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What to look forward to

Morning or afternoon to all you gamers out there. It's going to be a slightly early Christmas at SmG and here's what you can look forward to:
  • A Gallery System
  • A general update of the forum
  • Additional usergroups on the profiles for those who have donated
  • Recruiters will soon be able to give brand new members a rank by themselves
  • A few miscellaneous smaller changes.
     

The biggest of the changes being the gallery system and probably the recruiters being able to grant users ranks themselves. Don't panic if you see the forum go down at any point within the next 48 hours. The same goes for any SQL errors that may popup. Will try to keep the downtime and errors down to a minimal.

Merry Christmas!
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Wow! Well looking forward to it....xD
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RE: What to look forward to

Looking forward to it I'm assuming mods will also be able to do this as well, regarding the changing to new member thing.

And also merry Christmas man xP
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O_____________O

Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I didn't know this.
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RE: What to look forward to

This was something I tried to implement a while ago but it needed changes to the website that I couldn't access.
Mods will still need to moderate the forums like they have before.
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RE: What to look forward to

Quick question, what is the exact process of becoming a member? I just feel like we are way overdoing the amount of people joining. Like half of the 'Today Post' consist of threads of welcoming new members. It is so over saturated that there isn't even a point of having those threads anymore as they lost value.

Before it meant something. Now it just ridicules.
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(22 Dec 2017, 04:07 AM)UzzyFTW Wrote: That makes Moderators literally almost useless.

Why is that rank still there, and why is it on a higher tier list while having less "work" to do as a Moderator compared to a Recruiter.


Ugh, I will never understand SmG's ranking system.

In regards to the new updates, Moderators are already useless. Right now all that happens is a recruiter will accept a new member, and an admin will physically change that new member's usergroup to reflect their acceptance. All this will do is allow the recruiter to cut out the admin part and promote the user themselves. Unsure how Moderators fit into that process.

(22 Dec 2017, 04:41 AM)Red Nose Wrote: Looking forward to it I'm assuming mods will also be able to do this as well, regarding the changing to new member thing.

And also merry Christmas man xP

I forgot about that. I think you're right. I'll make it so x groups are allowed to use this new feature.

(22 Dec 2017, 07:01 AM)Bauble Wrote: This was something I tried to implement a while ago but it needed changes to the website that I couldn't access.
Mods will still need to moderate the forums like they have before.

You wouldn't need exclusive access to do the recruiter feature. It'll be done as a plugin and just added to the forum as a third-party. Again, unsure why mods are being mentioned when that won't affect them at all. Do Moderators have some sort of input on the recruitment process?

(22 Dec 2017, 07:05 AM)Battlefire Wrote: Quick question, what is the exact process of becoming a member? I just feel like we are way overdoing the amount of people joining. Like half of the 'Today Post' consist of threads of welcoming new members. It is so over saturated that there isn't even a point of having those threads anymore as they lost value.

Before it meant something. Now it just ridicules.

You create an application and you either get accepted or denied. Not much to it. IMO when it comes to forums there can never be an overpopulation. A lot of forums don't even have half of SmG's user-base, so the more users the merrier. I don't think welcome threads are even meant to have as much value as you make them out to. They're literally there to welcome new users and find out more about them. That's literally it.
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RE: What to look forward to

Daddy Cloud, can we keep him.
PLEASSSEEEEEE. I PROMISE TO GIVE HIM FOOD AND WATER AND WASH HIM AND LOOOK AFTER HIM.
Pleaaaaaase.
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22 Dec 2017, 10:03 AM
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RE: What to look forward to

Wires,

recruiters recruit
moderators moderate

But now
Recruiters recruit and moderate the discord
moderators can recruit too but dont need to, so they dont. And they moderate the Discord and forum.


BUT
Comparing forum and discord, the discord is 1000000000000x more active.
Plus our current mods (2) are not as active as the least active recruiter (which we have 7 of)


RIP Moderator rank.
Already was useless, now it's officially dead


In before Recruiter > Moderator in terms of power.
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RE: What to look forward to

coooool
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