Ideas and Roadmap for this forum

[admin]

I did some housecleaning of the BBCode tags, now it only displays the main ones although the alternative ones are active.

for example it only displays the [card] tags now although the shortcut is active and the [card=] too. They are listed in the faq.

I've also replaced the [spoilernest] and[spoilernestnest] tags by [spoiler2] and [spoiler3] tags and removed their visibility.

[Pendulum]

The Deck Brew thread in clans makes me think we should have a clans mod just in case they need any help moving anything around or what-have-you. redthirst seems most likely to go off on a powertrip and ban everyone, I nominate him.

[redthirst]

BOW BEFORE YOUR NEW GOD!

[Pendulum]

Solid post, but you should also sprinkle in some insulting slurs towards your new serfs to properly lower their morale, sir my lord.

[redthirst]

Good point... don't want the peasants revolting.

[Pendulum]

They certainly are.

[redthirst]

They certainly are.

Top drawer my good man!

Top.
Drawer.

[admin]

btw this reminded me that post deletion was still off because of that guy who loved deleting his posts I've put post deletion back to normal.

[Dane]

Good point... don't want the peasants revolting.

We're already revolting enough as it is.

I'd like to formally request a transfer from the "peasants" group to the "riff-raff" though.

Also, more on topic, has any thought been given to making MTG discussion more front and center? I'm not criticizing, but I'd personally think moving the chunk of Magic specific forums higher on the forum list might make it slightly more accessible. Sometimes people are too lazy to scroll. And yes...I'm being 100% serious. This is something we used to talk about a lot when we were working on our website at my old job. Metrics suggested that a fairly large number of people left our site without ever scrolling down, so we had to make
sure there were "hooks" visible from the start.

Edit: After looking at the forum again...I have no clue how the FUCK you could lay it out better. I'll leave the suggestions on site design to people who know what they're doing.

[Manders]

Good point... don't want the peasants revolting.

We're already revolting enough as it is.

I'd like to formally request a transfer from the "peasants" group to the "riff-raff" though.

Also, more on topic, has any thought been given to making MTG discussion more front and center? I'm not criticizing, but I'd personally think moving the chunk of Magic specific forums higher on the forum list might make it slightly more accessible. Sometimes people are too lazy to scroll. And yes...I'm being 100% serious. This is something we used to talk about a lot when
we were working on our website at my old job. Metrics suggested that a fairly large number of people left our site without ever scrolling down, so we had to make sure there were "hooks" visible from the start.

Edit: After looking at the forum again...I have no clue how the FUCK you could lay it out better. I'll leave the suggestions on site design to people who know what they're doing.

You're cute for trying

[Second Harkius]

don't tempt him

[NoHomers]

I haven't read the other posts, but something I've always wanted was a private area. Say you have a test group that is very competitive. Most people use Facebook or something similar to organize, but that can be clunky and doesn't link card texts. Would you ever consider adding private sections for teams? With team leader given local mod access or something?

[admin]

we've been adding private areas for people who ask them, and we have quite some few already. All there is required is to have a critical mass of members, because there's no point in doing a private area for one to three users. So yeah, totally feasible as long as you bring enough people to the table.

[Thrillho]

i haven't tinkered with permissions, but it may be a reasonable idea to make testing areas public-private, so that they are visible and people can ask for permission to join them (or make it so the group creator can request one mode or the other for their group... like, make membership open or closed basically). i am pretty sure this is already something we can do, but currently i haven't tried to make any new subsections and couldn't tell you.

[admin]

i haven't tinkered with permissions, but it may be a reasonable idea to make testing areas public-private, so that they are visible and people can ask for permission to join them (or make it so the group creator can request one mode or the other for their group... like, make membership open or closed basically). i am pretty sure this is already something we can do, but currently i haven't tried to make any new subsections and couldn't tell you.

well that's what we did in clans in which we made hidden and visible/read-only sections. The trick software-wise is to make a new group and then give read/post permissions to this group. Its easy to do with this software.

[Pendulum]

Alright, word on the grapevine is that redthirst is gone for the weekend. Let's get the domain switched over and mod him so he doesn't know what's going on when he comes back!

[Kaitscralt]

If only.

