Site Changes--Part Two! Please Vote!

[Drakon]

For those of you keeping score, Options 1 AND 2 in the ATTN! Potential Site Changes won by a landslide [216 to 73 and 294 339 respectively], so much so that I decided to close the thread a week early. But there seems to be a bit of a problem with the idea behind Option 1. A lot of you guys were really torn on it, because of the possibility that the posts in the Gameyard won't count. So, here's a new poll. Votes last one week.

EDIT---Keep in mind that Option 2 on the old thread was dealing with join dates also being a stipulation [sp?] to getting better rewards, like a bigger avatar.

1--Set up a "Game/Trivia thread" for stuff like "Last thing you ate/drank/wore on your head" or "Three Word Story" that's separate from actual community. Posts in this forum will NOT count towards your post count. This will eliminate all these kind of threads for community so that we can get back to discussing "you know, the important stuff". And by, discuss, I mean pages. Not, at most, 3 posts. There are people who have at least 40-75% of their one-word posts in spammy threads like "Last thing you ate/drank/peed/pooped/wore on your head", or something similar just because they want an avatar/sig/title. I'm all for chat-chat til you're hands fall off. Hell, if you look in Games, I'm in the top 10 in terms of chat thread posters. But there's a difference between chat and crap.

2--User Join Dates will actually contribute to earning an avatar and such, in addition to post count. This way, if you're banned under your regular name, you won't be able to go back to an old name and still have avatars and such. By doing this, I hope it makes a lot of the people who like to "sit on the fence" when it comes to getting in trouble think twice, because they'd lose everything, and it'd be harder to just spam them back. This will would very well with the above idea. To quote a good friend--"The idea behind those things is that they are "privileges" or "rewards" that are meant to be earned by being a contributing member of a community over a period of time." By combining length of membership and post count as prerequisites for benefits, only members who are both active and patient would be rewarded and there would be less benefit from spamming. Also, bans would become a lot more meaningful when you not only lose a few nights worth of spamming, but you can also lose up to 6 months of your life.

Something like this order--

Signature--1 Week
Custom Title--2 Weeks and 100 posts
Small Avatar--1 Month and 300 posts
Medium Avatar--3 Month and 1000 posts
Large Avatar--6 Months and 2500 posts

With these ideas in mind, hopefully it would help keep Community feeling more like a Community rather than a collection of random people. Conversations will be able to mean more, there would be less spam to wade through, and everyone can have a little more fun. I know I'm being a little idealistic here, but that's what ideas are for--being idealistic.

 

[jaguarr]

Posts shouldn't count in the Gameyard. All this spamming your way to Valhalla needs to stop.

jag

 

[DOG LIPS]

Eh, Like I said before, if posts don't count in there the post-****es won't even bother going in there to play the games, they will infest good threads even more than they do now.

 

[jaguarr]

Eh, Like I said before, if posts don't count in there the post-****es won't even bother going in there to play the games, they will infest good threads even more than they do now.

Then you'll actually have to moderate something, won't you?

jag

 

[DOG LIPS]

Then you'll actually have to moderate something, won't you?

jag

Never!

 

[JLBats]

I don't get it, what's the point of the Gameyard if the posts count?

 

[jaguarr]

I don't get it, what's the point of the Gameyard if the posts count?

The point would be that at least they would all be in one place instead of littered all over the board, particularly Community. That way the mod's could avoid it and people could REALLY get away with murder in those threads.

jag

 

[Corinthian™]

better yet.. disable post counts damnit. Give us privs entierly by time

 

[JLBats]

The point would be that at least they would all be in one place instead of littered all over the board, particularly Community. That way the mod's could avoid it and people could REALLY get away with murder in those threads.

jag

But then people would just go there to increase their post counts, if no mods roam it.

I really don't get this plan

 

[Holly Goodhead]

Why do we even have post counts

 

[TrailerCues]

Why do we even have post counts

Good question

Maybe it might be best to just take away post count ? PEople here care about Registration Dates more anyway

 

[jaguarr]

But then people would just go there to increase their post counts, if no mods roam it.

I really don't get this plan

But at least all the spam threads wouldn't be cluttering other boards. I don't think posts should count in the game threads, anyway. The time + posting approach Drak's come up with is a much better system and sort of renders the idea of spamming your way to an avatar pointless.

jag

 

[Holly Goodhead]

jagoff, i sent you a pm. youre destroying our relationship one day at a time i swear

 

[jaguarr]

jagoff, i sent you a pm. youre destroying our relationship one day at a time i swear

I like to watch the petals decay, one at a time.

jag

 

[Iceman]

Game posts shouldn't count.

 

[TrailerCues]

Game posts shouldn't count.

Post should not count period

There should be Option 3

Delete All Post Counts

 

[Tangled Web]

I'd be interested in seeing how many votes that would get.

 

[TrailerCues]

I'd be interested in seeing how many votes that would get.

Indeed

 

[Leto Atrides]

Gameyard, posts don't count. My only unsure point in the plan was the status of chats, and since they would contribute to post count and it's just the "Last thing..." threads that won't I'm fine with it.

 

[Harlekin]

Make the gameyard, but make posts count. Not making the posts count won't be stopping spam. It will be worsening it in other areas. If people want bigger postcounts by ****ing the game threads, let them do that, especially with the new system of priviliges, this shouldn't matter. This keeps spam contained at least.

 

[Tangled Web]

Make the gameyard, but make posts count. Not making the posts count won't be stopping spam. It will be worsening it in other areas. If people want bigger postcounts by ****ing the game threads, let them do that, especially with the new system of priviliges, this shouldn't matter. This keeps spam contained at least.

That's my thought on this.

 

[Drakon]

But then people would just go there to increase their post counts, if no mods roam it.

I really don't get this plan

What will it matter? They still won't be able to get big avatars for a long time anyway.

 

[Drakon]

Personally, I'm all for post counts not counting, too. But with the amount of priority that the majority of you put on post counts, it's not likely that it will do any good, since it will get shot down. And I'm not making a poll, because then it will be seen as something that might officially happening.

 

[Sensi]

Eh, Like I said before, if posts don't count in there the post-****es won't even bother going in there to play the games, they will infest good threads even more than they do now.

lets at least see.. if it doesnt work you can always put it back .i know i would post there with out counting my post and there must be others .. it wont hurt to try it

 

[Erundur]

Make the gameyard, but make posts count. Not making the posts count won't be stopping spam. It will be worsening it in other areas. If people want bigger postcounts by ****ing the game threads, let them do that, especially with the new system of priviliges, this shouldn't matter. This keeps spam contained at least.

Exactly