litphoria

I would like to be able to attach personal annotations to other profiles, or at least friends. That way it would be easier to remember who was already contacted and with what result.

Well, it's unlikely that it will be made visible to others. If we just have text notes, we can do our own thing, but the idea was that things we might note by text could instead be presented as check-boxes and ranks, so that only a few bytes are used, and there is no 512K text note, then.

I would totally love a ranking system. Something like a drop-down box that you can mark 1-5 in "how satisfactory was this role player". It could retain a personal rank you give someone, and potentially, you could see how many of each rank a player has earned (or average this for an "RP rank")! Mildly competitive, maybe.

That is just another thing that can turn into elitism, source of excuses to talk down somebody and a whole lot of unwanted stuff. I don't quite see why you would want to have that, other than to make it possible for community to get rotten.
Simple Liked/Disliked/Interested covers absolutely enough data, as far as I am concerned.

I wouldn't like a public commenting or like / dislike system either.

I agree that private notes would be good (both as a "hey I should get around to pouncing this person" or "list of ideas to perform upon this person"), but I really can't see a public ranking system ending well. I don't want to be harassed by my partners to rate and subscribe after every scene.

Roel, just say why you think it's a bad idea and stop ascribing motives to people. I mean, really, who WANTS the community to get rotten? This is why you rub people the wrong way even if you mean to be nice, which is supposedly a site requirement.

I already happen to know that the site owner doesn't want it, so I said it was unlikely to ever be made visible. I did mention rankings because if a large note box is too much info to store on all the profiles you might comment upon, then encoding the kinds of things you might put into a note box into only a few bytes (all private to you only, like personal notes) would be a way to limit the data storage requirements.

I already happen to know that the site owner doesn't want it, so I said it was unlikely to ever be made visible.

Implying that we don't already have things that are against WA's thinking but in-line with people's thinking.

:X It makes no difference to me in the long run, I just thought it'd be "fun". But I guess you're right, people would stroke their ego with ratings or shun low-rated people. Ultimately, I just resign to keeping a small paper pad on my desk and gasp I write down things from time to time. With a pen, no less! NOT EVEN A STYLUS AN HONEST TO GROB INK PEN

You are applying my stance towards publicly visible rating system to everything that was proposed in the suggestion. First thing - I wasn't writing my comment on a day that is good for talking, and I apologize for how it is. Wasn't the intent to jump on you like that. Now, to restate the things properly...
I am not against some ways to keep notes or even simple markings on profiles for own convenience. I am only against something that can turn into ego-pumping party and make it harder for newcomers, specifically (highly volatile score due to low amount of votes, makes it easy to dump them into rank hell if we assume such elitism would form in its ugliest form; add to it the fact that for people starting with roleplaying experience, being publicly judged is a make or break often) and I personally don't quite see people using the ranks if they are strictly private - as opposed to marking if you played with a person as well as whether you liked/disliked the experience.
Only thing about text-notes are what I heard against is data usage, but I suppose limiting to set amount of characters (300? Or something similar, like Cress noted) would work for it. Or maybe even in amount of simultaneous notes? That would be restrictive, but better that than not have things at all.

Seems like there is some discussion going on here, so I have moved to needs discussion.

Public ranking system is probably not going to happen. I don't have any strong opinions on a private one though? I'd feel about the same to that as I would listing notes privately for the person.

Something that will have to be kept in mind as this will not work as permanent storage, I will have to limit at some length and for how many characters you can add notes too. A rolling list (where the oldest is automatically dropped off) seems like it may work well here, but might also defeat the entire point of keeping notes on them, which is to be able to know what happened there ages ago when you no longer remember.

There is also the option of having those private rankings last longer (as they'd be much cheaper) and limiting the rolling list more strictly to encourage use of the private rating system. Cress' idea of having an array of checkboxes for various attributes might also work.

Discussion has died down, so I am unblocking. Note that any endorsement for this will not in any way encourage a public ranking system.

Giving users more tools to keep organized is a good thing. Something in the pipeline, but not a priority right now, but could change if more points are thrown into this.