Add a spam section! Please? :3

PacBot wrote:Add a spam section! Please? :3

I see no reason why we should have a "spam section" here. Sorry.

No worries... a Battle MOD isn't important I don't think, just some sugguestions

and a Spam section isn't needed very much I suppose Good calls.

Dekar wrote:

PacBot wrote:Add a spam section! Please? :3

I see no reason why we should have a "spam section" here. Sorry.

Ahh, its fine! You are the admin!

The Mim3 wrote:Ok now I'm hoping all these ideas wont be taken offensivley as they are just ways to improve the site, I don't expect you to take on board everything / anything I mention but these are a few ideas which you may like to try out.

Forum Ranks

Maybe add Forum Ranks for lower members and as they post more they become a higher rank, I'm not sure if you have done this allready or not but I like to post knowing I'm working for a new rank.

Yes, This would be nice. I have all my users on my forums set to get different ranks as there post count goes up. Just a nice little useless feature I think and everyone likes it. Also, if you plan to have donators or once you get to a certian post count you could let users change there rank title/user title.

The Mim3 wrote:Thanks Buttons

On a lot of Forum's their are Thankyou button where is a user posts a good post you can Thank them, it appears in there profile and says how many times they have been thanked.

Dont do it. A personal thanks is alot nicer to get than someone just pushing a than you button. I had that on 2 of my forums for a really long time and alot of members were glad to see it go. Plus when a post gets alot of thanks from alot of members it starts to look really messy.

The Mim3 wrote:Arcade

Allready mentioned the Arcade in another Thread.

Having many phpbb forums myself I do love an arcade just as much as the next guy but I run other arcade software. I might run a phpbb arcade one day but not right now.

Here is mine if you want to check it out - http://www.hippie459mn.com/arcade

I really need to update that. LoL

The Mim3 wrote:User Colours

Maybe give the members a different colour then plane black, Bold black would own

Something other than black.

The Mim3 wrote:Portal

Maybe by adding it Portal it could make the apperance of the site look better and atract more members to join.

Would be nice. I think you would benefit from one once your content gets much bigger.

The Mim3 wrote:Shoutbox

Maybe add a Shoutbox to the site so members can discuss freely and quickly.


These are just a few ideas and nothing more

Shoutbox is nice but put it at the bottom of the page if you do. When its at the top people tend to stay at the top of the page. When its at the bottom they have to scroll past all the wonderful content and they are more likely to stop and check things out.

As for the 'forum spam', I have something like that on one of my forums but I call it forum games and post counts are disabled and some of them are actually really fun and some very funny and my members love it.

Just my thoughts from a very long time forum owner of many many different forums.

Site looks great so far. I would change a few things like the rules and such with a nice rules mod and stuff.

I dont mean to advertise my site but here is my phpbb forum where you can see how alot of it is set up if you like (one of them anyways). http://www.hippie459mn.com/forum

Hi Hippie and welcome to AF!

Thanks for all the great suggestions. We already have user ranks implemented and I totally agree with the "thank you"-system. On several forums I'm on, users have the tendency to give thanks to each other for the smallest reason, which results in a huge mess where every user has hundreds of "thank you's".

When it comes to spam sections, I don't see the meaning of this at all. This is a "niche-forum" for arcade, emulation and retro gaming enthusiasts and I don't really want to make the forum too "generic", with stuff like that.

A portal is definitely a good idea, but I believe that the forum needs to grow a lot more before adding a portal. Your forum looks good btw, although I'm not a huge fan of the color scheme you're using!

I will change the rules and how they are presented eventually, right now I just threw up some temporary rules while I'm working on other things.

Thanks again for the thorough feedback. It's appreciated a lot and it's the only way we can improve.

Enjoy your stay at AF!

I think we should give Dekar a little time to sort some issues out on the Forum I'm sure he is trying his best to get everything sorted for us.

Thanks Dekar

The Mim3 wrote:I think we should give Dekar a little time to sort some issues out on the Forum I'm sure he is trying his best to get everything sorted for us.

Thanks Dekar

Thanks! I managed to fix quite a few bugs this weekend; there were some broken link issues caused by the SEO mod which should now be fixed. I've also added a few more features, one of them being the reputation system. I still haven't got to fixing the color scheme, but I'll take care of it eventually.

BTW, I've also started looking into an arcade game module for phpBB with scoreboards and everything, so it will hopefully be up already next week.

Dekar wrote:Your forum looks good btw, although I'm not a huge fan of the color scheme you're using!

Thank you and I agree. While it was nice at first its growing old and it will be getting a face lift over the next few weeks as we upgrade to 3.0.5.

Hippie459MN wrote:

Dekar wrote:Your forum looks good btw, although I'm not a huge fan of the color scheme you're using!

Thank you and I agree. While it was nice at first its growing old and it will be getting a face lift over the next few weeks as we upgrade to 3.0.5.

Sounds good. I'll keep an eye on it.

I'm working with a designer now to create a mascot character for arcadeforum.com. Hopefully it'll be up in the top logo banner within a week or two!