Name change(possible solution) and marketplace, please read

I know this has been brought up a million, no billion times before but i think i might have a solution to this name changing problem. I believe GS should adopt a new feature quite familiar to what some other sites use, most notable, gametrailers.com. This website implanted a online currency feature which they refer to as GTD (gametrailer dollars), its not real money nor is it useless either. The site rewards its users with this currency by just using the site in general. collecting enough of these GTD as they call it, you can buy certain rewards at the market place as the link shows. As you can see you have to obtain alot to win stuff but i can guarantee this feature would get alot of users more active on this site, and is this not what you guys want?

One of the other things this feature did that so far advances pass this site is the name changing feature and might i add it works really well. The user must get enough GTD before they can change their name. by doing this, the site has cut down on frequent changes by alot. Its genius and this site could greatly benefit from it.

Thats not all you can do with this GTD though, you can alos purchase online things such as sigs, banners, etc. you get the idea. this Market place idea is what this site really needs. Im sure most of you guys would agree with me on this after you see how it works.

I really hope some of you guys will take the time to look at this, mods included, and thank you to all that have read this, please consider my idea about the marketplace. With such a feature this site would be even more popular then it was already and GS would be giving back to the community as gametrailer says. Thanks again to anyone who reads this.

I going to go ahead and support this, but don't get your hopes too high Tev. I'm not sure GS wants to take the effort to implement something new w/ all of the issues they already have.

I'll add to the ideas to see if I can help though. We all ready have a levels system place that works in a similar way, and if GS wanted they could handle it in the same way to a T. Like the level system, they could limit cash farming by limiting the amount of cash you can get in one day. So you would be rewarded for checking in consistantly (as the level system already does) and not by the amount of spam you produce. If you think about it from this perspective implementing this should be cake, since the system is already in place. They could just hand out GSD in coordination w/ your rise in levels, this way levels would actually have meaning to them as well, how much money you have earned . This way everybody would already be familiar (well a little bit) w/ how it works as well.

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In addition i support the idea of this person solving any problems of farming or alteast drop the level of spamming by alot.

yeah.. I would like to change my name here.. its very old my nick.. that I didn't use anymore anywere...

I would like to change it.. but I cant here :(

I have to say I think this would be a good idea. :)

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I'm all for it! :D

Hmm, would be nice to have a feature like this. I was thinking after I read it, maybe GS should have a Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down rating on the forums like they do the comment sections(or perhaps a 5-star rating system, if feasible), so if your Down Voted, it takes away from your GTD(or, GSD), and likewise if your Up Voted, it gives you some extra GSD. GSD could be applied to Comments, Reviews, Blogs, and even Unions. Say you personally get some people to join a Union, you can be rewarded, and the owners would become rewarded too for their Unions being so successful. There's so many things GS could do to make the feature unique to the site.

-RvL

From what I understand, name changes are reserved for very special cases, becuase they tend to screw with the database and cause problems.

But as an overall feature (and from what I could see from gametrailers), it looks pretty cool.

That being said, I can see this becoming a spam problem if people get gamespot cash for posting or commenting, and hence they'll just post for the sake of getting the online cash.

From what I understand, name changes are reserved for very special cases, becuase they tend to screw with the database and cause problems.

But as an overall feature (and from what I could see from gametrailers), it looks pretty cool.

That being said, I can see this becoming a spam problem if people get gamespot cash for posting or commenting, and hence they'll just post for the sake of getting the online cash.

G013M

Exactly, this being said i was hoping GS would come up with ideas as well to better solve this problem of farming. Cause i know with a feature like this their will be users that would perform such an act. Gametrailers also is has ways to stop that problem, maybe GS can learn a thing or too from them. Thank you for agree with me on this idea though, as a whole this feature should be implanted at gamespot.tevwalker13

What ways does GT have to stop cash farming?

I going to go ahead and support this, but don't get your hopes too high Tev. I'm not sure GS wants to take the effort to implement something new w/ all of the issues they already have.

I'll add to the ideas to see if I can help though. We all ready have a levels system place that works in a similar way, and if GS wanted they could handle it in the same way to a T. Like the level system, they could limit cash farming by limiting the amount of cash you can get in one day. So you would be rewarded for checking in consistantly (as the level system already does) and not by the amount of spam you produce. If you think about it from this perspective implementing this should be cake, since the system is already in place. They could just hand out GSD in coordination w/ your rise in levels, this way levels would actually have meaning to them as well, how much money you have earned :P. This way everybody would already be familiar (well a little bit) w/ how it works as well.

[QUOTE="tevwalker13"]Exactly, this being said i was hoping GS would come up with ideas as well to better solve this problem of farming. Cause i know with a feature like this their will be users that would perform such an act. Gametrailers also is has ways to stop that problem, maybe GS can learn a thing or too from them. Thank you for agree with me on this idea though, as a whole this feature should be implanted at gamespot.G013M

What ways does GT have to stop cash farming?

I going to go ahead and support this, but don't get your hopes too high Tev. I'm not sure GS wants to take the effort to implement something new w/ all of the issues they already have.

