The crap we call Design & Development.

There's only one word to describe this section; ****.

1. Not many people post here anymore.
2. When they do post, they post in the wrong section.
3. When they post in the wrong section, nothing happens.

I thought the whole point of sub-forums were to categorize and separate some of the threads?

Well it doesn't seem to happen.. here's an example:

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This forum is meant for Website Design, right?

It's all about coding! Now don't say we have the "& Coding Related" help, because this is all either HTML, or PHP, or CSS.. don't we already have a section for that?

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Shouldn't these be in the website coding and programming section?

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but! lets look at how many posts are actually put in there..

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Look at the dates on those.. we still have posts from Feb. on the first page! Not used much?

Then we go to the main D&D section, half of those posts don't even belong there!

Then we go to the Free Requests forum.. shouldn't these be in the other two subforums?! About free coding and HTML help..

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Then we have the "Ask The Coding Community" forum.. why is this even still here?

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Here is what I propose we do.

1. Either get the moderators to step up, and do their job... or find some of the people that actually know about D&D and are active in that section.. and get them to help do it.

Because the moderators now, I don't see much really happening in this section. Things are not moved where they need to go half the time without reporting it.

Shouldn't a moderator browse his/her section and find things that are wrong? Instead of relying on us to report the posts, he/she are taking on the responsibility to do his/her job and actively do it.. not sit back and let us do it for them.

2. Get rid of these stupid sub forums, and get the D&D active again.

What subforums?

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Why?

The D&D section isn't popular enough anymore to deserve all of these subforums, when they aren't used enough to categorize these.

Website Coding & Programming - This section isn't organized anymore, or used anymore hardly anyway.. this can be put in the main section with Prefix's ([PHP], [HTML], [CSS], [Javascript], etc).

Website Design & Coding Related - The same reason as above, people post here the wrong things anyway.. and it would function better with prefix(s) in the main section.

Website Design Projects - This isn't used hardly anymore, not many people do their own projects, so a section isn't needed for the little posts.

Most posts are about starting Habbo fansites anyway, so this wasn't the original intention of this section (DJ Panels, News Scripts, etc).

Ask The Coding Community - Why is this even still here? It was disbanded remember.. plus it looks pointless with the "Never".

Web Design Tutorials - Rename - It's not all about web design, hence the [PHP] over there, it should just be "Tutorials".

3. Again, get some moderators from the Design & Development section that are active and know what they are doing, and what they are talking about.

Assigning someone this section, as a trialest mod or just a mod in general is pointless.

The D&D section shouldn't rely soly on the Tech mods, as they sometimes don't know what they are doing anyway.. or have no clue about D&D.. so they stray away from moderating this section if they have to.

It would really benefit more for the D&D section to have their own moderators that don't rely on the Tech moderators.

Unless you fix that problem, we will always have this problem.


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Anyway, that's my 10 cents, anyone else agree?

I agree with all that to be frank. We need people who are intelligent enough in web development to moderate the forums, as they are people that will generally know where to put topics that are not related.

I also thing its really stupid that threads get stickied when they are about getting free domain names. How is the process of buying/getting domains directly related to design and development, you can argue it is, but not enough for that sort of thread to get sticked.

It needs to be fixed for the people to stay, at the moment its one horrid place.

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Originally Posted by Source

I agree with all that to be frank. We need people who are intelligent enough in web development to moderate the forums, as they are people that will generally know where to put topics that are not related.

I also thing its really stupid that threads get stickied when they are about getting free domain names. How is the process of buying/getting domains directly related to design and development, you can argue it is, but not enough for that sort of thread to get sticked.

It needs to be fixed for the people to stay, at the moment its one horrid place.

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Pretty much this post, there's not really much at all to add to this, so just 1+ing this. Get some decent mods (i.e the long time D&D users that will know what to do) that don't just sit about and let everything slide.

Agreed with Source and .. Jewish Bear

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Originally Posted by Jewish Bear

Pretty much this post, there's not really much at all to add to this, so just 1+ing this. Get some decent mods (i.e the long time D&D users that will know what to do) that don't just sit about and let everything slide.

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I totally agree with this.

Agreed, it totally needs to be fixed.

Very good post, have some rep :)

The only problem I can see is finding people suitable enough for moderating and who have a good knowledge of D&D. Mod jobs aren't just given to any old nubbin.

4thed 5thed or sixthed? anyway, this was brought up by you about a month ago yet nothing has really been changed apart from the not so obvious removal of the coding community.

Mods need to be definitely integrated in this section.. PLEASE.

ive been a 'member' of the d+d for a while now, may not have posted but i read a lot. but when i come to posting a thread its gotten that confusing where to post that you just end up putting it in the D+D part.

PLEASE CHANGE IT


to above. im sure a lot of people wouldnt mind having the job. And the whole process of going through mod applications is having a good number to choose from. But tbh, most of the people in D+D (as in long members) wont just piss about and not do the job. ok, some are immature like that but a lot of us arent and wouldnt mind doing it

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Originally Posted by Professor-Alex

Very good post, have some rep :)

The only problem I can see is finding people suitable enough for moderating and who have a good knowledge of D&D. Mod jobs aren't just given to any old nubbin.

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I beg to differ.

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Originally Posted by Professor-Alex

Mod jobs aren't just given to any old nubbin.

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Loving the witty sarcasm. At least, I hope that was sarcastic.