My Few $$ Feelings

[Cool Cr@cker]

1) Why don?t you give reputation for members for each referral. That is you gotta understand that these members are increasing the Community strength, so you gotta return the favour or something. So why don?t you have it like 300-400 reputation for Each member whom you refer.

2) Also I feel your Navbar is too Crowded.. You should remove 1 or 2 stuff like Calender and new posts and add 1 link called PC buttons.

3) Also why don?t you guys get some Nice domains for PC Oekaki. Instead of having 8 Domains for PC, which I feel is unnecessary, you can atleast have a .info or a .biz or atleast a .net for the Oekaki. I do know that DOMAINS ARE EXPENSIVE but I feel steve can do this, If not a paid a free small one will do.

4) Also in some unnessary Forums you are having the Thread Cut-Off as 1 year or permamanent while in forums where old threads are necessary, you have the cut-off as 1 month or 2 weeks.

5) While Site Maintainence is being done ~ The box which appears to members says?Blah?. Visit our fav Pokemon Sites? and gives links to PPN,V-Road, IRC, Zap. Is IRC still an affy of PC and maybe one of you should add link to DF

6) When Jake moved the tuts of Hacking to General Rom-Hacking he moved a lotta spam threads but along with that he also moved the best database in the whole net for Rom-Hacking tutorials. About a 100 amazing tuts are lost in that huge forum. I think you need to assign a job to Alex or Jeremy to search each of the ?98? pages of that forum and manually move the Tutorials alone to the tuts section. A very hazardous job.

7) Last BTW My Feelings are that PC is currently banning members too quick if they commit even a single error or just spam once without reading rules. I know it?s the members duty to read the rules but by banning them immediately, you are losing on a lotta members. I can show examples of a lot of members who were banned just for something they didn?t know. Please re-consider banning them immediately. A warning system will be much useful here.

Last thing, last time I gave my ideas like this, I was criticised by everyone who didnt like them here. And they flamed against me. So if you dont like what I'm saying either dont reply or just post that this is not possible here or whatsoever.

 

[Furaigon]

1) Why don?t you give reputation for members for each referral. That is you gotta understand that these members are increasing the Community strength, so you gotta return the favour or something. So why don?t you have it like 300-400 reputation for Each member whom you refer.

That's an interesting idea but even so 300-400 is a little much. Also, someone people refer people to the site but the people referred don't name the person that told them about the site as their referrer. So they could refer a person and not get any rep.

2) Also I feel your Navbar is too Crowded.. You should remove 1 or 2 stuff like Calender and new posts and add 1 link called PC buttons.

Maybe it's a little crowded but it's not that bad.

4) Also in some unnessary Forums you are having the Thread Cut-Off as 1 year or permamanent while in forums where old threads are necessary, you have the cut-off as 1 month or 2 weeks.

I believe you're able to change that yourself in your User CP or at the bottom of the page for each section.

6) When Jake moved the tuts of Hacking to General Rom-Hacking he moved a lotta spam threads but along with that he also moved the best database in the whole net for Rom-Hacking tutorials. About a 100 amazing tuts are lost in that huge forum. I think you need to assign a job to Alex or Jeremy to search each of the ?98? pages of that forum and manually move the Tutorials alone to the tuts section. A very hazardous job.

Perhaps you could provide links to the tutorials so it'd have more of a chance of being moved.

7) Last BTW My Feelings are that PC is currently banning members too quick if they commit even a single error or just spam once without reading rules. I know it?s the members duty to read the rules but by banning them immediately, you are losing on a lotta members. I can show examples of a lot of members who were banned just for something they didn?t know. Please re-consider banning them immediately. A warning system will be much useful here.

I haven't been here in a while and have noticed quite a few new people banned but I'm sure the mods are banning fairily.

Last thing, last time I gave my ideas like this, I was criticised by everyone who didnt like them here. And they flamed against me. So if you dont like what I'm saying either dont reply or just post that this is not possible here or whatsoever.

Not everyone that posts disagreeing with something you say is flaming. Not sure if you meant what you said that way but it seemed like it.

 

[Legendary_Pokegirl]

1) Why don?t you give reputation for members for each referral. That is you gotta understand that these members are increasing the Community strength, so you gotta return the favour or something. So why don?t you have it like 300-400 reputation for Each member whom you refer.

