The forums should be like this:

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Main categories
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Announcements (from ben and the forums admins, members cannot make threads in this section, or the'l just be deleted when seen.
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General discussion
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Suggestions and ideas
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Clans and groups
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Help/technical support
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Off topic
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Forum games
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Serious discussion (for things like religion/ideology etc trolling/flaming not welcome)
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Other media (discussing other games/films/music etc do not conufe with "off topic"
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Stories/Role Playing ( to stop them cluttering up the off topic.
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Non-English (pretty self explanatory)
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The forums page should display on one page all these links to the sub forums, then clicking will take you to the list of threads in each appropriated section.

Then in each category, have a stickied thread at the top, with the rules for that section.

I.E in the suggestions and ideas, a sticky called " Do NOT suggest" then list the commonly suggested items.

that way if a person makes a suggestion that is on the DO NOT suggest list, just close or delete the thread

Thanks for reading,

- DE

P.S admins in you wish to contact me about this, but i am not in the IRC , please email me at [email protected],

In the email state which admin you are, as i do not know your names in RL or your emails.

May I also recommend a way to message and or add friends. It would, MIGHT, reduce spam and useless conversations!

Also be able to see if friends are playing! Maybe even see who's online?!

@zeke

good suggestion, but can we please stay focused on the OP? =] lol thanks.

Sorry! I really like it! Hopefully it will implemented!

@zeke

Yeh im currently in the process of contacting admins, and/or getting them to review this suggestion.

I like the idea of redoing/renaming the subforums, but I'm not too sure about all the new sub-forums. The community's not all that big and I haven't really seen much related to the last four sub-forums.

There's been plenty of forum games/spam at least, so that justifies the Forum Games sub-forum. I'd also like a seperate Announcements forum to keep the updates from being swallowed up by gameplay topics.

I'd definitely advocate the latter four sub-forums when the time is right, but as it is right now, I don't think we need them.

^

I say we re-work the forums now, they may be a lil oversisedd for our community, but that emans if we do it now, itl be easier.

In future we have larger community, its becomes more difficult to re-work the forums or manage them, so imo we get it done now =]

this way, the community gets used to them, and using them, rather then ht emass confusion later on with a huge community.

Why do you always makes threads about other peoples ideas?

Actually, that's a pretty good point. It'd save the mods and admins from having to move every damned thread over.

Don't mind my stupidity, then. I'm in full agreement. :v

@[MA]bvvvvvvv

Show me where this has been suggested before, i wrote that OP from scratch. Using my own info.

@n64

Haha, no problem and thanks for the posts ^_^

I know the staff wouldn't want anywhere near as many categories as that!
We'd be interested in ideas that only have maybe on more full category than what we currently have.
I'd personally be interested in seeing ideas for descriptions and names of the ones we already have.

@tgm

Hey, your the boss, just throwing sum ideas at you ;], at the very least id suggest re-naming the existing catagories, for instance suggestions into Ideas and suggestions, clans into clans and groups, or clan discussion. etc

Secondly, you admins really need to hammer down on the trolling/flaming and general douchbagery, currently we have no consequences, we can pretty do what we like without reprisal.

Not anything, but a very large amount of ppl get away with almost everything, without even a 3 day ban for spam, or a 3 day ban for excessive flaming and trolling. then a 7 day up to 30 days for repeat offenders.

^ THAT is what would help sort out the forums, once ppl see they are actualy going to get banned for breaking the rules, they will be less inclined to do so.

http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=6459

@[MA]bvvvvvvv

1) that is a basis of an idea

my post gives a solution, a detailed one. thats like me making a nice chair and then getting sued by anyone who every made a chair or thought of making a chair?

2) HE has already posted in this thread, and agreed with my idea.

I really like this kind of forum, really clear and tidy:
http://forums.wesnoth.org/

Also this one seems cool:
http://kagforum.com/index.php

I'm just saying yekno, in general.

id like it if we could centre text and add images ...

Just mentioned it to ben, hope he gets round to checking it out :D

i hope so :D

Suggestions = ideas and suggestions, and Clans = clans and groups... Why expand the names out?
I'm just trying to point out another opinion than yours, merely so you can improve your ideas/draft. :)

^ absolutely =].