Suggestions

[Ashley]

Okay we're getting a lot of suggestions in various places so the neat freak in me decided upon this topic.

Suggestions

Ones im aware of:

1. Forum is too small for big displays so see about centering/stretching/whatever
2. Retro schemes
3. Arcade

Answers

1. Will talk to Jan and Lammie, not sure whose hands it should fall in (coder vs designer basically)
2. It will happen, just in time. Christmas is round the corner ;)
3. Need a hack, and to do that I need the license holder. Im pretty sure its Tim whose moving counry at the moment so again, patience.

I will update this post with all new suggestions and answers when they're posted below.

[DaOne]

Mod_Rewrite - have mentioned it to you in my PM's :).

[Charlie]

Forum is too big for 800x600 resolution (I have to use that at school).

[YenRug]

Suggestions/problems:

1. Would it not make more sense to have the "News" threads in the relevant forums, i.e. Revolution stories in the Revolution forum? At the moment it seems to be that most people end up discussing news related topics in the forums related to the particular system, just seems to make more sense that way. I don't know if it's automated at the moment, if it is you'd need to add a category to each news piece, though I'd still recommend leaving the "News:" tag at the start.

2. I'm not sure if the reputation is running correctly at the moment, I was just looking in my profile settings and noticed two people seem to have given me postive feedback but there's no change in my score. Is it broken, or do you have to exceed the initial 10 that you seem to get by default?

[Athriller]

Can we have an increase in avatar size dimensions? 100 x 100 would fit this forum well, and I'm sure the 56k'ers will be fine with it (right guys?).

[RoadKill]

I don't mind the avatar dimensions as is, but the PROFILE PICTURE size needs to be increased dramatically.

Someone reduced it from default to 100x100 but neglected to change the size limit, because a 100x100 image can only be 23.9KB, and never reach teh 64KB default limit.

Also the header for the page needs to be resaved as png, there was a whole thread about it, I think Lammie went away to look at it.

Also I request a Google Talk (Gmail) field under the Instant Messaging formats.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Suggestions/problems:

1. Would it not make more sense to have the "News" threads in the relevant forums, i.e. Revolution stories in the Revolution forum? At the moment it seems to be that most people end up discussing news related topics in the forums related to the particular system, just seems to make more sense that way. I don't know if it's automated at the moment, if it is you'd need to add a category to each news piece, though I'd still recommend leaving the "News:" tag at the start.

2. I'm not sure if the reputation is running correctly at the moment, I was just looking in my profile settings and noticed two people seem to have given me postive feedback but there's no change in my score. Is it broken, or do you have to exceed the initial 10 that you seem to get by default?

1. The news board is directly linked to the main site. It more or less replaces the old comments system. Basically, it's just a way of allowing people who browse the main site to come into the boards and talk about the news articles. I actually think it's good the way it currently is, because then all news that has been posted on the main site is in one place, whereas it would get lost in Revolution discussion board.

2. The reputation thing is confusing, so sorry if i get this wrong. I've had a total of 9 comments, yet my total was still 10. I think it has something to do with posts. The more posts the person who's repping you has, the bigger the 'power' they will have when they rep you. The problem with me was all the people who were repping me were doing it on the first day or second day of the site, when people still had low post counts! So, i believe they have to get above a certain postcount before the rep system fully comes into play.

Athriller: We'll discuss it with the staff and we'll come to a decision. Although, i would agree on raising the avatar size limit before i agree on a sig limit tho, as i feel anything bigger than 500x150 is just plain silly. I think we can reach a compromise on this.

Roadkill: These points will be brought us and talked over with staff. I'll see what i can do.

[GoonFace]

Can't we increase the size for avatars. I have a really good one, but it's 90*80 pixels :angry:

[Ashley]

I don't mind the avatar dimensions as is, but the PROFILE PICTURE size needs to be increased dramatically.

Someone reduced it from default to 100x100 but neglected to change the size limit, because a 100x100 image can only be 23.9KB, and never reach teh 64KB default limit.

Also the header for the page needs to be resaved as png, there was a whole thread about it, I think Lammie went away to look at it.

Also I request a Google Talk (Gmail) field under the Instant Messaging formats.

1. The default is 100x100, or at least it seems to be going by the several boards I've looked at.

2. A google talk field is also another hack, so I'll need to get onto that when I get permission. Ive added a field in the profile but its a bit awkwardly placed at the moment.

And one more, in big letters;

one reputation comment DOES NOT EQUAL one reputation point

it relies upon how many posts the commentor has (or how long they have been here). More respected members (ie with higger post counts or karma) give out more points, whereas a member with only 30 posts will not give out one point with a comment, but instead a fraction of a point.

[link64uk]

how can you tel if good karma or bad karma has been given if you have not been left a comment

[Ashley]

The colour of the icon.

http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/images/revo-europe/reputation/reputation_pos.gif Positive
http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/images/revo-europe/reputation/reputation_balance.gif Neutral (in essence, no effect)
http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/images/revo-europe/reputation/reputation_neg.gif Negative

[link64uk]

ah right thanks for that

[Charlie]

Are you thinking of using the subscription feature? I'm sure loads of people would be £5 a year for a private forum and some other random things (access to the arcade?). I know I would pay £5 for that.

[Mr_Odwin]

Can we have an increase in avatar size dimensions? 100 x 100 would fit this forum well, and I'm sure the 56k'ers will be fine with it (right guys?).

In support of this I just noticed that there is an option in your User CP to turn off all avatars and signatures. Friendly for dial-up users I think.

[Cubechris]

I reccomend removing the horrid blue border box around the avatars, as they only link that persons profile, just keep that link on their username.

[Mr_Odwin]

I don't like this on thread titles: (1 2 3 ... Last Page )

What if you want to go to page 14? I know you can go into the thread and then one click will take you to the right page, but it's a bit annoying, and also, you don't know how many pages are in a thread. Is this even changeable?

[RoadKill]

Set the numbers of posts per page to the highest it can go. I did, helps.

It's in the control panel options.

[zatoichi]

A couple of things. Firstly, a music forum would be good. Not only will it save a good few threads going into General Chit-Chat, but it will encourage posters to share their musical tastes more, and basically provide a big network of bands and artist(e)s for people to consider, broadening musical horizons and giving us all more to talk about.

Secondly, I am in no way interested in paying a fiver to access these boards. They've been free for the last three years, why change that now? Besides, everyone should be welcome here. People shouldn't be excluded simply because they don't have a debit card.

[Fierce_LiNk]

CubeChris: Lammie does most of the stuff regarding layout, so hopefully he'll see this and come up with an idea.

Mr_odwin: We'll talk it over about what will happen with signatures and the like. Yeah, it is a bit annoying about the pages.Although, it's not very often that a page will go past say 5 pages. I'll look into that. This links into the next answer for:

Piro: I think it might be a good idea to raise the number of posts for each thread slightly, but nothing too stupid. What is the maximum, btw?

Zatoichi: 1. Yeah, we've often talked about a music board. Although, music threads are often around for only about a month at a time, then they quickly sink to the bottom of the page. It has been discussed many a time. I think a music subforum would be a good idea, but not a whole board just for it. Also, if we made a music subforum, we'd more or less be forced to cater for other things. For example, a movie subforum, a sport subforum. It would just detract the attention that the main general chit chat board would be getting, imo.

2. No way are we going to let people to pay for using this. As you rightly said, it would just limit our audience.

[RoadKill]

I'd totally pay a few quid to access the forums, but then I'm used to the Something Awful way; you know, a huge community worth paying access for.

Hmm... As for the posts per page ... It's in User Control Panel>Options... 40 posts per page is the maximum you can set it to at the moment, and that's what I have it as.

[zatoichi]

I see your point about having to create boards for other medium if there was one created for music... but again, I think that the only reason there aren't more posts about music and movies and the like, is because there aren't boards dedicated to them. For instance, do you think there would be as many posts about rival consoles and games if that board didn't exist?

I suggest a trial period of say two weeks, to see how things go. I think the forum would greatly benefit from a board for music.

[Charlie]

I was meaning just an extra forum for the people who pay. You can still access all the other ones if you don't pay. Paying is totally optional.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Piro: I think 40 would be slightly just pushing it, maybe? Hmm. Might give it a run down later and see how everything looks. Ta for the suggestion.

Zatoichi: Hmm, you do raise some good points. A trial run would be a good idea, and i'll bring up the suggestion with the staff in a bit. It's an idea worth looking into, i agree.

Moria: The problem with that is that we will have to provide something that is worth the £5, otherwise nobody would sign up. :hmm:

[RoadKill]

I already run the board with 40 posts per page because of that option. I'm just saying if it bothers anyone else, they can change it to be such.

