Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130513175338

So, the Spoiler Screen seems to have drawn positive feedback, and works very well, I might add. So, I started browsing through the Open Source Wiki, where Nathan found the coding for it, and came across a handful of features I think would be nice additions to the site.

This thread is to get a general feel from everyone on each of the features below, and to see what we should and should not consider adding to the site.


 * 1) User Tags - Mainly because it auto-adds an "Inactive" tag to profiles that haven't edited in 3 months, in the same place where Admin, Founder, Staff, ect. tags appear. Can also be used to add custom tags to people's profiles if we so choose (It'd be lovely to add things like "Plagiarizer" to know content stealers)
 * 2) User Highlights - Highlights Admin/BCrat/Bot edits in page histories and the Recent Activity crawl. Can also be used to highlight whatever users we choose. (Again, a specific color for a plagiarizer in edit histories would be a good way to judge content)
 * 3) Hid Rail - Allows the wiki to hid that rail to the right where recent activity and recent photos appear, allowing our articles to be wider (I think we'd be able to hit a 1200px size)
 * 4) Lock Old Blogs - Archives blogs with no commenting after a set number of days. Doesn't happen too often, but it'll stop blog necromancy.
 * 5) Reference Pop Ups - Allows for in-line references, footnotes, etc. to appear in a pop-up window when you hover your mouse over the citation, much like Wikipedia's set-up (my personal favorite on the list)
 * 6) A Countdown Clock - You can make a countdown to a set time (like the end of a promotion, the release of a movie, etc.) that appears to all users on the site. It'll allow us to do things like add a countdown to the (international) initial release of a new movie, instead of having to make a forum thread informing people of the impending spoilers or such.
 * 7) An 18+/Mature Content Screen - A modification to the code of the Spoiler Screen, this one pops up to inform readers that the page they are reading contains content not suitable for all ages. To paraphrase my discussion on this one with Nathan (which is where the link takes you), we strive to be family friendly, and we should still enforce that with users. However, some stuff just ends up contradicting our family friendly vibe. This guy, this girl, this series (and all its related stuff), and most stuff from MAX are good examples of this.

Discuss away. If everyone likes something, Nathan is on board to implement them to the site. 