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Family forum? This place is mostly blokes. Girls are a rarity, young childen even more so. And believe me - I think the kids of today could teach me some swear words I've never heard before.

my 2 year old swears more than i do, doesnt mean i want to see it in the forums.
however, as the swearies are not filtered automatically, there should be some scope for allowing swearing if it is appropriate. but given its a massive forum with many posts, this could become a bit hard to manage.
 
1. Review forum in the Hardware bit. I know there is a review forum already but I'd like to see that go since it appears to be OcUK only and having one for everyone to post up reviews of their stuff.

2. Laptop forum
 
either you need to relax the rules, make them clearer or police them better, it gets stupid when people can be suspended for letters like 'f' but not for racist slurs (so either make it more acceptable, or police it better please(glad to see the latter is on the rise but it still really isn't upto the level it should be considering the strict rules)

MM needs to be harder to get into (say 1000 posts and/or 6 months(i say and/or because some people don't spam and so it could take years to become part of the MM)), or their needs to be a way of properly vetting people, confirming phone numbers'/addresses etc etc (which get stored in trust and can't be edited exept by mod, things like that)

would like to see sperate sub forums for the consoles, it would cut down on a large ammount of aweful posts that serve as nothing more the piddling off the rest of the posters.

oh, i'd like a list of common words which may be considered naughty in the FAQ, ie things like crap/git/arse/faggot etc seem to be ok, things like 'illigitamte child', and 'urinate' seem a bit borderline (i've RTM'd some people for it and seen it removed by a mod, and on other occasions have seen it left there (same with non-fully starred out swearies)) and the obvious 'sex' and 'poo'. I'd just like to know which are acceptable, and which arent and i'd like that to be stuck to.

pictures, rules on pictures seem a bit dodgey
how much flesh is to much flesh?
should we even be posting raunchy/half naked pictures on a family forum?

oh and last but not least can you get this new guy to get some lian li ao5b in stock for friday? :D




edit: can't you just star all the swear words out using filters (like you use for slang and things like the hegoats 'nd stuff?)


and i forgot to say: ADDITIONAL AVATARS!!!!!111one!!!!11!1
 
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I think the only real changes I'd like to see have already been mentioned multiple times, a couple more avatars would be nice. I'd still like to see Commissarios changed to Consiglieres to fit better with the Mafiosi theme and that could potentially mean some further adaptations of the ranking as well to allow the new avatars to have a different title/rank.

I'm not sure if wordwrap has been reintroduced for signatures but if not that would be handy.

Other than that thanks for making the OcUK logo open up a fresh window to the shop, that is appreciated. :)
 
My thoughts on ideas already posted:

-Ability to disable sigs: Good. Sometimes I like to browse from work and have to disable images completely, which can make some threads confusing
-Splitting SA: Bad. Although I primarily post in footie threads, I also stumble across some other sporting threads of interest which I would have missed had they been in a different sub-forum
-Financial forum: Good. Could maybe include stuff like housing, budgeting and so forth.

Regarding banned members, it'd be good to publically air (where feasible) the reasons why some of the longer standing members got banned. For example Davey_Pitch always came across very well to me, top bloke in SA and Games, happy to engage in conversation regarding rules, seemed very likeable when I met him too. I got the impression that he wasn't overly impressed by the 'purge' of Dons and made a few slightly derogatory comments (nothing abusive) on the forums, but I'd still like to know the real reason he got banned. Maybe info like this could be made available in an special forum only accessible by pre-nukers (i.e. registered Oct 2002).

A clampdown on spamming would be good (quoting with no comment added, single smileys / "LOL!"s, creating new threads asking what to have on their toast etc).

Actually one statistic I'd really like to see on profiles would be number of threads started (i.e. ratio of threads:posts). Some people seem to create far too many threads (especially in GD) relative to the number of replies they post.

