Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
Make A New Friend is now available from the main menu. This page looks at who you have exchanged private quicknotes with, determines the top people they have talked to who you don't yet know, and recommends people that you might want to get to know. At worst, it's amusing to see who is recommended--at best this might lead to making a cool new friend. Feel free to reply or write me privately to express your opinions on this newest site addition.
Hey I think this is a great idea.
I agree there!
Sounds cool. Going to try it.
so does this list change? as in, is it an ongoing thing? if I start talking to these five people and they become my best friends, will my recommendations change?
Yes. If you send a quicknote to one of the recommended friends and they send at least one back, they will no longer be recommended and someone else will take their place. Also if any of your top five friends change, or if any of their top 10 friends change, your list may also change. It really displays your recommended friends at a certain point in time...so check back often to see how things change.
Ha I thought some of those were kinda funny. The top 5 peeps are the peeps I usually talk to. The 4 recommended to me were 3 of the same person. Interesting.
Great idea Chris. <smile> I like the fact that it's an ongoing thing, so it's never out-of-date.
I like it! I like it!1
You know what I think of it, since we've chatted abit about it, and I, too like the fact that it's ever-changing. I did get some amusement from the list. Lol.
Lol I smiled when I saw it! hahaha I got some amusement myself! it's pretty interesting! I got one person who I talk to anyway as a recommended friend and the others people that I should be talkin to more Lol Lol OK OK i get the hintige! :)
hmm, thats quite... hmm, lets say funny since i don't know or barely talk to the recomended ones but its quite smart and is a pretty good job
I thought it was sort of funny, I've never talked to anyone of the 5 that were reccommended. What if you don't use quicknotes, or lets say I decided to turn them back off? would it then say something like, you have no top friends, you have no recommended friends? lol.
wonderwoman
It will still find recommended friends even if you don't have quicknotes on. The whole idea is to identify people who you haven't talked to and recommend that you do so. This is doable as long as you have sent and received at least one quicknote in each direction with one other person.
its cool to get to know who you always quicknotes with. can you also add testimonials? as a feature
Well I just private messaged one of my recomended friends and will now go annoy the other four. i like how the list changes a lot, I want to get to know the people on here better.
Will this be available for free members as well?
Yeah, it's available to anyone.
I'm doing pretty good so far. I've made friends with three people and they've all been replaced by three more.
Another profiles site I use has a similar feature. It's amusing to see how the robot suggests matches. LOL.
-Dave
I just checked it out and I think it's awesome!!! I haven't really talked to my reccomended friends yet but I will do!!!
There's just one guy on my recommendation list I will never contact, but the rest is interesting. I like that feature a lot.
well, my recommended friends list changed by one when someone sent me a quicknote whose list I was on. The others stayed the same except one, and the person it suggested made me laugh, lol, but it goes by mutual friends or something. it recommended him because 2 other people I've talked to hae exchanged a lot of quicknotes with. Anyway, it was hilarious, heeheeheehee.
wonderwoman
The page has been updated. For each recommended friend, it lists a number in parentheses after each of the friends linking you to that person. This number corresponds to the place that person has in the linking friend's list. If they're at 10, and they are only linked by one person, they will probably drop as someone else takes the tenth place position in the linking friend's list.
sounds a bit complex, lol. anyway, I made a mistake, my recommende d list changed by 2 people.
wonderwoman
Ya. This is quite cool. I can definitely say taht this is nothing that I would have thought of.
circle of friends - as the title of the book goes! Lol
I looked at this thing and talked to a few peple about it (mind you I haven't read this thread just the initial post). Ihave one recommendation for a fix. I think the time elapsed since last user login should be taken into account. I knowof people who are recommended a user who has not loggedin for over 3 months now, I think a month or 6 weeks should be the maximum time since last login in order for a user to be recommended, after all it's hard to make friends with someone who is not there. Otherwise, yes, it's very amusign and innovative idea *smiles* good job.]cheers
-B
yeh agree with b on this one - one of my recommended friends last logged in at the end of January, so I'd imagine that they're not likely to be coming back any time soon, or even if they are, as they've been away for so long it might be fair to assume that they're not regular zoners and therefore wouldn't really become friends.
I think it'd be cool to have some kind of button to discard recommended friends? for like, if you know damn well you'll never ever want to talk to someone who's recommended?
lol good idea. although could we take it one step further? where the table is that shows who your recommended friends are, and who links them to you, could there also be an indication of anyone who has been linked to any of your friends through you? that way, if you knew that one of your contacts was linked to another of your friends, you could perhaps introduce them, or put them off, as might be the case, grin
and to make one more suggestion ... someone just mentioned that their top recommended friend has them on ignore, well that kind of defeats the object as well? - could the feature not include people who have you on ignore? since that would be pointless
agreed sugarbaby.
A bunch of great ideas. Keep em coming.
one thing I'm not sure about though, what exactly does that number in brackets indicate next to the name of the user the recommended person is linked to mean?
