Suggestions.

[hah]

Yeah but im sure its not hard to make more than one quality post a day

[Alex3213]

You're always saying "Next Month" but when will it ever come, you're another example. You're here 4 Years and you have 1000 posts and your a manager that's not even 1 post a day

I can almost guarentee that these few things which you suggested are coming because he has posted them in an Aims thread for next month , they're not too difficult to accomplish either so I think this will all run smoothly.

[Inseriousity.]

Yeah but im sure its not hard to make more than one quality post a day

I've done 3 in this very thread. :rolleyes: Plus my join date isn't really accurate, I registered but left and only came back last year or something.

[hah]

well i was goin on the fact you have been here for the full four years, if you have been here only year its sort-of ok

and i think you should hire me cause my great ideas ol: -cofffffffffff-













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[xxMATTGxx]

I can see the sub-forums being quite empty, but I also think a lot of people would enter the competitions as they would want a sub-forum.

And I agree Jordy. Garion said the "Merging Forums" idea was being discussed in the Management Forum. I don't understand why that is necessary. Matt and Garion are (A)FM and they should just be allowed to make such things happen. If they don't have the admincp permission, I am sure they can PM someone who has. If all members discuss it in this section, then Admins discuss it again in their section, it will be months before its implemented.

Just to make it clear to people. Myself and Garion do have admincp access and can merge forums and do whatever else we may have to do in admin. Sometimes other things need to be done by higher up but that's nothing related to merging forums. Since the next merge is going to be a big one with many forums changing/merging and so on, once its happened. Things like this are discussed to get the views from other Management and also to get some sort of "Go ahead". Because its not easy putting it all back if someone says we shouldn't of done that.

[Seatherny]

I understand what you mean about getting the go-ahead, but these things shouldnt be discussed for ages or take ages to implement is my opinion.

Create a new thread in Management forum:

Right this is what we want to merge, whats your opinions. Please post them within 7 days.

After 7 days, merge them etc.

[The Professor]

sorry this thread is tl;dr.

The only thing I disagree with in the OP is cutting down on the number of smods. There is never a reason to reduce the number of moderators, having too many is far better than having few or even a "just right" number. If we only have 3 smods and one is away, the backlog of work builds up massively (there's a lot more effort goes into smodding than people realise) and stuff doesn't get done and people start crying. So yknow, 4 is good.

Excellent points Saurav I agree with pretty much all of them.

Why not just cut down on all the bureaucracy? I get the impression every single decision is discussed at length in some sort of admin forum. This is a very slow system and I'm sure this way, things can easily be forgotten about.

IMO Admins should just be able to do what they want when they want, there is advantages to being democratic, but remember this is a forum though not a government.

E.g. if Sammeth wanted to create a referral competition, why can't he just go into forum settings and do it there and then. Instead of waiting around on others and waiting for weekly updates etc.

I doubt this'll happen but I honestly do believe a lot more changes could be implemented a lot better if management and admins could just do what they wanted, when they wanted.

EWWWW AT HXF/GOVERNMENT COMPARISONS. These make me wanna slit so badly. But yeah the longer these changes take the more the forum will die. There is absolutely no need for any change to take over a month to implement.

Btw managers doing what they want is allowed up to a point atm but if they wanna make what's considered a "big change" it has to be OK'd with general management first. But that only takes 5 minutes so we seem to be about a month over schedule.

[Inseriousity.]

But that only takes 5 minutes so we seem to be about a month over schedule.

I wish.

[xxMATTGxx]

I understand what you mean about getting the go-ahead, but these things shouldnt be discussed for ages or take ages to implement is my opinion.

Create a new thread in Management forum:

Right this is what we want to merge, whats your opinions. Please post them within 7 days.

After 7 days, merge them etc.

I see where you are coming from then that time of year comes again and people go busy and run away with the reindeers!

[Seatherny]

sorry this thread is tl;dr.

The only thing I disagree with in the OP is cutting down on the number of smods. There is never a reason to reduce the number of moderators, having too many is far better than having few or even a "just right" number. If we only have 3 smods and one is away, the backlog of work builds up massively (there's a lot more effort goes into smodding than people realise) and stuff doesn't get done and people start crying. So yknow, 4 is good.

Although smodding has changed slightly over the last 2 years, if I was able to handle it all on my own for several months, so I am sure 3 super mods can easily do it. This was during the time Seacat ran the forum etc so its not as if the forum was dead