The Good and Bad about WildFact - Need your suggestions

[Rishi]

(08-02-2018, 08:23 AM)sanjay Wrote: Hello Guys,
WildFact is more than 5 year old and It was created due to instability in AVA. There is lot of things I can say about WF, but I leave it on others.
The purpose of this thread is to tell us What things you like and What you don't like? what can be improved and how we are when compared to other website or forums on internet
Knowing this will help us to improve the forum further so that we can share the passion of wildlife with each other on wildfact. Below is my questions

1. What do you like about WildFact?

2. What you don't like?

3. What improvement do you want to see on this forum?

4. Is any important feature we are missing?

5. How is WildFact compared to other forums and websites (In animal category)?

6. Are you happy with the moderation? Or do you think we need to improve?

If you have any other questions or any suggestion, don't be shy, Share your thoughts here. Base on your feed back we will try to improve the WildFact.

Good that you asked! I myself was considering a post regarding this on the Mods thread...

1. High standards & zero troll-tolerence. 
Earlier i used to think the moderation a bit too "iron-fisted" but having seen a few mischief elements being swiftly filtered out, i'd changed my stance. 

That leaves the mature, quality posters & the atmosphere is civil.

2. For some reason Wildfact images don't appear in Google search. 

For example; if i use the keyword "Sundarban tiger" then despite having probably the best collection on the internet, there are no  image hosted in this forum is in the first 200 results, while most image before it are random Bengal tigers in water... some even from zoos. That's blatant misinformation!
I understand that search results vary from user to user, but this is ridiculous. Even old AVA stuff still make appearance.

3. Often random snaps are posted without any photo credits & source. I myself am guilty of doing it regularly until a few weeks ago. (Eg: #39)
While a statutory disclaimer is displayed below every image, some photographers are more finicky about their name being mentioned than others. 

If a camera-trap image or infographic of statistics is posted from an article, the presenting it's source would lead the viewer to an interesting read while doing justice to the author/researcher.

We must actively encourage sharing of link to photographs source website/profile/article (Eg: #48). 

4. Two.
1st is a FOLLOW feature.  
Most forums have it, shouldn't be that tough to incorporate. There is already a "buddy" feature that's pretty redundant. I don't think anyone uses it. It could be replaced.
If parvez or SuSpiciouS makes a rare post on a thread i don't follow, i'd like a notification about it.
If peter likes a post, i want to get notified. That's something i'd like to read.

2nd would be a BOOKMARK feature.
The forum is like a sea of information. There's no way to find a particular special post for future reference other than tedious searching.

Presently i quote them for new reply & save them as drafts. A set of links should take a lesser toll on the server, especially when every profile has a 2-page list of last 100 posts of the user. Could be replaced by chosen ones.

5. ...

6. Personally, i think Mods could make better use of the "Quick Edit" feature & remove (never add) some parts instead of whole posts.

Erasing a few words could change tone of the whole conversation & would be less tedious than the whole delete-explain-warn-ban cycle. Reply