Make your voices heard, or else. Splendid.

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Originally Posted by Clive. I can't remember his current username, and God knows I'm too lazy to, you know, check.

we need to spend less time nit-picking and more time encouraging people to spend time here, and actively discuss things more.

I think the reason why some members are being muppets is down to boredom, in that theres little to capture the attention here anymore. I think we should have a suggestions thread in the F4A about ideas we could use to take this place forward.

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...And here it is!

I agree with what Clive (see above) said. You, regular user type people. This is where you get to place suggestions on how to improve the forums (as in, this isn't where you complain about forum bugs, or SFX archives, or request reseeds, or... You get the idea). I can't make any promises when it comes to updating the system itself, installing VB hacks and such, but I can certainly comply with most other requests.

Go on, then.

Edit: Actually, include all the VB hack requests (serious ones, that is, and please try to keep it to ones you know exist and function properly) you want. If admins refuse to add them, I promise I'll make empty ban threats. Good deal, good deal.

Yeah, make sure you look it up on vbulletin.org to make sure the Hack is compatable with Vbulletin 3.0.3 before posting though.

Let's see how this works out.

ah ha...hmhmhm, thing just aren't the way it used to be now is it?

Can we get this one, o please, o please, o please :wacko:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60377

This sounds pretty fun, Hell yeah, we need this.

Also we should bring the RPG Hack Back Jack

Liek OMG u guyz need to instal teh v3 Arcade Mod. That thing is liek totaly awesme!!!11!!!

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Originally Posted by .Teddy-Bear.

Can we get this one, o please, o please, o please :wacko:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60377

This sounds pretty fun, Hell yeah, we need this.

Also we should bring the RPG Hack Back Jack

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That sounds interesting, can it affect only the forum you want it to and leave the rest of the forums pretty much untouched? If so I second the request.

of corse, the extra bandwidth this probably takes might make it prohibitive.

Yeah, I've seen the arcade thing on another forum, it's extremely rad.

Arcadey thingy! Yes! Get it!

yeah the arcade thing looks cool,but how about some virtual strippers to table dance all my worries away?

Why not just go to a strip club and see some real ones???

He's under-age?
You can't exactly tell people to suddenly become more interesting, Skinner. The forums are dead for a reason: not enough good thread, leeway of spam in certain topics. I think spam should be VIGOROUSLY pursued in discussion topics meant to be serious, and no more posting when you find something funny on the news sometimes. That creates a useless, 10-post thread.

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Originally Posted by .Teddy-Bear.

Why not just go to a strip club and see some real ones???

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who says im not and i dont
strip clubs are cool, but the kinda dudes who sit in the back arnt
just thought it would be nice to see some virtual titty dancin while numbing my mind on the forum

but thanx for the advice, im off, ill get a table dance in honour of you
cheers


and no im not underage im 21

Unban the banned, and let's have another old thread revival week! :wacko:

Also, de-mod some mods... Those who don't deserve it... They tend to get lazy when they acquire supreme status... De-modding would make them strive for betterness...

Also, Clive should bring in a few gals from time to time, just to prove he can... Make them chat with us for a few hours, then leave for good if they wish to...

I demand more pictures of Clive...

We should have an all-encompasing crazy day, where everyone gets admin rights and fun/hell breaks loose...

Take the point!

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Originally Posted by Castlevania

Unban the banned, and let's have another old thread revival week! :wacko:

Also, de-mod some mods... Those who don't deserve it... They tend to get lazy when they acquire supreme status... De-modding would make them strive for betterness...

Also, Clive should bring in a few gals from time to time, just to prove he can... Make them chat with us for a few hours, then leave for good if they wish to...

I demand more pictures of Clive...

We should have an all-encompasing crazy day, where everyone gets admin rights and fun/hell breaks loose...

Take the point!

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No. No. Yes. Yes. No.

Poppycock!!

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Originally Posted by Toto

. I think spam should be VIGOROUSLY pursued in discussion topics meant to be serious.

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You mean like this one? The spam's already getting out of hand.

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Originally Posted by Toto

...and no more posting when you find something funny on the news sometimes. That creates a useless, 10-post thread.

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I couldn't agree more.

Hm. I'm not sure we should go back to the old "OFF-TOPIC? BAN FOR YOU!" thing, but... I would advise everyone to think before they post from now on. I don't mean "oh shit, this is less than four paragraphs, I can't post this!", but more like "hey, is this REALLY funny/insightful/what ever?". The Hang Out is exempt, of course, since it's meant to be a shithole.

Quality over quantity. Discuss.

I couldn't agree more. The old system is obsolete, but perhaps we should crack down on spam a bit more then we currently do. I've seen many a thread ruined by pointless spam...

