Reading the Ruled out Ideas!

I hate it that 15-25% of the Threads on this page are Ruled out. All these useless Threads make the Original and Good ideas disappear sooner than they should have and I'm am sure that this has cost us some very sweet features. So my idea is as follows: If you make a new account for this forum, and open the IDEAS & FEATURE REQUESTS page, you are send to the following 3 Threads: Index of Common Ideas & Requests - MUST READ BEFORE POSTING! , READ BEFORE POSTING - Ideas, ruled out, subforum guidelines: and Welcome To The Ideas Subforum: Getting Started . Once on these Threads you can't do anything on the forum but read or close the browser for 2-5 minutes per Thread. This will force people to read the Ruled out ideas and this will lower the amount of useless Threads extremely!
I can't think of any negative effects because of this, so if there are, please let me know!

As others have said, it'll just be like people readings (or not reading) EULAs.

People will just skip to the bottom and click accept.

The only way to ensure people read it would be some sort of quiz.
Not sure if that's even practical much less possible to do....

So we just carry on and do our best in the section to be as helpful as we can be.

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Originally Posted by AxionXD

As others have said, it'll just be like people readings (or not reading) EULAs.

People will just skip to the bottom and click accept.

The only way to ensure people read it would be some sort of quiz.
Not sure if that's even practical much less possible to do....

So we just carry on and do our best in the section to be as helpful as we can be.

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The thing that I'm saying is that you can't just go to the bottom and hit accept, you won't be able to hit accept for 2-5 minutes, forcing people to read the Ruled out Ideas.

I don't think this would fix anything, but we would risk to lose precious ideas from that 1% of Fresh Spawns who actually come with great suggestions. I don't see any benefit from restricting any the access to post from Fresh Spawns in this section (like many people seem to suggest).

The best and only solution I see is to have moderators or a moderator from the team regularly check this section and delete or lock these threads to prevent them from spreading.

yay! i said the part about EULAs!

There are a lot of times when the first page is full of ruled out threads that are only bumped because everyone feels the need to reply to them and inform the OP that the idea (or even one marginally related to it) has been ruled out. IMO it would be better to report threads as ruled out rather than to actually reply to them.

edit: or at least SC should update the sticky and let people know how they want the community to handle ruled out ideas.

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Originally Posted by PvtLeeOwned

There are a lot of times when the first page is full of ruled out threads that are only bumped because everyone feels the need to reply to them and inform the OP that the idea (or even one marginally related to it) has been ruled out. IMO it would be better to report threads as ruled out rather than to actually reply to them.

edit: or at least SC should update the sticky and let people know how they want the community to handle ruled out ideas.

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One post informing the OP that the idea is ruled out is fine. What I never understand is why there needs to be several posts saying the idea is ruled out one after the other.


EDIT...I agree with Devil, that the moderators should be closing or deleting the threads.

How to check 75.000 theards?
I more speedly do a new idea,and im no interesig if it is ruled out or not,if it is ruled out i say goodbye to it and if it is not ruled out,i wait to see if supercell approve my idea

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Originally Posted by DinuDeath

How to check 75.000 theards?
I more speedly do a new idea,and im no interesig if it is ruled out or not,if it is ruled out i say goodbye to it and if it is not ruled out,i wait to see if supercell approve my idea

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You don't need to read through "75,000 threads"..... Just read the stickies at the top of the page first, this will inform you if your idea has been ruled out.

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Originally Posted by DinuDeath

How to check 75.000 theards?
I more speedly do a new idea,and im no interesig if it is ruled out or not,if it is ruled out i say goodbye to it and if it is not ruled out,i wait to see if supercell approve my idea

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Seriously? You don't even care about the stickies?

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Originally Posted by andrewchang

Seriously? You don't even care about the stickies?

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How do you say "really ticked off"?