:)

[Platty]

just to clear up there isnt gonna be a music board, football board, sport board or anyting like that, all those can go into chit chat! if we had seperate boards or sub boards for every topic chit chat will be empty and would not be what it is today! we are a nintendo forum not an everything forum, yes we have boards such as creative and tech etc but there was a need for them and at the moment still is, at the moment there isnt a need for anything else, i dont see tons of music threads with lots of pages cluttering up chit chat so there is no need to take that topic of conversation away from there.

we dont want this forum ending up with tons of boards which have hardly any posts in them, it all looks too messy, the fewer boards the better.

[RoadKill]

Plus if you want to talk about music, there's always a forum on the audioscrobbler group.

http://www.last.fm/group/Revolution-Europe/forum

[Ashley]

I've cranked up the thread titles from "1,2,3, more" to "1,2,3,4,5 more" because as FL said most threads dont pass that. I know there are a few topics that do but they tend to reach dozens of pages so we can't accomodate for those. Stops having thread titles that take up a lot of room because all page numbers from 1-60odd are included like on Xsorbit.

At present its on 30 threads per page. On days in which I've only come on once there have been times when not every thread has a new reply, so I think they should stay.

Moria to clear things up, do you mean have a board just for you and friends or something. Whereby you pay to get in and chat about "what you want" (but is still subject to moderation ;)) or something else?

Oh and the blue outline on avatars is because of IE. Ill look into changing it.

[RoadKill]

It never had the blue outline before. Not all image links have blue outlines in IE.

[Ashley]

No I know that, its cause its linked. Mines a blank at the moment, trying to remember the code to stop it automatically making links blue.

[Charlie]

Moria to clear things up, do you mean have a board just for you and friends or something. Whereby you pay to get in and chat about "what you want" (but is still subject to moderation ;)) or something else?


There is an extra board made called "Paid Members Only". You pay £5 and you get access to it. I don't know what you'd talk about in it. YOu could also get a custom user title and some other stuff. www.splfever.co.uk do this, people pay £5 and they get access to the special forum, an email address (name@splfever.co.uk). It was basically an idea to get some money into RE so we can continue with the high-quality site we're getting at the moment - it can't be cheap to run!

[Fierce_LiNk]

There is an extra board made called "Paid Members Only". You pay £5 and you get access to it. I don't know what you'd talk about in it. YOu could also get a custom user title and some other stuff. www.splfever.co.uk do this, people pay £5 and they get access to the special forum, an email address (name@splfever.co.uk). It was basically an idea to get some money into RE so we can continue with the high-quality site we're getting at the moment - it can't be cheap to run!

I personally don't think that that is enough content to justify the £5 fee, imo. A special forum and an email address are good ideas, but what would be on the special forum? :hmm:

[Bowser57]

A special forum and an email address are good ideas, but what would be on the special forum? :hmm:

Lots of stuff about the suckers that aren't on the special forum!

[Athriller]

Lots of stuff about the suckers that aren't on the special forum!


Yeah, hi 5! :cool:

[Apple_NdiB]

Lots of stuff about the suckers that aren't on the special forum!

Apparently I need to spread some reputation around before I send you kudos again, otherwise you would've been +1'ed.

[zatoichi]

Huh, about the music forum, Platty raised exactly the same points as the last time I put the idea of a music forum to the other staff members back at c-e. But you say that the Creative and Tech boards needed to be made. Why? All those threads could be in general chit chat, because in essence, that's what they are.

The only reason I think that there are that many posts in those boards is because they were themselves created, giving people a devoted thread to a certain topic where people can discuss said topic all day long. Music is something everyone can talk about. If you make a 'Music Discussion' thread or something like that, I guarantee you it will soon be filled.

[Apple_NdiB]

If such a board is sanctioned I nominate Fred to be the Mod.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Huh, about the music forum, Platty raised exactly the same points as the last time I put the idea of a music forum to the other staff members back at c-e. But you say that the Creative and Tech boards needed to be made. Why? All those threads could be in general chit chat, because in essence, that's what they are.

The only reason I think that there are that many posts in those boards is because they were themselves created, giving people a devoted thread to a certain topic where people can discuss said topic all day long. Music is something everyone can talk about. If you make a 'Music Discussion' thread or something like that, I guarantee you it will soon be filled.

The creative and tech boards were more or less required because gen chat got flooded at times when people had computer problems. Also, people asking about how to make sigs/can you make me a sig/how do you put a sig in your sig, etc.
I think Platty's just worried about gen chit chat becoming too "specific" if we start adding too many subforums or boards. I feel the same as well, because if we do add a music board, we will more or less be forced to add a sports board, a tv board, a film board, magazine, politics, etc. If we do this, gen chit will be devoid of so many threads.
Although, i wouldn't mind trying out a music board to see how it would go, maybe on a limited trial basis?
Also, i think we're worried about people's tastes clashing. In most music topics, some people laugh at other people's taste or the usual "rap is shit" stuff. This would be on a wider scale if we added the board.

Bearing in mind, we've only just started these forums. I think it would be wise for us to get settled in first, and to conquer some of the other problems and issues, before we go "perfecting" this forum.

[bob]

Please god make a music board. Then i can ignore all the music threads in one go, instead of ignoring them all separately.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Hehe. :)

Anyway, i think enough has been said about the music board for the moment. Let's move onto other suggestions.

[Platty]

dont get me wrong im a massive music fan, and love my music i listen to and cant live without it whether it be at home, in my car on the train, going to gigs or whatever and i would love a place to talk about my musical tastes with everyone, but i dont think here is the right place..

its just if we do people will just be demanding other boards and i know they will, and they will be using the exact same argument you are about there being a creative board and tech board! a member who is into football could just as easily say he wants a board all about football as there is a lot of interest in it, then when i say no, the member will say well there is a music board! i just dont want this nintendo revolution forum becoming like many other forums i see around the internet with tons of boards and not much going on in them, its all very crappy.

the forum has only just opened and we are still fiddling about with it so in time (and i mean give us time) perhaps it may happen after some more discussion and maybe we can have it but for now i hope you can understand the reasons why its a no.

[zatoichi]

hahaha, nicely said bob :P

see, everyone would be happy! People can go and talk about music in the music board, and those who don't like music can watch metaphorical paint dry in the general forum, minding their own business! ;)

But seriously, peoples opinions differ on every subject. People have clashing views all the time. In political threads for example, you'll always get one moron coming in saying 'bush sucks lolo111!!!' or words to that effect. And hey, it makes things interesting when more intellectual people come in and put them down with their razor sharp wit.

I think music is different to sport and TV as a discussion topic, because as well as there being many genres of music, there's the creative side of music, the theoretical side of it, the practical side, the technological side, all the bands and categories of music to discuss.

Go on Fierce_Link. You know me love you long time. ;)

I disagree with you Platty, in that football as a topic doesn't produce as many threads in general as music does, or many other forms of entertainment. But I suppose I have no alternative but to accept that the board will never be made, so perhaps I should just give up trying to justify it now.

[Athriller]

I say make it an entertainment board. Books, movies and music all under one roof, it's called Toys Toys 'R' Us, Toys 'R' Us, Toys 'R' Us!

[rizz]

I agree, music is far too big to be generalised.

[Fierce_LiNk]

We're not saying that the music board will never be created, we just need a bit of time to iron out other problems or see to other things first. The boards haven't even been up for a week yet. :heh:

[zatoichi]

[disguised Russian accent]You will meet our demands, or I will start quoting your posts and rearrange the words in a derogatory manner.[/disguised Russian accent]

[Cubechris]

No I know that, its cause its linked. Mines a blank at the moment, trying to remember the code to stop it automatically making links blue.

border="0"

In its most basic form. :unsure:

[Ashley]

Neg. It needs to be the code to automatically stop links being blue, its just coincidental that the link happens to be avatar-shaped. The avatars actually have an automatic 1pixel black border but it doesnt show on IE cause IE sucks.

[YenRug]

Is there are way to stop the "time-out" refresh on read/unread threads on VBulletin? I can go away from the forum with unread threads and they are usually showing as unread when I return; however, if I sit on any page for too long, i.e. reading a particularly long series of posts or I leave the computer for a while, when I go back to the thread list it's marked everything as read, unless threads have new posts in the meantime. The old XSOrbit forums didn't do this, which was one of the few good things about it, is this "hard-wired" in the VBulletin code or can it be lengthened (considerably)/disabled?

[RoadKill]

Get rid of the black border then. It still looks undesirable in Firefox.

[Cheapshot]

Allow us 100x100 avatars; this drug-crazed Ichigo is pissing me off now! 80x80 is way too small -- as decent 80x80 avatars are hard to find.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Give us the proper use of the bloody caps lock key.

[Ashley]

Give us the proper use of the bloody caps lock key.

What do you mean?

Oh and just so everyone knows:

sug·ges·tion P Pronunciation Key (sg-jschn, s-js-)
n.
The act of suggesting.
Something suggested: We ordered the shrimp, a suggestion of the waiter.
The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another.
A psychological process by which an idea is induced in or adopted by another without argument, command, or coercion.
An idea or response so induced.
A hint or trace: just a suggestion of makeup; the first suggestion of trouble ahead.

de·mand P Pronunciation Key (d-mnd)
v. de·mand·ed, de·mand·ing, de·mands
v. intr.
To make a demand.

