Additional User Information When Posting

[Ellie 36]

My suggestion is pretty simple but nonetheless I think it needed to be brought up.  I apologize if this has been brought up before.  Below the avatar of each user there is a logo depicting their usertitle/rank.  I think there should be some more information added as well such as join date, post count, etc.  Here's a quick mock-up of what I'm suggesting.  Sorry about the bad quality of the mock-up.  I threw it together on Photoshop in a few minutes.

 

 

I'm kind of a statistical person that's my reasoning behind this suggestion.  It's pretty simple and easily implemented anyway.

 

Thanks for checking out my thread!

 

Originally Posted Mock-Up:

http://i.imgur.com/GCXFWF0.png

Edited April 3, 2014 by Ellie

[Azura 1,107]

If everyone is allowed to change what showed up below their avatar, it would look very disorganised as some people would have different setups.

[Ellie 36]

If everyone is allowed to change what showed up below their avatar, it would look very disorganised as some people would have different setups.

It wouldn't be customizable.  All users would have those details.  No exclusion for anyone.  It wouldn't look cluttered because everyone would have uniform "quick facts".

All of that info and more is available when hovering over a poster's username:

I didn't mean like ALL of the information about the user.  Just a few quick facts.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Moony

[Azura 1,107]

@@Ellie, 

If you're wondering when a member joined the forums, you can easily go to their profile and check. I personally think it should stay as it is.

@@Ellie, 

If you're wondering when a member joined the forums, you can easily go to their profile and check. I personally think it should stay as it is.

[Princess Periwinkle 3,778]

All of that info and more is available when hovering over a poster's username:

 

 

Reposting because the original image included personal information only viewable by staff that needed to be edited out.

Edited April 3, 2014 by Moony

[Ellie 36]

@@Ellie, 

If you're wondering when a member joined the forums, you can easily go to their profile and check. I personally think it should stay as it is.

@@Ellie, 

If you're wondering when a member joined the forums, you can easily go to their profile and check. I personally think it should stay as it is.

I understand that.  It just seems like there should be a few quick things showing instead of having to hover or go to their profile.  Something even faster.  As far as the join date, that can be written off but the post count seems like it could be fairly interesting to have around.

[Crystal Edge 42]

I say let it happen but give others the option to turn the "extra statistics" off. I can have understanding for having this being a statistics fan but I think the way it is now is clean and simple. It isn't exactly cluttered and its fairly smooth to read through. Adding more for me would just be a mess and UN-presentable.  

 

-Crystal Edge

[Jokuc 8,176]

@@Ellie, We used to display this information under the avatars back in the days, actually. However, Feld0 thought that it was too much text which created cluster. He wanted to keep it nice and clean under there, especially now when we have the badges.

 

To be honest, I disagree with him. I agree with you and I love when loads of information about the user is displayed next to someone's post. Online status being something on my most-requested list.

 

But yeah, it does not matter if even everyone in the staff wanted it, Feld0 has the last say since it is his site.

 

 

...I wanted to add a screencap of the rules here but @@~Chaotic Discord~, HAS FORGOTTEN TO CLEAN HIS SHIT UP.

 

 

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Anyways, you can always change the forum theme from MLP Forums (new) to IP.Board as seen in the picture below, this will give you want.

 

[SCS 7,537]

I do not agree with your suggestion. I prefer the clean, minimalistic look of posts that do not have cluttered information. 
 
However, more importantly I disagree with this suggestion due to the issue of people using post count to assert dominance over others, and subsequently the issue of people playing more attention to posts by those who have a higher post count. I have not seen much of that sort of behavior in this community, but I have seen it elsewhere, and it is immensely destructive when it gets out of control.
 
Post count not being readily visible helps to prevent this sort of negative behavior from occurring. Additionally, people who really care how many posts someone has can still check that easily, either by viewing their profile or through hovering their mouse over the individual's username to generate an informational hovercard.
 
While accessing someone's post count, among other details is easy to do in a topic, the absence of that information in direct view makes a positive difference in promoting unity and inhibiting elitism.

[Adorkable 2,737]

Actually, you can get the same info, if not more by just hovering your mouse over the member's name in a topic. I'm somewhat against the idea of showing Warning Points though, that seems more of a personal thing between the member and the staff instead of it being publicly displayed for all to see.

[NavelColt 22,884]

I understand that.  It just seems like there should be a few quick things showing instead of having to hover or go to their profile.  Something even faster.  As far as the join date, that can be written off but the post count seems like it could be fairly interesting to have around.

 

Not having this info inside posts was a choice on the staff's part to make things smoother, and to promote the idea that amount of posts doesn't really matter, which it doesn't and shouldn't. Knowing already that warning points are viewable to staff only and that will never change, because warnings are treated as a personal matter between the individual and the staff, that leaves join date, and potentially any other things one can come up with reasons for including in posts. None of which I personally think is worth it. The current setup allows for smoother user posts, discourages the unwritten mindset that amount of posts and by extension forum popularity matters, while offering all the information in a simple hover up, for reference.

 

This has been brought up several times in the past, like others have said. While moving forward and changing what's in existence for newer, better ideas for the future is a great mindset to follow, I don't think this is one of those things. Thanks much for your input, all the same, though :3 Far better members throw ideas around then stay silent and do nothing but lurk!