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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.

cooldogs wrote:
> I think this has been said, but I'll say it again, just to be sure.
> I think when you click on the stats page, it should have their
> E-Mail address and it should have their age, fave game, and quote
> and stuff like that to make this forum feel more homely and make the
> faceless names have some reality about them! LOL


Picking up axe chopping my own finger off......thats going to hurt in the morning oh welll........snore.....snore wow mummy my bedroom is red i feel faint..bang.

I think this has been said, but I'll say it again, just to be sure. I think when you click on the stats page, it should have their E-Mail address and it should have their age, fave game, and quote and stuff like that to make this forum feel more homely and make the faceless names have some reality about them! LOL

We could have an e-mail me button under our taglines.
We could have visit my URL button under the taglines.
We could have a link which has our favourite games and we write a short review about it that would get people buying.
We could have a latest message done by this person link.
We could have a testing post and utter rubbish forum (time-warp or khazar or ANYONE say that is where i belong).
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........Ran out of ideas.

I wrote:
> I've remembered my really good idea, signatures. everywhere has
> them, all the email clients have them, it would be alot easier to
> have a signature where it will always say "Seeya" rather
> than me having to write it time and time again.

I cant believe that after writing that I forgot to sign it off, I'm so ashamed so I'll do it twice,

Seeya

Seeya

WE could have votes! WE have votes and stuff but how about proper poles like who do yoiu think will eb the next notable or what is the greatest console etc...

You could pay a big wad of cash to get someone who works for a gaming company to come on the forums and answer our questions :)

Stopped reading after 'big wad of cash' I take it :D

I've remembered my really good idea, signatures. everywhere has them, all the email clients have them, it would be alot easier to have a signature where it will always say "Seeya" rather than me having to write it time and time again.

er-no wrote:
> SHEEPY wrote:
(Your not that uglt er-no ;)).

I will kill you!
> Its that simple!

Seriously I'm only joking :)

Not sounding gay here ;) Your not ugly :D

I was going to put my beautiful face in mag but I loved that picture I drew :D

You can see a pic of me if you want :D

How about a console pros and cons page.

There would be a table with PS2, GC and X-Box, then each one would have a list of pros and cons. they could be added to by us, and would end all this "mines better than yours" stuff

Don't worry, Joby, Sheepy's just lieing to protect your feelings, you are ugly really :-D