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"Evil" Plugins

R_JR_J Ex-FanboyMunich Admin

I know there are some things which wouldn't be good for a community. Mobbing members might be fun for the rest of the board, but it is noticed from outside and who wants to be the new one in a shark basin? No one, therefore soon there will be only some bored sharks left.

So no, mobbing isn't good, it's evil. But we all know how much fun it is to be evil... >:)

Just for fun, let's assume you wanted to allow your users to be super assholes to each other on your forum: which plugins would you like to have for that?

I could think of the following:

NameFinder:

Description: Allow other users (but not the user himself) to change the title of a user. (A history in the profile would be nice)

TrueColors

Description: Each user can suggest an avatar for himself or others. Community can vote which one should be used and the one with the most votes would be the current avatar.

FreeSpeech

Description: Allows up- and downvoting posts. Increase/Reduce allowed posts per day based on votes.

ToWhomItMayConcern

Description: Allow discussion authors to explicitly disallow some other users to see the content of the discussion.

And it goes without saying that all this plugins come with a popup and mail notification which cannot be switched off >:)

What ideas could you come up with?

Comments

  • phreakphreak Vanilla*APP (White Label) & Vanilla*Skins Shop MVP

    Sounds like great game mechanics for a fun Minecraft board or similar ("Mafia"-Series games).

    • VanillaAPP | iOS & Android App for Vanilla - White label app for Vanilla Forums OS
    • VanillaSkins | Plugins, Themes, Graphics and Custom Development for Vanilla
  • ProsperProsper ✭✭
    edited March 2017

    These plugins show great. Can they be developed without JavaScript?

  • R_JR_J Ex-Fanboy Munich Admin

    You got me all wrong! :lol:

    I wouldn't write such scripts. You would have to pay me a lot of money to convince me and even if I would write one of those, I would use an alias because it would feel ashamed if I did. And I would take no responsibility on the results - or the insults...

    Human nature is kind of strange: while it is hard to find a person which is not nice if you ask for help, it is nearly impossible to find mercy in an anonymous crowd.

    Giving your community the tools to anonymously act insulting and making fun of others, is really no good idea.

  • kopnakopna Coimbra Portugal ☯

    FreeSpeech

    Do not take this as criticism, just my opinions.
    Not once watched as plus or minus led to confusion. always looked like a "tug of war" on both sides. Perhaps it would be useful to offer users support the author, pushing it to the top responses that brought real benefits from their own questions, the best are at the top and others can compete for this right.
    If I understand your idea :)

  • LincLinc Detroit Admin

    The Full Astley

    On every page load, one random navigation link on the page becomes a RickRoll.

  • whu606whu606 I'm not a SuperHero; I just like wearing tights... MVP

    Googlish

    A post is taken through several iterations of Google translate, using random languages, before being re-translated back into the original language.

    So

    He did say he was in with a shout of playing against Hull.

    ends up

    He said he is to play against Hull was not crying.

  • R_JR_J Ex-Fanboy Munich Admin

    @Linc said:
    The Full Astley

    On every page load, one random navigation link on the page becomes a RickRoll.

    Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...

    Thanks for that... :angry:

  • LincLinc Detroit Admin

    Wrong Window

    10% chance your reply is assigned to a different recent discussion than the one you're in.

  • LincLinc Detroit Admin

    Mirror Mirror

    Horizontally flips every image attachment.

  • Snow Storm
    Incrementally sets the color of every element closer to white based on the number of users online.

  • LincLinc Detroit Admin

    @RodSloan said:
    Snow Storm
    Incrementally sets the color of every element closer to white based on the number of users online.

    Based on each click the user makes.

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