Live Chat With Caedda [Next: June 30 @ Noon CDT]

[Caedda]

Happy Summer Everybody!!

As Speed Sudoku continues to grow into our first summer, I want to get feedback from you about what could be good for the site. As Community Manager and Staff member, my job is to find ways to grow the site as well as provide a friendly Forum and Live Chat for everyone to participate and interact. I think a good way to help prioritize my goals for the summer is to hear from the community about how you want to build the site. I have a few ideas, like expanding our Frequently Asked Questions list, but I want your opinions as well.

If you would like to share your (friendly) opinions with me, please join me in Live Chat on Thursday, May 28, from 2:00-3:30 PM CDT (8:00-9:30 PM GMT).

If you are unable to come to the chat, please leave your comments here. Or better yet, visit the Suggestions & Bug Reports Forum.

I hope to see many of you there.

~Caedda

*Disclaimer: I'm searching for ideas, that does not mean I will automatically use everything that is suggested. I also do not have control over site coding, but I can bring issues up with sudoking.

[Androosh]

Sounds interesting...I'll be there.

[Caedda]

Alright, time for Live Chat if anyone wants to join me.

[The Librarian]

Was anything interesting discussed? How about a report!

[lancehoch]

There was some dialog as to what people would be willing to pay for premium (or not pay as the case may be).

[wcaclimbing]

Can we have another one of these soon?
I didn't get in the last one till there were only 5 minutes left.
Then my internet connection quit on me and Caedda was gone when I got back...

[Caedda]

Yeah, I'll probably do another one sometime. I've been distracted with some other stuff recently, and I haven't been able to meet with sudoking about stuff.

[Caedda]

I've been meaning to do another of these sooner, but I have not been able to make the time. I've chosen the next Live Chat time to be on Tuesday, June 30, at Noon CDT (5:00 PM GMT). I hope many of you can make it.

[wcaclimbing]

darn... I'm going to miss this one too.

[Pia Harding]

I´ll be there

[Caedda]

Alright, I'm in chat for the next couple hours if anyone wishes to drop in.

[Caedda]

I apparently need to pick better times to show up because only 2 people came today (I was a few minutes late though).

Topics Mentioned:

Include the Forum and Chat Guidelines under the Rules tab as a drop-down
Utilize color-change when making pencil marks
Design a dunce-cap for cheaters

I hope to see more people next time.

[gauravkorde]

I apparently need to pick better times to show up because only 2 people came today (I was a few minutes late though).

Topics Mentioned:

Include the Forum and Chat Guidelines under the Rules tab as a drop-down
Utilize color-change when making pencil marks
Design a dunce-cap for cheaters

I hope to see more people next time.

i donno its i believe very difficult to get many players to chat at the same time... many of them come only to play and dont give a damn about chatting or being active in the forums.... they like to play with whatever rules the admin has decided to!!

anyways as i was not available yesterday night, i would like to give my opinion on the points you mentioned...
about using colour change for pencilmarks....!! i believe the best site for solving sudoku online is the one which feels to be an almost exact replica of solving sudoku on paper...!! so basically the player doesnt feel much different from solving on paper...!!
and i have seen many people use 4-5 different coloured pens/pencils while solving (i donno what they do with it but i am assuming they must be using it for guessing) so to please these kind of players it would be great if you can add a colour menu on top of the solving board where one can select any colour for entering the digits!! so if one changes the coulour in midway, the digits he enters from then on will be of diff colour!!

another thing is for pencilmarks it would be better if you divide every 81 cells into 2 parts horizontally: one large part for the digit in the cell and the small part for writing anything like letters,numbers, signs etc for pencilmarks!! like for example you can check youplay.com or fed-sudoku.eu .... that is the standard form of pencilmark used on all the better sudoku sites!!

about cheaters!! i believe if someone is found guilty of cheating in one game then he surely has to be cheating in most of the games he has played till now!! i can see that sudokuking disqualifies the cheaters from the game mentioned in the forums... but what about the other games they have played!! its unfair to other players in the games where he/she is not disqualified!!
so my suggestion would be to if someone is found to be cheating just warn him and scrap all his data and let him start from the beginning.... kind of a punishment for cheating!! and if you find him cheating again then just ban him!!

[gauravkorde]

And i also think that after submitting if there is a mistake then it should be considered as incorrect answer and the player should be considered as failed or something like a different penalty in terms of points... that will keep the top players a lot more cautious and anyways i believe if the solution is wrong one cant get a 2nd chance to correct it!! If even 1 cell is wrong then entire solution is wrong!! also it will give more importance to the percentage statistic mentioned in the scoreboard rather than just 100% for most of the players!!