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[horizon]

Alas, I do think SG gets more promotion now then during the days of the former SG forum last year. SG now nicely features on GW's frontpage with all relevant pdf's etc.

[CobaltEarthgem]

BTW the collapsible sub boards look great!

[Black_Omega]

Yay! Collapsing boards! Nice job!

[CyberShadow]

That was actually Ant who did this for us. So, thanks Ant! 

[Martini Henrie]

, so please no discussions of GW (business) policy, there is plenty of other places to do that !!

Respectfully sir,  i would like to bring up a point, there is a differnce to just sit in a forum and say "GW sucks" or "GW products cost too much". However,  sometimes things about bizz policy needs to be brought up to explain a point. Also,  since the policy can spill over to affect the hobby/ game aspects sometimes again it needs to be brought up. Granted i dont want to sit here and read post after post of "GW bites"  but i honestly also think that just sitting around burrying our heads in the sand and ego stroking GW  dont accomplish anything, sometimes people need to be told whats wrong or how things could be better for things to get fixed.


Also, last i checked i didnt see any place on this forum for a "complants against GW" section (maybe we need one)

We probably don't, that sort of thing can be taken up on other forums, lets try to keep on the positive side of things, eh? 

Just wanted to say that the house rules thread idea is a good one, but with one caveat.  It should be the mods that decide what goes from discussion piece and then into a separate thread for playtesting and tweaking from there.  It's pretty labour intensive, but should sift the gems form the...

Like I said previosly, there are too many places of insipid negativity.  Lets not bring this forum down to their level.

[Ant]

Is there any plans to update to SMF2 once it goes gold (it's on it's first release candidate at the moment)? I wasn't hugely impressed with the update until I saw the new Curve default theme that comes packaged with it (link). It does look very swish indeed.

[CyberShadow]

As a general rule, I usually perform updates when the next full release version has been available for at least a couple of weeks (depending on my schedule!  ). So, yes, I do plan on keeping up with releases of the boards, unless there is a good reason for not doing so, as it also helps with security. I also run backups on average twice a week, just in case.

[Steve54]

Alas, I do think SG gets more promotion now then during the days of the former SG forum last year. SG now nicely features on GW's frontpage with all relevant pdf's etc.

Except the Epic Chaos armylists which still haven't been added

[Brad]

Could the child fora please have the standard [GAME] tag added to their names?  I go straight to the "unread posts since last logon" bit and if I see a post in a "House Rules" forum I have no idea if it's house rules for Bloodbowl, Necromunda, BfG, or any other game.

[Master]

Also, any idea why the people's post counts are all 0?

Yup, that one is easy: like we did it on the old forums, we dont want people to post for Rank, and have the forums filled with one-liner replies stating "I agree"......
So all sections have their counters blocked.

He is lying, he just wants the highest post count.

[horizon]

Activate the post count to increase activity on this forum. Activity means interest means new people will sooner join. Not many join quiet forums.

[Ravendas]

Activate the post count to increase activity on this forum. Activity means interest means new people will sooner join. Not many join quiet forums.

Not everyone posts to see postcount++

But these forums are really slow, since the official forums were down so long everyone moved to other forums. Currently there isn't a whole lot of reason to move back. Would be great if GW allowed the release of all the pdfs, so they could easily be hosted on here. Then people would have a reason to get directed to here.

[Chaos_Rabbit619]

i agree. i didnt know that this site was up , no announcement ( an e-mail saying :hey we are back up and running " would have been nice)  so i joined another site, then i discovered this one was up and going  and didnt even bother to go back to the one i joined.  However,  i dont see a lot of activity here as compaired to what we sused to get.

As for as the whole debate about post count -- i agree with both sides of the issue.
Some folks do abuse the system and become "ditto-heads" typing short simple agreement answers just to boost thier count, while others for some reason think that having a larger post number some how makes them better than other folks here, but on the same token if we use that line of logic then having any type of record such as what date a member joined should also be removed because some might use that as a way to say that since then been a member longeer they have more "rights" or are some how better than others.

Now also to play Devil's advocate, i also agree with the post count system in other ways, becuse yes, as was pointed out it does offer some type of a reward system to encourage  members here to get more activly involved and contribute more to the forum.

Maybe instead of numbers posted by our names ther might be a system in place of rewards for the members for involvement, but the requirements are not posted, for example, maybe if you post so many times small icons or images appear near your name and avatar.

Start so many forum topics and maybe the imperial eagle appears , do more and maybe a skull get added.  They could be game related (Epic gets titans, Space Hulk gets terminators etc) or topic related . Also maybe if you reply to so many u get another image etc.

Basicly a cool way  that isnt so  far as an actual numbers that can be used  as an edge against other members but still a carrot on a stick to get folks to get off thier duffs and do more.

yeah i know i  havent posted that much as of late, but  i have been working on a vechile for a certain forum meber that has been taking up some of my time....

(anyways, i hope you kindda get the jist of what iam saying .)

[horizon]

Are all the other forums with post count that bad then?

Of course you will have an occassional post pumper but these things will regulate themselves through reactions of others and such.

[Lex]

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..."