What you'd like to see in the member profile?

How about a tally of how mad an individual poster is, compared of course to the Mickster of Red :D

You could include the number of posts a user has so far and how many more they've got to go before they move up to the next rank. Just a thought.

we need nudity and popcorn

Originally posted by Shelley Blair You could include the number of posts a user has so far and how many more they've got to go before they move up to the next rank. Just a thought.

hey shelley - you can already see how many posts & log ins there are (bottom left corner of your profile)

would be nice to have a space to list your new order collections as you've mentioned before... or what about a wants list? or first new order gig?

Originally posted by masaaki sakai would be nice to have a space to list your new order collections as you've mentioned before...or what about a wants list?or first new order gig?

I like the idea of first NO gig. Also, how about a picture of your pet.

i think the member profiles right now are really good.

Originally posted by masaaki sakai would be nice to have a space to list your new order collections as you've mentioned before...or what about a wants list?

ditto

dont really know if this is practical or not but i think it would be good idea to have a seperate section in the profile dedicated to the members response to the most popular of polls. for instance polls which attract over a certain number of posts could appear dynamically in the profile (only if the user voted in that particular poll) along with their answer. this could be somewhat problematic as polls like favourite male singer could arise which would conflict with a heading already present in the profile.

just an idea :)

just thought of another idea although it is pretty obvious. perhaps you could divide the member profile into several sections. for instance the current member profile could be integrated into a general information section, the new order collection could appear on a seperate page of its own linked to all the other profile sections. a how i got into new order/jd section would also be nice in perhaps an additional information page, along with brief summarys of gig reports or reviews created by that member for the site.

i just thought about the "how i got into new order" bit after reading shugs story a while back, added real value to the site. perhaps you could link the introduction to new order texts to the stories page that used to be here (cant find it anymore, then again im still drunk) to the profile section? it would make it a lot easier for people to tell their whole story and it would add a hell of a lot of value to the site for me personally because i find it really interesting hearing about where they heard the band first and all.

i realise there is already a "Why do I like New Order?" heading where a lot of people have entered their stories, could this not be seperate from the story bit. for instance

Why do I like New Order I like Hooky's bass mainly

How I got into new order Heard Blue Monday in a shop hated it, later learned to love it........taught my budgie to whistle love vigilantes, played retro one evening and it died

p.s : i realise this may well be a right pain in the arse trying to reorganise the site, but hey im on a roll

sorry about this, its getting ridiculous now but i was looking at the profiles yet again as id just updated mine recently and thought it could be handy if you used a select box to list all of the songs and albums in the favourite song and favourite albums sections. that way you could easily keep track of favourite album and song without as many polls. i assume it would then be possible to link the persons favourite song on the profile page to the specific track on the song browser? this could be a good way of finding any (if any) tracks you have missed as if someone realises their favourite track isnt there in the select box they could notify you

from now on ill just edit the fecking post every time i have a new idea, another one

if you did use the above technique you could then formulate advanced statistics by country. for instance

in the United Kingdom

24% of our members favourite song is true faith (compared to 21% sitewide average) 18% of our members favourite song is blue monday BLAH BLAH

obviously you could shorten the crap ive written above to something shorter. i think it would definitely be an interesting idea to see which songs are most popular in which countries (a cultural insight perhaps?)

yeah that would be pretty difficult in retrospect multiple select boxes could have worked but they are a pain to manage i guess