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@Barney
Bronze for 1550, Silver for 1600, Gold for 1650, Platinum for 1700, Uranium for 2000.
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@DebateArt.com
On the leaderboard, show who's currently online at any given moment.
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@DebateArt.com
Will they be more more features. Like DDO, Polls might be a good idea with comments
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@DebateArt.com
I know it's hard,but to keep interest, updating the website could be a good idea
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@TheRealNihilist
When clicking on the philosophy forum tab. The tab reads "Philosophy and worldviews".Can you change it back to "Philosophy"?Worldviews is already discussed in philosophy because philosophy is the study of stuff whether it be from a Christian, Atheist or spiritualist. Worldview disputes occur in Atheism vs Theism debates which are under the philosophy topic instead of worldviews.
Yeah, I guess that's easy enough
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@Barney
Perhaps add medals for ranking? Like silver at 1600, gold at 1700? (Maybe 1750? Tagged the current king of the hill for feedback)I would say gold at 1800, but that might encourage the wrong behaviors.
Sounds like a great idea, I will definitely consider medals for ranks.
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@Alec
If I find an empty spot there to put this indicator. And hearing "please" sometimes would also be lovely, since I am working for free here anyway.On the leaderboard, show who's currently online at any given moment.
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@Dr.Franklin
Will they be more more features. Like DDO, Polls might be a good idea with comments
There will be features, I am actually working on one as we speak. But folk, you gotta understand, this site is developed by a single guy so things take time and also the total income of it is -14$ after the expenses, so my motivation to work on it on my free time instead of reading a nice book or doing some sport is also not limitless and I frankly, I start to lose it. I didn't trash it with nasty ads, I didn't abandon it or anything like that but I can't even cover the expenses for hosting...
Also it may not look like it, but with every day this site gets more and more complex, it's probably more complicated than some small startups out there so it gets more difficult to maintain it and therefore more time consuming and I am doing all this stuff for free and it's also worth pointing out that some good devs in the US make > $100k annually, so I have some "alternative costs" by spending my time on this instead of doing some paid freelance work or something like that.
I am sorry for the rant but if you want new stuff, at least help me stay motivated by helping to cover the hosting expenses and buying some beer for our mods (that actually do a good job at keeping the site bots, spam and retards free). 3$ is probably cheaper than a cup of coffee in a typical US city...
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@DebateArt.com
I completely understand. I just giving a suggestion. I even admitted it will be very hard in another post,your doing a great job,thank you
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@DebateArt.com
Yessss.Yeah, I guess that's easy enough
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@DebateArt.com
Can you add a dark-theme?
The one on YouTube if you have an account.
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@DebateArt.com
Make a ranking for friends/medals
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@Dr.Franklin
I like that idea
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@Vader
Thx
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@DebateArt.com
It seems that debates issued as direct challenges, do not allow comments to be posted while pending (either waiting for the second person, and it seems waiting on judges... https://www.debateart.com/debates/1125). Feedback on setup is important, so I suggest removing this restriction. However, I don't know why it's there, so there might be a valid reason.
Anyway, thanks for your time, and for for this site.
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@Barney
Hi, thanks for the feedback!
I don't exactly remember the reason why it works like this but it's a fair point, I will look into it and try to change that.
I don't exactly remember the reason why it works like this but it's a fair point, I will look into it and try to change that.
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@DebateArt.com
Can you allow us to find forums just like we can find debates?
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@DebateArt.com
@David
Make the notification of answer to 'ask a question' refer to the actual questions tab and specific answer. At the moment it links to the person's profile which can be confusing to navigate.
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@RationalMadman
Thanks for the feedback!
And you are right, it's already a part of the 2 stage of questions feature development.
And you are right, it's already a part of the 2 stage of questions feature development.
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@Alec
I will see if I can do it, the problem is that implementing full text search for forums is tricky coz if the forum starts growing, it can potentially consume lots of space, more than I have available from my hosting plan and I'd have to pay outta my pocket again and I am not doing that.Can you allow us to find forums just like we can find debates?
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@DebateArt.com
Your real accent is slipping through.
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@RationalMadman
What do you mean?
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@DebateArt.com
Regarding the problem of last minute vote bombs, I thought of two workarounds...
First, would be giving admin the power to delete the votes anyway, even if the debater scores are not adjusted. Regarding if scores were also adjusted, I would not worry about perfection, executing the score adjustment formula again and ignoring that the scores have shifted would correct all but marginal cheated gains.
Second, what about adjusting the countdown clock when votes are cast at the last minute? It'd be short logic check along the lines of IF(countdown<36hrs, 1,0) THEN SET(countdown)=36hrs ELSE nothing.
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@DebateArt.com
I haven't been receiving any notifications on my debate subscriptions. What's up with that?
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@Barney
How about a moderation period where the moderators have an additional hour or whatever to check the votes to see if they make it?
This can be like every single vote must go past moderators or ones that people have propped up as problems.
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@DebateArt.com
Can you make questions and medals a Leaderboard feature
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@Dr.Franklin
Yeah, I will try but it may be problematic to push it in there, may not be enough space for those :/
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@Snoopy
You mean emails or on-site notifications too?I haven't been receiving any notifications on my debate subscriptions. What's up with that?
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@Barney
Regarding the problem of last minute vote bombs, I thought of two workarounds...First, would be giving admin the power to delete the votes anyway, even if the debater scores are not adjusted. Regarding if scores were also adjusted, I would not worry about perfection, executing the score adjustment formula again and ignoring that the scores have shifted would correct all but marginal cheated gains.Second, what about adjusting the countdown clock when votes are cast at the last minute? It'd be short logic check along the lines of IF(countdown<36hrs, 1,0) THEN SET(countdown)=36hrs ELSE nothing.
Yeah, you are probably right about the votes deletion. I could implement it this way and then at some point later add the rating recalculation too.
Regarding the second idea, I believe I was offered something like that before but there was some good arguments against it, which I don't remember. Could you please create a forum topic for that and see what folk would think about it?
Regarding the second idea, I believe I was offered something like that before but there was some good arguments against it, which I don't remember. Could you please create a forum topic for that and see what folk would think about it?
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@DebateArt.com
I haven't been receiving any notifications on my debate subscriptions. What's up with that?You mean emails or on-site notifications too?
I like to use my on-site notifications. It would be nice if I received the notifications so I can read the debate in sections as it rolls along. Otherwise I'm probably not going to read as carefully as would be appropriate for the all the time and effort people put in to a quality debate.