Updates to Forum

It appears for everyone who hasnt read it yet... seeing as you created the post, its not new for you

All of this stuff is explained here: Forum Features, Limitations, Bits and Bobs

 

A couple of changes have been added to the forum.

New Subforum
There is now a new Technical section for your technical issues such as your PC. Please use it.

Reputation System
You may have noticed a "Call to Arms!" notice when you log in. We've had an influx of spammers lately and while we admins and mods spend a lot of time on here, we do occasionally need some sleep... that's why we now give you the power to, in a way, manage these spammers by using the reputation system.

All you need to do is Negative Rep the spammers post with as much reputation as you can and when their reputation count goes below -10 then they will be banned. This banning happens 6 times every hour, starting on the hour, every 10 minutes.

If you have posted more than 50 times on this forum then you have the power to help, and we thank you.

Also, please remember to report the post when you've neg repped them so we admins and mods can go clean up after them when we can.

Also, anyone caught abusing this system by neg repping people they don't like repeatedly will have their reputation feature turned off, and depending on the severity, receive a ban. However, we encourage you to neg rep spammers repeatedly.

Thanks

 

Yeh they do occasionally post stuff... I will be implementing some changes over the weekend to ensure that if spammers do arrive, they are only able to hit one forum for the first few posts or soemthing... fun times.

 

There's a link there mate... "Mark forums as read" at the top under the main menu buttons

 

The front page has had a new Essentials widget overhaul.

 

I've added a new calendar for Official Arkadia Events that you can all use to see what's coming up.

The current events are also shown at the bottom of the forum listing in the "What's Going On" section. This should help you guys keep track of current and future events.

This is a calendar that is open for view by everybody but you can not create events there.

I will create another calendar at some point which allows you all to add your events etc into it - however the calendar will be moderated so a mod must approve it before it's published... this is just to cut down on useless things like "Saturday 8th December. Need to go shopping for dog food and hemorrhoid cream"

The Calendar link is located at the top of every thread under the "Blogs" button.

 

Righto so in an effort to be more transparent to you, our valued members, I have made all post deletion notices visible to everyone... well, nearly everyone, guests won't see them, so if you're a guest, please register or sign in!

When we delete posts they are for rule violations and now you will see a reason why the post was deleted.

 

Arkadia Time is now visible in the "Useful Links" submenu on pretty much every page. It's easier to find as it's at the top and you don't have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page.

 

A new link has been added to the menu bar - "Today's Posts"

It should return a list of threads where the last post was in the last 24 hours.