended by a difference of opinion. In order for this section to best reflect the majority, we would rather the feedback of players whether they agree or disagree with what you have presented.

Be prepared for negative feedback. Some peoples opinion may differ from your own but don't allow this to completely destroy your optimism, use this feedback to build upon your idea and discuss how you can adapt to meet the needs of other players. You will never make everyone happy, but you can work with other players to create something that meets the expectations of the majority. Equally, if you don't agree with someones suggestion, please be respectful - your feedback must meet the expectations of our ruleset as well as a general level of decency. We are a community and feedback of an abusive or insulting nature is not beneficial to anyone and will not be tolerated.

The feedback of the community is just as important as the votes on your idea.