Minor Idea

[pulsar]

Here's a small, minor idea which probably won't make much difference at all, but here goes anyway:

You know how a thread becomes "hot" after getting a certain number of views? Well, with all the different pokeball icons next to each thread, I was wondering if the pokeball could upgrade every time the thread reached a particular number of views. It could work like this:

0-249 views = Pokeball
250-999 views = Great Ball
1000+ views = Ultra Ball

Master balls should still only be used to indicate sticky threads.

It could be useful to pick out which threads are popular and which ones are new/unpopular. Whether or not people would find this feature helpful remains to be seen.

Alternatively, instead of the number of views, the icons could change depending on the number of replies. I've noticed that every time you click on a thread, and even when navigating to a different page in the thread, the view count increases, so unfortunately people could take advantage of this idea if it depended on the number of views. Therefore I think it would be better if it changed depending on how many replies there were.

So, what are your views? (sorry about the cheesy joke)

[Bagon]

Good idea.

[GuillerMocky]

yeah its indeed a nice idea, there are only a few treads with more than 1000 views

but great ball should come after 500

[budgetspaner]

Well it would be cool, but it is kind of pointless. It is easy to see what posts have plenty of views. Also on Proboards a view is for each time it is viewed even if the person has viewed it before. So a thousands views is not impressive when it is just the same few people viewing it again and again.

[GuillerMocky]

Jun 5, 2011 0:31:31 GMT -5 budgetspaner said:

Well it would be cool, but it is kind of pointless. It is easy to see what posts have plenty of views. Also on Proboards a view is for each time it is viewed even if the person has viewed it before. So a thousands views is not impressive when it is just the same few people viewing it again and again.

so as youtube, and almost everything, so that would mean things like 20.000.000 views on a song wouldnt be impressive thinking that its just the same person over and over hahaha?

still, there are only a few treads with more than 1000 views :D

[MMaester]

Great idea tbh! But it's not possible Not here, not on any other forums (cept for hand-made, but not gna do that... I do have a life ))

[jammydodger]

shame its not possible would have been quite a good idea