06-08-2015, 07:15 PM
There's something I've wanted to see on the various resource sites for a while. I've just done a quick search and I'm surprised I didn't find any suggestions for it yet...
User defined tags on resources.
For example, I very often look for sprites or models with a specific theme, but since there's no telling what the actual name of the submission will be, there's no way to search for it.
For example, allowing registered users to tag sprites as [Isometric] when they find a sprite or tile sheet that is designed in that manner.
These tags could be used as search parameter matches.
It would also help organize some of the less well defined areas like the 'Other systems' category, which can have any number of different styles of resource.
It would ideally be something like the way image booru sites use tags, in that users can vote up or down the validity of a tag, and tags themselves are just plaintext IDs typed into a textbox.
This would mean no one would have to compile an official list of tags and get complaints when one is forgotten. Nor would anyone have to revisit all the existing pages and manually edit them, since registered users could add them as needed.
I personally think it would help people find things, as I've actually tried to search for specific sheets before, using a word in the title of the sheet, and the search didn't find it because it was not a full match, only partial. And searching for 'isometric' only gets two sheets from the same game, on the whole of TSR.
It would also be helpful on the other sites, for differentiating sound effects from voice clips, high fidelity sounds from compressed, searching only archives, or only raw files, finding all female characters, all animal models, all maps, etc.
I just find that I often need to find something without knowing the exact game and system I need to look for... and sometimes I just need something that fits a description.
So what do you think?
User defined tags on resources.
For example, I very often look for sprites or models with a specific theme, but since there's no telling what the actual name of the submission will be, there's no way to search for it.
For example, allowing registered users to tag sprites as [Isometric] when they find a sprite or tile sheet that is designed in that manner.
These tags could be used as search parameter matches.
It would also help organize some of the less well defined areas like the 'Other systems' category, which can have any number of different styles of resource.
It would ideally be something like the way image booru sites use tags, in that users can vote up or down the validity of a tag, and tags themselves are just plaintext IDs typed into a textbox.
This would mean no one would have to compile an official list of tags and get complaints when one is forgotten. Nor would anyone have to revisit all the existing pages and manually edit them, since registered users could add them as needed.
I personally think it would help people find things, as I've actually tried to search for specific sheets before, using a word in the title of the sheet, and the search didn't find it because it was not a full match, only partial. And searching for 'isometric' only gets two sheets from the same game, on the whole of TSR.
It would also be helpful on the other sites, for differentiating sound effects from voice clips, high fidelity sounds from compressed, searching only archives, or only raw files, finding all female characters, all animal models, all maps, etc.
I just find that I often need to find something without knowing the exact game and system I need to look for... and sometimes I just need something that fits a description.
So what do you think?