[Dane]

You REALLY want to blow his mind? Mod me.

(Don't do it. I'd be a terror to make Teia pale in comparison.)

[Pendulum]

Seconded.

[Kaitscralt]

Mod Harkius

[Michel Chasse-Fleurs]

we can't, he's banned

[Tom Servo]

we can't, he's banned

They tend to be trailblazers here.

[Tom Servo]

this mod talk got me thinking. Maybe you should consider only hiring mods if they have unanimous support from other staff. You might pass up a good mod here and there, but you would pass up Onar type mods a lot more.

[Manders]

Unanimous is a bit much, but discussion does go into the decisions when the discussion does come up.

[Manders]

I think we're good mod-wise for now, though.

[Kaitscralt]

we can't, he's banned

Or is he?

*corrupt admin*

[ExarionUniverse1]

You REALLY want to blow his mind? Mod me.

(Don't do it. I'd be a terror to make Teia pale in comparison.)

I know my opinion is worth naught but I agree with Dane.

and Manders and Tom Servo he is definitely not anything like my type. I failed, while he has yet to show his ablities.

[Blackhound]

I think we're good mod-wise for now, though.

If I had to choose between Az, GR, Scumbag and Thrillio or roughly 3 quarter of the mods on that other place to run a site. I would choose the former every bloody time.

[Blackhound]

Also, stating the obvious here but maybe create sub-forums for the likes of Modern and Vintage forums like you have done with the Standard forum.

[Manders]

I think we're good mod-wise for now, though.

If I had to choose between Az, GR, Scumbag and Thrillio or roughly 3 quarter of the mods on that other place to run a site. I would choose the former every bloody time.

Az is a mod here, so what are you saying?

Also, stating the obvious here but maybe create sub-forums for the likes of Modern and Vintage forums like you have done with the
Standard forum.

I believe this is already on the itinerary, but I'll check.

Edit: Ok, there was no mention of it, so I put it out there for you.

[imopen2]

I think we're good mod-wise for now, though.

If I had to choose between Az, GR, Scumbag and Thrillio or roughly 3 quarter of the mods on that other place to run a site. I would choose the former every bloody time.

Az is a mod here, so what are you saying?

Also, stating the obvious here but maybe create sub-forums for the likes of Modern and Vintage forums like you have done with the Standard forum.

I believe this is already on the itinerary, but I'll check.

Edit: Ok, there was no mention of it, so I put it out there for you.

I think it was one of those compliment things

[Pendulum]

This is all fine but I want to clarify I was joking about the infractions and all that, just that giving people the ability to move posts around the subforum and delete spambots would be okay in my book. Scumbag has a lot on his plate right now and so does everyone else I'm sure.

[Kaitscralt]

I've got my eye on you

[Dane]

This is all fine but I want to clarify I was joking about the infractions and all that, just that giving people the ability to move posts around the subforum and delete spambots would be okay in my book. Scumbag has a lot on his plate right now and so does everyone else I'm sure.

Lick my sweaty balls.

You SURE you don't want to infract me for that?

[Pendulum]

Depends on a lot of factors, really.

[Dane]

Like what? Sweatiness? I haven't showered in weeks either.

C'mon...you know you want to slap me on the nose with the forum version of a rolled up magazine...

[Tom Servo]

Unanimous is a bit much, but discussion does go into the decisions when the discussion does come up.

It's actually not. There are a few sites that operate that way and it seems to work wonders. One is a Sallly sized (actually, bigger) conspiracy site that is never short on drama if you're looking for it, but it's never something about mods. Every once in awhile they get accused of being cointelpro, but hey, it's a conspiracy site.

It will save more headaches than it causes, I can guarantee that. But it's just a suggestion.

[Tom Servo]

And it doesn't stop any discussion from going on either

[Blackhound]

Also, stating the obvious here but maybe create sub-forums for the likes of Modern and Vintage forums like you have done with the Standard forum.

For what its worth I have made a list of established modern decks here for if/when you get round to it.

http://community.ist.utl.pt/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=684

[admin]

I have updated the FAQ with a much needed tutorial on how to use the card tags (at least while we don't improve them).

viewtopic.php?p=37746#p37746

Anything amiss?