Forum Suggestions & Voting System Explained

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This is the forum suggestions section. It's in this section that members can suggest new features, add-ons, or even improvement ideas they have for our forum.

Unlike other sections of the site, you'll notice that threads in this section have a slightly different format. This is because these threads allow users to vote on ideas, a feature we'll go over more in a moment.

The Voting System
If you haven't noticed, the Forum Suggestions section has a voting system in place.

This is meant for other members to be able to vote on suggestions made here.

It's important to note that the votes are usually just taken into account where there's a suggestion that's not as obvious as to whether or not we implement it. For example, if a suggestion is on whether or not we should add a social media, something that's a very part of internet marketing, then we'd just simply add this in. However, if someone suggests changing the the way something is displayed on the site because they believe it would look better, we'd leave this up to the community and take the vote system into consideration.

At some point, we will look into a way for users to also disable the voting feature in their own threads as this is possible, but it requires us to make some changes on our end.

Why Some Threads Remain Under Consideration
Ideally, we want to ensure suggestions are either implemented or declined in a timely manner. However, there are some times where a suggestion will remain under consideration for a longer period of time. The reasons for this are as follows:
  • We need better servers: This was a problem back in March 2025 and less so now, but if something is resource-intensive, we usually hold off on implementing something until we upgrade the servers.
  • We're waiting on something else: For example, there was a suggestion for a tagline for our upcoming logo. Before we can add a tagline, we need to actually have the finished logo first.
  • Complexity: There are some cases where something is a little complex to add in. This was the case for displaying the number of reactions in thread lists; this was surprisingly more time-consuming than you would think as it's not a built-in feature, meaning we had to code it ourselves.
  • Too expensive: Literally, if an add-on costs a lot of money, we might have to hold off on implementing it. We use the money we receive from donations to implement these ideas (at least. in these early stages), so if we don't have enough, then we wait until we do before purchasing something.
 
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Yes, that's nice to see voting system.. Number of Up votes/ Down votes

But, We can't see, which member voted ?
 
But, We can't see, which member voted ?
@back2form to the people who downvoted his suggestions on alerts :D :

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I will confess… I did not look at the downvotes for that thread.

Hey, cut me some slack, I’m also still getting used to all these features. ;)
 

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