[Mr_Odwin]

Is there are way to stop the "time-out" refresh on read/unread threads on VBulletin? I can go away from the forum with unread threads and they are usually showing as unread when I return; however, if I sit on any page for too long, i.e. reading a particularly long series of posts or I leave the computer for a while, when I go back to the thread list it's marked everything as read, unless threads have new posts in the meantime. The old XSOrbit forums didn't do this, which was one of the few good things about it, is this "hard-wired" in the VBulletin code or can it be lengthened (considerably)/disabled?

I think, in general, this forum is rubbish at remembering which threads and boards you have read. Even when I use the option to mark whole boards as read, sometimes when I come back a short/long time later all the threads that I've read, or marked as read, appear to have new posts but in fact they don't. It's quite annoying.

Edit: Even just now when I made this reply, submitted it and went back to the forum index, the forum said that there were new replies in the rules board. Lies.

[EEVILMURRAY]

What do you mean?

Oh and just so everyone knows:

sug·ges·tion P Pronunciation Key (sg-jschn, s-js-)
n.
The act of suggesting.
Something suggested: We ordered the shrimp, a suggestion of the waiter.
The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another.
A psychological process by which an idea is induced in or adopted by another without argument, command, or coercion.
An idea or response so induced.
A hint or trace: just a suggestion of makeup; the first suggestion of trouble ahead.

de·mand P Pronunciation Key (d-mnd)
v. de·mand·ed, de·mand·ing, de·mands
v. intr.
To make a demand.


Taken on board, I still suggest you give us the proper use of the bloody caps lock key.

What do you mean?
Since you asked so nicely. Were you to construct a sentence with the caps lock on it will transform it to this:
"Only The First Letter Of Each Word Will Be Capitalized"

[Ashley]

Hmm guess its just a general grammatical thing. Been trawling through to see about the whole "thread read/not read" cookie whatever problem (couldnt find anything im afraid) and didnt see anything for this. Will delve deeper.

Oh wait, i've enable capslock. But no shouting, I have a headache.

[RoadKill]

YEAH IT totally didn't work. ALTHOUGH IF YOU do CAPS LOCK short enough, it doesn't bother FUCKING YOU IN THE ASS.

[Ashley]

Actually can we clear this up.

Are old posts that you havn't read (say from 2 weeks ago) being marked as new.

Or

Are posts you have read being marked as new?

As the first one is standard of vB anyway.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Actually can we clear this up.

Are old posts that you havn't read (say from 2 weeks ago) being marked as new.

Or

Are posts you have read being marked as new?

As the first one is standard of vB anyway.

What about posts you make yourself?

[Charlie]

Actually can we clear this up.

Are old posts that you havn't read (say from 2 weeks ago) being marked as new.

Or

Are posts you have read being marked as new?

As the first one is standard of vB anyway.

Posts we've read are being marked as new.

[Mr_Odwin]

Posts we've read are being marked as new.

It's that one Ashley.

Here is an example of the sort of stuff that goes on. (http://www.james.pike.dsl.pipex.com/capture1.wmv)

[dukkadukka]

i don't know if vbullettin allows it, but it would be great if we were allowed to store more messages. is it possible to increase the amount?

[YenRug]

Actually can we clear this up.

Are old posts that you havn't read (say from 2 weeks ago) being marked as new.

Or

Are posts you have read being marked as new?

As the first one is standard of vB anyway.

Well, in my case it's that posts I haven't read are being marked as read, simply because I've been sat on one page for too long. Kind of gets annoying, especially as I have no idea of how long the specific time out is, my best guess is it's in the 15-20 minute range. To be honest that's nowhere near long enough, I'd prefer for the the timeout to be disabled completely, but if that isn't possible then it really needs to be at least an hour.

[Raining_again]

Is there any way of making the PM section a bit noticeable? i keep gettin messages and not seeing it. not that im critising the design, im blind as bugger :heh:

[Platty]

i dont think there is to be honest, well not that i can see cos i too am blind as a bat when it comes to the Vb admin panel >_<

[Bowser57]

The announcement things by Ash that appear at the top of pages could do with updating as they feature talk of Rep Points.

-1 Rep.

[Raining_again]

i dont think there is to be honest, well not that i can see cos i too am blind as a bat when it comes to the Vb admin panel >_<

hehe aw well i dont blame ya it must be awful confusing with so many more things to do :heh:

[RoadKill]

Click User CP, Edit Options..

About half way down the page there is a Private Messaging section, check the last box (popup when you have a new Private Message).

Then it will popup and tell you've got a PM while you're browsing the forums.

[Raining_again]

Click User CP, Edit Options..

About half way down the page there is a Private Messaging section, check the last box (popup when you have a new Private Message).

Then it will popup and tell you've got a PM while you're browsing the forums.

awesome thanks roadkill! you rock

[Tellyn]

Er, has anyone noticed that the release date for Nintentdogs is OUT NOW for Europe? It's not until Friday...

[Bowser57]

Sig's a bit wide.

[Marshmellow]

the already looked and new threads etc

how come when like ill post a new thread or reply to a new thread, then i look at it. THen i go back to the main board it says i havent looked at it and its new and then ill go look at it again and it still says that its new....

[Fierce_LiNk]

the already looked and new threads etc

how come when like ill post a new thread or reply to a new thread, then i look at it. THen i go back to the main board it says i havent looked at it and its new and then ill go look at it again and it still says that its new....

Read through the rest of the thread, i'm sure the answer is in here. :hmm:

[RoadKill]

I just read everything and then click mark all forums read.

[Mr_Odwin]

Read through the rest of the thread, i'm sure the answer is in here. :hmm:

Nope, an ongoing problem.

But Roadie, sometimes when I do that if I kill my browser and then open a new one later and come back, marked read threads/boards are no longer marked read and appear to have new posts, when they don't.

[Platty]

it is annoying, it happens to me and i have no idea how to solve the problem

[RoadKill]

Nope, an ongoing problem.

But Roadie, sometimes when I do that if I kill my browser and then open a new one later and come back, marked read threads/boards are no longer marked read and appear to have new posts, when they don't.

Damn... I just thought it might help in the short term while browsing.

[Marshmellow]

I'm just responding to this thread http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1385 since its been locked im just saying that the 15 character thing aint too bad i mean my previous forum i usta go to required at least 75 characters or it wouldnt even be counted as a post! that pissed me off so the 15 character thing is fine and if it bothers u just put spacs and then a period or smiley after 15 spaces:D that what i do:D

[Mr_Odwin]

I miss reputation points. :(

[JonSt]

There are always ways to get round the 15 character limit anyways i suppose.

[Cubechris]

I miss reputation points. :(

Yes can we make an honest plea to get them back, they built upon the communtiy for good actual posts. I agree Mr_Odwin.

[Raining_again]

rep points are just abused! "oo ooo ill give you rep points if u give me them" i think the forums working fine without em

[MoogleViper]

I couldn't be arsed to read all of this thread so this may have already been said. Can you change that damn 15 minimum characters rule.


Can we have an increase in avatar size dimensions? 100 x 100 would fit this forum well, and I'm sure the 56k'ers will be fine with it (right guys?).

I'd rather it was 100 x 100

[Platty]

Yes can we make an honest plea to get them back, they built upon the communtiy for good actual posts. I agree Mr_Odwin.

we gave it a try and it caused more trouble than it was worth. Yes there are many members who enjoyed the system and didnt abuse it, but then there were members who did and ruined it for everyone.

the forum is better without rep points.

[Bowser57]

A suggestion...

In threads about upcoming games, especially ones deemed important enough to be made sticky, would it be possible for it to become standard practice for the first post of the thread to contain any known release dates?

This could be added by the poster, or any Admin/Mod that sees the thread and happens to know or have access to the info.

That way all forum users would (get to) know that if they want that info on a certain game they only need to look at the first post/page rather than trawl the thread.

I realise it's not a great deal of work for most folks to find that sort of info for themselves, just wondering if it might be worth it as it'll be handy to a few people I reckon.

[Ashley]

A suggestion...

In threads about upcoming games, especially ones deemed important enough to be made sticky, would it be possible for it to become standard practice for the first post of the thread to contain any known release dates?

This could be added by the poster, or any Admin/Mod that sees the thread and happens to know or have access to the info.

That way all forum users would (get to) know that if they want that info on a certain game they only need to look at the first post/page rather than trawl the thread.

I realise it's not a great deal of work for most folks to find that sort of info for themselves, just wondering if it might be worth it as it'll be handy to a few people I reckon.

Its a good idea, I'll ask the staff to do it in the future.

[Pit-Jr]

I think it would be a good idea to have an official Fight/Complaint thread, that way all these smaller threads wont be popping up. That way if a forum user has beef with another they can post there instead of ruining other threads.