2) Also I feel your Navbar is too Crowded.. You should remove 1 or 2 stuff like Calender and new posts and add 1 link called PC buttons.

3) Also why don?t you guys get some Nice domains for PC Oekaki. Instead of having 8 Domains for PC, which I feel is unnecessary, you can atleast have a .info or a .biz or atleast a .net for the Oekaki. I do know that DOMAINS ARE EXPENSIVE but I feel steve can do this, If not a paid a free small one will do.

4) Also in some unnessary Forums you are having the Thread Cut-Off as 1 year or permamanent while in forums where old threads are necessary, you have the cut-off as 1 month or 2 weeks.

5) While Site Maintainence is being done ~ The box which appears to members says?Blah?. Visit our fav Pokemon Sites? and gives links to PPN,V-Road, IRC, Zap. Is IRC still an affy of PC and maybe one of you should add link to DF

6) When Jake moved the tuts of Hacking to General Rom-Hacking he moved a lotta spam threads but along with that he also moved the best database in the whole net for Rom-Hacking tutorials. About a 100 amazing tuts are lost in that huge forum. I think you need to assign a job to Alex or Jeremy to search each of the ?98? pages of that forum and manually move the Tutorials alone to the tuts section. A very hazardous job.

7) Last BTW My Feelings are that PC is currently banning members too quick if they commit even a single error or just spam once without reading rules. I know it?s the members duty to read the rules but by banning them immediately, you are losing on a lotta members. I can show examples of a lot of members who were banned just for something they didn?t know. Please re-consider banning them immediately. A warning system will be much useful here.

Last thing, last time I gave my ideas like this, I was criticised by everyone who didnt like them here. And they flamed against me. So if you dont like what I'm saying either dont reply or just post that this is not possible here or whatsoever.

1~ Thats slightly a bad idea. ^^;; Basically its just another way to abuse the rep system. People whom are already members from PC could make new accounts and make the old account the referer, just to get rep. Also, it wouldnt be very fair to the people who have no one to refer PC to. And in my opinion, more members is the least thing we need at the moment, although they are very nice to have around. xD

2~ I'm not to sure what to say about this, but in my opinion is that removing the Calander and the New Posts is a bad idea. The calander is really handy when it comes to members birthdays [bad reason but okay. xD], and from my understanding New Posts gets used quite a bit for an easier way to find posts. I would suggest removing Quick Links if it came down to removing one. But thats just my opinion. ^^;;

3~ Yes, you're right. They are expensive, and thats probaly one of the main reasons why we already dont have a domain for PC's Oekaki. Its a reasonable request though, and I'm sure it will be done sometime or another. ^^

4~ What do you suggest~? o.o

5~ Yes, I agree about DF. I'm sure this will be done eventually~ ^^

6~ That would be...interesting. xD *pities Alex and Jeremy* It would be a lot of work, but I'm sure it could eventually be done if Alex and Jeremy are up to it. The tutorials are a handy thing to have of course~ xD So, therefore if you think its so important maybe you could provide the links for them so the mods dont have to endlessly dig through all the pages because of someone saying they should. I'm sure it would be a great help to them.

7~ We currently doin a way have a warning system. As far as I know members that re banned are at least warned three time, and if they continue then they get banned. A lot of people have complained about this, and the fact that PC is just losing members as we ban them. But, the least thing we need is people like them going around PC spamming, flaming, and breaking all the other rules. I'm actually pretty content with the banning system. ^^;;

These are just my 2 cents on these suggestions. o.o *pokes* Dont look at me funny~ xD

~Karli

 

[Claire]

Okies, here are my thoughts:

