My suggestions to GAG (Part II)

[YourFutureEx]

My take on how to make GAG better than best....

Thank you GirlsAskGuys staff and my fellow GAG users (literally GAGers) for your congenial response on Part I (in which I described the basic aim of the site and some tips to ameliorate the things)
GAGers motivated me to write a second part of it, so without wasting time I would like to introduce the remaining items of the catalogue.

Here we go :-

• #7. Introduce Profile Badges.

Profile Badges? What is this?
Actually they are the same badges which you guys see in your day-to-day life but this time I would like GAG to use them virtually. These badges can be found on the GAGers' profiles. You will have to earn them if you want to shine them on your profile.
What is their significance?
GAGers will earn bonus 500 Xper points for each badge you earn and having a badge on your profile can depict your traits on GAG.
How do I earn them?
You will earn them by exceeding the limits set-up by the staff. For example: Trailblazer Badge - Having 350+ followers
Balloter Badge - Voting on 75000+ opinions
Mentor Badge - Having 25+ MHO percentage
Interrogator Badge - Asking 1000+ questions
Counsellor Badge - Giving 30000+ opinions
Wordsmith Badge - Sharing 125+ promoted takes
Veteran Badge - spending 5+ years on GAG
Punctilious Badge - Loging in 300+ days a year
It'll motivate GAGers to participate in all fields and of course, it can help the site to lure more traffic.

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  #8. Motivate GAGers to vote more.

  
  

  

Most of the time I see here that opinions usually get only zero vote on average. Yes zero. On average an opinion use to gather 2-4 up/down votes if it's unique/humorous/helpful/whatever. GAGers don't tend to spend their time voting. We need to settle this. GAG recently brought a very remarkable feature "Your top 10 most up-voted opinions will be represented on your profile as your quotes". I'm impressed and I noticed other users are also showing interest in it.
I've noticed a lot of GAGers' reactions about how to enhance them like giving them Xper for voting or sorting out the comments based on the votes. But I disliked these concepts because if we give Xper to people by just voting, GAGers will start voting blindly in order to earn Xper & if we sort the comments then the value of 'Gurus' & 'Masters' will decline. I think if we introduce badges it will attract GAGers to vote & they will earn something from it.

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  #9. It's time to facelift the MyTakes policy.

  
  

Finally, MyTakes are popular now. Everybody is now taking interest in it. So it's time to make the things serious. A lot of MyTakes are being promoted and featured. Some of them consist of one to four pictures or a single video and around four or five lines and boom you received 100 Xper. Some GAGers work very hard to write them and their ideas and statements are original (not like ctrl+c then ctrl+v). So I suggest GAG to keep promoting the takes as it use to but grant only 45 Xper instead of 100 Xper. If a MyTake is creative enough and it got featured then the GAGer will receive 125 Xper. And If it's a simple MyTake with no promotion, GAGers will receive 10 Xper (so that their hardwork will not be wasted). It'll enrich MyTakes and emphasize the writers.

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  #10. Add some Flavour to Followership.

  
  

I know a lot of people I'm interested to follow but I can't, thanks to their private profile. We can't follow the people who keep their profile private. GAG should allow an option to send them a follower-request if they are interested or not to let people follow them.

GAG should also add 'Follows You' indicator on the profiles of the people who are following the specific visitor. It would help GAGers to identify the people and strengthen their relationship.

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  #11. Private means Private.

  
  

If a GAGer marked his/her profile private, GAG should make their profile picture unclickable (Not allowed to zoom). It will boost GAGers' privacy and will considerably make it a safer place.

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  #12. Improve @Mentions.

  
  

  

Sometimes it is very hard to find out the exact opinion in which we are @Mentioned especially on popular questions. I know it's automatically scrolled but still it causes inconvenience. So I think on the 'girlsaskguys.com/user//mentions' page, GAG should label the username of the GAGers who mentioned them on the opinions.

• #13. Bubble Trouble [mobile version]

GAG recently discarded the classic bar and replaced it with two circles. They are innovative but there is a wise saying that 'simplicity is beauty'. Using them is nuisance. They cover-up the opinions. So I tried to find a better alternative. 'Toolbox'. Currently there are two bubbles, one for navigating and another one for social sharing. GAG should merge these two circles into one 'Toolbox' and place it on the right bottom. Clicking/Tapping on the toolbox will open the page navigation (as same as left bubble works) plus sharing bubble. It will considerably reduce the tackiness of the site and will make it user friendly.

Did I mention to make the toolbox translucent?
GAG should make it translucent too. So if it overlaps the opinion, it'll not annoy the reader.

Thanks for reading.

