Hey guys,

I was just looking at the HELP us out! (Please) topic and I realized that that's a really inefficient way of doing what we're trying to do. How about creating a new management section on the site where people can log games that they would like on the site (this would probably need to be modetated somehow) and then people can also allocated themselves to reviewing, uploading, screening a game.

Well after reading what I wrote it seems like a bit of work, but then again it could clean up the process a bit.

Any comments?

PS: A comment for Kosta: You ever thought of a wiki-type site for the games? Just a though I had but not sure of it myself.

Wiki-type site? Is there a type of site where everyone can add and edit content?

yep that's a wiki

Oldgames.nu implemented this system and it didn't show very good. This means absolutely no quality or content control... might work in a utopist world :P

To tell you the truth I doubt it would work very well here (where the site is about downloadable content which not everyone might agree upon :P ), but it has worked in other contexts. Check http://www.wikipedia.org to see what I mean.

Anyway, what do you think about the management section?

Sure, that sounds like a good idea. Could you elaborate a bit more about how that would work exactly?

I think anyone should be able to submit games+reviews etc. But they have to be aproved by a moderator to make it onto the site. Well, I think this would be the best plan IF we implemented a system like this. =)

It would be.... as long as it wont occupy to much of available space. Am I right?

Space is not an issue. And there is an "admin" area I programmed that allows easy adding and editing of content, I'm just reluctant to giving it to anyone.... :)

I was just wondering how we could organize the whole system for applying for reviews & stuff. I could write a short script that would let people subscribe and unsubscribe from games, also set deadlines and so on

That exactly what I mean. So...

1st screen: list of already "registered" games. click on register new game, allocate self to game or view existing game.

Register new would just let you place a name of the game, maybe a short description and maybe even a link to mobygames.

Allocate would allow you to allocate yourself to reviewing/uploading/fixing/etc... a game. Maybe give deadlines etc...

View game is just for seeing who is allocated to a game (maybe history of allocations too like an audit log) and maybe even a link to a forum topic for the game. This top should be separate from the actual game comments we have once a game is uploaded but might be useful for collaboration on review and such.

This whole thing would need some sort of user system - maybe use the forums users? It doesn't seem like that much - a couple of screens and db tables.

Who can see I'm a developer? ;)

So, no comments?

Well, that sounds like a 2 or 3 day job to code :P
And you know how lazy I am by nature ;)

What a brain, mika! I hope this will work.