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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.

RastaBillySkank wrote:

That's what happens now you pleb! SR! Send him
> Train Simulator!

:-D

Sorry geez! Diddnt know! The address for train sim is...

:)

AliBoy wrote:
> What about when people register you ask their name. Then you can
> have age restricted forums. Like one for under 12's, 12-15, 15-18
> and an over 18's.

No way.

I think the Newbies not allowed to post topics in Prime is fine but any other kind of segregation would be a mistake.

you could have a forum that you cannot post to, that shows all the posts that has won a GAD in the last 30 days. People would be able to see what kinda standard that they have to work to to win a GAD.

you could add a ratings system to the game reviews, where when people place a review they give it a mark out of ten, and the average is displayed with the game title.

When you post a comment that uses language that is not accepted, you could instead automatically swap it for comedy alternatives, like bollards and muddy funkster.

Slaveunit wrote:
how about elections by sr users to vote
> for the next notable?

That's what happens now you pleb! SR! Send him Train Simulator!

:-D

What about when people register you ask their name. Then you can have age restricted forums. Like one for under 12's, 12-15, 15-18 and an over 18's. For the older one you could have less restrictions on the language used. But dont use these as replacements for the FOG chat or FOG Prime. Just make these extra ones.
Also what about changing the colour of the tread that you post so you know which one is yours without having to try to hard to find it.

I agree with who ever said about having Flash games.

I suggested this a little while ago as part of another extra GAD thingy.

I'm sure simple games like Pac-man and Bally etc (all the old classics) could be done in Java or flash or something.

The person with the highest score at the end of the fortnight (or however long) gets a prize.

The games could be voted for and every couple months the least favourite could be got rid of and a new one (maybe suggested by users?) could be put in it's place.

How about if you become a notable, youre able to choose the colour of your name and tagline?

how about elections by sr users to vote for the next notable?

how about a "plum of the month" award where the user who writes the most useless post gets MS train simulator?

I also think you should be able to see which members are online at the moment, like EZBoard. That would make us feel more at home.

I think you should change your colour scheme to make it more welcomy than the cold blue and white! If you went for oranges and whites, that would be much better.

seeya

Your Honour wrote:
> Which one is the Offical FoG Story?

You know, the proepr one like the, Step Outside, Grix that FM did or the Star Wars one.

How about the writers of the storied vote for which story stays in Fog?