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A few more suggestions.

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Deleted 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 1:34 -
Hi Tom, I see you're busy updating the site, I just had a few suggestions that might be implemented?

1. First, i've suggested it in another thread, but when you click the 'My Stuff' tab, would it be possible to get a link to your lists page put into the drop down bar?

2. Regarding images, when you click on, for example, the profile picture of an actor/actress, it enlarges the picture and gives you the option to vote/comment. Would it be possible to get a 'next' and 'previous' tab put in so you can scroll through the pictures easier? At the moment you have to go back on your browser every time you want to see a new image.

3. A strange request. When I click on my reviews it shows me all the reviews I have produced. I was wondering if it would be possible to add a tab that said 'View Comments' then all the comments that have been posted on my reviews would come up next to a picture of the particular review. There is a similar feature on Facebook when viewing a photo album there is an option that says 'View Comments' and shows only photos that have comments made. I like to keep up with what people may have said about my reviews and am not a fan of email notification! I hope I explained that well enough.

4. Finally, I use the 'stuff to do' box a lot (eg www.listal.com/rate/movies). Under each film is a big white space, I was wondering if it would be possible to put the greenish 'ratings box' (eg found here: www.listal.com/movie/juno - the second box down on the right) under the films when they're randomly generated? I'd love to see what some of my friends rating the film as. I'm not as concerned with the universal listal rating so that could be dropped it it takes too long to calculate!

5. Any news on moderators? Also, when you delete a post/thread would is be possible in any way to not make their posts show up at all? At the moment you have "Member X - Post deleted". No mention/a completely empty space would look much nicer!

Just a few thoughts!
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Prelude 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 1:47 -
I was just thinking the same thing as comment #2

next/back would be nice. a mini-thumb scroll of all pictures similar to gamespot would be even nicer.
Deleted user
Deleted 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 2:00 -
Also, another point:

When you click on eg My actors - view all it orders them by the number of items you've seen them in. Would it be possible to have a drop down bar that gives you the option to order them by how you have rated them etc?
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Deleted 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 2:56 -
1. First, i've suggested it in another thread, but when you click the 'My Stuff' tab, would it be possible to get a link to your lists page put into the drop down bar?

I agree. Maybe reviews as well. Though I'm thinking Tom should put an all-around item page specifically for oneself. It just seems like a home-page could be added for everything you own on here.

2 I agree with, and 3 I've been wanting as well. I have all my e-mail of the same name bundled up into one message automatically, so I can't imagine what I might've done to you. 4's not something I even thought of, though I wouldn't mind it. And as for 5, I've thought the posts obtrusive as well. Certainly not as much as when they're full-sized, but usually on forums posts completely disappear. It's creepy sometimes, but it's clearer.

Your last comment reminds me of something I'd like. Why not have permantently ordered item pages? You can see any order you want going from Top Rated, but there's no personal defaulting.

Also I'd like to see some more settings for the site. You could move the sections of the items page around, get rid of a thing or two, kind of like profile layout. You could maybe pick to exclude a few things you don't necessarily want on display when you look at something. Not that you change what anyone else sees but like you said, Assault, not everyone wants to see one thing and not the other. Actually you said WILL SMITH and Prelude said B-MOVIE TRASH, but you get the drift. Sometimes it's easier to scroll things without something you're not head over heels for. Tom, I think this'd help for people reporting annoyances with an item page, as in something they don't like or would change. There'd be a site-wide default setting for people who just want to manage their Listals.
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Uber 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 4:59 -
I agree. Maybe reviews as well. Though I'm thinking Tom should put an all-around item page specifically for oneself. It just seems like a home-page could be added for everything you own on here.


Isn't that what your profile page is for?
Really that is all Tom needs to do is make the My Stuff tab clickable and have it direct to the users profile page.

And I'm in with the rest of the suggestion especially #5
Manling 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 5:25 -
just throwing in my two cents here...

I like all of Grand Assault's suggestions.


Also:
- The ability to edit/add/remove actors in a movie would be awesome.

- Being able to see the tags I tag artists or actors with.
Right now, I have to go to the artist/actor's page and click on the tag to see everybody I've tagged with that tag.
I can see the tags from the movies or ablums I've tagged... just not the artists and actors.

- The last would be to add games/movies/books/music/TV all to one list or tag. Maybe so sort of overall custom list.
Deleted user
Deleted 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 21:00 -
Isn't that what your profile page is for?
Really that is all Tom needs to do is make the My Stuff tab clickable and have it direct to the users profile page.

That's right. Still, I think there's the possibility of a page more specific for management of one's possessions.
- The ability to edit/add/remove actors in a movie would be awesome.

The rest of us are waiting for the update on the Movies pages for this one.
- The last would be to add games/movies/books/music/TV all to one list or tag. Maybe so sort of overall custom list.

Some of us have been wanting this for lists, though tags would be good as well.
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Tom 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 12 23:42 -
#1 I will probably add this and reviews link, although your not really saving any clicks if you know which type of list you want (e.g. My movies to list vs list page to list) I want to improve the lists page first though.

#2 Have been meaning to do for a while now

#3 is already done with the latest activity box and page which covers comments and voting on everything, I know it's not exactly what you said but it does let you keep track of everything.

#4 actually been meaning to do this as well but I was going to display that info after you have rated

#5 probably going to be the next job after redone item page. The good thing about showing the deletions is that it shows people that bad posting is not allowed, I may change this but I think it's good at least while people are getting used to more moderation.
Deleted user
Deleted 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 13 0:58 -
Cool beans.

Regarding point 3, when you click on view all recent activity, any way we could select for it to show only review votes, review comments, profile comments, etc? That would really clear it up!
coroner 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 13 3:00 -
#6
When you click on eg My actors - view all it orders them by the number of items you've seen them in. Would it be possible to have a drop down bar that gives you the option to order them by how you have rated them etc?


I would really like this option too (and for My directors)! :)

#7 Will it be possible to create actors/actresses/directors/... lists in the next future?

By the way, thanks a lot for the new List page, Tom!
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Bael 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 13 22:42 -
manling has a point with the tags. how about some link in "my stuff" called "tag cloud" (or even make it a separate module in "my profile" where you can add it like for instance "about my collections"), where you get a list of all your tags you made (regardless of category).
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Prelude 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 13 23:03 -
and since this is the thread where all good ideas get thrown in, the two big things i'd like to see are these.

- ability to merge and/or delete duplicates (even if this is a moderator-only option)

- ability to tag items i don't own, want, or even have seen. not a high priority, but it would be nice to be able to add tags like 'controversial' or 'IMDb Top250' or 'Canadian' to all such films without having to physically have them take up space in my personal lists.
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Bael 17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 14 17:25 -
- how about an additional field for alternative title like in the movie items for all categories. this would solve the problem of music, games etc. with umlauts and other language-specific special characters. as of now you only have one field, and that is most often entered without those characters, but in an anglicized format. also if i search for Jรผrgen i don't get a result, even if someone entered the exact item as Juergen. Maybe there is a way to "map" characters in the search, like when you search for Jรผrgen he maps it behind the curtain to Juergen and displays the correct item with umlaut as result.