1) The prob is that a lot of people would abuse the system, and just set up multiple accounts to gain quick rep
2) Kinda neutral about it -the nav bar never bothered me, but if most ppl think it's too cluttered then we'll remove some
3) pokecommunity.com/draw is a good address ^^; it means that if someone finds the oekaki they know which site it will be a part of immediately, so a separate url is kinda unneccessary ^^;
4) Could you show some examples of where you think the cut-off should be changed?
5) IRC is still an affy for the time being. Yeah, DF doesn't show up, but that's just a minor thing. It'll be sorted soon enough ^^ the layouts are the main priority, but it takes a while to do those
6) I wont pass judgment -just wait to see what jake/jeremy/alex say ^^
7) If someone does do something wrong they are PMed a warning, and if they continue to disobey the warning then they are given a final warning or banned (depending on what the member actually did), so im not sure how you can say that some didn't receive warning unless you were able to check their PMs ^^; With some members, however, it is obvious that they have joined purely to spam, and a lot of the time it tends to be previously banned members who just feel like spamming under a new account ^^; if there is blatent, pointless and repetitive spam then we do ban if they are new members. With regards advertising deals from new members, it is also obvious that they joined just to advertise, so they are also banned (many try to post as many threads about the deals as they can before being banned).
But if you do believe that someone was unfairly banned then just PM one of the higher staff and it'll be looked into ^^

 

[Sawyer]

to your last request- as soon as someone spams once, we know that they're a spammer. if they flame and spam, they'll be banned immediately. it's stupid to let spammers stay at PC and spam up threads and the admins don't do anything about it. :\

 

[Cherrim]

1) Why don?t you give reputation for members for each referral. That is you gotta understand that these members are increasing the Community strength, so you gotta return the favour or something. So why don?t you have it like 300-400 reputation for Each member whom you refer.

o_O I'm sure there's probably a hack for that, but I don't really see the need for it. o_o; Is rep really that important? I just like seeing the number of referrals. I don't think rep is really all that much of an incentive. Besides, I can see that being abused horribly by people signing up with multiple accounts just to raise their rep consdierably. x_X

2) Also I feel your Navbar is too Crowded.. You should remove 1 or 2 stuff like Calender and new posts and add 1 link called PC buttons.

I don't think the link to the buttons is necessary, but I suppose New Posts could be taken off. It's in the Quick Links anyway. If there's a way, maybe calendar could go under Quick Links as well? It would free up space.

3) Also why don?t you guys get some Nice domains for PC Oekaki. Instead of having 8 Domains for PC, which I feel is unnecessary, you can atleast have a .info or a .biz or atleast a .net for the Oekaki. I do know that DOMAINS ARE EXPENSIVE but I feel steve can do this, If not a paid a free small one will do.

^_^; I think the URL is fine the way it is. o_O It's just a slash and four extra letters. Besides, the link is up there at the top if people don't want to type in that much. Maybe in the future it may have a domain, but for now, I think it' s fine.

4) Also in some unnessary Forums you are having the Thread Cut-Off as 1 year or permamanent while in forums where old threads are necessary, you have the cut-off as 1 month or 2 weeks.

I agree with DF. o_O I've never noticed this, but I'm sure we can certainly change that. It makes sense.

5) While Site Maintainence is being done ~ The box which appears to members says?Blah?. Visit our fav Pokemon Sites? and gives links to PPN,V-Road, IRC, Zap. Is IRC still an affy of PC and maybe one of you should add link to DF

To my understanding, our maintenance message hasn't been changed in quite a while. I assume since before DF joined as a member site. ^_^; That's the only reason the site didn't appear. Instead of spending time adding the site to the message, Kwesi was probably concentrating on getting PC back up quickly.

7) Last BTW My Feelings are that PC is currently banning members too quick if they commit even a single error or just spam once without reading rules. I know it?s the members duty to read the rules but by banning them immediately, you are losing on a lotta members. I can show examples of a lot of members who were banned just for something they didn?t know. Please re-consider banning them immediately. A warning system will be much useful here.

Please, do share these members' usernames. I can assure you that we don't randomly ban for first offenses. There were likely things going on behind the scenes that people don't realize or things like that. =\ But... regardless, give us the example so we can make sure. Couldn't hurt.

Last thing, last time I gave my ideas like this, I was criticised by everyone who didnt like them here. And they flamed against me. So if you dont like what I'm saying either dont reply or just post that this is not possible here or whatsoever.

o_O If people are flaming you and the staff don't notice, you report them.

 

[Arcanine]

1: Well members might just start new accounts and put themself down for a referral just to get a higher rep. And rep isn't really a good way to give things out for getting people to join PC.

2: I think this is a good idea. The Calender can be viewed by the button on the main page and the New Posts can be done by the Quick Links drop down. To me this idea would be a good one to put into play.