[Ashley]

If a forumite has an issue with another they should kindly tell the other person through a PM. If that doesn't resolve it then they should contact an admin, not post a thread. It would be like taking an advert out in a local newspaper telling everyone how much you hate such and such.

[Pit-Jr]

It would be like taking an advert out in a local newspaper telling everyone how much you hate such and such.

Thats gold. You may be on to something

[JonSt]

I'm just responding to this thread http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1385 since its been locked im just saying that the 15 character thing aint too bad i mean my previous forum i usta go to required at least 75 characters or it wouldnt even be counted as a post! that pissed me off so the 15 character thing is fine and if it bothers u just put spacs and then a period or smiley after 15 spaces:D that what i do:D

75 characters for a post?

your post count must have been very low there.

[Stocka]

I think it should be done so we can edit thread titles and the new name displays on the forum(doesn't let you now). Its annoying cause say you made a spelling mistake, or you want to put new information in the thread
e.g.
'Xbox 360 Official thread - New Halo 3 screens page 54'

[Ashley]

I think it should be done so we can edit thread titles and the new name displays on the forum(doesn't let you now). Its annoying cause say you made a spelling mistake, or you want to put new information in the thread
e.g.
'Xbox 360 Official thread - New Halo 3 screens page 54'

Please, if Halo 3 screens were released there would be four threads about it :P

Anywho. Ive looked and kind find anything under the "Post / Thread Permissions", or anything similar in others. Oddly apparently mods and registered users have the same Post/Thread permissions.

[Bowser57]

I suggest the friend list thread on the DS tech thing be made sticky.

[Platty]

Yes i agree. Consider it done.

[Sarka]

I think it should be done so we can edit thread titles and the new name displays on the forum(doesn't let you now). Its annoying cause say you made a spelling mistake, or you want to put new information in the thread
e.g.
'Xbox 360 Official thread - New Halo 3 screens page 54'

Mods can change the title of threads, so we could set up a "If you want a name of the thread changed, contact a mod" or something...

[Mr_Odwin]

Can we change the forum date format to British rather than American please?

eg. 25/12/05 rather than 12/25/05

[Ashley]

Can we change the forum date format to British rather than American please?

eg. 25/12/05 rather than 12/25/05

Never noticed, changed.

[EEVILMURRAY]

Why is the site & forum so dreadfully slow these days?

[Charlie]

I thought it was only my computer that was really slow :S

[Fierce_LiNk]

It has been mentioned in the thread right above this. :D
http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3039

[dukkadukka]

can we have an award ceremony type thing so we can all vote for our favourite posters, mods and threads of 2005? nothing too serious but just a bit of fun.

[Atomic Boo]

ashley
i posted earlier and you said you might be able to do it, change the envelopes by the threads green if its got a 5star rating or has more than 100 posts.
thanks if you could do this it would help a lot
king boo

[Ollie]

The board news & issues area is hard to use, I didn't know where to put this, I have already put it somewhere else but I'll put it here too. For some reason I can't subscribe to threads anymore, the drop down menu where you choose it from won't drop down.

[Ashley]

Thats fixed now. However I don't see whats hard about the board news & issues. If you have a question (eg how do I...?), you put it in the question thread, if you have a suggestion, suggetion thread and if you have found an error (such as yours) you put it in the "errors and problems with forums" thread.

[Ollie]

Ok then my bad, I put it in the questions thread initially, I guess that's why it was ignored.

[Ashley]

Yeha sorry I did skip over that before, but in somewhat of a defense you didn't explain it had something to do with the navbar. Anyway peace out.

[Ollie]

s'all good, its fixed now anyway :hehe:

[Fields]

OK, I have some suggestions:

1. Rep system, so that people can tell the good posters (like myself) from the complete and utter fucking morons that also inhabit R-E.
2. There is nothing more annyoing than opening a thread and having to scroll past dozens of hideous sig images to get to the part you want. I have seen other forums where, if a user has several posts on one page, their sig is only displayed in the first of their posts. It would be cool if you could implement this.
3. Um, that's all I can think of right now...

[Ashley]

The rep system is gone, get over it.

And I can think of many more annoying things than scrolling through, other than your request (which is not a personal 'bash' but rather a way of saying 'only one person wants it') I can't see a legitimate reason to do so. Life isn't bliss. Life is just this.

If you're so concerned go to User CP> Edit Options. You can turn off seeing people's sigs.

[Fields]

The rep system is gone, get over it.

And I can think of many more annoying things than scrolling through, other than your request (which is not a personal 'bash' but rather a way of saying 'only one person wants it') I can't see a legitimate reason to do so. Life isn't bliss. Life is just this.

If you're so concerned go to User CP> Edit Options. You can turn off seeing people's sigs.
Fair enough, didn't realise we ever had rep. Can I ask why it was removed? Surely it would encourage better quality posts? And the sig thing isn't exactly of great importance, it's just something I've seen done elsewhere and thought it was cool. It might also mean you could relax the restrictions you have on sig file sizes etc.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Fair enough, didn't realise we ever had rep. Can I ask why it was removed? Surely it would encourage better quality posts? And the sig thing isn't exactly of great importance, it's just something I've seen done elsewhere and thought it was cool. It might also mean you could relax the restrictions you have on sig file sizes etc.

The system got abused and apparantly only encouraged more elitism.

[Ashley]

Fair enough, didn't realise we ever had rep. Can I ask why it was removed? Surely it would encourage better quality posts?

http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=578

As I say, unless there was a mass demand for it I'd suggest removing the option to view them all personally.

[Mr_Odwin]

http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=578

As I say, unless there was a mass demand for it I'd suggest removing the option to view them all personally.

Damn you Guy!

Anyway, everyone can now use the "Quote in a PM" button to tell each other how great specific posts are.

[Nintendork]

The system got abused and apparantly only encouraged more elitism.Haha the elitism is the best bit.
The forums are pretty good.. I'd like to see more vigilante powerful members such as myself with more power than sense let loose and/or made king.

Nothing much. I'll clean up crime you shit.

[Ashley]

The forums are pretty good.. I'd like to see more vigilante powerful members such as myself with more power than sense let loose and/or made king.

Nothing much. I'll clean up crime you shit.

Is it me, or did that make a kind of sense thats not.

[Nintendork]

I've thought of something- getting rid of the 'Funny videos and shit' sticky in the general chit chat forum.
It's a pain in the arse to navigate and it would be better as a sub-forum.

On the Weebl and Bob forums they have such a section which completely draws the line between General chat and stuff, and posting links to videos/pictures/games.
It's called Look what I've found (LWIF for short) and it's quite a success.. and very good to go when you're bored.

If it was it's own sub-forum it would not only clean up the General discussion forum but promote more sharing of such videos.

I volunteer to be a moderator of course, ensuring that there are no double posts/crap links and stuff.. I think after giving it a week or two to grow it would be just as succesful as the W&B one.

[Mr_Odwin]

I want to become a moderator. What do I do?
First of all never ever ask to be a moderator, if you do you will definitely NOT be picked. We admins have an eye for these things so we will spot moderators and not you. When we see someone who we believe would deserve to be mod we ask them if they are interested and not the other way around. All request will be ignored and any threads regarding it deleted.

Unless you're Jordan that is ... :heh:

[Ashley]

I've thought of something- getting rid of the 'Funny videos and shit' sticky in the general chit chat forum.
It's a pain in the arse to navigate and it would be better as a sub-forum.

On the Weebl and Bob forums they have such a section which completely draws the line between General chat and stuff, and posting links to videos/pictures/games.
It's called Look what I've found (LWIF for short) and it's quite a success.. and very good to go when you're bored.

If it was it's own sub-forum it would not only clean up the General discussion forum but promote more sharing of such videos.

I volunteer to be a moderator of course, ensuring that there are no double posts/crap links and stuff.. I think after giving it a week or two to grow it would be just as succesful as the W&B one.

No would be the short answer. The single thread is not cluttering up the forum at all. If its hard to nagivate well meh, nothing good comes easy.

[Nintendork]

http://revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2853&page=9

The same N64 video has been posted 3 times, it sucks and would be much better if it was a sub forum.
I appeal your decision and demand a second opinion.

[Ashley]

I appeal your decision and demand a second opinion.

Well if you want a second opinion from me, its still a know. But I'll let some of the other peoples know to pop over.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Here is your second opinion: I think a sub forum for this is not needed.

For one thing, it'll be much harder to maintain. Yes, you could have mods looking over the place. But, with a subforum dedicated to just funny videos, more people will be tempted to post more videos. Infact, you'll probably be more likely to see the same video over and over again in the subforum than you would in the funny video thread.

And another thing: If we made a subforum for funny videos, we may be forced to make subforums for everything else as well. News, Politics, Sport, Anime, whatever. It would just end up cluttered and messy.

[Platty]

A 3rd opinion from me:

No.

[Nintendork]

Guinness and fighting all round then.

