Big Brother
 

Myself and a couple of friends have come up with an idea of a "Big Brother" like modification.. Below is a brief-ish description of the idea, if anyone would like anything explaining, don't hesitate to ask..

Basically, the principle will be to "lock" the members in the Big Brother forum, ie. they can't access anything else other than that forum. This will give the feeling of being locked away from the outside world since they cannot view any other forums, nevermind threads. While in the Big Brother forum, members try and entertain each other by posting activities, and making interesting new threads in that forum. We, the public can view the forum, and then decide whom to evict based on posting qualities, personality that comes through and such by voting them out (like a poll vote).. The system would automatically count these votes, and automatically post who is going to be evicted. Once a housemate is evicted, interviews are cast and they return to a normal member and have general access around the forums again.

Admins of the board would play the part of Big Brother, and set the housemates tasks that would be discussed between them. Rewards are a possibility for completion of the tasks (not quite sure how that will work yet, ie. what rewards could be given). Possibly also a "Diary Room" forum or chat room would be added, in case any housemates wanted to leave and return back to normal posting status or any problems that occur in the forum. This would be a challenge in it's self to code up with php so that all messages were private to Big Brother and the single housemate, and no other housemates or normal members could see them.

It may be a bit farfetched, and probably impossible.. But the idea is there. Unfortunately this is FAR beyond my knowledge of PHP (I'm still learning the basics.. :o). If anyone would like the challenge of writing such a modification, let us know! :knockedout:

Hey I like the Idea!

Basicly the whole thing could be achieved witht he forum permissions and masks :)

I've been involved with three "Big Brother" games on two different forums. It seems to work real well, most of the time, as long as there's a way to keep the 'housemates' occupied. Spam will increase inside the house, doubtlessly. *hehe* We didn't use a hack, though. Or maybe there was some special code written to ensure the "housemates" couldn't view the board by logging out adn cheating. But all in all, it was rather fun.

PM me if you have any questions or anything I might help with (not actively involved, of course)

Oh, the idea is good and making it would not be hard.

LOL!!! What a great idea! :)

It's a pretty neat idea and has been useful in promoting the forums. With nifty access permissions, a few modifications to the private message system, addition of maybe a store so the housemates can "buy" things with the prize "money" they earn for tasks, throw in some "audience feedback" tidbits to get the energy in the house going - and it's a blast. :D

Also a slight modification to the polling system to vote on whom you want evicted.

The cp settings could also control how long you wanted each BB week to last for. If you wanted a shorter version of the experience, have it running 3/4 days per week so day one is housemates nominating who they want to be evicted and the public being able to vote, day two more public voting, the task and reward, day three is more public voting, day four more public voting, votes counted and posted who is leaving and housemate evictee night. Or obviously you can set it for the full experience of 7 days per week and set things up how you want to do it.

It sounds a little tricky to code, though probably possible. We did most things manually (such as the polls), but it all works out.

Good luck with getting all this written!! :D

Yeah, I agree..
I'm just giving out ideas what could happen in an ideal world.

That's a great idea. Definitely something I'd use.