Alright, a couple of ideas that came to me the other night.

First, since stripcreator is essentially about making comics, howabout something akin to the Sunday comics spread you see in most major newspapers? Every week a moderator with good taste picks a few comics which made he/she laugh. I think the idea here is to have a page that greets people new to the site with a page that simply exhibits some of the better moments, comics-wise. There would be no searching on their part and (hopefully) the chance of randomly coming along sub-par or patently unfunny and offensive material by the uninitiated would be eliminated. Then, mayhaps, on the bottom of the screen could be a link saying something like, "Want to join in on all this? Then sign up here." (Okay, that's a weak enticement line, but I hope you get the drift.) It may be that something of this nature would be horribly politicized. Suppose though, if you like this idea at all, we'd have the person to whom the picking and choosing duties would be assigned remain anonymous and have them vow not to disclose their true identity to anyone (it could even be a rotating roster of mods). I'm thinking "Phantom Gourmet" here.

My second idea is to have a briefcase option for our comics. For example, I have a lot of old comics from when I first got here that, while they may be the only ones to have actual "jokes" and coherence, just aren't part of my vision at this time. But I still like 'em. So what I do is make a folder called, say, "Old Comics" and I dump all those ones in there. Then, when that random, infrequent, uninformed user accidentally stumbles upon my page, in the drop box below my start-page comic he/she would find, instead of a list of all my comics to date, three or four groupings of comics ("Old Suff", "Mini-series", "Random, Incomprehensible Current Crap") to choose from. This option would also allow me to get together similarly themed comics that should go together, but just by the nature of the comic-making process might be separated by like 20 or more comics.

Just a couple ideas I hope sound decent.

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I like that Sunday comics idea a lot, I'm trying to think of a simple way to implement it. Hmm, let me think on it for a while. I'm working on a new (but often requested) feature right now, maybe I'll think about that after it's done.

The briefcases option is cool, I've been wanting to add some simple way to make series out of your comics, but the main stumbling block is the interface. Do you just group them all together inside of the current comic pulldown? Do you offer a second pulldown for series? Or maybe just allow authors to modify the dates of their comics so it all gets sorted in an order they like?

I'd like to add the feature but I really don't want to complicate up the interface, I like how simple it is for people. They instantly know what they're dealing with when they go to the comics pages.

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I like that Sunday comics idea a lot, I'm trying to think of a simple way to implement it. Hmm, let me think on it for a while. I'm working on a new (but often requested) feature right now, maybe I'll think about that after it's done.

The briefcases option is cool, I've been wanting to add some simple way to make series out of your comics, but the main stumbling block is the interface. Do you just group them all together inside of the current comic pulldown? Do you offer a second pulldown for series? Or maybe just allow authors to modify the dates of their comics so it all gets sorted in an order they like?

I'd like to add the feature but I really don't want to complicate up the interface, I like how simple it is for people. They instantly know what they're dealing with when they go to the comics pages.

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I like both these ideas; the Sunday comic one more. There should also be some mechanism for allowing a posted comic to remain up there a certian amount of time before a mod is allowed to change it. Or if a mod comes across a comic he likes, he can queue it to be put up front when one of the current ones expire.

I REALLY like the idea of being able to shuffle your comics around. Perhaps on the "edit account" screen you could have a place where people (I say donors only) could drag & drop comics to different places in their pull-down menu. That way dates could stay the same, and the whole thing is transparent to someone just looking at someone's comics.

If drag & drop is a pain in the butt, you could maybe allow them a place to enter a number in beside each comic, and the comics would be sorted first by unnumbered comics and then in ascending order.

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The reordering via numbering dealie sounds good to me.

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I really like both of these ideas too.

By the way, do donors currently see the good-okay-bad rating beneath each comic in the forums? If they do, or if it could be added, you could set up a thread like the "This comic does not belong in a thread thread" where users submit comics they'd like to see rated - either some of their favorites they've written in the past or good new ones they've just written. Plus people could also rate comics in comic competitions and comic showcase.

If you did it this way, you could have it so that which comics make it onto the Sunday edition is determined by which were the highest rated in the previous week. This would take the responsibility off the moderators for selecting which comics make it, which could get nasty. It would also set up a system where comics get consistently rated, which would probably make the toprated page more volatile and interesting.

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I like these ideas lots, and have a suggestion of my own. I now have 33 messages in my inbox, and would kinda like to move them to another place, without deleting them. Perhaps an organization for the PMs could happen?

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Hmm... Don't jump up and down on me for this, but maybe, Brad, just maybe you could implement some kind of more organized heirarchal system for donating? Like making standard donations of increments or just having donations of 5, 10, 15, 20, etc. allow you more access to certain things? I realize we could be getting crazy here, but could you imagine how fucking cool it would be if each donor of a certain status had the privelege of having their own art to make comics with if they so choose? Like kaddar could have his own kaddar folder, and people could trade and swap images, etc. Like there would be a standard character base, but if you so choose you can upload and use your own characters for your own comics, and people can talk to you about swapping and what not. Believe me, I realize the logistics of this thing would require a giant restructuring, and I don't want that. But perhaps for the future, if there is a lot more cash, maybe you can consider this, Brad.

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This would be difficult if some old regs came back (i.e. DexX) and they would have no privilages. It's just too confusing, if you ask me.

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Trading card characters...
Sounds kinda interesting.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I know I'll catch some flack from this, but I think donors are getting too many privleges. To keep the non donors here and encourage them to donate, you have to feed them a bone now and then.

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I REALLY like the idea of being able to shuffle your comics around. Perhaps on the "edit account" screen you could have a place where people (I say donors only) could drag & drop comics to different places in their pull-down menu. That way dates could stay the same, and the whole thing is transparent to someone just looking at someone's comics.

If drag & drop is a pain in the butt, you could maybe allow them a place to enter a number in beside each comic, and the comics would be sorted first by unnumbered comics and then in ascending order.

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Good point, but personally I think the more bells and whistles there are, the more likely a non-donor might be willing to fork out a few bucks to get all the privileges we get. Especially if a non-donor sees a new perk they would really like to be able to use...like editing comics for example.

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I had an old post about grouos, and I have reposted the first part, and completly changed the idea for the interface part.

When making new comics you type in a name for the group they go into, the default is "general", where all general comics go, and all old comics are already in.

When you load a person's comic page, it would load by default "all comics" and there would be two selectors, a drop down box by date, and a drop down box of JUST group names.

If you select the dropdown box, the page would reload and the comics by date would still exist, but would filter out any comics not in the group selected

When a whole group is selected, it always moves to the earliest comic in the group on the page reload.

Here is my new idea for adding comics for groups:

You would load a page like the view all comics page, only it would be a "view all comics by self" page. It would list 20 comics at a time. Each comic would have a checkbox you could click on the right side of their name.

At the bottom of the page would be a "add to group" button, and to the left of that button would be a group name input textbox. So you would input your desired group name, click all comics on your page that you want to add to it, and they would automatically add and sort by date.