I dunno. I'm being more than active, yet this place is ... boring. :S
Not like the RPG hack is something uber great, but as an emulation/gaming community, i feel the arcade thing would be good for a while. Trying to beat each other scores. That would be good for a few months, then someone would do the ultimate score. �_�

What would really help, is more happy people. That may sound fishy, but alot of people come here frustrated, and just post some shit anywhere because they had a bad day. A link to the positive vibe and another one the negative vibe thread should be on every page. I have sometimes posted while i was in a bad mood, and that most of the time results in some flame war and hate e-mails. :P

Another thing to keep the forum cleaner, would be the warning level stuff. Off-topic post? Warning. Like you do with little kids...
Stupid/Useless post? Warning.
Small disrespect to another member? Warning
Huge one? Die mofo.

This just would be applied to new commers, but to everyone. Higher members (rank, posts, whatever) tend to lose a bit of respect when talking with newer members. I do sometime lose a bit of respect, alot of people does, don't lie.

Other than that? Maybe an area of the tracker with a ratio thingie, or a "private tracker". While i'm not the best seeder out there, I always try to keep my ratio on each torrent to at least 1:1. I see some people when browsing for torrents, with a ratio under 0,2:1, which kinda sucks. Some people are releasing ultra rare games, they bought, to other people who will never share it. This does not only include people from EP, I know alot of leechers are comming from SN too. Well they could register to the private tracker, and seed. If they leech, they get banned/temp-banned from that tracker.


Anyway, just a few ideas on the top of my head. I'm dead, and everything goes bad today.

Edit->Oh yeah, that does not really fit to the topic... :S

A few thigns would be cool, like more game competitions. I know there is some CS comp, and also a UT one (I think). Some people would like to play with the fellow EP members, only to pwn them a little bit. :)

"Take that Cyber, and take that Ziegfried! Muahahaha"
:P

I think the tracker idea is great. I've registered on a few torrent sites that require you to keep your leech/seed ratio at 1:1, or risk being banned. I'd love to impliment that.

Yeah, I've been in support of the tracker ratio thing since whenever the last time was. Then, people said it'd be problematic since some people can't seed forever since they're on bad connections, but if it's a separate section it might just work.

The edit has my full support, also. Except I'd win.

oh....my chance to shine.....

Hacks are stupid. Who cares about that? Here's what you really need:

* A column section where I could write hilarious shit

* A review section where I could write hilarious shit

* A flaming section where I could write hilarious shit

And you shoould change the site slogan to "It's late. Do you know where your husband is?"

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oh....my chance to shine.....

Hacks are stupid. Who cares about that? Here's what you really need:

* A column section where I could write hilarious shit

* A review section where I could write hilarious shit

* A flaming section where I could write hilarious shit

And you shoould change the site slogan to "It's late. Do you know where your husband is?"

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You can make the threads here whenever you want. If they seem any good, I'll sticky them sometime.

I love the tracker idea. I don't have the strongest connection for uploading, but still I do what I can. And if you can't uploadwhat you download, just don't download. Simple as that.
Now when I download games, I try to get them a bit here and there, so I don't spend all of my download/upload on bittorrent. Some sites do have a few psx isos, which works really fine. Rare, but it exists.
I think we can all say EP is one of/is the biggest emulation tracker available on the net. I have not yet found a tracker that share more PSX games as EP does ...

About the edit->Yeah, we'll see, maybe. ;)

On a side note, I feel like alot of people think that EP is another website where you need to vote 15 times to download a corrupted NES rom. I think we should make more publicity. I know it has been said somewhere about making publicity in your sig and stuff, but it would be a great idea to make some everywhere we go.
Any wallpaper/screensaver/boot logo/login screen/desktop theme/t-shirts would be cool too. :D
I think i'll make a t-shirt, only to look geekier.

More publicity = raped by IDSA.

I do think some changes need to be made to the downloads. These self extracting .exe files are causing alot of trouble, and people are accusing us of putting viruses and spyware into our files. That in turn is getting us alot of bad publicity on other sites.

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More publicity = raped by IDSA.

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I'm sure he meant that it would be a good idea to spread the word about this place on other rom sites or something.

You wouldn't get raped because you made a wallpaper.

Edit->Yeah, not putting publicity in sigs on other non-emulation forums. I know you can make publicity in real life (yeha ya know, that thing outside your comp) without getting raped. And yes, those .exe should be back to .rar. Plenty of people come here, and go hell mad because their antivirus says its a virus and stuff, real bad publicity.

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You can make the threads here whenever you want. If they seem any good, I'll sticky them sometime.

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We have a deal!

I'm currently writing about "the penis issue" featuring Oompa Loompa and The Grimace. I can't fail!

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Originally Posted by .Teddy-Bear.

Can we get this one, o please, o please, o please :wacko:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=60377

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I'm really liking that one.

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I'm really liking that one.

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Try get it installed, and I'll do whatever you want. In the bedroom.

I've also suggested that the ratio system be implemented, and I still think it should be.

Well, anyway, this isn't the place for site suggestions...

In an ideal world this thread will hopefully give you a little kick up the arse and encourage you all to post some interesting stuff with which we can all enjoy a good, hearty debate. Unfortunately, however, it isnt an ideal world - but we are all aware that this place hasnt been that lively for a while. But as Ive said to my fellow mods and admins, we've been here before, ridden the storm and came out (to my mind at least) better for it...however, standards are slipping.

