Changes to the Forum

Hey all 

I've made a few changes to the forum, so try to take advantage before Teckno undoes all my hard work.  
I replaced most emoticons with gaming related ones.  This way, even though most threads are about movies or comics, we can preserve the ambiance of a gaming forum.  I'd like to make the buttons more gaming related, but that's difficult since we're so general, and I don't want it to seem like we're dedicated to a specific game or console.  :disgusting:

So just keep doing what you normally do, and enjoy the new smileys while they last.  

Very nice man.

This forum is very.......BLUE IDK if that's just me or not? Either way, it's kinda weird.

That being said, these emote changes are awesome. Good Job Angelus.

Good work Ang-san!

Mecha wrote:

Just don't delete any of my threads or any Comic-book/superhero-related thread, okay Ang.

FTFY

I won't.  I've hidden the post count outside a user's profile.  If I can find a way to make it so that posts in the Off-Topic section don't count it'd be nice, but I don't think it's even possible on here. 
  
  
Is there a colour you think would look better?  The orange was a bit weird.

I just noticed that the Anime section has been renamed and replaced as a section discussing anything Japan, or relating to Japanese culture. Ok, was this necessary? LOL

Archduke wrote:

I just noticed that the Anime section has been renamed and replaced as a section discussing anything Japan, or relating to Japanese culture. Ok, was this necessary? LOL

Yeah.  That'll keep all the Japanese music, news and videos in a separate section.

Everything looks so much better. Good work man.

There's still a few emotes missing, and I'd like to replace the remaining non-gaming related ones too, so if anyone has any suggestions that'd be nice.

Sir Angelus Ignobilius wrote:

Archduke wrote:

I just noticed that the Anime section has been renamed and replaced as a section discussing anything Japan, or relating to Japanese culture. Ok, was this necessary? LOL

Yeah.  That'll keep all the Japanese music, news and videos in a separate section.

Oh, alrighty then. That makes sense.


Keep the DSP Emotes, Please!

Man, I;m fuck drunk that I don;t even know wtf is foing on?

Mecha wrote:

Man, I;m fuck drunk that I don;t even know wtf is foing on?

And that's why you're always getting banned.

I don't like the Archives section. Put those threads where they originally were.

I love it. First day of admin and already making some great changes.

You know what... I think it would be better if the Archives section should be for locked threads only. Some of the threads in that section are still relevant.

Mecha wrote:

I don't like the Archives section. Put those threads where they originally were.

You're the reason it exists.  It's to reduce the over-saturation of Off-Topic sections. 

yonny616 wrote:

I love it. First day of admin and already making some great changes.

I'm not even sure why I'm admin, lol, this is mostly stuff I've wanted to do for a while.  The smileys are still pretty incomplete, and the post buttons (quote, multi-quote, et cetera) could be better.

To reduce the over-saturation of Off-Topic sections? WHAT!? First of all, a lot of those threads aren't even mine. Second, most of those threads aren't even from the Off-Topic section. I think you're doing a really good job as admin, but your reasons for creating the Archive section makes no sense. It would have been a far better idea if you added the locked threads into the that section instead.

You guys complain about me not posting stuff on the general threads, yet you have the general threads in the Archive section. Wasn't the point of general threads was to not over-saturate things? Like WTF!? It makes no sense.

If something shouldn't be there, you can request to have it taken back out, but the archive is there to prevent old miscellaneous or movie threads from being revived.

Sir Angelus Ignobilius wrote:

If something shouldn't be there, you can request to have it taken back out, but the archive is there to prevent old miscellaneous or movie threads from being revived.

So if I want to make a comment on one of the Archive threads, I have to ask you and you'll put it back to it's original section?

*Sigh* You guys are really pushing it. First it's keeping everything in general threads, now this. I'm afraid what you guys are going to do next. If you guys really have a problem with me being so active, then why not just perma-ban me? Like seriously.

All of the topics in the Archive section have had no activity in the past 140 days.  The auto-pruning is currently set to 365 days.  
  
If you don't want topics to get archived, keep them active.

Just because they haven't been active for awhile, doesn't mean people can't start a new discussion on them later on. Like for example, once the new season for a TV show comes out next year, I can finally start discussing on the show. OR once the new X-Men movie comes out, I can update my list on the Rate Each X-Men Film Thread. And there's a lot more threads like those that I mentioned too. But now I can't, because you have them on that section you created.

If a thread is that old, there isn't much value in reviving it.  You'd be better off just making a new thread, and starting a new discussion, rather than just bumping a dead thread no one else is even gonna reply to.  If you hate the archive section that much, I still have at least a few hours left as admin, so I can delete the entire section if you prefer.  
  
And keep in mind this is still a new thing.  If it doesn't work out, it isn't much of a hassle to just unlock it for you.

Wow this great, real awesome job Noel!