[Mokong X-C]

4th Opinion.....

yes....sorry typo.. i mean NO, a subforum is too much and would prolly be filled with spam

[Fields]

Can't we just ban 'funny' videos altogether? Because they are never funny in the slightest.

[Charlie]

Can't we just ban 'funny' videos altogether? Because they are never funny in the slightest.

No one's forcing you into the 'funny' videos thread.

5th opinion: No

[Gaijin von Snikbah]

I would like to see a shout box, or a instant message board if you like. Someplace to send instant messages, and chat with the fellow Revo-Europe users. I know there is a chat already, but I dont think it is working properly.

I will point to the brilliant shoutbox of the Advanced Media Network: http://forums.advancedmn.com/
Its simple and sophisticated. It even lets you post pictures.

Make it schnappy, and make it google simple!

(That was a joke by the way)

(Dont hurt me)

[Ashley]

I've mused over a shoutbox before but going by past experience of this place, it would either be:

spammed
cluttered with links to porn and/or illegal downloads
turn into a never ending conversation about wanking

and whats "not working" about chat? (im interested, im not just being bitter)

[Gaijin von Snikbah]

Well, after connecting to the IRC server, it seems that it doesnt connect to the revo-europe channel. Even after you write /join #revo-europe, it wont let you send any messages. I dont think there is any other problems but that.

[Ashley]

Well, after connecting to the IRC server, it seems that it doesnt connect to the revo-europe channel. Even after you write /join #revo-europe, it wont let you send any messages. I dont think there is any other problems but that.

Hmm not something I would personally know about, but I'll try and find out whats happening.

[Mr_Odwin]

Is it the same problem that Schpickles mentioned aaaaaages ago? Do a search on his posts and I'm sure it'll pop up somewhere close to the start.

Edit: This:
http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=419

[JonSt]

There is a problem with the client, you can either get mirc or use another one like mine (http://www.jonst.co.uk/irc/chat.php)

[Twozzok]

And the fact i'm pretty sure #revo-europe is pretty much defunct now.

[Pit-Jr]

more of an error than a suggestion, but often times when i post i get logged out. Does this happen to anyone else

[Charlie]

Working fine here, which browser are you using?

[Fields]

OK, I have a suggestion:

Can you please, please, please stop people posting 'amusing'/shocking news stories in General? The odd one is fine, but there seems to be a trend now and it's getting annoying. How about an official news thread or something so that I don't have to sift through all this shit to find the good threads?

[Ashley]

Although 'funny' vidoes et al don't have much of a discussion point, other than "LOL", news can bring about genuine discussions. I'll look into them, but doubt my mind will change.

[Nintendork]

OK, I have a suggestion:

Can you please, please, please stop people posting 'amusing'/shocking news stories in General? The odd one is fine, but there seems to be a trend now and it's getting annoying. How about an official news thread or something so that I don't have to sift through all this shit to find the good threads?
I'd have to agree, pisses me off- there's one member who does it far too much to an extent where he is influencing other users to do the same.

On top of that, I'd like the 'Search this Forum' tab in forums to actually search this forum.

It's a little tedius when you just get general search results for all forums when you're specifically looking for a GameCube or classic game and you get all the threads about remakes.

PHP search is already bad enough as it is to have to trawl through results for all forums.

If I wanted a general search I'd click the top bar which searches all forums.
I know it does have a query certain forums option but it defeats the point of the search this forum tab being there if it doesn't do the job specified.

[Mr_Odwin]

I'd have to agree, pisses me off- there's one member who does it far too much to an extent where he is influencing other users to do the same.

On top of that, I'd like the 'Search this Forum' tab in forums to actually search this forum.

It's a little tedius when you just get general search results for all forums when you're specifically looking for a GameCube or classic game and you get all the threads about remakes.

PHP search is already bad enough as it is to have to trawl through results for all forums.

If I wanted a general search I'd click the top bar which searches all forums.
I know it does have a query certain forums option but it defeats the point of the search this forum tab being there if it doesn't do the job specified.


The "Search this forum" feature works perfectly for me. I just checked in General and it only brought up General threads with a search on 'revo'.

[Nintendork]

No such luck on Safari- I can't see a decent reason why it wouldn't work on Safari.

[kellett03]

the good, the bad and the ugly.

every week post a feature on the main site about what happen in the industry that week. the good stuff that happen, the bad stuff that happen and the ugly.

for instance
the good: nintendo announce wii final name of next generation console
bad: its crap
ugly: the back lash from the fan and the media.

you would have to expand on that alot to make it a feature every week. the topics would not even have to relate to each other. what i mean is the good topic is on gamecube games. the bad is on a developer interview(will weight) and the ugly is on "spong" for instance. next week all the topics would be on totally different ideas. and at the same time make it funny.

[Ashley]

the good, the bad and the ugly.

every week post a feature on the main site about what happen in the industry that week. the good stuff that happen, the bad stuff that happen and the ugly.

for instance
the good: nintendo announce wii final name of next generation console
bad: its crap
ugly: the back lash from the fan and the media.

you would have to expand on that alot to make it a feature every week. the topics would not even have to relate to each other. what i mean is the good topic is on gamecube games. the bad is on a developer interview(will weight) and the ugly is on "spong" for instance. next week all the topics would be on totally different ideas. and at the same time make it funny.

That is a site suggestion, this is intended for forum suggestions but I'll pass it on to Conor.

[Twozzok]

Where'd the Creative Board go :O

[Mokong X-C]

In an attempt to lessen the slow down of the forums due to the enormous amounts of hits E3 brings some forums have been will be closed down for the week, Creative, Online, Tech and Rival are the first casulties and more may follow...

[Colin]

All them boards are still viewable though if you know how! :wink:

I don't know whether you can post in them though, as I haven't bothered to try as got no need.

[Platty]

The boards are not active and are also closed so even if you do view them you wont be able to post.

Things have speeded up nicely since this was implemented thank God.

[Colin]

Things have speeded up nicely since this was implemented thank God.
Yeah, I've noticed that aswell. Things are wizzing real quick and there's quite a few users online at the moment aswell.

[Fields]

Are we going to have a World Cup forum like last time? I don't want to have to stick to an 'Official World Cup Thread' or anything gay like that, and you know there's going to be a lot of posts during the tournament, so what do you reckon?

[Ashley]

Its been suggested and discussed, but we're E3-centric right now.

[BlueStar]

Is there any chance of some consitancy in modding and locking? It seems a bit clueless at times. Why on earth would this thread be locked? Advertising? I mean come on :indeed:

http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6704

If it was advertising, does it stop being advertising when the thread is locked? It doesn't make any sense. It just seems to be locking for the sake of it.

The same lock-happy cluelessness in this thread too:
http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5572&highlight=zelda+homebrew

Locked, why? Even if you thought homebrew was illegal or something, you lock it, there's still a link to "illegal" content on the board.

Then we have this thread:
http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4897

Not only not locked, but a mod specifically saying it doesn't need to be locked.

But pirate magazine scans are fine, apparently, even though they've resulted in other boards being shut. Are mods appointed because they know what they're doing, or because they're someone's mate?

[Ashley]

Agreed, the first two should have been moved elsewhere, or all the content deleted. Done that now.

And the last one is not talk of illegality. The Homebrew Zelda would have originated through use of Rom hacks and all that, which is illegal. The other one was just how to run a homebrew, which is not illegal in itself, downloading and using roms is. Much in the same was as teaching someone how to steal, it is not illegal to teach them, but it is illegal to steal.

[BlueStar]

The Homebrew Zelda would have originated through use of Rom hacks and all that, which is illegal.

Er... what? There was no "rom hacking" going on, it was a freeware game made from scratch. That's what homebrew is.

As for the wii60 site, I just thought it was quite cool to see 360 owners and Wii types banding together. Locking it was pretty pathetic in my opinion. There are loads of threads saying "hey, have a look at this site" that aren't locked for "advertising".

[Nintendork]

Yawn, bunch of pansies.. I thought the Zelda thing was stupid but it's not that I care about.

Magazine scans are accepted as okay until the magazine asks otherwise.. it's pretty reasonable if you are sparing, summarising the text of the article and only scanning the photos.

International magazines are few and far, yet exclusives like Red Steel are common.

I don't give a crap. if you're gonna kack yourselves because some rebellious forum mods got sued for not complying with the polite request from a magazine publisher to take photos down, then go ahead.
It's not as if they didn't deserve it or anything.

It's easy to differentiate between advertising (Wii60) and just something cool.. I think the forum needs a beginners forum just so they can get the bullshit threads out of their system then join the proper forums and be civilised.

[Ashley]

There are loads of threads saying "hey, have a look at this site" that aren't locked for "advertising".

Examples?

And personally, even if I were buying a 360 and Wii I wouldn't really care to speak to others. Apart from "What games are you getting?" what more can there to be said?

And on that Zelda site it does say not to worry about legality "because the roms we download are much more illegal."

What's wrong with covering our arses? I feel its fair enough.

