I've proposed an idea for the portfolio section of these forums. I thought real hard on this idea and I want your feedback, especially you, Blink, since you run this joint.
Obviously, the portfolio forums act like normal forums, outdated portfolios will get moved down the list from inactivity. I've proposed an idea that would make it fair for everyone! Instead of having it act like normal threads, maybe have it act like a showcase of all the members who have made a portfolio?
In that sense, I mean have a well-organized list of the members with portfolio threads, all basically "stickied" so they don't move down the list or up the list and such. Organizing them could be as simple as alphabetical/alphanumerical and the like.
This way, every person who has a portfolio won't be left in the dust just because no one has posted in their thread for a long time. The portfolio threads are not ok to be bumped, if I am correct? I think that this rule makes it hard for people to get noticed who have a portfolio with good stuff, but it hasn't been posted in for ages. Updating it simply requires editing the first post and adding more content, but this doesn't bring it back up to the top of the list. The good thing is there isn't two pages yet, so no one will go completely unnoticed, but this is soon to come.
Hell, making the threads act almost like a blog would be pretty cool, but then again, that's more website-like, and Interlopers does provide the ability for users to get a little website for their work. In that case, maybe a list of people who have websites that take users to their website? So say my name was on the list, someone clicks it, then it would forward them to my website.
Another idea I have is the ability for users to rank portfolios based on the provided content, layout, etc. These ranks could be displayed by the user's name to gain reader appeal by people. But the problem with this is it may defeat the purpose of fairness.
Let me know what you all think.