I have been posting quite often on the forums, but I was thinking that when I become a regular rank, I may want to open a discussion only regulars can respond to, the feature to limit who can see and post on your devforum thread would be pretty helpful, say you are a newer developer and you want only experienced developers that have complete both the tutorials to post feedback on your creation, this would allow only active forum posters to view the thread, the feature to limit this would be really helpful. The view feature could also block out visitors from posts you only want actual members to be able to see, this would be helpful if you don’t want random people seeing your discussion, adding these two simple features could make a huge impact on the developer forums.
The point of the forums is to provide an open resource for all developers on Roblox, not specific kinds of developers.
Edit: I can see why you might want to do this, but it defeats the point of how the forums are used and why they’re used the way they are.
You can do this in the lounge.
Why restrict the discussion? Members who don’t have the Regular rank aren’t necessarily inexperienced, and can still contribute greatly to any discussion.
Being a member is not the same as being inexperienced. The devforum is a resource so everyone should be able to see the contributions being provided and add on to them. As a visitor (TL0) you can see #discussion. As a regular, you unlock the #lounge category which contains a category which allows you to discuss Roblox things. It is inaccessible to TL1 and under.
Could you explain why you want to
and why you
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Could you explain how? All this does is ruin the purpose of the devforum: being a resource.
I see now that is might be kind of bad to do this, but maybe allow a minimum number of hearts recieved to be able to access a channel, that way only active devforum members can view it. I am going to edit my suggestion to do that.
Wouldn’t this be extremely to abuse with ALTs / friends liking posts just to boost a user’s like count?
I can see where that can happen, maybe being able to limit it by recent view time to do this instead of just purely hearts, adding more required stats could make it better to protect from like botting.
Even with a time cap on it, they could link it in Discord servers and have people like posts.
We shouldn’t put a value on likes besides it’s “nice to have”, especially when it’s not a good idea to have systems based off of “reputation.”
Edit: So with hearts + time? I still don’t know how this would prevent abuse.
Edit2: Hearts shouldn’t be involved in any system, ever. Reputation based off of clicking a button vs a reputation where users get familiar with you / get to know you such as staff before promoting you / giving you perks.
There is no abuse at all. I am not sure why OP wants to limit who can view their topics though.
Having perks for a certain amount of likes WILL 100% be abused.
Maybe it would be better if it was a limit for the developers viewing to have to complete both tutorials, also having the ability to make the requirements without people seeing it is there would prevent as much abuse of this.
Looks like I replied to the wrong thing. I meant to say that, there is no abuse possible in visitors viewing discussion.
forum membership and forum roles (member, regular, etc.) have literally nothing to do with development experience, but rather forum experience. before automatic promotion, forum membership was granted if you were a good developer, but that changed a long time ago.
furthermore, likes/hearts are absolutely not a reliable means of intepreting somebody’s development or forum experience. I could find a really bad bug on the website, browse the forums for a few hours until i became a member, post the bug and gain 50 likes - that doesn’t mean I know how to use Roblox Studio or the forums.
seeing as how visitors can’t respond to your topic or vote in polls you make, i don’t see a point to this - all they can do is view the posts.
if you want only regulars to give feedback, put the feedback in a poll.
I edited the post, I can see where hearts and view time could both be abused, it would still be nice to be able to limit it to those who completed the tutorials though because I am pretty sure most people did it when they were trying to become a member, or make it that they read the terms of conditions for the developer forums to post.
Limitation of posts is typically only for privacy concerns. Such as making your Instagram, Twitter or Facebook account private because you only want friends to see it.
Privacy settings such as these where the point of the forums is to provide feedback does not improve the quality of the forum, rather teaches users “I don’t want your feedback”, which isn’t something that should be normalized in a community HEAVILY based of working with other people. (Especially when you’re asking for help on something.)
In regards of tutorials, if this is only about improving the quality of tutorial posts, then that’s a completely different discussion rather than restricting who can see what. There’s already restrictions for permissions in a lot of parts of the forums, not sure why you would want to restrict it even more.
Just a little side note; please don’t mark a post as the solution if the feature wasn’t actually added. This is misleading
You still have yet to provide a strong use case as to why we should be able to limit who can view our posts. It sounds kinda discriminating to members. Not all users who aren’t regulars don’t have a certain amount of likes, solutions, etc. are bad developers.
Please don’t vandalize your topic as a way of “removing” it. I’ve restored the content and will flag your post for restoration if it happens again. This is a public discussion forum, you don’t get to withdraw your topic once it already has discussion on it. Respect other posters’ contributions.