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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:32

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Hey, I've been brainstorming some idea's, and I thought I would take it upon myself to make a thread about them. These are simply some suggestions of mine, to make the forum more productive/fun. I would like it if you respect my thread, and not spam it with useless comments, thank you.

Removing some sub forums.
First off, I've been going over the forum now for a while, and I noticed that the "Tips and tricks" Sub forum, isn't play a big role in the forum. Besides being host to topics that should mainly be in "Teams and strategies" So I thought either combine it with "Teams and strategies" Or just get rid of the section all together?
Next, the battle's area of "Battles, Clan Wars and Tournaments" Is also a host to it's fair share of spam, since most of the topics are normally either ignored, or flooded with people replying with "No thanks" or "Good luck finding someone to play"
So I also feel that area could be removed, and maybe free up some space.

Removing post count.
When I say that, I don't mean all together, I just mean from a few area's that are more often than not, the receiving end of high velocity spam.
The clan's section, and the Art schools section. These two area's of the forum are constantly being spammed for the purpose of raising post count. My suggestion would be to remove the post count from these two area's. I think it would improve the livelihood, of both these area's. Not to mention, possibly making the Arts sections actually useful to aspiring artists!

Those are my "immediate" suggestions, that I feel would be somewhat useful.
Now to list some idea's I think would be more fun, rather than really help the forum.

For fun Suggestions!<!!
Adding a Debate forum.
I think would be an area some of this forums more mature members would appreciate. Not to mention give me something to read.
Though, I can also see it becoming a problem child of sorts, if not a full out flame area.

I seen Zelos0blade's thread, asking people about different forum skin colors. I know this has been something people are always talking about wanting added.
I don't really know how this forum is coded, but my suggestion was, possibly adding a skin selector to the forum. That way, people could stop asking for new forum colors, and would have the option of changing it, once they tire of the new color.

Another idea of mine, would be adding a "report this post" Button. I am aware of this possibly becoming a somewhat abused function. But, if there was a way to limit the amount of times one member could report something in a week, and have strict rules on it, I think it could improve community to moderator cooperation.

Clearing my post count........... :cool

Well, that's about it from me. Further constructive comments are appreciated. Just as long as they aren't rule breaking, nor pointless in helping with the idea's put before you.
Also, do not quote this post, seriously. Thanks.

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:34

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Adding a Debate forum.
I think would be an area some of this forums more mature members would appreciate. Not to mention give me something to read.
Though, I can also see it becoming a problem child of sorts, if not a full out flame area.

Asking for flame wars there mate

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:35

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Nice idea Jordan69! :amused

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:36

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Removing Sub-Forums:Don Agree
Removing Post Count:Agree
For Fun Suggestions:Agree

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:36

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Better Idea
Reset all clan levels :amazed

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:41

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not bad:amazed :amazed

like the ideas:cheesy :cheesy

Posted on May 8, 2009 08:44

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YoungPrincess16 : I don't think you actually read any of my post. But, if I'm wrong, which idea did you feel would be most beneficial to the forums?

_*ciano*_ : Could you possibly give a reason for why you disagree with the removal of said forums?

TrainSefira: I'm very well aware of that becoming a problem. Do you have any idea's on how to possibly combat that problem? Also, I believe reseting all clan levels has very little to do with the subject at hand here. x_x

UchihaMadara361 : Which idea did you prefer? And what would you do to improve it?

Thank you all for your feedback on this matter.

Edit: shigure478, Could you possibly go into detail as to why you don't feel these changes should take place?