[BlueStar]

So now are you saying it doesn't involve "rom hacking" now that you've gone looking for something else to justify it? That line on the site is a joke anyway. There's no difference between the Zelda homebrew game and the other stuff in the homebrew thread. The Wii60 site was mostly a collection of spoof pics and vids about the 360 and Wii together, so I thought it might be of interest to Wii fans. I'd just found it, other people in the thread said it was cool, it's not like I'm saying "Click here to get a free iPod" or getting paid per click. You don't want to see it, so it gets deleted? Does that happen to all threads one mod isn't interested in?

It's your site and you can mod it however you like, I'm just saying it would be better if perfectly good threads weren't deleted for no reason just because someone has a lock button and an itchy trigger finger. Be honest, if another mod hadn't locked those threads, you wouldn't have even thought about it.

[Ashley]

So now are you saying it doesn't involve "rom hacking" now that you've gone looking for something else to justify it? That line on the site is a joke anyway.

Nope. Im not looking for excuses.

The Wii60 site was mostly a collection of spoof pics and vids about the 360 and Wii together, so I thought it might be of interest to Wii fans. I'd just found it, other people in the thread said it was cool, it's not like I'm saying "Click here to get a free iPod" or getting paid per click.

Then by the sounds, it'd be more suited to the Funny Things thread.

You don't want to see it, so it gets deleted? Does that happen to all threads one mod isn't interested in?

Don't be so naive. If that were true, we'd have no Big Brother threads, or WWE threads, or anything related to sport.

It's your site and you can mod it however you like, I'm just saying it would be better if perfectly good threads weren't deleted for no reason just because someone has a lock button and an itchy trigger finger.
Perfectly good threads weren't deleted for the desire of using the lock button. Again, thats naivity. Being a mod/admin ain't a fun joy full of silly times and amusing games. Speaking on a personal level (and I'd imagine the rest would agree), actually having to lock stuff isn't fun. Its a chore.

Be honest, if another mod hadn't locked those threads, you wouldn't have even thought about it.

I questioned the Homebrew thread, and was going to look into it before it was closed. The Wii60 one I didn't look at.

[Balfron]

I think official threads relating to games and big events should be stopped.

An example is the Zelda thread currently in the Wii discussions. I want to talk about Zelda, who doesn't? However I don't want to read through pages and pages of people saying "cant wait for this game" to discuss what I want to discuss. I want to get straight to my point, say for example graphics or controls, and discuss them with other people. For that I think a "Zelda controls" thread would be better.

I suppose the reason you have official threads is to keep the forums more organised. It doesn't do this, as it takes me ages to find what I want to talk about. It also discourages people from posting, as not everyone can be bothered catching up with the (often repetitive) discussion by reading tens of pages before posting, and then not being able to find their post when they check back the next day.

You never used to have official threads, and, while I understand why they are here, I think in most cases they do more harm than good.

[Ashley]

You don't need to read an official thread all the way through, discussions tend to go round in cycles, while the controller scheme may have already been discussed, there is no harm in starting the discussion again. We don't expect you to read through everything. As you said, it is a form of tidying.

Don't forget, at the top of every thread there is a "search this thread" option.

[Balfron]

Still, I would rather have smaller catagories with more distinct, compressed discussions.

But I suppose I'm a minority...

[Fierce_LiNk]

I'm a little dubious about Official threads. They do serve a purpose, and i can see an advantage and a disadvantage.

The advantage: The whole board doesn't get cluttered with the same topics being repeated over and over. All the information goes into one thread.

The disadvantage: This thread becomes cluttered if the thread really takes off. If the thread has 4/5 pages, it's fine. However, if a thread has 30 pages, it becomes a problem.

Therefore, i think a resolution is needed.
For example, in the official Zelda thread, it may be worthwhile for someone to take their time and create a post with all the basic information that we need to know. Examples being a post with trailers, pics, information about controls.
Take a look at my Wii everything you need to know thread to see what i mean. Good idea, bad idea?

[conzer16]

Just a little niggle.....

In the news article about the price cap for the Wii, the price for "we Brits" was estimated, its just that not everyone on R-E is British. Many Dutch people, Finnish and indeed Irish are on here, and the site is called Revolution-Europe.

Dont want to sound like a bigot at all, just said i'd point it out!!

[Ashley]

Just a little niggle.....

In the news article about the price cap for the Wii, the price for "we Brits" was estimated, its just that not everyone on R-E is British. Many Dutch people, Finnish and indeed Irish are on here, and the site is called Revolution-Europe.

Dont want to sound like a bigot at all, just said i'd point it out!!

Maybe im being pedantic but to me the writer is British, and thus "we Brits" suggests his fellow people. If he said "you Brits" he would be presuming everyone is British, but "we Brits" just means the other people in Britain. Yes the rest of Europe isn't included but hey ho. Lets not argue semantics.

[conzer16]

Maybe im being pedantic but to me the writer is British, and thus "we Brits" suggests his fellow people. If he said "you Brits" he would be presuming everyone is British, but "we Brits" just means the other people in Britain. Yes the rest of Europe isn't included but hey ho. Lets not argue semantics.


Indeed! Anyways like i said just a niggle!

[canand]

Can you make a Revo-europe podcast every week please

[Fields]

I suggest you make everyone take an IQ test as part of the registration process, and anyone without a satisfactory score has their IP banned and is never allowed to visit the site again. Then maybe we could have some interesting discussion in the gaming forums without moronic fanboys getting in the way. :mad:

[Platty]

To be honest as a gaming site we are always gonna get fanboys. But compared to other sites ours are minimul.

[Caris]

Can you make a Revo-europe podcast every week please

Hell yea.

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[canand]

it be great if we have it

[Balfron]

Fierce Link, why not do that but separate the ideas into different threads? Is that what you are suggesting?

Haha I miss our discussions about Oasis!

[Fierce_LiNk]

Fierce Link, why not do that but separate the ideas into different threads? Is that what you are suggesting?

Haha I miss our discussions about Oasis!

The idea is kinda like this:

General discussion takes place in the Zelda thread. When official information is announced, the first post in the thread is updated.
For example, if it was announced that the game would feature online features, someone would update the first page to feature this information.

Or, seperate threads would be pretty good as well. Like, Zelda controls, Zelda characters, etc.

I miss our discussions too. :'(
I'll PM you my new email addy and you can add me to msn if you like.

[Fields]

i hate to be such a boring sod but i have noticed a rather worrying trend on r-e, and that is the lack of upper case letters in a startling number of posts. people seem to have no problem applying the basic rules of grammar but are somehow unable to apply a capital letter at the start of sentences, or in names and abbreviations, or when referring to themselves in the first person. perhaps you should educate users in the merits of the shift key?

[Platty]

i hate to be such a boring sod but i have noticed a rather worrying trend on r-e, and that is the lack of upper case letters in a startling number of posts. people seem to have no problem applying the basic rules of grammar but are somehow unable to apply a capital letter at the start of sentences, or in names and abbreviations, or when referring to themselves in the first person. perhaps you should educate users in the merits of the shift key?

And use it like you do ;)

[Ashley]

Yeah im guessing you didn't use it for irony?

And if we want to get picky, "Fields" and "Heighway" (which, by the way is spelt without an 'e') don't merit capital letters. If we're being picky that is.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Heighway was a legend who used to play for Liverpool. Have i got that right?

[Ashley]

Ah yeah sorry I didn't look at the context. But still, "Fields" is still wrong :P

[Fierce_LiNk]

Hehe. Anyway, spelling and punctuation really isn't a big problem in my eyes on this forum. It's when you get people typing solely in txt speak that things start to become a problem. As long as the poster has intended or made the effort to type a post and make it understandable, then that's fine with me.

[Fields]

Yeah im guessing you didn't use it for irony?

And if we want to get picky, "Fields" and "Heighway" (which, by the way is spelt without an 'e') don't merit capital letters. If we're being picky that is.
Yes it was for irony, Platty seems to have missed that however.

'The Fields of Anfield Road' is a song, which also happens to be my favourite Liverpool song (hence the reason I named myself after it). Therefore, there is a certain amount of creative freedom that allows me to capitalise words like 'Fields' if I want. Also, 'Heighway' is the name of a footballer, and therefore is spelt correctly and should definately be capitalised.






I believe the technical term is 'pwned' :p

[Ashley]

If you were aiming for a pop culture reference you shouldn't use capitalisation unless you want to make it obvious. The best pop culture references are subtle, they are subtle joys for audiences to enjoy. If they get it, they feel good. Forcing it down their throat is too obvious. Its like explaining why you're jokes are funny.

[Fields]

Forcing it down their throat is too obvious. Its like explaining why you're jokes are funny.
Oh dear :p

[Ashley]

Their, they're, there, it'll be alright. Just ignore it.

[canand]

can we have a Revo-europe podcast please Ashley

[Platty]

Yes it was for irony, Platty seems to have missed that however.

Did you not see my wink ?

