Enhancement: Gamespace Banner listings in Contributions tab on user profiles

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#1 yevinorion
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Hi, so I'm not sure if you're all familiar with the Gamespot Gamespace Banner Union or not, but basically, it's a Union that encourages Gamespot users to create banners used in Gamespaces for games which the GS design team have not been able to address. The reward for getting such a banner accepted and put into use on the site is the Artistic Genius emblem. While that recognition is nice, you receive it after one banner gets accepted, even though a user may submit (and possibly get accepted) multiple banners.

My proposal is basically, to implement a section under the Contributions tab in a user's profile (possibly named Gamespace Banners or something similar), where people can view the banners/games that said user has submitted and had officially accepted. This can possibly be done by just giving links to the gamespaces themselves (providing the user's banner is still in use) or links to the images of the banners. This way, you can track your existing contributions to the gamespaces and get due credit for your banner designs, all in one, neatly organized place.

If anyone has any criticism (constructive please), or any ideas to add to this, feel free to do so. :)

Thanks!

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#2 mgmeek
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i support this. plus it's neat to know which banners your fellow Gamespotters have made.
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#3 rjs927
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Though I haven't gotten any banners accepted (yet) I would like to show people what I have gotten accepted (once I do). I support this completely.
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#6 -Masterchef-
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Yeah, it would be a nice and easy feature to implement.
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#7 Phantom5800
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It would be a very nice idea and I support it. The only problem would be if GS of course doesn't which banners came from who up to this point ...
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#8 -Tish-
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Supported, but I don't want it to say "This user has not contributed to this feature at all. Maybe this user is lazy? Blah blah etc etc" for people who haven't had banners selected. Not all of us have PhotoShop or GIMP here!
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#9 lucas_kelly
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I support this idea. It would be a great addition.
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#10 capedbear
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I do support this idea but why list only the accepted banners, I would list all the banners the user submitted.
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#11 gmax  Moderator
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In theory, I don't think I have any objection to listing gamespaces currently showing accepted banners somewhere under the Contributions tab. Listing banners submitted but not accepted I think would be a problem. That said, I can think of a couple related proposals. The first is fairly simple: add an additional, more specific "Category" for banner images submitted in the user's Image tab area (/users/{username}/images). Currently the options seem to be Wallpaper, Gameplay, Fan Art, Secrets, and Other. What I am suggesting is adding something like "Banners" to this list. I suppose banners can be construed as fan art, but it seems to me that banners are more specifically intentioned - fan art seems pretty general. Currently I generally just use "Other" and associate to the game in question. Creating a banner category might also lay some of the groundwork for additional banner-related functionality down the road... The second is sort of the complement of what yevinorion is proposing - rather than starting from a user's contribution tab, I would like to be able to determine who created a banner from the gamespace in which it is displayed. Sort of a banner attribution feature or something. I have no idea where that link or whatever would go, but maybe the gamespace gurus can think about it. The big deal here is capturing the authorship information, but it has that in common with the contribution tab idea. Obviously GS staff would account for quite a few banners, but that would be cool to know too...
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#12 rohver
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I fully support this idea. Many people admire the gamespaces but they dont know who really made the banners. It would be nice if people know where the banners orignated from.
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#13 yevinorion
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I do support this idea but why list only the accepted banners, I would list all the banners the user submitted.capedbear

The problem with that is, the list can become quite unwieldy, as TONS of banners get submitted, some of dubious quality. On top of that, I just think it's more of an achievement to just list the banners that have actually been used on the Gamespot site, to try and tie it in to the gamespaces a bit more. Suppose I've entered 80 banners over the course of 2-3 months, and none get accepted. Do you really think all 80 of those banners should be displayed in my profile? :P Of course, this is just my opinion.

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#14 yevinorion
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Well this topic kinda feel to the wayside. It would be great if we could get some more awareness of this fact. Maybe even some GS staff input on the feasibility of this or pros and cons from their side (since they should know what is possible and what's not). :)
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#15 zixarga
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It's a good idea, it'll be nice to know who actually has made the gamespace banners, I support this idea.
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#16 serbsta69
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Supported, but I don't want it to say "This user has not contributed to this feature at all. Maybe this user is lazy? Blah blah etc etc" for people who haven't had banners selected. Not all of us have PhotoShop or GIMP here!-Tish-
Agreed on that one.
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#17 IC3_MAST3R
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I totally support the idea of being able to see the banners that people have made in their profiles.
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#18 mario161
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I support this.