I'll add to the ideas to see if I can help though. We all ready have a levels system place that works in a similar way, and if GS wanted they could handle it in the same way to a T. Like the level system, they could limit cash farming by limiting the amount of cash you can get in one day. So you would be rewarded for checking in consistantly (as the level system already does) and not by the amount of spam you produce. If you think about it from this perspective implementing this should be cake, since the system is already in place. They could just hand out GSD in coordination w/ your rise in levels, this way levels would actually have meaning to them as well, how much money you have earned :P. This way everybody would already be familiar (well a little bit) w/ how it works as well.

DraconigenaDeus

well, I support the idea of name change.
Some of my friend change some acc cauz of thier name
and they have to start all over again.FinalsoulX

Indeed , I too support this and think it should be a top priority for the GS coders. Nice sig FSX.

Thanks guys, there is no reason for GS to deny this ides to tell you the true, lots of people aren't happy with their names now, so they went to lengths as such to make another account all together. Its a shame they have to start over because of this. Plus with my Marketplace idea, it would only make the community of GS more interesting and innovative.tevwalker13

revamping a whole site isn't that easy. I mean we still haven't gotten much info about the new union stuff (I know the complications involved) so I don't think we would hear about something like this for a while.

[QUOTE="tevwalker13"]Thanks guys, there is no reason for GS to deny this ides to tell you the true, lots of people aren't happy with their names now, so they went to lengths as such to make another account all together. Its a shame they have to start over because of this. Plus with my Marketplace idea, it would only make the community of GS more interesting and innovative.vidplayer8

revamping a whole site isn't that easy. I mean we still haven't gotten much info about the new union stuff (I know the complications involved) so I don't think we would hear about something like this for a while.

true, they have been talking about that union thing for like ever. I just dont want them to ignore this one, only one mod so far has looked at it.tevwalker13

I don't do anything with the site developmentwise, and I'm not employed by Cnet. I just volunteer to keep the forums clean, none of my opinions reflect upon those of the site admins.

Also, I highly doubt that we'll get any sort name change tool before any sort of site redesign, as currently changing a name causes problems for the database.

[QUOTE="tevwalker13"]true, they have been talking about that union thing for like ever. I just dont want them to ignore this one, only one mod so far has looked at it.G013M

I don't do anything with the site developmentwise, and I'm not employed by Cnet. I just volunteer to keep the forums clean, none of my opinions reflect upon those of the site admins.

Also, I highly doubt that we'll get any sort name change tool before any sort of site redesign, as currently changing a name causes problems for the database.

So, I might misunderstand how can this causes problems for database? dont you mind explain little clear?

So, I might misunderstand how can this causes problems for database? dont you mind explain little clear?

Nightmare-_-

I don't have the nitty gritty details, as I'm not a dev, but if I remember correctly; that's why name changes are reserved for very special cases.

[QUOTE="Nightmare-_-"]

So, I might misunderstand how can this causes problems for database? dont you mind explain little clear?

G013M

I don't have the nitty gritty details, as I'm not a dev, but if I remember correctly; that's why name changes are reserved for very special cases.

Same name across all sites too.

That being said, I can see this becoming a spam problem if people get gamespot cash for posting or commenting, and hence they'll just post for the sake of getting the online cash.G013M

[QUOTE="G013M"] That being said, I can see this becoming a spam problem if people get gamespot cash for posting or commenting, and hence they'll just post for the sake of getting the online cash.fastesttruck

[QUOTE="G013M"] That being said, I can see this becoming a spam problem if people get gamespot cash for posting or commenting, and hence they'll just post for the sake of getting the online cash.fastesttruck

All I was saying was that giving people an incentive to post could result in people posting for the sake of getting GSCash. And before you say "Well it doesn't happen with the leveling system" -- well, other then a number, the leveling system doesn't actually do anything, whereas "cash" actually does something.

I'm not saying that it's not a good idea, and personally I think it's a great idea and that this is would be a good solution.

The solution to this would be that each moderation takes a sum of cash away, kinda like a ticket.cryptosopoidium

It just needs to be done carefully to make sure that it doesn't encourage spam, by rewarding posts (even if there is a cap on the number posts), with cash which can be spent to better your online profile.

I don't really like this idea, due to the abuse it would suffer from, and I believe the abuse would be near impossible to stop. I visit this site for its community. If I was to have this feature, I think it would fully become my purpose for visiting this site, taking over the real reasons I visit this site (Reviews, News etc.). If that was not to happen, then I believe that the Market Place would become popular for a while and then it'll be forgotten about. And even then, I don't believe the Market Place will improve activity, as that's not the prime reason users visit this site. To finish: Even if this idea became true, how would GS keep it updated? They still have Unions Version 2 to implement, and it still hasn't been done in years now, as other important things keep popping up.michaelP4

I dont think it will be forgotten as i have seen how it works on Gametrailers, they continue to update it with games that has just come out or collectable items, like shirts, hats, banners, and collectable toys, they even have consoles on the market that you need to collect large amounts before you can buy them.

I know that this feature is possible to handle because gametrailers isnt the only site that has one like it, i know of another site that contains one and that is planetrenders.net. if these sites can handle it why cant GS? I already know GS can handle it alot better than those other sites anyways because the have better rules than most. if you think te mods wont be able to handle the spam and farmers then GS should think about getting more.

Im not saying GS should implant the feature here and now, i just wanted people to look over my idea and atleast consider it.