Forum going down hill?

[Chippiewill]

So you're saying new members aren't staying because they don't like the look of the bronze stars? Just want to clarify before I lash out at you for that absurd suggestion

Well I hated having bronze stars, they look horrible, as do the silver stars. To be perfectly honest I associate it with 'new user' where as when I see the jeweled ranks I think a big poster.

Forum Lag :/

[Nixt]

I realised myself that the council idea was something of a fallacy... a thread, such as this one, seems to bring about some good ideas and suggestions that we can discuss and perhaps implement. I feel this works far better than any council would.

[The Professor]

Well I hated having bronze stars, they look horrible, as do the silver stars. To be perfectly honest I associate it with 'new user' where as when I see the jeweled ranks I think a big poster.

Forum Lag :/

Fair enough, just making sure I wasn't taking that the wrong way

Every forum I've been on that has a ranking system has something bad for the first rank, we used to have a "newbie" user rank back in the day before the stars came about and on a certain forum I've come across the first rank is "I read my dad's playboys" The first one is designed to be less desirable to encourage you to want to post a lot to get rid of it. If that is really putting people off they need to question their existance on the planet, let alone the forum

[FlyingJesus]

Gotta love DS forums.

I agree that userranks are a good thing for keeping new members - as chips said the bronze stars aren't exactly pretty and so people are more likely to want to post and stick around to get rid of them. Having goals that you need to be active to achieve is precisely what we need right now

[Smits]

Well I hated having bronze stars, they look horrible, as do the silver stars. To be perfectly honest I associate it with 'new user' where as when I see the jeweled ranks I think a big poster.

Forum Lag :/

But surely having a ranking system where you start off with somthing un-attractive is good? Wouldn't that encourage people to become more active to escape the 'bronze stars'/

[GommeInc]

Urgh, a council would be a ghastly idea. It never worked in the past, singling out a small group of members in an attempt to silence the majority was never a good idea. Besides, no-one likes running them, it's so boring and useless when the feedback forum runs itself.

[9y]

Its cus jakes banned, its just no the same without him.

I thought exactly the same when i opened this thread

[Titch]

If MAD came back we'd lose members from all the pointless bans he issued on people he didnt like...

And i would be straight on auto-ban

[Black_Apalachi]

His usertitle

but how?





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[Nixt]

I recently noticed that there were a lot of instances where active discussions were being closed because of the misbehaviour of just one or two members. Matt and I were worried this was having a negative affect on our current members because it is severely reducing the discussions our members can participate in. Therefore we made the decision to change the policy so that threads should remain open as far as possible as long as any discussion remains.

We hope that this is a turn in the right direction because we are very keen to improve the forum .