3: Well there is really only once place to get to the Oekaki on PC. And that's the NavBar. And it's not really needed to have a lot of domains for it.

4: It could help with the reviving of the old threads but that's a lot of forums to change and members will want to go back and see the old posts that was made.

5: That's an easy fix. And isn't that big unless PC is going to be down a lot (it's only going to be down when upgrading).

7: Them are mostly members that sends PMs to members trying to get them to join their forum (if they just join to send out them links then we just ban them because that's the only reason why they joined). And if a member is going around spamming and flaming in all his/her posts then there really isn't much need to keep that member around. Because they should have a little commen sense not to flame anyone. And we don't ban them because of one spam post or one flame post. It's more then one where we ban the member. We warn them and they don't change. So if they are going to keep with the flaming and spamming then we ban them.
Everyone should read the rules of PC, it's not like the rules is in a dark forgotten place on PC. They are right there on the NavBar for everyone to see.

 

[Rukario]

RE: #3
the sub oekaki.pokecommunity.com (and some of the other names i.e. .co.uk, pcomm.info) as well as draw.pokecommunity.com is set up and points to our Oekaki.

the main reason we don't have a seperate domain for it, is to promote it as a PART of PC not a seperate entity.

RE: #5
We'll fix that next time we need to shut off PC..

*ignores the rest as they've been adressed*

 

[Cool Cr@cker]

1) Why don?t you give reputation for members for each referral. That is you gotta understand that these members are increasing the Community strength, so you gotta return the favour or something. So why don?t you have it like 300-400 reputation for Each member whom you refer.

Okay Since not rep, shouldnt they be thanked or rewarded in anyother way.<Insert Way Here>

2) Also I feel your Navbar is too Crowded.. You should remove 1 or 2 stuff like Calender and new posts and add 1 link called PC buttons.

Is there a way to add Calender to Quick Links. Then you should remove New Posts & Calender. Or atleast add PC Buttons to Quick Links.

6) When Jake moved the tuts of Hacking to General Rom-Hacking he moved a lotta spam threads but along with that he also moved the best database in the whole net for Rom-Hacking tutorials. About a 100 amazing tuts are lost in that huge forum. I think you need to assign a job to Alex or Jeremy to search each of the ?98? pages of that forum and manually move the Tutorials alone to the tuts section. A very hazardous job.

Hey I'm really sad that no one has really talked about this. I mean 100's of Wonderful Rom-Hacking tuts are lost in between general Rom Hacking Questions. And it is really tough to search for them as most of them have strange names.

 

[Furaigon]

But people can get others to join PC without the person they told putting them as their referrer. And like I already said, provide links to the tutorials you're talking about then there will be more chance of them getting moved.

 

[Arcanine]

Okay Since not rep, shouldnt they be thanked or rewarded in anyother way.<Insert Way Here>

Well on the old PC we had something like member or site (I think it was site) with the most referrals that month would have their name or site posted in an Announcement. Or something along them lines (it's been forever so I don't remember the whole thin and the old PC is turned off so I can't check).

Is there a way to add Calender to Quick Links. Then you should remove New Posts & Calender. Or atleast add PC Buttons to Quick Links.

Yea I guess, I can try playing around with one of the layouts and see if I can add it to the Quick Links bar (or should save some space).

Hey I'm really sad that no one has really talked about this. I mean 100's of Wonderful Rom-Hacking tuts are lost in between general Rom Hacking Questions. And it is really tough to search for them as most of them have strange names.

Well the reason why we really didn't say anything is because we are not fit to do so. ROMs isn't our things and really it should be left up to some Staff that knows about that stuff.

 

[Kelsey]

1) Why don?t you give reputation for members for each referral. That is you gotta understand that these members are increasing the Community strength, so you gotta return the favour or something. So why don?t you have it like 300-400 reputation for Each member whom you refer.

Well, the problem with that would be that anyone could just tell their friends to register to PC and refer to them, giving them hundreds or rep points. This would also cause more problems with the reputation system's abuse than we already have. I'm not trying to douse your idea, just pointing out some flaws that could occur.

2) Also I feel your Navbar is too Crowded.. You should remove 1 or 2 stuff like Calender and new posts and add 1 link called PC buttons.

