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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE (Life on the Forums) WINNER ANNOUNCED"

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Sun 22/07/01 at 19:57
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After due consideration here are the results.

Everybody wants User Profiles.

RBS says lean some of the GAD prizes towards lesser forums to boost them and he suggests we include a "what's going on in the forums" or "forum news" somewhere.

Gaming Boy would like to see more input from the staff to start topics and kick-start discussion.

Grix suggests we have a tournament where we all download game to our PC and play against each other.

er-no wants a "who is here" link. You click on it and it tells you the names of most recent posters (good idea). And er-no wants the Notables to be given something to do (a request which I have just complied with in Chat forums)

TheBest_2K1 is keen on putting people in a hot seat. Everybody fires questions at the poor so...

Quazimodo would like links to your "Latest Post" and your web site url in your stats window (excellent).

Meka would like us to hold a song contest and have counters to see how many people have read a thread. pb backs this up with a similar request on reviews.

Cookie Monster suggests a Cluedo-style murder mystery event.

Dan2K1 would like on-line darts.

Dringo is keen to repeat some "Opposite Posts" - I believe this is intended to be head to head challenges on specific arguments.

Chr!stos says we should sometimes vote for Gameaday winners, instead of them being always picked by staff.

Salevunit suggested a Winning Posts Forum (view only), plus Tag of the Day competitions, Search Facilities and Caution Tags. The latter is a particularly strong suggestion, i.e. to give warning tags to people likely to face a ban.

BUT THE WINNER IS:
The prize is for the best SET of suggestions. The winner is SHEEPY for the following ideas:

FOG Lotto
Round Number Prizes (e.g. at 10,000 posts in a forum)
"Number Day" I think this means we would all be anonymous.
Vote people off the forums Big Brother style (love that).
Guess the Phantom Poster.
Complaint Button (already in place now with the report link)
Improve the message filter and the feedback from it.

Contratulations SHEEPY and I hope you enjoy munching your prize.

Thank you again to all those who contributed and sorry not to be able to mention everybody.

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These were the original rules.

This latest EXTRA GAMEADAY is for the best SET of suggestions for "adding life" to the forums.

Imagine that you are in charge of the forums. What would you do to start some interesting debate or to make the place more interesting?

Please DO NOT suggest things which require (much) programming. And don't suggest a chart of Gameaday winners as it is already being sorted.

We already have:
Top Posters chart
Notable/Regular/Newbie system with 'orrible colours
Voting for Notables
Extra Gameaday Prizes
Protected "Prime Topics" forum
"Stats" for history on contributors
Taglines

Closing date is August 1st or shortly thereafter, and it's the best set that wins. All the posts that you make will count towards your set.
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Mon 30/07/01 at 20:26
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"qwertyuiop!!"
Posts: 2,517
Yep that is quite true! I like the GAD winner colour!
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:19
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Different shades of grey are boring you see!
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:17
Posts: 0
How about for every alternate post the background colour could be changed into blue or some other colour.
What looks good next to grey?
I don't know.
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:15
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If users have homepages that others might like to see the could be a 'homepage' button next to 'stats'.
Not everyone has to submit a homepage though since it would be optional like the tagline.
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:10
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"qwertyuiop!!"
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LOL! yea! That would be a bit difficult though I think!
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:08
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You see here I didn't mean to put two of the same post(Don't ask me how it happened!)
so I would like to delete one but I can't.
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:08
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"qwertyuiop!!"
Posts: 2,517
There must be thousands of people! And a members profile that we can edit ourselves, and can be added to our reviews, posts count etc. page!
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:06
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I think SR should put down how many members there actually are, who have registered. I'm quite curious.
They should also have a 'SR Forums welcoms its newest member.....' whenever someone new joins.
Then we'd realise how popular the forums are.
Mon 30/07/01 at 20:06
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I think SR should put down how many members there actually are, who have registered. I'm quite curious.
They should also have a 'SR Forums welcoms its newest member.....' whenever someone new joins.
Then we'd realise how popular the forums are.
Mon 30/07/01 at 19:59
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"qwertyuiop!!"
Posts: 2,517
SHEEPY wrote:
> Make the filter so if there seems any net-speak is being used you
> tell them to use proper spelling and grammar :D

i fink tha da pS2
> is da best con soul in da world

*error* and it would explain
> reasons etc.

They would need to change it to...

I think the
> PS2 is the most advanced and better gaming platform around at the
> present time.

etc etc.

No way no one would like having to speak like this every second of the day,they would rather say I don't want to do this or like they normally would on SR, I dont see many people on here talking like you just said!
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