Proposal: Stop referring to players by initials in mafia games.

[Panic Station]

Over the course of various mafia games, I have come to rely on the thread search function as a valuable tool for playing the game. Bring up posts about a specific player with a little data entry and the press of a button and see how much easier it is to examine your peers without combing through upwards of 50 pages.

But there is a glaring flaw in the search's design: all search topics must be longer than three letters.

With all the DLEs, AGs, and even KoCs floating around when it comes to referring to regular players, what once was an effective tool is suddenly stymied by a basic social habit. I say we break that habit by refusing to refer to players by initials only during mafia games. Even if it means referring to someone by an awkward nickname, not using initials makes the search function a better tool for the game.

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

I do not support this proposal

 

[Ampharos]

yeah KoC i agree with TC on this one

 

[Yeti]

phone posting hard

initial easy

 

[Josh]

or we could figure out a way to get functional isos

 

[Texas Cloverleaf]

thats more of a xenforo limitation than anything

Unless mu has custom code we can lift and ask chaos to implement

 

[Ampharos]

MU's code is vbulletin based and thus wouldn't work.

Makaze made as "show full posts in search results" script for Xenforo that he's offered to implement so asking about an ISO script may not be THAT out of the question. Would probably want chaos on board first though.

 

[Yeti]

sounds like a job for shade to go butter him up. it feels like itd benefit other sections of the forums who have massive threads that ppl want to search through as well.

 

[Lrr]

PB thinks that upgrading the forum software is a better and easier to implement solution and it looks like FH agrees

 

[shade]

im half way through a two day session but just wanted to say that this is likely going be below priority z for chaos but im willing to ask