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

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.

Have a search engine foe each forum which could list the unread messages in that particular forum, topics from a few days ago etc.

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.

A link's forum where people can submit links to their own sites, compare each others, talk about how they can improve, maybe join their sites and share a domain, over the chatforums!

People could also submit proper gaming sites URL's as well as home made ones!

From there maybe SR could make up a Link's page, so people didn't use search engines to find something, because SR could have a list of sites with a domain, and sites like geocities.com/mypage etc. and a search facility at the bottom letting you search using SR for a site not listed!

Kumaster wrote:
> fine then, I wasn't paying attention anyway.

What's wrong with you?!!

fine then, I wasn't paying attention anyway.

There already is a forum for that Ku. It's called the SR Customer Service and Complaints. There's alsoa feedback one.

Have host forums where people could ask questions,share ideas, report problems and suggest enhancements.
The staff can reply as soon as possible.
This saves the searching around and stuff.

We could make the forums kinda HTML, so logos, or emicotons and maybe a spell check could be used as well!

RastaBillySkank wrote:
> That's already been suggested and I think a lot of poeple don't want
> that system. I certianly don't.

Ok sorry I didn't know that.

There could be icons next to each topic to identify what it is eg. is it an emotional one or a story etc.
Because most of the time we don't know what kind of post it is.
This way we'd know the type of post it is without having to figure out the title.
The poster chooses the icon.