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:46

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Removing Sub-Forums:No, not really
Removing Post Count:No -_-
For Fun Suggestions:No -_-

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Posted on May 8, 2009 08:51

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i think the adding skin forum change button is good and the report this post sounds fairly good but the rest of them is just starting arguments that dont need to be made i am strongly against the idea
Removing post count. from art section without post there some people that even care about there posts may not bother to click the rate section above

PS i dont care about my post but alot do and i like to get different opinions on my work

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Posted on May 8, 2009 21:19

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Removing some sub forums: I agree that they should combine the those two sub-topics. They are basically the same thing. And they don't get THAT much attention so it's not like it will be clustered with topics. As for the battles section, I think that should stay. Sure, most of the time people post for a battle and usually it gets ignored or gets un-needed spam you mentioned, but some people actually look for an set opponent. And it's not like a lot of people lost in that section anyways, so it's not like that topic is taking up a lot of space. Might as well leave it there.

Removing post count: I think post counts are completely pointless. On S-B, they do have the post count turned off in the clan section and I believe that to be the right decision. Not counting the Off-Topic sub section, I think the Clans section has to be the most spammed place. Most of the time, it's pointless stuff. I can totally attest to that as in JM, we talk about random things. We don't talk about our clan that often. I don't often roam the Art section so I'll take your word on that place being spammed as well.

For fun Suggestions: I've always wanted there to be a debate section on here. Though, many immature people here ruin it. I think they have a running debate topic on S-B and that seems to run pretty smooth. But I would have to say that if people could make their own debate topics to be discussed, I think it would easily get out of hand. I would love for this to happen, but sadly, I don't think it will.

That's an interesting idea. I'm sure they could maybe use the similar code used to change your background in-game could be used on the forums. But I don't know if game code have completely different coding than a forum would. I don't think they would, but still I'm not the expert on coding, yet.

I like the idea. The report button would be nice, but like you said could be abused. Maybe they should test this idea and see what happens. If it does get abused, just get rid of it. Simple as that. :O

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Posted on May 9, 2009 05:22

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I'll start off in order. I don't really go to the tips and tricks section or teams and strategies that much so I don't really know what goes on there. But I guess merging them does make sense. I noticed there are a lot of sticky threads in both so I guess if they were to merge the two they could make one stickied thread that links you to all the useful threads. For the battles section, I think it should stay. Like Hotspot said, sometimes people do accept someone's challenge. Also the battle section is a good place to test teams or get some practice while even setting up your own rules unlike quick games. Sure, you can find people to battle you on different chatboxes, but not all the time.

About the post count removal, if it was up to me, I would remove everyone's post count which would make this forum run more smoothly in my opinion. But of course, the idea was suggested many times before and it doesn't look like it's going to happen so I guess the next best thing would be to remove post counts in more places as you suggested. I'm ok with removing it in the clans section, it's pretty much a minature spam kingdom for most people and probably the easiest way for someone to get there post count higher. I'm ok with removing it in the arts section too. Also one of the easiest ways to get your post count higher. Like 90% of it is just rating something anyways.

The debate section is something I would like to see too, but as people already suggested, it could start flame wars and I've seen a lot of them starting too when people post a debate thread in the offtopic section. I think that they should test this first by making the section and see how nb acts with it. They can always remove it if it doesn't work just like the fan clubs and the ghetto section if anyone remembers it.

I'll keep the report and forum skin suggestion for another post, I'm upset right now with how much I'm typing. Sorry about that.

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Posted on May 10, 2009 00:24

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We are planning to merge those two section but there is always something more important :push

Battles should be just visited more often by moderators. We can't close one section because some members are breaking rules.

Removing post count in some areas will bring spammers to other areas. Maybe we should just remove the postcount completely?

Report button would be overused for sure and we can't limit it's usage - there would be no point of installing it! I am just thinking how much problematic it would be - and how much useless if we are going to limit it.

Other things: no comments.

Posted on May 25, 2009 18:01

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Slavik-sensei wrote:

We are planning to merge those two section but there is always something more important :push

I don't agree on removing post counts as it would only cost more spam on the boards. People will think Paul took their privacy away and they would protest and make spam topics like the thing after luap's nerfs.

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Posted on June 5, 2009 03:11

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