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[immense]

Awesomeeeeeeee maffew. Anyway, what m^ or whatever said is a good point. You seem to be banking on a lot of people signing up on the merge which is very likely seeing as this is still the biggest UK forum, if not the most active. For this to happen and for them to stay you need to entice them with US/CA/AU/SG events, even if it's just forum competitions asking questions about their country. What is the biggest region in Canada? What is the currency in Australia? - examples. That way, British people can google and the international users will feel like something is being done for them. Just an idea.

[Blinger$]

Awesomeeeeeeee maffew. Anyway, what m^ or whatever said is a good point. You seem to be banking on a lot of people signing up on the merge which is very likely seeing as this is still the biggest UK forum, if not the most active. For this to happen and for them to stay you need to entice them with US/CA/AU/SG events, even if it's just forum competitions asking questions about their country. What is the biggest region in Canada? What is the currency in Australia? - examples. That way, British people can google and the international users will feel like something is being done for them. Just an idea.

Call me blinger

I think the best comp I've Entered so far was the one about the capitals of each country! Amazin' comp tbh

[immense]

I also agree whole heartedly with Graham and Rosie I think it was with the off-topic posting rule.

[Nixt]

This is what annoys me. You guys always say "WATCH DIS SPACE" and then 5 months on nothing happens.


hey hye guess what forum.. watch this space! THERE WILL BE ANOTHER POST SOON! (its not a dig at you oli, just general management )

There are many things that are being worked on and I am sorry if in the past you have experienced that these changes don't come about. I can assure you though if we mention something is being implemented regarding something it will happen .

As long as their are more events that international people can participate in, and it isn't JUST oriented around the UK. If we want to go international, we shouldn't just have the election crap when the UK are having an election, do it for the other countries too... Also, with competitions like the election new members stand next to no chance with winning. The older members will all bunch together and form a "super group" which most of the older folks will vote for, which leaves the newbies losing, thus them potentially leaving... Maybe if you set it so you have to have half the team as new members and half as old ones it'll incorporate everyone together?

I quite agree we need to try and incorporate new members and it's an issue that's been mentioned before. It's quite difficult to make older members include new members though. There are so many older members that are stuck in their way, as it were.

Awesomeeeeeeee maffew. Anyway, what m^ or whatever said is a good point. You seem to be banking on a lot of people signing up on the merge which is very likely seeing as this is still the biggest UK forum, if not the most active. For this to happen and for them to stay you need to entice them with US/CA/AU/SG events, even if it's just forum competitions asking questions about their country. What is the biggest region in Canada? What is the currency in Australia? - examples. That way, British people can google and the international users will feel like something is being done for them. Just an idea.

We will definitely make a considerable effort, come the merge, to ensure that users from international communities are catered for as well . I came up with an idea that we create public joinable usergroups (like the IT Crowd and Pixel Artists Group) that is relevant to each Hotel / International community. Then you get a little userbar with a country flag on it or something. I know one argument against this would be that it encourages factions but I think it's a nice little thing to do so people can show their heritage. What do you guys think?

I also agree whole heartedly with Graham and Rosie I think it was with the off-topic posting rule.

I will have Oli look into this.

[Inseriousity.]

Call me blinger

I think the best comp I've Entered so far was the one about the capitals of each country! Amazin' comp tbh

You raised interesting points in your feedback survey about this, we'll definitely be making a note of it!

[Hecktix]

Pointless Posting Ruleee.

A6. Do not post pointlessly ~ A pointless post has no relevance to the topic, any previous post that is relevant, is meaningless (ghnrgher etc) or does little to contribute to the discussion. A pointless thread either has no meaning, is something posted that is not true (e.g. false story in news and rumours) or a thread that doesn't prompt a discussion. Replying to a pointless post will also be considered pointlessly posting.

Which bits don't you like and I'll look into ensuring it's lightened up on.

It must be noted though that a while back when we became quite strict on this, there was a lot of spam being scattered around the forums but perhaps it is time for more lenience here.

[Tintinnabulate]

Pointless Posting Ruleee.



Which bits don't you like and I'll look into ensuring it's lightened up on.

It must be noted though that a while back when we became quite strict on this, there was a lot of spam being scattered around the forums but perhaps it is time for more lenience here.

This:

Replying to a pointless post will also be considered pointlessly posting.

If someone doesnt know a post is pointless (as a mod hasnt edited it yet), its unfair to warn the person who replied to it too.

[immense]

Pointless Posting Ruleee.



Which bits don't you like and I'll look into ensuring it's lightened up on.

It must be noted though that a while back when we became quite strict on this, there was a lot of spam being scattered around the forums but perhaps it is time for more lenience here.

"little to contribute to the discussion" i think you should be able to reply to a post in there even if it's not about the original topic. thread: fave colour
person1: red
person2: thats the colour of my car!

or whatever, nothing about their fave colour and contributes little (nothing) to the discussion

[Hecktix]

This:



If someone doesnt know a post is pointless (as a mod hasnt edited it yet), its unfair to warn the person who replied to it too.

"little to contribute to the discussion" i think you should be able to reply to a post in there even if it's not about the original topic. thread: fave colour
person1: red
person2: thats the colour of my car!

or whatever, nothing about their fave colour and contributes little (nothing) to the discussion

I agree with both points made here

[immense]

fabby dabby doo! will those be in sunday changes then? (if they still happen)