It would be a curious idea.
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It would be a curious idea.
Long ago I had thought of making profile pages for Granaboard members; what about it? We could add pages for older Granaboard members as well, but would they like it if we did?
Interesting idea, but it would be more interesting if the board compiled someone's profile page, rather than us doing our own.
Hmm... It would be fun, but how would we do it? How are we going to write others' profiles, and what if they don't like it? And which fields should the profile include? We wouldn't be able to fill others' personal data like date of birth, height, etc. (in case the person in question wants that information published).
If ya asked people those type of questions, and that way they can tell if they want it in their profile or not. The rest of the board could help write up a short summary of how the person is and such... You could write how long they've been here, favorite games, chars, etc.
So, what do you think of these fields for the profile:
Personal fields (to be edited by oneself): All fields are optional, but fields marked with '*' are recommended to be always present.
- *Nickname
- Real life name
- *Sex (M/F)
- *Age
- Date of birth
- Granaboard member since (approximately)
- *Other nicknames (used here)
- Residence (city, town, province, and/or state)
- *Country
- Primary language
- Other languages
- Religion/beliefs
- Build
- Height
- Weight
- Race
- Hair color
- Eye color
- Occupation
- Likely future occupation
- Favorite character
- *Favorite game(s) (up to 3)
- *Favorite game genre
- Favorite movie
- Favorite book
- Favorite song
- Favorite music genre
- Favorite food
- Favorite place
- Pets (real life pets you have)
- Game quote
- Non-game quote
- Picture
- *Avatar
- Homepage
Non-personal fields (to be edited by others; to be approved by oneself):
- *Personality
- *History
- Misc. comments
What do you think? Do you have any ideas to add more fields? (The more we have the better, right?) Would you remove any?
For example, this would be my personal profile (the part I can edit myself):
- Nickname: Wiseman
- Real life name: Miguel
- Sex: Male
- Age: 22
- Date of birth: 11/03/1981
- Granaboard member since: Creation (mid 2001)
- Other nicknames: No
- Residence: Madrid
- Country: Spain
- Primary language: Spanish
- Other languages: English, some Portuguese
- Religion/beliefs: None (atheist)
- Build: Normal
- Height: 1.77 m
- Weight: 72 Kg
- Race: White
- Hair color: Dark brown
- Eye color: Dark brown
- Occupation: Student (Computer Science, university)
- Likely future occupation: System Engineer (CS)
- Favorite character: Elhaym Van Houten (Xenogears)
- Favorite games: 1. Xenogears; 2. Xenosaga Episode 1; 3. Grandia II
- Favorite game genre: RPG
- Favorite movie: Merlin (by Hallmark)
- Favorite book: The End of Eternity(name?) (Isaac Asimov)
- Favorite song: Small Two of Pieces (Xenogears OST), performed by Joanne Hogg (composed by Yasunori Mitsuda)
- Favorite music genre: Classical
- Favorite food: Marguerite pizza
- Favorite place: My room
- Pets: Cat (Merl?n) and dog (Katy)
- Game quote: "In those dreams, I loved one woman... No matter the day, no matter the era... That did not change... Nor did her name..." - from Xenogears
- Non-game quote: "If god created man in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." - Voltaire
- Picture: [Insert my pic]
- *Avatar: [Insert my kewl Albedo avatar here ^_^]
- Homepage: None
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 04, 2003 06:46 AM: Message edited by: -Wiseman- ]</font>
Sounds good, if you move to that new host, we should be able to get some nice big avatars/pictures on there. I have a good idea on how to compile "what the others thought" part of the profile without the person seeing it. :-)
Is a nice idea. Looks cool, but i think it may be somewhat complex... Also, i don't think we need more or less fields, those are okay.
Just check out the new sticky for info on profiles.
I'll send you mine soon...