Portfolios

[DeathProdigy]

i was thinking, in the forums, have a portfolio section on the forums. Each member gets to make a thread or "portfolio" just with their user name as the title. and in the thread/portfolio the users can link to their existing external portfolio or use the thread they created as their portfolio by posting pictures, screens, descriptions etc. that way mod workers/people hiring, can flick through the forum, look at peoples work all in one place, giving them a larger community to choose from, and giving the budding mappers/designers/artists here more exposure.

so, what do you guys think of it?

[Spas12]

excellent idea. this would be a great way to get hired by a company or mod team. hopefully this idea can come true.

[DeathProdigy]

and you cant really argue that its a waste of bandwidth, i mean look at the random thread!

[SlappyBag]

I argee, would be a great Temp portfolio till I get some php/photoshop skills to make a real site.

[Blink]

This is a neat idea, do you think it would be worth stopping people from replying to it? Or would people like that.

Was just wondering if they got spammed up with crap or pointless "OMG SHIT MAP" comments it might not look all that great.

Over to you..

[Spas12]

thats what the "report post" button is for, any inappropriate comments could and would be deleted. I say comments on.

[undertone]

just give the section to a moderator who can clean it up if anything gets posted thats not constructive.

and its a great idea.

[DeathProdigy]

the people hiring would need to be able to post, ie oh i like your stuff heres $1,000,000.

[Jest@]

Yeah, a Personal Showcase or Portfolios subsection, that's really neat. Dunno how you'd stop individual users making more than one thread though, blinkeh, does your phpbb skillz0rs allow that?

I think spam comments shouldn't be too much of a worry, cos people can just edit their top post and hence their additions or whatever wont get swamped by spam. It still might not look good, but now we've got Report Posts back, hopefully people wont bother posting too much crap.

There is a danger people would just turn their portfolio thread into their own personal website, though. Guess only moderation can prevent that.

[DeathProdigy]

Yeah, a Personal Showcase or Portfolios subsection, that's really neat. Dunno how you'd stop individual users making more than one thread though, blinkeh, does your phpbb skillz0rs allow that?

juet get the moderator to delete one.

[slayera]

LOL, I stop by this thread cause I thought someone wanted feedback on there portfolios.


I think this a great idea, but it's kinda like Blink paying for us to show off our work so others can get a job.

You can always post rules for post, if broken, delete it.

[SlappyBag]

Could turn into a crazy blog service.

I think it's a great idea though, a new section of the forums, where-in only one group can make threads, the 'approved group.' Either make a seperate thread to apply or PM a mod to ask to have a portfolio, so the board isn't spammed.

[DeathProdigy]

cool im glad you guys like my idea so much. it would be good to see it happen. it would make the lives of mod teams much easier. now i just have to go make some decent maps

[Blink]

Could turn into a crazy blog service.

I think it's a great idea though, a new section of the forums, where-in only one group can make threads, the 'approved group.' Either make a seperate thread to apply or PM a mod to ask to have a portfolio, so the board isn't spammed.

I also like this idea, good stuff.

I'll look into how it can work and try to sort something out.

[Jest@]

maybe set it up as a semi-forum/semi-website thing...micro-hosting or something severely limited space (like, 1 meg, images are kept offsite) and some basic HTML, or customisation of templates, allowed.