Music Mayhem

UPDATE: The changes that I was planning to do today aren't going to happen due to me being not 100% ready for them and I woke up with a cold this morning and I really don't have the energy to do so.

Depending on what happens, I might be able to do them tommorrow, sorry guys.

Ok, so I've decided that Wednesday will be the day that I will be making the following changes to the site so please pay attention:

THE FORUMS MAY GET CLOSED FOR A LITTLE WHILE WHILE SOME OF THESE CHANGES ARE BEING MADE! I APPOLOGISE IF THIS CAUSES AN INCONVENIENCE FOR YOU, BUT IT'S NECESSARY FOR ME TO DO SO.

I DON'T MEAN TO YELL BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE SEEN AND AKNOWLEDGED AND I DON'T THINK I SPELT AKNOWLEDGED RIGHT.

- I will be adding some new styles to the website and also making a new thread in the Suggestions and Feedback forum with examples of a heap of new styles that will be voted on.

Details will be outlined in the thread when it's made.

- I will be adding quite a few new forums to the list which will give everyone a wider choice of discussion. This is not just a music forum, it's about a large variety of topics, music is just a common interest of all the users so far.

Any topics that fit into these new categories will be moved. This may take some time and I appologise if the forums become closed while this is happening.

Now this brings a new... Problem to the forums because I don't have many moderators at the moment and after the new forums come in the rate of new threads and posts will increase dramatically and I (And Aqua Dementia as well) can't single-handedly moderate every forum because it's just too big of a task.

I will be asking for more moderators in a new thread in this forum (Announcements and Notices) so if you're interested, please check it out. Not everyone will be eligable for the job and I will decide based on a very strict criteria who will and who won't get to be a moderator.

- I will be getting rid of the word censor. I had it there to make the forums alot more 'user friendly' but I've since realised that it's not that big of a deal and that it's just text. Although, this doesn't give you the right to use highly abusive words every chance you get, anything like that will get you warned. There is a fine line between expression and downright rudeness.

I am also not sure if previous words that were censored will become un-censored, but we'll see.

I've run out of time to type this, but I shall add to it later tonight.

PLEASE POST A REPLY IF YOU HAVE READ THIS SO THAT I KNOW WHO HAS AND WHO HASN'T.
IF YOU DON'T REPLY TO THIS YOUR OPINIONS WILL NOT BE COUNTED INTO THE FINAL DECISIONS THAT MAY BE MADE.

scarr3d wrote:
I DON'T MEAN TO YELL BUT THIS NEEDS TO BE SEEN AND AKNOWLEDGED AND I DON'T THINK I SPELT AKNOWLEDGED RIGHT.

you sure did, its missing a 'c'

i've read all of it. and also could you close it for the next two-to-three weeks as well so i have one less distraction for studying for exams?

on a more serious note... its good to see that your taking the democratic route when choosing styles, and hopefully we can have democratic polls or discussion when adding big changes. (not little changes cause that would just be annoying).

Thanks for reading and picking up on that for me pringa Although, I'll keep it there so that other people have to read it to notice, thereby getting sucked in to reading the whole thing.

A for closing it for exams, I don't know if that will be possible

And I try to take a formal and democratic approach to things, I can't help it

Sounds l;ike a good plan, hope it goes ok and isnt too much work for you.

I will check out your proposed styles in suggestions thread when they are there (if they are already im checking it out now)
peace!

I'm deditcating the whole day to doing this, although it shouldn't take that long, it'll be a big job though. It should go ok though

And I haven't started the thread just yet, tomorrow (Tuesday, or maybe even later on tonight depending what happens) I'll have it up so that you get a good 24 hours at least to check them out and decide.

Cheers

Cool man, quick question though (before the appropriate thread is opened), what sort of criteria are potential moderators going to be judged on?

Not that I'm interested or anything....

Sounds good
I've already said I can mod quite a few forums, especially since the r'ship one is practically dead anyway, I need something to do!! XD

metacarpi wrote:Cool man, quick question though (before the appropriate thread is opened), what sort of criteria are potential moderators going to be judged on?

Not that I'm interested or anything....

Well, you'll see soon enough

Tushmeister wrote:Sounds good
I've already said I can mod quite a few forums, especially since the r'ship one is practically dead anyway, I need something to do!! XD

Yeah, I've kept that in mind, don't worry
And yeah, it is a bit dead at the moment... It might pick up soon, I was going to post in it before, but I didn't think it was all that important (My problem that is, just something that's been answered a billion times before) so I didn't, but new developments may change that, we'll soon see.

We just need more members I think, it's all quite slow, and very few people of a total population ever want relationship help, very few of 30 (I think thats how many members we've got here) is a very small number indeed!

Agreed, although to tell you the truth, I kinda like the small number of members... In a way.
It's a big change from the likes of UG, but a few more members couldn't hurt

scarr3d wrote:Agreed, although to tell you the truth, I kinda like the small number of members... In a way.
It's a big change from the likes of UG, but a few more members couldn't hurt

That's true, this feels more like a gathering of people, as opposed to a huge free-for all forum.

UG updates so often that it's pretty much impossible to keep track of!

This place is much more personal, which I like!

metacarpi wrote:

scarr3d wrote:Agreed, although to tell you the truth, I kinda like the small number of members... In a way.
It's a big change from the likes of UG, but a few more members couldn't hurt

That's true, this feels more like a gathering of people, as opposed to a huge free-for all forum.

UG updates so often that it's pretty much impossible to keep track of!

This place is much more personal, which I like!

+1
very true.

and yea i read it, woot, sounds good. karma for you boss scarr3d!

Thanks for reading it guys, I hope that everyone will eventually before it's too late.

I'm currently in the process of making the styles thread, that should be up soon.

well all this sounds good to me, and i cant wait for the aftermath to see how everything turned out, cause its sounding very good so far with all the changes that you are planning on making.

Well thankyou DarkCat, I'm glad you found this

welcome, i may not be able to look at everything at once the day that it comes on here, but i will always get around to reading everything sooner or later

Well that's good I give a few days notice before I make any big changes, so you should be right there

ok, good

I have read it.

Wait, that's tomorrow.... crap.

I have read it and I am looking forward to these new forums