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[D1st0rt]

This banner better get changed soon..

Don't fix what ain't broken, Gall

[Galleleo]

This banner better get changed soon..

[Liquid Blue]

Pub Chat, like Gal said sets a bad precedent for the General Discussion forum, especially for the people that play the game regularly and know how bad actual "pub chat" is. General Discussion is a perfectly fine name, especially considering you have it right under Pub Chat. Just get rid of Pub Chat.

Ear Candy is slightly better, but still serves no purpose considering it's essentially Music Debate and Discussion. The name changes don't add flavor or integrate the forum any more with the game than the previous names.

Sports description? "Talk about everything related to sports". Something simple, the descriptions and titles don't need to be witty, they just need to let the viewers know at a glance what they're in for if the choose to go to that part. Pub chat will lead people away or give them a bad impression before they even go in, and you don't even need to mention men or balls in regards to sports. Just have sports talk or something similar.

[Broly]

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. We've changed a few forum names back and modified a couple others. Musical Differences is in the air, please head to that forum to make some suggestions.

Sports needs a new description. Anyone want to suggest?

One last thing... we're looking for a new TW Forum banner to go up top. Nothing huge, and it needs to be one file. If you're kickass at them, by all means submit one for review.

Thanks again, and I hope everyone had a good new years.

why are things in "need" for change?

[DangerGirl]

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. We've changed a few forum names back and modified a couple others. Musical Differences is in the air, please head to that forum to make some suggestions.

Sports needs a new description. Anyone want to suggest?

One last thing... we're looking for a new TW Forum banner to go up top. Nothing huge, and it needs to be one file. If you're kickass at them, by all means submit one for review.

Thanks again, and I hope everyone had a good new years.

[Subjugation]

My New Year's resolutions to the forum are for myself to be more active in the community and hire a couple more moderators to help keep the peace and keep Forum Staff within the community. I was asked what it was that I wanted out of the forum. In short, I'd love to have a forum of subspace players, especially from the Trench Wars zone, to come to the TW forums to talk about the game, talk about the zone, talk about anything in general, make friends, make enemies, debate with people, bring up interesting and intelligent subjects, and all in all, just have some fun.

First off, DG---thanks for the Mission Statement, the olive branch, and the official release that you're going to be expanding the moderator staff. Considering it's New Year's season, perhaps we can focus on the future; Hopefully 2007 will produce some peace and good tidings around these parts.

As I've already said, I actually like the new skin/theme, so that's not a point of contention for me. Additionally, for those that don't like the new one, there are other themes that are available---and they couldn't be any easier to use. You can change them without even going into your User Control Panel---hell, you don't even need to be logged into the forum to change the skin.

I think others have already mentioned my own concerns with the subforum titles. I think it's cool that it cross-promotes the game, so to speak. However, when creating the forum titles I think it's important to view them from the eyes of a newb. If we are serious about marketing the game and bringing in new users, we want them to spend as little time assimilating as possible. What I mean by that is someone who is not familiar with the F1 feature of the zone will not know that the F1 subforum is supposed to be the FAQ forum. On the other hand, both new visitors as well as seasoned veterans will know what to find in the ?help forum, because the title is self explanatory. Also, I don't see the harm in involving the community by asking for their input with the titles.

Lastly, I wanted to end my thoughts on the most important concern I have. I think it's pretty obvious that this place isn't a democracy, but neither should the community be made to feel marginalized, like it has been recently. Like LB, Face, Nickname, Zeus, myself and others have already mentioned (here, and in other threads), one of the foremost "constructive criticisms" we felt needed to be addressed is that the admins have greater communication and participation with the forum community. Hopefully, the new moderators will be more than just "thread lockers and movers". I think it's vital that the new mods will be public relations/community oriented individuals who will share the responsibility of keeping the community informed of upcoming changes, prevent small issues from snowballing into major problems (by moving or locking threads), and by keeping the line of communication open during the unavoidable periods of discontent.

[Mr. Peanuts]

I believe, if anything, the new ones have made the forum more ambiguous for new members.

abso-bloody-exactly.

I even find myself doing a double-take of the forum names.

[Ephemeral]

New theme colors make it harder to read, I tried it for a while but switched it back to boring old theme.
New names do not matter to me, but I still don't understand how we can use the stupid "Talk about men and balls" as the Sports forum description. Makes it feel like a 12 y.o. forum, "hehe, pussy, balls, hehe see me say bad things, aren't I cool?".

[Nethila]

We had a ton of people already using the new theme, and I didn't receive very many complaints,

i guess someone didnt read all those complain/whine threads about the new theme..

[DoTheFandango]

This topic name is as lame as the Forum names.

I believe there is currently a thread about the state of the forums, and that is titled, aptly, "What the Fuck".

Dupe thread, lock plz.

[Squeezer]

Just change the names back to how they were.

seconded. What was wrong with the forum names in the first place?

I believe, if anything, the new ones have made the forum more ambiguous for new members.

[Darkmoor]

The new theme might or might not be good, I will not comment more on it as it is incomplete, except that it looks like you will have to sacrifice some readability if you are going to use it.

Forum names and descriptions have gone from good to bad though. Why does the forum need the "look and feel" of the game, as you call it? New members will only find themselves confused, "what forum is for what and what the... are these names?". Not to mention that some of the names/descriptions might be considered discriminatory, offensive or simply racist, which would go against the almighty 'no racism in TW' rule. One more example that Staff are above the rules they enforce, but they stomp on us with a BanG if we try to be.

[gran guerrero]

useless crap is better with the description of all GHB threads can be found here.
general discussion is better
musical discussion, with subsubforum of instrument talk (guitars, drums, etc)
sports stays the same
trash talk

[Pummel]

First off.. wtf are you doing using my joke? And if it was so awesome that you feel the need to use, how did I not win the caption contest? This is just wrong.



Abuse, axe yourself for it.

And change all the names back to how it was, it was just fine. And pub chat instead of general discussion, or Ear Candy instead of musical differences doesn't bring anyone any close to the game. In fact that whole part of the forum has nothing to do with the game.

Ow and put Links for the young at heart back where it was and not under "pub chat".

Mr. Serious!

[Galleleo]

First off.. wtf are you doing using my joke? And if it was so awesome that you feel the need to use, how did I not win the caption contest? This is just wrong.

I might find the humor to perma change your personal theme to something even I wouldn't touch. :P

Abuse, axe yourself for it.

And change all the names back to how it was, it was just fine. And pub chat instead of general discussion, or Ear Candy instead of musical differences doesn't bring anyone any close to the game. In fact that whole part of the forum has nothing to do with the game.

Ow and put Links for the young at heart back where it was and not under "pub chat".