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I think it'd be good that when a tease is posted it automatically gets a forum post, and to include that in the tease (at the rating bar for example). This way there always is a thread for a tease where people can easily give feedback and discuss it.

Perhaps a sub-forum would be good so as not to spam one of the main forums?

I think thats a great idea, that I think isn't that hard to implement, simply write a couple of lines code for creating threads, add a Tease-Reference-ID into the forum thread table and vise-versa Thread-ID into Tease table so they are linked to each other, but without knowing details of this forum I assume there could be a following problem:

Let's say I crated a tease and a forum topic is created as well. Then I want to delete my tease, so to automatically delete to forum thread I need to have permissons to do that, and I think users can't delete their own threads if there is at least one answer. that's what I have on my forum for example. But if I delete my tease but can't delete the thread - my thread would be linked with "nothing" and that (even if it was made possible by using non-strict table references) is a problem. At least because the rating that you mentioned would show undefined value or something like that.

I hope people understand what I mean by what I wrote. Kinda too tired to think clearly in foreign language. Sorry.

jlx666 is correct. Another issue would be the fact that spam teases (i.e. Looking for real-life dominatrix "tease") would also spam our forums. Other than that, I think it's an awesome idea.

I'm not opposed, but it's not hard to create a feedback thread when post a new tease by hand. Perhaps the skills of the admins could be better used elsewhere, for example in improving search, which is much more tedious to do without automation.

Hmm, I think if we did that there would be a lot of empty feedback threads with no feedback. To some extent you already eluded to that when you said:

Afostar wrote:Perhaps a sub-forum would be good so as not to spam one of the main forums?

If I'm an author who wants feedback, I can pretty easily start a thread. And if there isn't an ocean of other feedback threads in a segregated sub-forum for it to disappear in, I actually have a pretty good chance of getting a response. So I like the fact that as an author I can put in a little extra effort if I want the reward of getting feedback. And as a user I know when an author is specifically looking for guidance. At the same time I can give my opinion on a tease whose author didn't ask for feedback as well - just start a thread myself.

That said, I do agree that teases and their feedback threads should be linked somehow, so that you can click a feedback button on the tease and be taken directly to the corresponding thread or a page where you can create one. I've just never quite had the time to set it up.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Further discussion is most welcome, but I don't have a concrete plan to work on major site features until the new interactive tease system is at least in public beta status.

seraph0x wrote:That said, I do agree that teases and their feedback threads should be linked somehow, so that you can click a feedback button on the tease and be taken directly to the corresponding thread or a page where you can create one. I've just never quite had the time to set it up.

Thanks for the suggestion!

That should be fine too, I just noticed that someone earlier mentioned that he wasn't sure if he even should start a feedback thread on his own tease.

Maybe at the point of submitting the tease also have a "Start a thread" input box like the one I am typing in now, which would then post the tease, create the forum post, and link the two.

I mostly suggested it for the direct link to the feedback thread, since I think that'd add a lot of feedback. The "tedium" of looking for a feedback thread and then starting one if there is none is probably putting off a lot of people from providing feedback, especially since the threads seem dispersed over various forums.

My reason for suggesting a sub-forum is that I'd expect most traffic to that forum would come from the link in the tease itself, which also makes the spam teases less of a problem since they'd be in the sub-forum that doesn't get that much direct "browse" traffic.