Community Update [May]

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

If you are looking at the forums can you fix the CSS so that links show up as a different color?

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

If you are looking at the forums can you fix the CSS so that links show up as a different color?

Asterelle - Sanctuary wrote: »

If you are looking at the forums can you fix the CSS so that links show up as a different color?

sparkiesoft wrote: »

Hello all,

Forum Changes

Some of you may like this, others may not, but I want to make clear what exactly is changing so you don't panic. I have given full permission to the mods to depth/remove any thread or post that is deemed unhelpful, trolling, or non-constructive. You may be thinking now, "wait, are you censoring the forums!????" and the answer is no. I want you to be able to come to these forums and express your opinion, whether it be positive or negative. What I don't want, is clutter in the form of posts that benefit no one.

_blood_rain - Sanctuary wrote: »

Regarding TW reset: Plz no 4 months. PvE TWs are the most boring thing ever and have the unintended side effect of shaking up and causing instability in factions as people leave to cash in on easy pve tw rewards. 6 months is fine

Regarding changes in forum policy: It's only recently that my level of ****s given has reached a point so low that I start to sound ragey/trolley on forums in a fairly consistent manner. What can I say, when people have a solid wall between their ears and their brains, communication can become a little stressed. I don't have anything against encouraging people to take a more constructive tone, and for the most part our mod team is good/reliable, but if the decision to close/depth threads on this matter is based entirely on their own discretion, there's potential for abuse. FuzzyWuzz already showed us how an abusive mode can affect a thread, we don't have anyone like him on mod team today(thankfully) but there is someone in particular who can be extremely overzealous about closing threads/deleting posts. With a green-light go-ahead like this, the forums could become quite over-regulated/censored.
I once had a post deleted which gave a legitimate answer to a legitimate question that was relevant to the thread simply because it contained a negative-toned adjective...

Anyway, I'll stress what Desdi said. The community as a whole responds much better when we know you are listening and aware. Even if there is nothing you can do about whatever problem is at hand. Long periods of silence are not something any of us appreciate... and whatever you do, don't blatantly lie to us. Do not be another Frankie please. b:surrender Yes, this means you are strictly forbidden from listening to Nickelback

OPKossy wrote: »

This is not only desired but encouraged and stressed most every time this pops up. We're all people and talking to each other to handle things like mature adults is a very big thing we want to have going on. Yes, we lock down threads that do the complaints on the forums because that's strictly against the rules anyways. Those who PM us, on the other hand, will always get a response about it and if we can't come to an agreement then they're quite free (and rather encouraged) to PM whoever the acting CM is.

We're not here to oppress. We just want to keep things clean.


Well except that crazy Kossy person. She's nothing but a power abusing and oppressive pain but we all tend to ignore her anyways.

sparkiesoft wrote: »

I've already brought that up with the web team, so hopefully sometime not in the distant future -_-

a:link, body_alink
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:visited, body_avisited
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
}
a:hover, a:active, body_ahover
{
	color: #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

a:link, body_alink
{
	color: #4e7edb;
}
a:visited, body_avisited
{
	color: #4e7edb;
}
a:hover, a:active, body_ahover
{
	color: #4e7edb;
	text-decoration: underline;
}

sparkiesoft wrote: »

Forum Changes

Some of you may like this, others may not, but I want to make clear what exactly is changing so you don't panic. I have given full permission to the mods to depth/remove any thread or post that is deemed unhelpful, trolling, or non-constructive. You may be thinking now, "wait, are you censoring the forums!????" and the answer is no. I want you to be able to come to these forums and express your opinion, whether it be positive or negative. What I don't want, is clutter in the form of posts that benefit no one.

DQ Rewards

Yes, yes I know this is a heavy topic. That said, I've been working with the team on how to best go about creating something similar, and will have more details as they come in. Saying that, we absolutely do plan on bringing this back in some way, shape, or form.

Events

As per one of my last posts, I am still coming up with a host of new events that we can hopefully run each month, more than once. It will take some time, but If you ever have an idea you can always PM me, and we can work on logistics.

Territory Wars Reset

This is coming, hopefully later in May. We have to do a great deal in order to streamline this, but once we do, we hope we can get it back on track for it's regular scheduled time. We may even try doing it every 4 months, but we'd need a lot of community feedback on whether or not that is something they would like. At any rate, for now it will still run the usual 6 months.

sparkiesoft wrote: »

Hello all,

It dawned on me this morning that we should have a monthly update, so to speak, of what's to come regarding changes/updates to PWI. So I decided to start this thread, and hope I can do one each month if time permits.

Forum Changes

Some of you may like this, others may not, but I want to make clear what exactly is changing so you don't panic. I have given full permission to the mods to depth/remove any thread or post that is deemed unhelpful, trolling, or non-constructive. You may be thinking now, "wait, are you censoring the forums!????" and the answer is no. I want you to be able to come to these forums and express your opinion, whether it be positive or negative. What I don't want, is clutter in the form of posts that benefit no one.

So what's an example of something that would get depth'd? "I hate everything, you guys changed what I like, you all suck!" This helps no one, and will be removed.

Here's how you can rephrase that so it doesn't get depth'd: "I really don't like this change, and here's why..."

By simply stating why you don't like the changes, you help me gather feedback that I can give to my boss, who can then talk to the Developers, to which we can possibly ask for a change/fix.

Again, this isn't to stop anyone from posting their opinion, it's to get people to start posting their opinion in a way that I can use it as feedback, to hopefully try and get things changed.

As a side note, this will only include the General section of the forums, along with Tech Support, Official Announcements, and Beginners Guides. Depending on how well it goes, I'll see about moving to other sub-threads.

DQ Rewards

Yes, yes I know this is a heavy topic. That said, I've been working with the team on how to best go about creating something similar, and will have more details as they come in. Saying that, we absolutely do plan on bringing this back in some way, shape, or form.

Events

As per one of my last posts, I am still coming up with a host of new events that we can hopefully run each month, more than once. It will take some time, but If you ever have an idea you can always PM me, and we can work on logistics.

Territory Wars Reset

This is coming, hopefully later in May. We have to do a great deal in order to streamline this, but once we do, we hope we can get it back on track for it's regular scheduled time. We may even try doing it every 4 months, but we'd need a lot of community feedback on whether or not that is something they would like. At any rate, for now it will still run the usual 6 months.

That's all I have for now, but if anything changes, or anything new comes, I'll be sure to update, and add to this thread.