I like the ideas of excluding people who haven't been on the site in a while and those who have you on ignore. The number in brackets is where this recommended friend ranks in the linking friend. Let's take my list as an example. I have Midnight Princess (hi there) at number 2 on my list, angel77 at number 4, and acosha at number 5. These are my friends and appear in the first list. If I look at my list of recommended friends, I see: 1. jazzdogg1 (#288) is linked to you through: midnight princess (9), angel77 (4), acosha (10). This means that
jazzdogg1 is my top recommended friend and is linked through the three people I just mentioned. If Midnight Princess were to look at her list, she would see jazzdogg1 in ninth place on her list of friends, if the list actually included 10 people. I display five people on that list to keep things tidy but I actually look at your top 10 friends to get more possibilities for the recommended list. Anyway, Angel77 would actually see Jazzdogg1 on her list in fourth place. Make any more sense now?
Cool Idea, am about to check it out. Maybe we need a "Bugger off" list? Lolage.
This is really a new great feature.
ok, it still doesn't make sense to me, sorry, maybe I'm just a bit thick but .. the way you explain it, the number indicates where on that person's friend list the recommended friend appears, yet one of the recommended people who has been recommended through me is showing as number 1 and yet they are not even close to number 1 on my friends list ... hows that work?
how about sorting or a toggle for females and males. lol! imm a good boy really I am!
well you could, but the problem with that is .. what happens to the ones who don't specify their gender, grin
male, female, or neutral. lol. all the neut's could hook up then! hell we might be saving the world!
admin keep the ideas coming since your not the one doing the coding. Chris upgrade your mysql to version 4.1 that one should have nested select sttatements.
Wow, MySQL hasn'thad nested select statements up til this version .. I am surprised and a bit spoilt by sql server 2000 I guess. 2005 will be even better allowing you to expose results of sqlprocs through web services directly which I think is brilliant to say the lest.
But, anyways, Chris, I'm confused is the rank of the recommended friend based only on number of mutual friends (in your example you and jazdaq had 3 mutual friends) or is the number of quick notes exchanged and the ranking for each friend taken into consideration. What if e.g. total of quick notes exchanged between the three mutual friends and jazdaq was 800 but you found another person that shared two friends with you and excahnge between that person and the friends totaled 3000. I guess it's not a matter of right or wrong and a train of thought might be that the number of shared friends matter mor than the closeness of friendship between them and the recommended friend.
But like I said, I think people who have not signed in for e.g. the previous 6 weeks should be excluded from this match feature, just because of practical reasons, shouldjust be a simple query modification.
Cheers
-B
Lol! Neutrals!!
Right now it weights the number of mutually friends, then the numbers of exchanged quicknotes. The number in brackets is where the recommended friend is on each of the linking friends' lists, not your list. And as for the male/female thing, I think we have enough ways for you to decide which other zoners to hit on. :)
Ya, I like mysql better then sql server mainly because I'm not doing any real important ddatabase stuff and am just learning sql. Sql server 2005 should be good though, gonna have to try and get that beta, let you know how accessible it is if I get it and you haven't played with it yet.
well if that's the case then there is a flaw in the system, a contact of mine has someone on her recommended friends list who who has the 1 in brackets next to my name, and he is definitely not number 1 on my list, not even close.
ah, got it now . sorry don't think straight first thing ... grin
We're way past 4.1, Blindguy. And LOL, there's nothing stopping me from adding the date and ignore limiters that were requested. Both are relatively simple. Once we put in the ignore thing, that'd be a way for you to get someone off your recommended list.
I think this feature will work mostly for the 13 to 19 age group. Matches like this are a hit and miss with most anything, and if they quick noted all 5 people who are on their recommended friends list, the odds are in favor that they might each find at least one person they have something in common with. 20to 30, it might still work, but the younger the people, the more likely it is to work, but me? I'm too far out of the age range, 46, so it won't work for me one way or ttthe other, but I get some amusement out of it, and if someone whose list I'm on sends me a quicknote, I'll know whose list I'm on, lol. to
I don't expect my list will change very much, since I seldom if ever quick note anyone first. I can't remember the last time I send someone a quicknote first.
hey I was just wondering if you are on the same people's recommended friends list as they are on yours? I mean, for example, if catwoman and sazel are both on my friends list, does that mean I'm on their friends list also? wonderwoman
I mean if they are on my recommended friends list, does that mean I'm on their recommended friends list. I just looked at this post and noticed the way I phrased it, lol
wonderwoman
The recommended friends lists aren't reciprocal.
hmm... well it has changed a bit lol, sure it did... since i just started talking to someone way too much and now the number one recomended friend is someone who has me on ignore! lol thats so random...
well I sent one of the recommended friends a quicknote, after reading her profile, but she didn't want to talk, so scratch that. Mine changes a bit and keeps putting the same people back on my list. I'm not sure if any of the ones who've quicknoted me lately, if I'm on their recommended list, but I think basically, most people will just quicknote someone to get them off their recommended list, so it will put someone new on there.
wonderwoman