just an idea...

[bki]

personally i don't care 'bout it...i just wanna post...but in some ways it make it look more "professional"^^
but i was really just trying to show you the gill thing...

woah! went way off the main idea!heres an example of how sub-forums would work...you don't really end up clicking much...

[The Man]

It might work as part of the profile. But I’m not sure how it would be implemented now without some complicated amount of programming, and I’m also not sure what we’d need the Gil for.

Dunno, really. All of this is ultimately up to the staff.

Peace
The Man

[bki]

yup!up to da staff^^

[crono_logical]

I very much doubt there'll ever be a flaming forum or a spam forum here at EoFF - although they might work elsewhere at other forums, it wouldn't be suited to this community at all, this place works better without them.

As for the RPG-esque stat system, one thing it will cause is more spammy posts as people try to boost their stats - that's one of the reasons why post counts are no longer visible in the actual forums (though they're still there ) - I believe it's possible to disable them completely across the whole forums too as part of vBulletin, though that hasn't been done.


As for sub-forums, bleh, we'll see, I don't see any major need for them though.

[Shlup]

Originally posted by bki
well....you could ask a few people...see what they think...

I believe you already did that.

I just think we have enough forums as it is.

[The Man]

Originally posted by crono_logical
I believe it's possible to disable them completely across the whole forums too as part of vBulletin, though that hasn't been done.

OOC:	Actually, it has. Or at least if you mean that it was impossible to view them in users’t profiles, that was the case for awhile.

Peace
The Man

[crono_logical]

It has? O_o

*checks*

Nope, it hasn't, my post count just went up with this one.

I meant disabled as in no matter where you post, your post count stays frozen, which isn't the case. They're only hidden unless you actually go search them out at these forums, but certainly not disabled

[The Man]

OOC:

Odd. I would have thought that the database would simply tally up how many posts by a given user were in a certain database, but I guess it doesn’t do that. Then again, post counts would take forever if they did. So instead, that means that post count is a variable in the user database? How do we search for posts, then? And if someone knew how to hack into the database, does this mean that they could potentially make everyone’s post count go haywire? When moderators delete a user’s double-post, then, does that lower the user’s post count? And when my posts to the Feedback Forum disappear, will my post count go down ever so slightly? It seems strange that post counts could get frozen at all, at least with the system we currently use, unless we simply stopped associating posts with users altogether. That seems… impossible. Please do explain further. By the way, Unne meant that post counts weren’t visible in user profiles, and the only way to figure out how many posts a user had at all was to load the “Top Posters” menu, which could only be done by those who recalled the link. I assume you understood that, but I felt like restating it anyway. It’s not disabled right now, and I never tried to imply that, although maybe I managed to imply it somehow anyway. Post counts were made entirely invisible for awhile; that’s what I meant.

Peace
The Man

[crono_logical]

OOC:

Actually, I think I saw it mentioned somewhere that newer vBulletin board versions such as this one store the post count in a variable for the user, but also recount every users posts daily, thus preventing the possiblity of admins messing up post counts as could previously be done , and would also correct any errors from posting/deleting posts/threads. (There was a big ruckus over at Gamingforce when they found that out after one particular upgrade, since many of the "veterans" found that their modified post counts (done by the admin) to include pre-vBulletin days and board resets dropped quite a lot to become the values of posts since the last board reset ) Whether this feature can be enabled/disabled by choice or not, I don't know, I haven't had the time to mess around with vBulletin as much as I'd have liked so far to see exactly what it's capable of (I've got a copy on my PC just for that purpose ). As for freezing the post count completely, the board can simply be given a list of forums not to take post counts from, so by adding all forums to that list, I think everyone's post count would sit at 0 Meh, that's all I know and have heard of about vBulletin at the moment, like I said, when I get the time to play around with it more, I can find out for certain, and probably find out anything wrong I said in the previous paragraphs Yes, I knew what Unne said, but since they're now visible in profiles, I didn't think that'd apply to this case

[The Man]

OOC:

Originally posted by crono_logical Actually, I think I saw it mentioned somewhere that newer vBulletin board versions such as this one store the post count in a variable for the user, but also recount every users posts daily, thus preventing the possiblity of admins messing up post counts as could previously be done , and would also correct any errors from posting/deleting posts/threads. Ah, yes. Now I feel somewhat more reassured. (There was a big ruckus over at Gamingforce when they found that out after one particular upgrade, since many of the "veterans" found that their modified post counts (done by the admin) to include pre-vBulletin days and board resets dropped quite a lot to become the values of posts since the last board reset ) Yes. There are quite a few people who feel pride in the number of times they’ve posted. To be perfectly honest, I myself do feel a moderate such pride, though I certainly don’t feel myself to be superior to users who post less frequently. That would be ridiculous. Hiding the post count below users’ names in the forum view probably helps discourage that kind of behaviour, and I applaud it. the board can simply be given a list of forums not to take post counts from, so by adding all forums to that list, I think everyone's post count would sit at 0 Yes. Basically, everyone would be thinking, “Great Scott, where did all my posts go?” By searching for all posts by a given user, though, it wouldn’t be entirely difficult to figure out how many posts a user actually had (more or less) unless searching, too, got disabled. Even if the post numbers got turned off for the search, there’s still the matter of how many pages of results turn up. Yes, I knew what Unne said, but since they're now visible in profiles, I didn't think that'd apply to this case I thought they would. Sorry for not making myself clear.

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The Man

[Bannor]

Well I would personally like to say something. i think that there should be a seperate forums in the writers corner. One for poetry and what not and then other for writing. I am sorry but those poetry threads really push down the writing ones. It is just a suggestion.

[bki]

*nods*i agree^^

[Loony BoB]

The first ideas in my opinion were pre-no's. That last one is more interesting though. It's worth thinking about =)

[crono_logical]

What last idea, there's been quite a few "off-topic" ideas in this thread O_o The Writer's Corner one, perhaps?

[bki]

so there is a chance of being a few sub-forums then???^^