I occasionally look at the seeds forum, and almost always come out annoyed.
Why? Because it is impossible to tell good seeds from bad ones, or to find particular "types" of seeds.
We need the ability to get to seeds we want without wading through hundreds of dumb posts of "look at my amazing seed" when in reality those seeds are nothing special.
What I propose is:
- At the very least, make subforums per version every time there is a major change in seed generation. For example, all of the 1.7 seeds are now worthless (unless you are still running 1.7 of course), and we already seem to have seed differences between 1.8 and 1.9.
- Pick some volunteer moderators. They can be anyone so long as they follow your rules.
- Give the volunteer moderators the ability to edit a handful of locked sticky threads.
- Make threads that help organize seeds.
- Each organizing thread contains (1) a link to the original thread and (2) one or more images from the seed (copied from the original thread).
- These a couple of "organized" seed threads, but there of course there are more to be thought of:
--- Seed threads by popularity. For example "Over 100", "Over 1000", "Over 10,000" threads. If a seed was posted with a poll including "like" / "don't like" options, when they get 100, 1000, 10000 votes, etc... they'd get included in the organized thread.
--- Seeds by feature. For example people keep posting seeds with nearby strongholds. They could be grouped into their own thread (or subforum).
Why? Because it is impossible to tell good seeds from bad ones, or to find particular "types" of seeds.
We need the ability to get to seeds we want without wading through hundreds of dumb posts of "look at my amazing seed" when in reality those seeds are nothing special.
What I propose is:
- At the very least, make subforums per version every time there is a major change in seed generation. For example, all of the 1.7 seeds are now worthless (unless you are still running 1.7 of course), and we already seem to have seed differences between 1.8 and 1.9.
- Pick some volunteer moderators. They can be anyone so long as they follow your rules.
- Give the volunteer moderators the ability to edit a handful of locked sticky threads.
- Make threads that help organize seeds.
- Each organizing thread contains (1) a link to the original thread and (2) one or more images from the seed (copied from the original thread).
- These a couple of "organized" seed threads, but there of course there are more to be thought of:
--- Seed threads by popularity. For example "Over 100", "Over 1000", "Over 10,000" threads. If a seed was posted with a poll including "like" / "don't like" options, when they get 100, 1000, 10000 votes, etc... they'd get included in the organized thread.
--- Seeds by feature. For example people keep posting seeds with nearby strongholds. They could be grouped into their own thread (or subforum).
Playing MInecraft since February 22, 2011