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[horizon]

They did really say that? Oh my...

[spiritusXmachina]

Concerning post counts:
Don't know if that's too complicated - but is there a way to count the number of words in the postings? This would surely be a way to reward postings with content and give less weight to spammers.
Also, posters that open a new thread could be rewarded some extra points (of course that can be abused).

At last I would'nt publish the criteria of poster-rating - so it's not too easy to adopt...

Even if I understand the reason against post-counts - I think generally it adds flavour.

Greetings,
Gerald

[Ravendas]

Also, posters that open a new thread could be rewarded some extra points (of course that can be abused).

I'd rather punish people for that. There are too many repeat threads from people that are too lazy to use a search function. There are also people that might have 3 different questions, and open 3 threads, one for each question.

Let's not try to reward spam

I think the best way for a 'reward' system would be allowing people to vote threads 1-5, depending on how good/entertaining/informative/whatever it is. Just like the somethingawful forums, where there are gold threads and gassed threads. People that post good threads get 'points' or whatever, and people that post crap lose the ability to make threads for awhile (probation).

[horizon]

Why all these obscure methods? 

Post count works on million other forums and spamming / post pumping is regulated by itself. Why wouldn't it work here?

[Ravendas]

Why all these obscure methods? 

Post count works on million other forums and spamming / post pumping is regulated by itself. Why wouldn't it work here?

This is just a forum suggestion thread, so we are just making suggestions.

Anyways, I don't think post spamming isn't really self regulated. If someone is called out on it, it just makes the thread spiral into idiocy, while increasing everyone's post counts in the process. What makes it self regulating?

But these seem to be pointless questions, at least for the Necromunda board, where the only action there in the past 2 weeks was from myself and maybe a handful of others. Abysmal. The real question should be 'What would attract other communities to these new forums?'

[azrael71]

I agree.
The warmaster forum has regulars on there but it is very quiet.
There is more activity over in the yahoo group than here

[CyberShadow]

I think that this is the key. Its not about whether we have a post count or not (and the people who post because we do have a post count are generally the reason not to have one), but about drawing more general traffic here.

[Ravendas]

I think one of the key things is that we need something here that isn't available on the other boards. Namely: The pdfs. Get all the files together in one place for each game system on these forums and people will come here. There are so many new people, or people coming back but lost their pdfs, that ask where to get these things. Right now, the easiest way for Necromunda at least is to go to the Warseer forums, where the main ones were compiled in a post. So newbies get directed there. Would be better if we could direct them here.

But I also realize that isn't a problem with the forum operators, but a problem with GW saying 'ok' to you listing them on here.

[horizon]

A reinstated fanatic online would help. Get the moderators together, let them approve 3-4 articles each month to be published online at this SG website.

...still post count should be on. I disagree with all the naysaying. In worst cases ban spammers for a week.

Biggest issue with members is also the fact we all got an opt-in mail (still got it) but no one ever got a mail saying this forum is up. Many people do not know about this site.

[Ant]

Reinstating Fanatic Online would be an attention grabber, but it's not a great way for developing fan rules since you're up against a deadline and once published you can't edit it. Some sort of SG news blog might be more useful as long as it was kept active by a group of writers that basically just linked to interesting articles, discussions, showcases and events.

As Rav mentioned, it's content that will draw people, but I do think consideration for the forum environment is needed. It doesn't help for example that you can't see links in posts or the link trees and forum titles due to bad CSS and the messy user details next to the posts. You can't link directly to the category like you can at Warseer (example) which is very annoying visiting as a guest (here's a mod to fix it). And what's happening with the rest of the FO articles? It's just little things like this that makes the site feel a little less cared for and unfinished.

Btw the Necro Rules Development forum is still a bit of a mess. I'd post some of my articles in there to help fill it out a bit but I'm not sure where to post it.

[Chaos_Rabbit619]

taking the issue of post-count under discussion, we know we can set-up some "reward" system, but need to think this out.

concerning not sending all listees of the previous forum a letter, this was asked of GW, as they had the user-data for the original opt in/opt/out letter. We contacted them, but hey were adamant that they could NOT send more letters, nor give us that Data;  "...  to protect the rights of the listees that dont want (commercial) use of their data..."

Waaaaa?


wait a second it was ok to use the data to ask us to opt-in  but NOT to use the data of those that opted -in to say "hey its online"?   wtf?  

no offense, i know you are just the messenger, but to me this sounds like more corporate clown thinking where the  due to a necktie it cuts off the oxygen to the brain.

id like to hear GW explain away THAT

look i dont mean to come across as kindda gruff. but to me this site is nowhere near it was in its former glory days. i think the inaction has caused it to almost die.

in the world of the net time  is everything...it goes by quicker here and people lose interest quicker.

[Darkson]

wait a second it was ok to use the data to ask us to opt-in  but NOT to use the data of those that opted -in to say "hey its online"?   wtf?  

no offense, i know you are just the messenger, but to me this sounds like more corporate clown thinking where the  due to a necktie it cuts off the oxygen to the brain.

id like to hear GW explain away THAT

The opt-in email was when the SG forum was still up and running on the GW servers. I believe the problem was that GW felt (legally? morally?) they couldn't pass that info on to a third-party (Cybershadow) to use.

Of course, it does beg the question why GW can't/don't/didn't use the opt-in list to email, from their server, those that opted-in to tell them this site is up and running?

[Madness]

Just posting to say I'm a professional web developer, and would love to help with any css/html/php necessities. Like fixing the unreadable bits or misaligned rollovers.

REPORTING FOR DUTY SIR!

[Ant]

I think this whole 'mass email' thing is a bit of a red herring. Most SG players have probably found this place by now and even for those who haven't there isn't much here to link them to.

Oh and one other thing I would definitely do is buy up the specialist-games.net domain name and use that to make full use of the unique link this site has with GW.

[Hena]

Could something be done with the colours. I'm having real problems in seeing the thread "tools.". Meaning the 'Reply', 'Notify', 'Mark Unread' and so on links. Those should be white text or possibly font with white outline.