forum restructure

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Yeah, hopefully people will read the actual board description now. Thanks.

 

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agreed it's annoying

I hope people will think before posting

 

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Good job Loonylion, that will help me out heaps.

 

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restructure,,,
well...im kinda confuse too when i first join the forum..
thinkin about..this n that category is should better if joined together...and else
more simple is better ;D

 

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Can't you just ban the idiots and kill two birds with one stone?

 

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How about kicking out the contest section, since all threads are closed in there and no regular member can start a new one.

It's dead. Bury it!

 

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sorry....late reply
well..not sure...just too much sub-forum i think...with the same objective..like help..suggestion...etc
i'm sure all the sub forum have a reason...but again if more people spamming
then more hard to track...cause its to much topics to search.... :-\
and archiving a dead (unimportant) topics (or just trash it hehee ;D)

again..just an opinion..its all up to you guys...

 

Hopefully it will, but I doubt it. Noobs have an amazing way of being noobs.

 

I confused just because of SMF. I didn't really like SMF anyway.

 

I'm not familiar with how these things work, but SMF seems to be simpler than other forum/board handling programs. I go to this local forum that uses vbulletin & it works so differently. Most notable is the annoying, "redirection" screen which usually opens before everything else. Say you posted a reply on a thread, it will show you this annoying page telling you your post has been submitted & you are now being redirected to it, as if you didn't already know that

But what I liked on that place was the emoticon system, unlike SMF where to generate a for example you'd type : ), there it uses this format :smile: & because of this, other emoticons exist. So typing :chopper: yields a smiley riding a motorcycle, :starwars: yields darth vader duking it out with a regular smiley with lightsabers & :whip: yields an emoticon whipping another dangling on a pole. And oh yeah people there don't abuse emoticons as they know they're there just for fun.

 

Well if you're gonna switch over to vbulletin then I have faith in you. I know you can make it worth better than what I've seen so far *cough* annoying redirect page *cough*.

If the standard format is as you say it is, then how were they able to pull off that wacky emoticon system? And yeah the format was weird but awesome though :thumbs up:

 

You should try MyBB too. Smiley system is same like vB. No spacing after a word. You can check it out at http://mybboard.net And also, some reviewers said it's a vBulletin clone but with more features(I think, I don't remember). And it's free too.

And oh wait, the Quick Reply system uses AJAX system so no need to redirect page after you click the "Post Reply" button. It just appears "Loading Please Wait..."

 

Unknown you said?! No it's not... And you said using AJAX is a performance killer??? No it's not... The AJAX system is only in the "Quick Reply". I don't think it's has bad security.... Anyway... You're the admin, you have the rights to choose what forum software you want, as long as RomUlation will be the best.

 

Great job on the restructuring, but it seems that people will always keep making mistakes when deciding which area it is that they are supposed to post in. Every once in a while, you check the threads and there you find some thing that does not belong(Or in other words, a disturbance in the force). What else do you have in place or will put in place to stop this from happening? I know it's more frustrating for you guys to deal with when people keep messing up the threads by posting stuff where they don't belong.