Hmmm...this idea I kinda like. The navbar isn't incredibly crowded, but I do see that by grouping a few buttons together, it may be easier to locate the certain button you are looking for. ^o^

3) Also why don?t you guys get some Nice domains for PC Oekaki. Instead of having 8 Domains for PC, which I feel is unnecessary, you can atleast have a .info or a .biz or atleast a .net for the Oekaki. I do know that DOMAINS ARE EXPENSIVE but I feel steve can do this, If not a paid a free small one will do.

Well, this idea isn't too bad. But, according to what you said, you believe PC is already too crowded. By ading more domains, wouldn;t this just make PC even more crowded? oO

4) Also in some unnessary Forums you are having the Thread Cut-Off as 1 year or permamanent while in forums where old threads are necessary, you have the cut-off as 1 month or 2 weeks.

Well, in some forums, there are so many members as well as many threads being created daily. So, to not make that particular forum so cluttered, the cut-off deadline is shortened. Whereas in forums where people araley post, the deadline can be lengthened seeing as there's not so much clutter. ^^

5) While Site Maintainence is being done ~ The box which appears to members says?Blah?. Visit our fav Pokemon Sites? and gives links to PPN,V-Road, IRC, Zap. Is IRC still an affy of PC and maybe one of you should add link to DF

I'm not sure if IRC is still one of PC's affiliates, but for your DF question - there's a lot to do around the forums. Sometimes there isn't enough time for the higher staff to be able to link to DF in all the skins. But once they get around to it, it shall happen. ^o^

6) When Jake moved the tuts of Hacking to General Rom-Hacking he moved a lotta spam threads but along with that he also moved the best database in the whole net for Rom-Hacking tutorials. About a 100 amazing tuts are lost in that huge forum. I think you need to assign a job to Alex or Jeremy to search each of the ?98? pages of that forum and manually move the Tutorials alone to the tuts section. A very hazardous job.

Well, that sounds like a lot of work to assign just Alex and Jeremy. If you want that info. back, then possibly PM an admin or even Alex/Jeremy themselves and see what they can do. ^^

7) Last BTW My Feelings are that PC is currently banning members too quick if they commit even a single error or just spam once without reading rules. I know it?s the members duty to read the rules but by banning them immediately, you are losing on a lotta members. I can show examples of a lot of members who were banned just for something they didn?t know. Please re-consider banning them immediately. A warning system will be much useful here.

Well, you may not know the entire story behind the banned member. You see, by matching IP addresses, we can find out if the member has been here under a different username, thus enabling us to know whether they have committed any foul play in the past.

Also, the member may not have done wrong visible to certain members. They could have broken the rules through PMs and such. So really, I don't believe that there are any members who have been banned without a valid reason. But, if we don't ban the members who come here purely to mess things up, they'll only keep messing things up for PC, causing greater problems than just SPAM. << >>

I understand your opinions, Shre. I don't think anyone shall flame you for posting your ideas, as we can plainly see, you do have your own opinions on certain matters as do everyone else of the community. ^_______^

~Kelsey

 

[KoBRe LaiR]

About tutorials, I can only say that in my opinion I could just make a whole search for them and move them but I would split the spams and questions away form the guides and just have them like that. Only tutorial posts will be posted, I don't know if Jeremy or Jake agree with me, but I can't do this without their consent and plus I can't now or until February 27th or past.

I will only be active tomorow for a while but I will have to be packing for a trip and all. Ill try to move some current ones tomorow. Right now I have a dinner to attend.

 

[Cool Cr@cker]

About tutorials, I can only say that in my opinion I could just make a whole search for them and move them but I would split the spams and questions away form the guides and just have them like that. Only tutorial posts will be posted, I don't know if Jeremy or Jake agree with me, but I can't do this without their consent and plus I can't now or until February 27th or past.

I will only be active tomorow for a while but I will have to be packing for a trip and all. Ill try to move some current ones tomorow. Right now I have a dinner to attend.

Actually I think either you or Jeremy will have to manually search throught the 98 Odd pages in General Rom-Hacking. A tedious process. And manually move each thread since mass Moving cant be applied here.

~ CC

 

[KoBRe LaiR]

I have done that already. I have all the links for all the threads. I found them today it took me a while but I got them all and they are not alot. But as I said I won't move them until I come back in the afternoon.