PS: These are my personal suggestions, I don't mean to
offend the site or its members.

Good News: Final part of My suggestions to GAG Trilogy confirmed.

Your ingenious suggestions/opinions will be acclaimed. Thank
you in advance for any help you can provide. :-)

Game on folks, Believe!

[Anonymous]

Wow, if I have never cancelled my account since day one, I think I would have earned 4 badges now-- the Interrogator Badge, Veteran Badge, Punctilious Badge and a moderator badge (if I didn't turn down the mod post in the past). Haha ;- D

This Take is really very well-written and touches my heart. I could see that you put in much so effort and creativity and showed so much enthusisam when you were writing it. Never seen a GAGer with such enthusiasm for this site as you.
No wonder people said you love GAG. : )

I would throw 5-stars for this Take, just like in the old days when we rated the questions with 1 - 5 stars and it was fun.

P. S I wonder why you call me your mentor when he/she needs at least a 25% MHO according to your standard here. Haha.

[Opinion Owner]

were writing it. Never seen a GAGer with such enthusiasm for this site as you : )
I would throw 5-stars for this Take, just like in the old days when we rated the questions with 1 - 5 stars and it was fun.

P. S I wonder why you call me your mentor when he/she needs at least a 25% MHO according to your standard here. Haha.

[Opinion Owner]

Sorry, I thought the second part of my input isn't showing and so I resent it.

[Opinion Owner]

so much* effort

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks a lot for your kind words :- )

I made the threshold ~impossible to make them realistic and more difficult so that devs don't get scared of giving a lot of xper points.

[Opinion Owner]

You know what, you are a bit weird sometimes, hahaha :- D
But I think there's always a logical explanation behind every weird behaviour
:-)

[YourFutureEx]

😌 versatile personality you know.

[Opinion Owner]

But does that emoji mean?

[Opinion Owner]

What * does

[YourFutureEx]

https://emojipedia.org/

Have fun 😏

[JackKerouac77]

You need to work for GaG already and stop givin' them this shit for free!!!

Or at least have them make you a moderator or something

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks Jack, but I don't know how make the deal work. I'll apply for mod team soon as I'm new here.

[Tdieseler]

Hell yea.

[Tdieseler]

Im feeling these ideas, especially those badges, that would show more of a status, make people work harder, and possible show if someone is a reliable source or not. a person can get a high MHO by just being a sympathizer.
Encouraging voting is good too, but there are trolls on that, they don't comment, they just down vote and move on.
The private thing, i think thats fine, helps prevent trolls and duplicate accounts. If they have a private profile and have a picture of themselves up and we have seen them, if we see that pic on a different account, well, now we know.
@Mentions could definitely use some tweaking...
Lastly, what happened to tagging me? I barely saw this!!!

[YourFutureEx]

Thank you for your awesome feedback :)

[Hannah591]

#7 I think the threshold is way too high. I don't think people in the top 10 have reached such numbers.
#9 Completely agree. It's a kick to the teeth when you've spent hours on a take, only to see several takes being promoted which are completely pointless, not thought through and are incredibly basic.
#12 YES!

Good take! You deserve 125 Xper!

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks again mentor ^_^
#7 - these were just examples. It's upto staff to set these limits.
I made it too high for better impression on admins,
So that they won't think that there's a waiting line of hundreds of GAGers to earn these badges so they'd feel safer to impliment it on the site and hence increasing the chances for its introduction.
Got it? ;)

[Hannah591]

I got it.

[menguc]

Thanks for this follow up feedback YourFutureEx.. Some of these are already in our plans and the rest are great suggestions.
"Following private profiles" feature is actually coming very soon. We also have plans to improve accessing mentions, facelift voting, and introducing badges.
I'll be following this myTake closely, as I did the prior one.

[YourFutureEx]

Thank you admin ^_^ I'm glad that I'd help the site.

[Hopefuldreamer8]

I love these ideas, and your other ones. I wish they had an editing feature too. I understand why they don't have one, just in case someone trolls and then decides to change their post. That's why there should be a time limit to when you can edit. I use this app on my phone a lot, and sometimes I don't realize that my phone changed one word to another until later.

[YourFutureEx]

Editing feature will increase the troll on the site.

[Hopefuldreamer8]

That's why I said there should be a time limit to it.

[YourFutureEx]

No.
Take an example:
Let's say, I reply to your opinion "F*k you" and wait for 2-3 minutes to let you read it and then change it to "thank you" instantly. Trolled right? Even offended. And mods can't take action against it too.

