Improving Gamingforce

I think Pang's idea of an announcement of activities (Drink On, Anime Streaming, GFF Radio, shit like that) is a great idea. I know it would work for me. I only remember to go join in on things when I, like Pang said, stumble on the thread or Acer IMs me and invites me.

I don't think it should be one of those sticky announcement... things either. There are a million of those all over the place, and really, I just ignore them now.

I like the whole Recently Posted method... is there a way we could try that? You know, when you go to the main page, how there's the Recently Propped and Recently Posted thing which you have the option to hide? That's a great feature. Why not use it more? Especially to notify folks of events that are coming up in the near future.

Meanwhile, the activities are out there. People are DEFINITELY hosting their own shit, but they're just not talking about it too much around here. They could definitely get MORE forum involvement if they did, but who knows how much.

As far as NEW members, we need to find a way to ENCOURAGE posting, not DISCOURAGING posting. Right now, it could be argued that it is neutral on that basis.

Maybe if we brought back the HP bars, we could get people more interested in upping their postcount again ahahaha

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Musharraf

This is what I have been saying for years now

I actually thought of you when I wrote that. <3

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I do feel like there should be a friendlier attitude regarding topics of conversation around here.

I mean, yea, some shitty member comes in and posts about how girls hate him and how can he improve and then immediately gets told that he's a prat, to shut up and stop posting.

Sure, he's a fucking idiot. But let him post. He can be entertainment if anything. The instant you get hostile with a member, it sends a message. Most people won't stick around after getting a light thrashing.

Sometimes, the way some people get treated on here really discourages others from posting. I know I've avoided certain topics or replying in certain threads just because I don't want to get trolled, yelled at, ridiculed, ee tee see.

I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just suggesting maybe a different approach to what some people perceive as stupidity could both provide more entertaining posts and encourage more open posting among people who may feel threatened or whateverthefuck

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

God, am I going to agree with Deni. It hurtssss usssss

You don't want to send traffic away to Tweeterspaceface. I wouldn't try to use it. I would try to improve connections here and now, not using outside communications. We need to work here, not there.

I mean, I know that sometimes, I will communicate with people on FB over GFF. Sooo I'm guilty. And I will try to correct this.

Didn't we have some kind of "instant messaging" capabilities on here for a whole what, 2 hours once when Bobo was around?

And honestly? I would rather keep my FBing, blogging, whatever SEGREGATED from here. There are just some things I'd rather you people not use against me.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

In regards to the journals, I suggest:

Take down the logo and put up a notice that the journals will get wiped due to upgrades at a certain time on a certain day, and to USE THE BACK UP FEATURE. After that, it's a clean slate and the journals'll be updated. And I mean, take your time about it.

Maybe an "import" feature could be coded in even, so you could actually put the shit BACK into your journals (though not necessary)

I may have completely misunderstood Acer though (I read a little quickly because I was excited).

Are we considering getting RID of journals? 'Cause I'll be sooooo sadface about that. The journals are an awesome feature here, and I'd love to see them maintained, let alone upgraded

I was speaking idiomatically.

Couldn't we do it with .csv importation, if that capability exists in the vB thingie? (PAng tells me vB does have the journal feature in a sense)

I mean, if we're saying the journals are the only thing holding us back from a re-vamp.... well. Seems like the obvious place to start, cosmetically (and I DO agree with Devo on that)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?