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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.

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

To make the place a bit more colourful, have a smilie option.
If someone typed in :) it would automatically be converted to a graphical representation.

here's a list of smilies-

:) = smile (colour -yellow)
:( = frown (colour -blue)
:o = embarrassment (colour -red)
:D = large grin (colour -green)
;) = wink (colour -yellow)


There could be others too with different colours.
I'm not sue about the colour for 'large grin', though.

Add *Another* Tagline type thing. This time it's the users trademark or most frequent quip/quote. Per example: Mine would be :-D, Fish-es would be the fish he draws, Sheepy's would be POWER OF THE SHEEP etc etc. The Trademark line would not change and would not be editable (?) by anyone apart from SR.

As well as a tagline have a signature option where you can sign your posts with a few words or something. If you chosse to have one it would automatically sign your posts every time you submitted one.

Give the power to edit your own posts or the name of the topic. You could even delete a post if you wish.
Obviously only you could edit 'your' post and only edit a topic 'you' started.

"Bitchin' in the Playground" - perfect name for a system wars forum, though I don't think those sort of posts should be encouraged really.

Create a 'System Wars' forum so that people can compliment their favourite console and trast others.
It would be good because we keep seeing 'Why Xbox will win.' kinda posts around the place and it would be better to have all the arguments in one forum, don't you think?
It would be the place to start or finish a fight.

No I like doing these things, and you can win a free game if it is an impressive idea!

Employ a marketing dept. so we can get on with posting good stuff instead of thinking of ideas for you.


:-)

continuation of previous post....

The title will replace regular, notable, new or JAT etc.!

But the recipient of the title could change there name to be something similar to the title they win!