[Mimternet]

My suggestion is related to the official threads. Can we have a Game Question Forum where people can post multiple posts on the same game?

I always find the official threads so long that I wouldn't read through every page just to find the answer to a question. For instance there's a closed topic in Handhelds at the moment asking "Are mini-games unlockable in New Super Mario Bros?" If there were a Game Questions free-for-all forum it would stop these posts coming up in normal forums and make it easier to find a question and answer that you're interested in.

Does this make sense? I love the Revo-Europe forums but this is my on niggle. I completely understand why these posts are closed because it stops the board being filled with repeat posts, but it does make it easier to break big topics like Official Threads down into sub-topics.

[Ashley]

The "its too long" argument still doesn't bode with me. For one you could use the "search this thread" feature, or you could just post. Chances are most people will just answer again, they know everyone's not going to read every post.

[Emasher]

would it be possible to update the forum with just draging images into the reply box. it takes forever to get them convert them into a propor format upload them and then type in the url here.

[Ashley]

would it be possible to update the forum with just draging images into the reply box. it takes forever to get them convert them into a propor format upload them and then type in the url here.

I don't think thats actually possible at all.

[Emasher]

on a mac computer every thing on applications is just dragged in so that was why i was wondering.

[Ashley]

The forum is a different kind of thing, I've certainly never seen a hack that allows you to do that on a computer (which is perhaps a good thing considering what would be uploaded)

[Emasher]

not a hack a mac(intosh) on a mac you can just drag things into programs the only thing about a forum is you have to upload the stuff to the web so it wont work unless there is a special program for uploading things.

[Charlie]

Hmm, it might be possible with AJAX some how, I haven't heard of one though and doubt anyone will make a mod for it.

[Fields]

Can we have a spam board please?

[Fierce_LiNk]

Can we have a spam board please?

No. But i'm interested to know why you would want a spam board.

[Marshmellow]

i think we should have "invisible moderators" lol my old forum that i went to had em, and i thought it was a pretty cool idea, since you never knew if you should be nice to a person or mean to the person since you didnt know if they were a moderator or not, anyway i thought it was cool i dont know what you think though...

[Fierce_LiNk]

i think we should have "invisible moderators" lol my old forum that i went to had em, and i thought it was a pretty cool idea, since you never knew if you should be nice to a person or mean to the person since you didnt know if they were a moderator or not, anyway i thought it was cool i dont know what you think though...

I thiink it's pretty cool that we know who does what around here.
It means that if there is a problem, you know who you can talk to about it.

[Marshmellow]

I thiink it's pretty cool that we know who does what around here.
It means that if there is a problem, you know who you can talk to about it.

i suppose...




we could have both...

[Zell]

Not about the forum but the actual site... each bit of news has a hyperlink to the article in its title, but for reviews and features you have to click the smaller link below it to access it. Can you fix this so that the title on the homepage links to the article, so i dont have to move my mouse down to the smaller link (so much effort)? I know im nitpicking but... its just slightly annoying, tis all.

[Fields]

No. But i'm interested to know why you would want a spam board.
To spam?

i think we should have "invisible moderators" lol my old forum that i went to had em, and i thought it was a pretty cool idea, since you never knew if you should be nice to a person or mean to the person since you didnt know if they were a moderator or not, anyway i thought it was cool i dont know what you think though...
Tsk, don't be silly. That would remove the whole elitism thing they've got going :rolleyes:

[Fierce_LiNk]

To spam?

Yes, because that sounds like an awesome idea. Hardly great for a discussion board, is it? :p


Tsk, don't be silly. That would remove the whole elitism thing they've got going :rolleyes:

Can you show me an example of this 'elitism thing'. Quite frankly, i don't see it. The mods, admins and staffers on this site are helpful and friendly to approach. There are much worse forums out there than this one.

[Ashley]

not a hack a mac(intosh) on a mac you can just drag things into programs the only thing about a forum is you have to upload the stuff to the web so it wont work unless there is a special program for uploading things.

A tool to change what vBulletin does is called a "hack".

[Fields]

Can you show me an example of this 'elitism thing'. Quite frankly, i don't see it. The mods, admins and staffers on this site are helpful and friendly to approach. There are much worse forums out there than this one.
You know I'm only joking. I love you really :kiss:

[Fierce_LiNk]

You know I'm only joking. I love you really :kiss:

Love you, too.:kiss:
I do feel a tad out of place. Haven't caught onto the craze of having a 3rdchildren quote in my sig.:hmm:

[Charlie]

i think we should have "invisible moderators" lol my old forum that i went to had em, and i thought it was a pretty cool idea, since you never knew if you should be nice to a person or mean to the person since you didnt know if they were a moderator or not, anyway i thought it was cool i dont know what you think though...

Shouldn't you be nice to everyone though?

[Marshmellow]

Shouldn't you be nice to everyone though?

thats the point finding the people who arent nice!:yay:

[Mr_Odwin]

How do you know that there aren't invisible moderators already?

[Fierce_LiNk]

How do you know that there aren't invisible moderators already?


Because he can't see them. Duhhh!




;)

[Marshmellow]

How do you know that there aren't invisible moderators already?

haha hmmm we dont but im just guessing that we dont have em since ive never ever seen such a hint of them

[Konfucius]

I noticed a tendency that more and more people wrote columns. I'd like to write a column myself from time to time but there isn't an appropriate forum or subforum for it and especially because there isn't always time to read these things (and later you forget unless there are new posts) a seperate subforum could be justified so they don't get overlooked that easily.

[Fierce_LiNk]

I noticed a tendency that more and more people wrote columns. I'd like to write a column myself from time to time but there isn't an appropriate forum or subforum for it and especially because there isn't always time to read these things (and later you forget unless there are new posts) a seperate subforum could be justified so they don't get overlooked that easily.

When you say columns, do you mean the rants/mini-rants that people sometimes do in gamecube or Wii discussion? Or do you mean the ones that the writers do for the main site?

[Konfucius]

When you say columns, do you mean the rants/mini-rants that people sometimes do in gamecube or Wii discussion? Or do you mean the ones that the writers do for the main site?

I'm thinking of something like this:

http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7249

or in the vein of the articles on the main site. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear.

[Fierce_LiNk]

No need to be sorry, i was just making sure i understood you fully before i replied.

Basically, i think the way things work at the moment are fine in regards to people posting mini-rants. I like to rant every now and again, and i like it to be spontaneous. If you look in gamecube discussion, that thread makes a welcome change to other types of threads there at the moment. This is also a discussion board, so if we dedicated any entire board to these rants, we would have very little threads in the 'main' boards for discussion. Every now and again, we need threads like that to come and break the mould of the way things are working in the forums. It's also nice to have that mixture between news, rants, etc.

We've got various boards in terms of gaming. If you're unsure about it 100%, just post it in the forum which you think suits it best. The worst result would be that a moderator moves it to a more appropriate forum, and even then thats not a bad thing, so it shouldn't really be an issue of "there isn't anywhere for this to go." I think the bases are covered well.

If you feel that maybe your thread might get overlooked, you could even ask an admin or moderator to possibly "sticky" the thread to the main page. If its an important article/rant, it could be a distinct possibility that this will happen anyway.

Anyway, i hope i have answered your queries. Anymore questions?

[Konfucius]

Anyway, i hope i have answered your queries.

Yes, you did, thanks.

[Fierce_LiNk]

No problem. Glad to help out.

Now, rant away, my friend! :)

[Charlie]

In addition to what Link said (or maybe he did say it and I just didn't see it), if we had a thread/board dedicated to rants we would have a load of 5 line 'rants' which, to be blunt, shouldn't really be called a rant. After a few of these people would stop reading them and then the good rants wouldn't be seen at all. If you want to have a rant, just make a new thread wherever you think is the best place.

[Jordan]

Coloured text, remove it.
Now.

[mcj metroid]

i think the only person that uses coloures text is THE BARD.

[Mr_Odwin]

Can we bring back the smilie from C-E that was like this one:
http://www.animenation.net/forums/images/smilies/noexpression.gif
The C-E one was better but I can't find it.

After further searching:
http://www.xsorbit1.com/users/cubeeurope/Attachment/blink.gif

[Ashley]

: blank: without the gap. :blank:

[InvaderElmo]

I don't see why all topics for a specific game are lumped into huge mega-topics. I know I would participate a lot more in discussions on Zelda:TP or Smash Bros Brawl if I didn't have to wade through the 1,000 to 2,500 posts. If these topics are so popular, why don't they each get their own mini-forum or something.

Huge topics may make this place look popular, but they certainly turn me off from participating. I really don't want to read the literally hundreds of posts consisting of repeated information (because casual posters can't be bothered to read all the previous posts) and idle banter (such as who can kick whose butt in Smash Bros. Melee).

