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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.

add a bit somewhere on each page telling you whos online and which forum they are in , so that you can go and find them and post , maybe have a chat about stuff , that would kee the flow of things going.

have a chat room , (for each board) then you tony can ask us questions , the first person on the board to get 10 questions right in 10 mins wins a Gameaday.

refresh the page after 5 mins of inactivity so that the veiwer can see any new posts so then they can post in them to keep some life here (at quiet times , eg during the day) and then maybe every 2 mins at peak times like after 6pm

This may never work but people could upload applications to the SR servers and the best files uploaded win GAD or get something on their stats like " Uploader of the week on 23/7/01 ".

Got it!

*Eats the Mars Bar he found*

Now... for my idea.

Again this is a bit ambitious but... what the hell...

Give a News page specifically for the Forums.

The page could contain all the up to date information on "Hot Topics", A link to the latest GAD and FAD wins, a list of posters who postd in the last 10 or 15 minutes (Or whatever), The top 3 posters from the last 30 days and a Link to the forum that has had the most activity in the last 12 hours.

Perhaps you could put demo's of PC games up...

Just a wee bit unrealistic but I thought I'd suggest it anyway.

:-D

I can't run through these now, but I'll read them all when the competition closes.

Thanks

Tony *_*

Mantis wrote:
> A list of all the posters in the last, say 10 minutes and where they
> posted.

I think this would be a great feature because you could
> see where your friend posted ie PS2 forum. It could also be useful
> at night when there is little activity as you could find someone to
> talk to.

All ready been suggested

A list of all the posters in the last, say 10 minutes and where they posted.

I think this would be a great feature because you could see where your friend posted ie PS2 forum. It could also be useful at night when there is little activity as you could find someone to talk to.

Fish-e wrote:
> TheBest_2k1 wrote:
> How about an art competition every
> month?

One month could be the
> best hand-drawing scanned in
> and sent to SR (about gaming ie. draw
> Mario). They could put
> it up on a very special art page!

I would win that ;-D

Nah
> alot of people are peobably good at drawing on here, i'm not
> boasting but I know I am.

I suck really badly at art. Just ask my criticising friend who is a really good drawer.

How about making the GAD and FAD winners list a bit more jazzed up, everything else has changed but that.

Make it all BOOM BANG OHHHHHH.

(everyone sees Sheepy has run low on ideas)

So are these any good staff?

Not had any feedback from you :P