[springocelot]

@mentions should not be case-specific. i've seen mentions that were not highlighted just because of that, so sometimes the user won't even be notified if they've been mentioned or not unless they go back to question and scroll down.

[YourFutureEx]

They AREN'T case sensitive :)

[Political_dude]

Earning Quick Xper: Some Helpful Tips ↗

[Political_dude]

Hey mate. I just used a very recent added feature here (it was added like 5 minutes ago) hope you don't mind me using it here

[YourFutureEx]

How can we use this? :o

[Political_dude]

Limited to editors and influencers lol. I see a button here just below image button. And it shows list of mytakes from which you can select one.

[YourFutureEx]

😒😔

[been_waiting]

I really like all of these ideas and I hope they are implemented in one way or another

[YourFutureEx]

Thank you so much for reading and feedback. Been waiting for them :D

[been_waiting]

Haha like I haven't gotten that before XD

[YourFutureEx]

Better late than never.

[Anonymous]

When we block someone, can the website be set up so that we don't see their posts when visiting the site, please?
The way it is now, we still see their posts and when we try to add a comment, we get the red banner (saying they're blocked). We don't always remember which people we've blocked.

[YourFutureEx]

Best you can do is to hide their activities in your feed so, you'll be less likely to open their posts by :-

Going to "settings" > Privacy Settings > Hide the activity of the users I blocked ✔

[luvme56]

Nice suggestions you got there... you are really commited to gag which is nice!

[YourFutureEx]

Haha wish GAG was a girl.
Anyway, thanks for your input ^_^

[Anonymous]

Some of your ideas are pretty good yes and some meh

[YourFutureEx]

Then describe them what you liked and what don't.

[Opinion Owner]

Yes bossy. The mentions thins never works properly and sometimes I can never even find the mention, the private thing should apply although I think the page (profile) should not even come up for that blocked person, the profile badge thing seems silly but maybe I just don't get it and the followship whatever should be put back the way they had it in 2012 with friends.

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks for your feedback.
I don't know about their functioning on following in 2012 because I just joined the site in Nov 2013.

[Opinion Owner]

Overall the site was way better back then.

[YourFutureEx]

Wish I'd experience that. I think site users play a big role in it. Old ones became inactive and new ones are not that great. Maybe that's the reason.

[Opinion Owner]

That may be a small part of it. People are people and there will always be a certain percentage I like and do not care for. There are a few users I do miss and some I miss dearly.

[abundantlyrich]

You might get a job with GAG

[YourFutureEx]

Haha thanks for reading and compliment ^_^

[abundantlyrich]

No worries, they even use the word GURU from your country's language lol.. You might as well be a GURU in shaping GAG's website.

[YourFutureEx]

Wow you knew that! I thought it is known by a few members especially who live in sub-continent.
Well seems like you're someone ingenious :)

[abundantlyrich]

No i'm not.

[GirlScoutsRevenge]

All brilliant ideas! I love them all :)

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks :) for reading and compliment.
Why do people compliment anonymously?

[GirlScoutsRevenge]

There you go, un-anon. I just choose to go anon for 90% of my comments.

[GirlScoutsRevenge]

Contrary to popular belief anons domt always choose to be anons to be nasty.

[YourFutureEx]

That's nice :) you should use this feature as low as possible. Maybe I'm a tyro to understand the real intentions. :/

[GirlScoutsRevenge]

Ah I don't see why people have to know it's me commenting.

[Your_boss960]

I like everything except for the badges part

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks for your feedback. I'd like to know why they didn't impress you?

[Anonymous]

Please give us the option of having a signature as well as an avatar. Thank you.

[Thrifty]

I want verified user accounts.

[YourFutureEx]

On what basis you think a user can verify oneself?

[Thrifty]

Legal name and Government ID to even considered to create an account.

[YourFutureEx]

It'll considerably decrease the users. I don't think GAG would like it.

[Thrifty]

Good, it'll decrease catfish, trolls, and multiple user accounts of guys pretending to be girls.

[YourFutureEx]

I can understand your problems but sometimes we have to see the things from business' point of view.

[Thrifty]

... this is a free site.

[YourFutureEx]

This site earns money indirectly (from ads) . The more traffic it'll produce, the better offers it'll receive.
Every site needs to think from business perspective for its survival.

[GalaxyHotChoc]

This is awesome! The badges are my favorite

[YourFutureEx]

Mine too :D
And thanks for reading and feedback ^_^

[2014raser]

All great ideas! I love it.

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks for reading and feedback ^_^

[HollywoodGlam]

Nice take!

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks, I like your takes too :)

[GoldCobra]

Nice. Good ideas.

[YourFutureEx]

Thanks for reading :)