While I post from time to time in the smaller topics, I would really like to see mini-forums for the more talked about upcoming Wii games. That way I could ignore the topics such as "is snaking a cheat or a feature" or "anyone who uses Marth sucks at Melee" and get to the new rumors or information about the game. For instance, a topic on destructible environments was recently closed in order to add it to the SSBB topic. I would have enjoyed discussing the pros and cons of destructible environments, but there is no way I'll look through topiczilla for a few pages just to find a couple of related comments.

So, while I understand that going back through and breaking up the great pangaea topics into subtopics is too much of a bother for anyone to do, I would like you to consider not locking topics about a specific rumor/news tidbit just because that rumor/tidbit is about Zelda/SSBB/etc.

[Ashley]

As I have said before there is no mandate saying you have to read the whole topic. If you wanted to look for something particular use the "search this topic" feature. If you wanted to discuss something you could bring it up again, im sure nobody is going to say "WE HAD THAT DISCUSSION 47 PAGES AGO. JEEZ!!"

And your point about destructible arenas proves my point. It is a new rumour and thus won't have been discussed before, meaning you don't have to wade through the whole thread.

[InvaderElmo]

I was just saying that even after the discussion is started there will still be people posting about other discussions that had been going on before, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there are a lot of off-topic posts and side conversations that clutter up those larger topics, making intelligent conversation about a newer rumor more difficult.

[mcj metroid]

do u see a point in adding polls?gamespot did it recently.Maybe limit it to one per day or 2 or 3 days

[Shorty]

do u see a point in adding polls?gamespot did it recently.Maybe limit it to one per day or 2 or 3 days
We have polls don't we? Unless it's a mod only feature or something...?

[mcj metroid]

We have polls don't we? Unless it's a mod only feature or something...?

omg!Why didnt i see this before.why doesnt anyone use these?Aw well

[ShadowV7]

Would it be possible if we can get an anime board so we can have different threads for different animes? It would make it easier and meaning people won't be talking about different animes in the same thread?

[The3rdChildren]

Would it be possible if we can get an anime board so we can have different threads for different animes? It would make it easier and meaning people won't be talking about different animes in the same thread?

I second this, mostly because I think a lot of board-worthy topics get crammed up in General. Not that my support will get you anywhere with this - instead it'll probably just get you nowhere. I'm very sorry.

[Fierce_LiNk]

I second this, mostly because I think a lot of board-worthy topics get crammed up in General. Not that my support will get you anywhere with this - instead it'll probably just get you nowhere. I'm very sorry.

What do you mean by that? Trying to play the sympathy card, eh?:heh:

The last thing we want is to seperate topics into different boards. If we did go ahead and create an anime board, we'd have complaints that there should be a sports board or a music board. Then, we'd get complaints saying football and rugby ain't the same thing, so we should have a seperate board for that, too! It'd never end. :heh:

To be honest, i don't think the boards are particularly being crammed at the moment. It's better to have one buzzing board rather than having many boards which may not see people visiting there much. In order for general chit chat to really be balanced, and for it to be general, we're going to need all these different kind of threads. :)

Nothing's stopping you from creating these sorta threads in general, so by all means do it.

[The3rdChildren]

What do you mean by that? Trying to play the sympathy card, eh?:heh:

I'm just messing around, unless the sympathy card is working.

Nothing's stopping you from creating these sorta threads in general, so by all means do it.

You heard the man, there can be threads for separate anime shows.

[Fierce_LiNk]

I'm just messing around, unless the sympathy card is working.



You heard the man, there can be threads for separate anime shows.


Haha. Well, i didn't actually say it like that. Right now, there's still a debate regarding these "official" threads going on. Do we keep them or do we have seperate thread?, etc.

Personally, i like to see less threads on one particular subject. For example, we do not need about 10 or so threads on the latest Wii launch price rumour. That's pretty specific, so may require only one thread.
But when it comes to things like TV, you wouldn't expect to talk about Lost or 24 in the same thread. I think a thread dedicated to Lost and one dedicated to 24 would be pretty sufficient.

About the anime thread: It could be considered a bit overkill for one thread. But, the upside is, due to the diverseness (w00t, new word?) there is more conversation going on. Hence, the thread is actually proving to be pretty popular right now!:)

Right now, it would be wise to use the thread, until we can come to some sort of conclusion regarding these official threads.

[The3rdChildren]

About the anime thread: It could be considered a bit overkill for one thread. But, the upside is, due to the diverseness (w00t, new word?) there is more conversation going on. Hence, the thread is actually proving to be pretty popular right now!:)

Yeah, it's a good thread. To be perfectly honest, there's not an anime series I can think of that warrents it's own thread since the anime thread seems to go through daily stages of discussion about a particular anime.

Then there's the actual matter that Revo-Europe's anime nerd community is fairly small compared to say, music nerds.

[Fierce_LiNk]

Yeah, it's a good thread. To be perfectly honest, there's not an anime series I can think of that warrents it's own thread since the anime thread seems to go through daily stages of discussion about a particular anime.

I wouldn't mind if things stayed the way they were at the moment, with just the official thread. To be honest, it probably will be better that way, for now.

But, i've put in a suggestion in that anime thread about possibly dividing things up into seperate threads. Whether or not this will work positively or not remains to be seen.

[demonmike04]

Suggestion: More female members.

[Emasher]

on my forum i have a specia board just for noobs just to get used to the forum and stuff (it does not increase post count) this may be a good thing for this forum. what do you think.

[The3rdChildren]

on my forum i have a specia board just for noobs just to get used to the forum and stuff (it does not increase post count) this may be a good thing for this forum. what do you think.

Newbies to the forum seem to adjust fairly quickly, I find. What's nice about this forum is it isn't particularly discriminate against new members, everyone is welcomed with open arms - especially if they're female.

[Balfron]

I think we should seriously consider removing 'official threads' in almost all instances. They put me off reading about subjects I want to read about, and I'm sure they put other people off too. The forums are busy, but not that many new threads are made, so I don't really see why official threads are around.

At the very least I think we should create a poll asking if people like them. It seems to me that only a few mods like them. The site survived for a long time without official threads.

[The fish]

I suggest the option of having a custom descripton (under the poster's name-ie Regular, Frequent poster etc) when you reach 1000 posts.

[Ashley]

I suggest the option of having a custom descripton (under the poster's name-ie Regular, Frequent poster etc) when you reach 1000 posts.

That would require having a different user category, and then once a member has moved past 1000 moving them into said category. Not only would it be a lot of faff, it would mean the Meaningless Thread is spammed more just for the sake of putting "I REWL" as their custom titles.

I think we should seriously consider removing 'official threads' in almost all instances. They put me off reading about subjects I want to read about, and I'm sure they put other people off too. The forums are busy, but not that many new threads are made, so I don't really see why official threads are around.

At the very least I think we should create a poll asking if people like them. It seems to me that only a few mods like them. The site survived for a long time without official threads.

Its been discussed before, I'd say they have been in large used and welcome, the amount of people against them isn't really sufficient to change anything.

Why are you "put off" from reading them anyway?

[Konfucius]

The fish reminded me of something actually.
On the old forums we could add a little text that was displayed under the avatar.
I really liked that feature - any chance of bringing that back?

[Balfron]

Well when you see a 'Mario Galaxy online??!!' thread title its actually quite exciting. When you see a 14 page thread called 'Official Mario Galaxy Thread' its less exciting. Anyway if I'm in a minority then that's that I suppose.

[Charlie]

Well when you see a 'Mario Galaxy online??!!' thread title its actually quite exciting. When you see a 14 page thread called 'Official Mario Galaxy Thread' its less exciting. Anyway if I'm in a minority then that's that I suppose.

I dont think we should have official threads, or sticky threads. If a threads popular, it will stay at the top.

[Gaijin von Snikbah]

I had an idea to make the profile page more gamercard like. Or gamersuite or whatever. I suppose just cooler looking In a way.

[Ashley]

I had an idea to make the profile page more gamercard like. Or gamersuite or whatever. I suppose just cooler looking In a way.

Care to have the idea on how? :p

[Gaijin von Snikbah]

I have no idea.

[Ashley]

And you expect me to? Sheesh! :p

[Gaijin von Snikbah]

Okay, how about increasing the size of the profile picture by hotlinking?

[rokhed00]

Can this be added to the smilie list?
http://img421.imageshack.us/img421/6167/badassbuddycomboobiescm9.gif

[conzer16]

On the home page can the $ sign beside the "We're counting the days!" be changed to a € sign? We arent getting the wii for as cheap as $250.

[Ashley]

I mentioned that when we were first shown the mini, and they didn't change it. ::shrug:

[darksnowman]

Is there any chance at all of that wee button making a reappearance that took you to your last post in a thread?

[Ashley]

Been asked for a few times but vBulletin removed it from the newest version.

[conzer16]

I mentioned that when we were first shown the mini, and they didn't change it. ::shrug:

Bit silly really, considereing the pile of €€€'s right underneath it ::shrug:

Cheers all the same.

[Ashley]

I'd imagine it was Justin who did the mini, and he's American.