On a related note, people creating new threads about old topics is annoying, especially if there are some very good, long and well thought out posts in the original thread. Maybe we need more admin influence here in terms of merging/locking threads about existing topics - obviously this would be dependent on sufficient RTMs. Now, fair enough in some cases some titles to search for may not be obvious, but in some cases people are BLATANTLY just creating a new thread on some major issue which already has at least one big, active thread discussing it (for example, a major new game release). Essentially they just want to attract more attention to their post (OPs probably get read 50x more than random post on page 5 due to laziness from readers).
 
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Underbosses would be good to have again. Would mean less work for Dons and problems are far more likely to be found - it must be hard to moderate a forum if you you're not interested in the subject.

A Don presence in Distributed Computing would be nice, although I admit that there is rarely anything that needs moderating. We're well behaved :D

Avatars would be nice for certain post counts over 1000. Perhaps 5000 and 10,000. Currently you get through all the avatars pretty quickly and the only ones left are UBs/Dons/Admin.

Sig sizes and dimensions should stay the same. Anyone who thinks it's not enough should get a decent graphics package or stop moaning. Death to anyone who wants animated signatures.

Would be nice to have a change of colour scheme for the forums. Doesn't have to be drastic, but would make a nice change.

I agree that the logo could do with a facelift, but I understand that you don't change your company logo for the hell of it.

PHP code tag is still broken :p
 
Can I just say it's good to see all the more "experienced" posters out in this thread and hope something comes of it :)
 
Only read the first 5 pages.. Got too long winded and repetative due to everyone having the same ideas. I have one or two, not sure if they have been mentioned yet though.:o

1] Member rating.

As we can rate the threads upto 5 stars, why not have the same option to rate members upto 10 stars.

It would obviously take along time to reach 10 stars as the "random pic thread" has only just reached 5 stars after a long time on the GD forum.

(anyway of letting us know how many people DID click on 5 stars for the Random pic thread by any chance)?
I would think this would be a good idea as new members and regulars can see if a member is well know and respected in this community.
The stars could be placed below the avatar.
Also maybe a negative rating for bad posts/attitude etc. Although this could lead to massive arguments.

Just an idea.:)

2] Avatars for every 500 posts.

I think it would really make the forums more appealing. We all like having avatars and the more we can choose from the better as we cant use our own. Obviously keeping within the theme of Gangsters but make sure the 'actors/characters' are all from the same movie/tv show.

That is all from now..:)
 
I forgot to mention in my post above - Thread preview!

When you hover over a thread, the alt tags show the first few lines of text from the thread. :cool:
 
worst possible idea ever...all my posts would be at minus 10 (so would [angus' {higgins}]) :D

Congratumalations on the first mention :)

Not sure rating posts would work either. More controversial (but sometimes better members) would end up being avoided by newer members perhaps?
 
1] Member rating.

Not sure about the need for this really, generally speaking after many years on the forums I have a fairly good idea of which posters I like and which I don't, I don't need a rating system to tell me. Could just promote cliques with all the cool gang bragging about their 8*+ rating - doesn't mean to say I would value their posts any higher than a lesser known mortal in one of the subforums.

2] Avatars for every 500 posts.

500 seems a bit of a fine resolution, that means that someone with 10k posts would have 20 different avatars, where are we gonna find them all? Might be nice to have a new avatar for 10k+ posts or >5 year membership, mind ;)
 
500 seems a bit of a fine resolution, that means that someone with 10k posts would have 20 different avatars, where are we gonna find them all? Might be nice to have a new avatar for 10k+ posts or >5 year membership, mind ;)

I think 3000 would be good, gives me something to aim for :)
 
Tighten up on things a bit Moderators please. If you swear, suspend them for 48 hours straight away, no warnings, their is absolutely no need to swear on these forums, no excuse what so ever. If when they come back from their holiday they swear again, permanent ban them. Most people on these forums should be grown up enough to take the first warning seriously, if they contiue to swear, they deserve to be gone for ever.

Also if an arguments starts to errupt, one post warning everyone that is involved and then if they contiune then suspend them, end of story.

Last thing, please sort this Angus Higgins bashing out NOW, its getting extremely stupid and boring. Do what you feel is right, give him a warning himself or tell the childish people that are bashing him for it, give them a warning.
 
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