How's it going cubers? Hope all is well. Thanks for checking out my suggestion thread; let me explain exactly what I want to propose.
Now, I'm quite new to this forum, so please cut me some slack if something like this has been proposed or done many years ago and it didn't work out. This is just something I'd like to see done. I searched around briefly, but didn't find much regarding my proposal. anyway, enough rambling. Without further ado, let's get right to it!
So, in short, my idea would be that of creating a subforum where one could create a personal thread to monitor, track, and update fellow cubers upon one's own accomplishments, goals, and progress. Now, before I get heat for there already being a thread for the community's accomplishments and goals, please just bear with me. There is a single thread that extends for hundreds and hundreds of pages where one's accomplishments are typed up in one post and then lost in the plethora of others' accomplishments. The same goes for the "goal thread", such that a cuber's goals are lost amongst more recent ones. Sure, you can edit your post and whatnot when you achieve goals or succeed with new milestones, but the degree to which you can give and receive feedback is quite limited seeing as one thread is shared by 20000 other people.
What's my solution then? Well, it's simple enough; the community creates a subforum that will be limited to "progress reports" (if you want to call it that), personal updates, and personalized feedback on what you're doing and how you're doing it. I know I'm starting to make it seem as if I'm merging the solve critique thread into here too, but I seriously believe that an additional subforum where each thread is for one unique user only will be beneficial to the community. That's not to say that the other threads (accomplishments, goals, solve critiques) should be eliminated, as they are very useful; i.e. I want one quick critique from a few other cubers and that's that. But an individualized thread for every cuber allows others to critique with more detail, allows for more open conversations about anything pertaining to your cubing (after all, it is YOUR thread), and in general gives a greater sense of control over your own cubing, as you can post everything and anything to monitor yourself.
Let's say that you love numbers and number-crunching, as do I. Well, in your personal thread, you can post charts visually showing your progress, excel documents, or links to lists of your times. How is that beneficial? A) It's a public way to keep track of your times, B) Others can comment on your progress, and C) Beginners and advanced cubers alike can read through other threads to give themselves ideas of how long it will take to achieve a certain time, learn a certain method, and the like, to avoid repetitive threads such as: "OMG, IVE BEEN QBING 4 LIEK 3 DAYS, HOW LONG TIL SUB20?!?!11 HELP PLOX?". (Bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point). Real results and numbers from hundreds of fellow users who were once in the same position as you will give more realistic ideas of how many solves until XYZ, how much time until XYZ, and what I have to do to achieve XYZ. Real, in-depth, numerical results are something I see lacking in significant numbers on a forum that's dedicated to a timed craft. This will fix that.
Where did I get this idea from? Well, a long time ago I was playing a video game, and on that game's website was a subforum dedicated to exactly this; a place where one could show their cubing journey and career. Since it was a video game, it was mostly limited to: I will become level X before time Y or acquiring a certain item. With cubing, however, you have a whole dimension of progress that can be charted, analyzed, and displayed for others to be both informed and motivated.
This is starting to get awfully long, but I think that it is a valid idea with some merit to it. Like I said, I'm new here, so if that in any way influences you to disregard my proposal, I get it. Experience = Credibility in a sort. But for those of you who may be interested, please give me some feedback. Add on your on bits and pieces if you think you've got something that could make such a subforum even better. And if you hate it, please let me know why. Just a suggestion for now. I appreciate those of you who will take the time to read this in it's entirety.
- Robert
Now, I'm quite new to this forum, so please cut me some slack if something like this has been proposed or done many years ago and it didn't work out. This is just something I'd like to see done. I searched around briefly, but didn't find much regarding my proposal. anyway, enough rambling. Without further ado, let's get right to it!
So, in short, my idea would be that of creating a subforum where one could create a personal thread to monitor, track, and update fellow cubers upon one's own accomplishments, goals, and progress. Now, before I get heat for there already being a thread for the community's accomplishments and goals, please just bear with me. There is a single thread that extends for hundreds and hundreds of pages where one's accomplishments are typed up in one post and then lost in the plethora of others' accomplishments. The same goes for the "goal thread", such that a cuber's goals are lost amongst more recent ones. Sure, you can edit your post and whatnot when you achieve goals or succeed with new milestones, but the degree to which you can give and receive feedback is quite limited seeing as one thread is shared by 20000 other people.
What's my solution then? Well, it's simple enough; the community creates a subforum that will be limited to "progress reports" (if you want to call it that), personal updates, and personalized feedback on what you're doing and how you're doing it. I know I'm starting to make it seem as if I'm merging the solve critique thread into here too, but I seriously believe that an additional subforum where each thread is for one unique user only will be beneficial to the community. That's not to say that the other threads (accomplishments, goals, solve critiques) should be eliminated, as they are very useful; i.e. I want one quick critique from a few other cubers and that's that. But an individualized thread for every cuber allows others to critique with more detail, allows for more open conversations about anything pertaining to your cubing (after all, it is YOUR thread), and in general gives a greater sense of control over your own cubing, as you can post everything and anything to monitor yourself.
Let's say that you love numbers and number-crunching, as do I. Well, in your personal thread, you can post charts visually showing your progress, excel documents, or links to lists of your times. How is that beneficial? A) It's a public way to keep track of your times, B) Others can comment on your progress, and C) Beginners and advanced cubers alike can read through other threads to give themselves ideas of how long it will take to achieve a certain time, learn a certain method, and the like, to avoid repetitive threads such as: "OMG, IVE BEEN QBING 4 LIEK 3 DAYS, HOW LONG TIL SUB20?!?!11 HELP PLOX?". (Bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point). Real results and numbers from hundreds of fellow users who were once in the same position as you will give more realistic ideas of how many solves until XYZ, how much time until XYZ, and what I have to do to achieve XYZ. Real, in-depth, numerical results are something I see lacking in significant numbers on a forum that's dedicated to a timed craft. This will fix that.
Where did I get this idea from? Well, a long time ago I was playing a video game, and on that game's website was a subforum dedicated to exactly this; a place where one could show their cubing journey and career. Since it was a video game, it was mostly limited to: I will become level X before time Y or acquiring a certain item. With cubing, however, you have a whole dimension of progress that can be charted, analyzed, and displayed for others to be both informed and motivated.
This is starting to get awfully long, but I think that it is a valid idea with some merit to it. Like I said, I'm new here, so if that in any way influences you to disregard my proposal, I get it. Experience = Credibility in a sort. But for those of you who may be interested, please give me some feedback. Add on your on bits and pieces if you think you've got something that could make such a subforum even better. And if you hate it, please let me know why. Just a suggestion for now. I appreciate those of you who will take the time to read this in it's entirety.
- Robert
); I think it is false to claim that a subforum itself can be degenerative, but rather it is the members posting that make subforums constructive or degenerative).
