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03 Jan 2008, 18:17
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I think the advantage of a profile section is people can add more than just a profile, like their application story. Heck I think it would be a great place to ask questions of people that have similar profiles, especially next year when most of the people with profiles will be in school. I think those threads should have more discussion than just profiles, people should ask admitted students what they think worked for them, advice if they have something similar in their profile...similar career goals etc.
I think that a social network would have benefits...especially overtime, the longer these things build up the more use they are. A network like facebook specifically for MBAs would be great. It would take a while to get it to the point where it has alums, students, and applicants though. Adding more to the site than for just aspiring and current mba students would make it more likely that people wont disappear. I am sure that over the years there have been a lot of great members on here that no longer ever come to this site. Look at the current student board, its dead compared to this one. If it was active that adds a whole other element to what this site can be for people.
I think that a social network would have benefits...especially overtime, the longer these things build up the more use they are. A network like facebook specifically for MBAs would be great. It would take a while to get it to the point where it has alums, students, and applicants though. Adding more to the site than for just aspiring and current mba students would make it more likely that people wont disappear. I am sure that over the years there have been a lot of great members on here that no longer ever come to this site. Look at the current student board, its dead compared to this one. If it was active that adds a whole other element to what this site can be for people.
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Just a quick note to emoryhopeful: thanks for noticing the spelling mistake! I have corrected that, it appears consistently in about 10 PHPBB source files.
Thank you for expressing your opinion, riverripper.
I am thinking hard about how to put a good tool together, given the limited resources we have.
You mods are doing amazing things with the stickies, but keeping track of things must be so inconvenient... When we installed the wiki and especially the flexible database (semantic) extension - I thought that's it, but apparently it completely lacks access controls. And the learning curve proved rather steep.
Thank you for expressing your opinion, riverripper.
I am thinking hard about how to put a good tool together, given the limited resources we have.
You mods are doing amazing things with the stickies, but keeping track of things must be so inconvenient... When we installed the wiki and especially the flexible database (semantic) extension - I thought that's it, but apparently it completely lacks access controls. And the learning curve proved rather steep.
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wow, that was a lot of discussion in the past couple of hours!
For the member profile page, unfortunately there is no real way of assigning access unless we can implement the "voting" system where you need N out of all the mods' votes to get access as a "trusted member". Barring that, it's either have a few mods and Praet approve requests on an individual basis, or set a hard post limit. I like the anonymous approval process (so the mods won't look like bad cops), is that implementable, tino? If not, I think the volume of requests for the member profiles may be too much for one person (Praet or river) to handle, unlike the essay vault, which is more selective. Actually, speaking of the "friend" function, tino, can there be a way that if a member is a "friend" of 2 or more mods, then he/she will become a trusted member? If that automation doesn't work, the other way would be to allow the mods to see who a member's friends are, and if that member has a certain amount of "friends", any mod can give the member access to the profiles. That will require the mods to be judicial about who to add as friends and still take some "heat" off mods having to reject a member's request.
As for the essay vaults, river, you can still post your essays there with a password on the PDF, and only give the password to those people you trust. This way at least people know there are essays out there they have the potential to look at. Different people have different requirements of privacy, so I think the hard post limit to access the forum added on top of the password protected PDF should satisfy most people. The 400 post limit is a bit high, but that is a decision that Praet made a while ago, and we would have to convince him to change it.
I would personally like the friend/foe function be more useful in granting access to certain forums, helping other mods determine the character of a member (if someone is listed as the "foe" of nervous, for example, I would scrutinize that person even more when he/she requests any access), etc...
Actually, come to think of it, many phb sites I participate in have "karma" systems, where only mods and admins can give positive or negative "karma" to members. Some of those sites allow people with a certain amount of "karma" points to access certain forum areas or get perks like "custom titles". Tino, can we implement something like that? I think that's probably the best compromise between having mods approve requests and having hard post limits. You can ONLY earn karma points from mods, and usually mods give them out for great posts or a helpful attitude. Once you earn a certain amount of karma points, you can have access to the member profiles, and at a higher limit, the essay vault. With that, someone with 10 very valuable posts could get enough karma (from mods) to access the forums, while someone with 500 useless posts will never be able to access it. I think it's probably the best way if this forum can support it.
What do you all think?
For the member profile page, unfortunately there is no real way of assigning access unless we can implement the "voting" system where you need N out of all the mods' votes to get access as a "trusted member". Barring that, it's either have a few mods and Praet approve requests on an individual basis, or set a hard post limit. I like the anonymous approval process (so the mods won't look like bad cops), is that implementable, tino? If not, I think the volume of requests for the member profiles may be too much for one person (Praet or river) to handle, unlike the essay vault, which is more selective. Actually, speaking of the "friend" function, tino, can there be a way that if a member is a "friend" of 2 or more mods, then he/she will become a trusted member? If that automation doesn't work, the other way would be to allow the mods to see who a member's friends are, and if that member has a certain amount of "friends", any mod can give the member access to the profiles. That will require the mods to be judicial about who to add as friends and still take some "heat" off mods having to reject a member's request.
As for the essay vaults, river, you can still post your essays there with a password on the PDF, and only give the password to those people you trust. This way at least people know there are essays out there they have the potential to look at. Different people have different requirements of privacy, so I think the hard post limit to access the forum added on top of the password protected PDF should satisfy most people. The 400 post limit is a bit high, but that is a decision that Praet made a while ago, and we would have to convince him to change it.
I would personally like the friend/foe function be more useful in granting access to certain forums, helping other mods determine the character of a member (if someone is listed as the "foe" of nervous, for example, I would scrutinize that person even more when he/she requests any access), etc...
Actually, come to think of it, many phb sites I participate in have "karma" systems, where only mods and admins can give positive or negative "karma" to members. Some of those sites allow people with a certain amount of "karma" points to access certain forum areas or get perks like "custom titles". Tino, can we implement something like that? I think that's probably the best compromise between having mods approve requests and having hard post limits. You can ONLY earn karma points from mods, and usually mods give them out for great posts or a helpful attitude. Once you earn a certain amount of karma points, you can have access to the member profiles, and at a higher limit, the essay vault. With that, someone with 10 very valuable posts could get enough karma (from mods) to access the forums, while someone with 500 useless posts will never be able to access it. I think it's probably the best way if this forum can support it.
What do you all think?
