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I noticed that some adds threads have been placed in the morgue. I'm wondering if we should setup a Bulletine board forum to contain these things. What do you all think?
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depends - it would give people a place to post adds, and then no more spam in other forums. Although, it would have to be acceptable, and serve a purpose, so perhaps only gaming related websites will go there, and perhaps gaming related project and such
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Guest Azrael
In that case, I'd say only members of the board which have signed up at least 1-2 months ago, that way we could at least prevent those who sign up for the only purpose of putting up an ad, but I'd still prefer no.
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Actually I think I can tollerate some posties:

1 ) we provide anouther service

2 ) it may expand membership

3 ) it might gives more potential hits on a wider range of subjects

 

I'm thinking a much lower number of posts myself.

 

What would be the rules about WHAT is posted.

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I'd say 10 posts, or maybe even less, because there are a lot of lurking members or people who don't post much, but see this great website or a gaming place or something that needs help, and not being able to post until they get 100 posts would make them leave

 

how many active members do you think have over 100 posts? not very many, most take a while to get that high

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Actually I think I can tollerate some posties:

1 ) we provide anouther service

2 ) it may expand membership

3 ) it might gives more potential hits on a wider range of subjects

 

I'm thinking a much lower number of posts myself.

 

What would be the rules about WHAT is posted.

Well, besides no illegal or porn stuff, the posts should be informative and interesting, not just "ZOMG I GOT A WEBSITE CHECK IT NOW!!!!!111" :P Edited by SupSuper
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Stewart: At first, I was a bit against this idea. Must've softened up overnight though. I can tolerate such a forum with the following rules:

  • No Porn
  • No Piracy
  • No Religion
  • No Politics
  • No Flaming

Well, actually whatever the current rules of this website are should also apply to that area except that ads are allowed. ;)

 

A moderator would definitely be needed to police that forum.

 

As for who could post, why not just make it open to members who have registered? Forget about the post count restriction as only members are allowed to place ads there. That would be the simple solution. :)

 

- Zombie

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I voted against this, but I suppose if it were tightly controlled, then it is an acceptable sin.

 

I would recommend limiting advertisement access to forum members and above (ie one post) but anything more is quite stupid. Just make sure that they are registered really, and if there is any problem, kill the account. Relatively simple to do - especially with the sheer number of globals we have around here.

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Of course we'd reserve the right to delete adds at our discression and with no explanation.

 

There seems to be a demand for this. If controlled there are some benefits to us.

 

I believe the post limit idea of Azrael is good, I'm think 100 tops but progably less. Of course this can be adjusted with experience as well as what is posted.

 

What are the reasons against this?

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I'd mod the forum :P

 

i agree with zombie's rules, they seem to work and fit our policies

 

in fact, all those rules are already in affect, just i think spelling it out might help more.

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The only benefit I can see right now is just some more website hits for us... But in that case, why don't we link-exchange with other sites?! Much more simple...

 

In addition, I've noticed that the project doesn't have an official banner, or a 88X35 (whateva) minibanner (although the latter is used for tutorial/design sites IIRC).

 

Anyway, a Xenocide-gif banner would hurt no1 :P. And IMO its the only way for website-forum promotion.

 

Ads would be useless...

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  • 2 weeks later...
Well, since now we *are* doing advertising in various websites, I'd say it's only correct that we allow it as well. I now agree that we should have a forum exclusively for ads, but keeping a few rules, such as the advertised site being of appropiate content (no porn, etc), the language being watched, the ad be a descriptive one, not just "CHECK IT OUT, BEST SITE EVER!!!111!!!1", I say we do it.
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it will give people a place to put adds instead of spamming other places, so thats at least one advantage

 

but only adds that have descriptions,, we didn't just say "look at this omega cool website!!11!!!1 www.projectxenocide.com"

 

we had a detailed and structured add. So only adds of that sort should be allowed

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