Perhaps to an extent us moderators have become complacent. Perhaps we too can be accused of not being overly active. However, there is still a great core community here, and I firmly believe we can turn this place into the premier place not just for emulation discussion, but for a chat with your friends, a place to blow off steam, whatver. Its in our hands and only we can make this place into something a bit special.

So get posting. Seen a good film? Let us know about it. Had an interesting thought about an issue that could affect us all? Share it. Found an awesome girl (heh, see the positive vibe thread), and want to tell everyone? Then do so.

I thank you.

Complacent? How so, exactly? It seems as if you believe standards are slipping, so what do you percieve as being problem areas? What can we as moderators be doing better? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. :nod:

The allowance of spam to dictate the boards, for a start. Im all for off-topic discussion but a lot of it has become silly, and yeah, I too have been guilty of this, so Im in no way shrugging off the blame - some of us just need to pull up our proverbial socks I guess.

Ive seen quite a bit of baiting between members recently too, it would seem that some are too quick to judge and to snap at the heels of other members. We need to chill out a bit and be a bit more welcoming and more accomadating too, of members whose English isnt too great, or who havent the luxury of English being their first language.

I think its high time we pruned our members list again, including inactive moderators. As a counterbalance, I think it would be nice for a more welcoming environment for new members, maybe a true introductory sub-forum, for instance, that new people would be locked into until they posted to say hello, or something. Little touches like that are the ones that are remembered.

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As a counterbalance, I think it would be nice for a more welcoming environment for new members, maybe a true introductory sub-forum, for instance, that new people would be locked into until they posted to say hello, or something. Little touches like that are the ones that are remembered.

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I like that idea. Make it so they need about 5 posts or something in this sub-forum, you talk about. Maybe that would stop people from registering just to complain about something too.

Some people stick here, some don't. Maybe just not bothering to make more people stick, but starting by making this place a cooler place for people already there.

That would be your first mission, Cyberxion.
This message will auto destroy himself in 5 second. :P

Hmn. So I guess I shouldn't post then? @_@

As far as spam goes, we decided quite awhile ago to remove the reigns and let the horses run wild. If it's an issue now, it's because I don't think any of us really know just where to draw the line.

I suppose the only way to deal with this issue would be to reinstate the anti-spam rules, or at least come up with some very clear-cut definitions as to what is and isn't aloud. I find myself complacent regarding spam, because I'm not completely sure what to do about it. With a clear cut rule set in effect, we'd avoid any confusion amongst both members and mods.

As for the rest, I agree.

I dont think its complacency as such, moreover a disregarding of spam that leads to a deterioration of a topics content. You'll have to bear with me a little, and excuse my wording, as I have a cold and its 20 to 3 in the morning. ;)

Polobunny, I agree with what you said too. I think that would come with more people joining and sticking around, which in turn would see activity increase. Its just getting people to browse around the forums and see that it is a good place to come, to see that it is a bit of a laugh. At present, and because they can, theyre just coming here, getting what they want, then sodding off again. Which is fine to a degree, but in the last year moreso than any other time members have left and not been replaced. Before there was a natural turnaround of members, old ones left and new ones joined, but at present people just arent staying around. Synonamous with the lifting of the post rule on the Request Forum? Possibly. Maybe its only now we are seeing the longer-term effects of that.

I think it's quite the stretch to say that, but I suppose we can't rule out anything at this point.

I think now that anyone agrees this forum/website is going down, maybe slowly, but down for sure. Now someone gotta make the first step(s) to start this revolution. :)

Mods and Administrators, start your engines! :P

Not too long ago, someone posted about a Genesis emulator he was working on. We need to keep this kind of people obviously. Same goes for all the good releasers. But as time pass, they get bored and slowly go away.

I just wish more people would talk about what they think is the best for EP. Even though I think the arcade hack, and a "vip" tracker would be great ideaa, some people may not think it is. Only about 15 members posted in this thread, while I can think of more than 25 really active members.

I would also be interested in hearing the voice of newer members, what they like in EP, what they hate, what they beleive EP is, and mostly, what they hope they will get when joining the EP community. Those newer members will maybe become the new generation of EP "long lasting" members, that's why I think they also have the right to talk/to be heard. :)
They reflect what EP should be, in it's best look.

Another thing. I don't want to just bash it in again and again, but we should try to find a way to fix the double thread/posts problems, aswell as the impossible to make a new thread/post problem. It really annoys some members (now mostly new members which doesn't know about the problem).

Making the first step is always hard, and what newer members search is to be first recognized as a good/helpful member of the community. (most DO want that...)
Not being able to post while they want to help, just sounds like EP was refusing newer members, even though it's not anyone's fault. :S


I beleive the idea Deach was talking about (making a place where new members would be locked until they had 5 posts only to introduce theirselves and stuff) would help a bit, they would feel a bit more confident, because a thread/section would be reserved to them. But, that may cause another problem, newbies hurrying to post 5 unuseful posts, only to gain access to more interesting parts of the forums...