Forum [Suggestion] + 1 in game Suggestion

[GM]Saidin wrote: »

To address some of your suggestions.

Vbulletin experience has nothing to do with what might be seen as a lack of forum features. We are not a forum in a traditional sense of going to a website and posting. The forums are piggy-backed on a portal website. The login for the forums doesn't come from logging in to vbulletin in that traditional sense. You are logging into the PORTAL and then that logs you into the forums.

This requires extra steps to implement new features to the boards. And unfortunately that will be all that I can say about that because the rest of the explanation is a security risk to release publicly. Suffice to say that we're experienced with the boards and know what we can and can't do and the time frames it takes to get things done.

Now, to features like reputation and groups, calendars etc.
In the new year we intend on working to improve the boards. This will probably mean the inclusion of new features.

Features are limited on purpose, not because we couldn't do them. The community here is widespread and as a wide variety of personalities and individuals. As such giving things like pictures on signatures, or allowing reputation or user groups would just cause too many problems. One user can ruin the experience for everyone else as soon as someone posts an inappropriate picture for their signature, or creates a racist anti-country vbulletin group. Or if someone creates an alternate account for the sole purpose of bumping reputation to their main account.

All these things are easily abuseable and the problem becomes that people would abuse them simply because they can.

Until we can control those situations those functions will be harder to implement.

The reputation system is something that we would like to bring in. But Vbulletin works slightly different than the Karma system of old. And we need to make sure that there are limits to what people can do.

Lastly, your note about more topics/forums. We create forums and sub forums and stickies and rules and directions and everything we can to make navigating the boards easier. But every day there are hundreds of posts that have to be moved because no one has read the stickies, or see's what forum they are actually posting in.

Sub-forums and sub-topics is a sensitive subject because if no one bothers to follow the rules why bother creating the extra work for us. It has to be balanced and we've created a decent balance thus far. We are always looking to improve things, but for now this will suffice.

Lastly, Tournament Mods are a real possibility. We want to do more tournaments in the new year (as we've said plenty of times). And adding more help to get the tournaments off the ground might be a possibility. We have plenty of capable mods at this moment. If we need to look for more help, we will make sure everyone on the forums knows!

I hope that addresses a few of your concerns/suggestions.

DeathB0dy wrote: »

i am not reading this LoL xD

GearThird wrote: »

Perhaps a Personal PM with the basic rules and suggestions b4 posting such as the search button, for those users who are just starting out in the board, instead of redirecting them to the Rules and Conduct thread. Also issue more warnings?