Hey Rumpleforeskin: What Do You Like and/or Dislike About This Board?

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Fonz

- The Search Engine chat is at an impossible hour for some of us. An archive of that chat would be very nice.

We will see if Bill can start to save a text copy of the chat room once he starts them back up.

Originally Posted by LB

- Far too sensitive. Many members are far too easy to offend and too quick to lash out. Sometimes it feels like walking on egg shells, and while this is a small and tight community it can also be a hostile community towards 'outsiders' at times.

I think this is because some things are really obvious to some people & they have a hard time grasping that they might not be as obvious to others (I have this problem)

I know there was a thread where you got bashed a bit What was that one? Maybe I can clear it up a bit.

Originally Posted by LB

- Too many subforums. My board time is limited, and while I spend most of it on netpond, I have always read GG&J and try to fit in some time here. I like to look at a main forum with heaps of posts in it, not have to click around a whole heap of subforums. Just personal preference though, and honestly I think its not something you could change now.

You do realize that Netpond has 40 forums & sub-forums, right?

Originally Posted by ponygirl

I can't make the Member's List button on the top menu work. It just takes me back to the main forum page.

We disabled that as it had a lot of info on there as far as who all of the board members are, their emails, IP's etc. I think we took the link out a long time ago, but the board upgrade might have put it back in (even though it's turned off)

Originally Posted by swedguy

I could be wrong (it has happened before #€&/!), but a year ago or two ago there were more new people coming here and staying. Now it feels like the same old crowd and a new head popping in every now and then, but doesn't stay around for too long.
I think a lot of it has to do with the attitude towards new people. Might not be just because they are new, but because they are clueless and someone ends up chewing their head off.

2257 brought everyone out of the woodwork I have noticed this as well & some of them confuse the shit out of me. People will register, make a post or 2, not even come close to being bashed & then you never hear from them again

I wonder how many people miss the part of the "welcome email" that asks them to post in the "Welcome To The Board" thread, start a thread announcing that they are a new member, it gets merged & they assume it got deleted?
(and no, I'm not going to change doing that, because it's clearly in the welcome email - lol)

Originally Posted by Tommy

the user name script thingy is getting a bit annoying

Oh stop! We don't use it nearly as much as we used to - plus look how popular this thread is because of it

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

-I'd kind of like to see a tutorial section on the forum. There's so much bad information given out on other boards, it would be great to just have a section on how things should be done. Eventhough there's a noobie section on the board, the information often gets spread out or buried in a few weeks and god help if people actually use the search feature, lol. It would be nice to have tutorials though written by some board members in their area of expertise. Maybe make the threads locked so they don't get cluttered with comments, etc.

Give us examples of what you think we should have tutorials on. I've had a tutorial for building free sites in my head for a long time now, but the problem is that it's really fucking long & every time I start to type it up, it seems to get longer

Originally Posted by Mr. Blue

-Attached images....just have them open up in the thread I know this function can get abused, so maybe you can put a limit on who can use it, say 100+ posts before they get that priviledge. Personally, I just like the pictures opening in the threads rather than a seperate link.

This ain't GFY my friend - it'll be abused (even by people in the Buddy Christ Club) it'd slow down the board, it'd encourage people to get their post counts up, etc. Just click the link

Originally Posted by grandmascrotum

Ooh, another small complaint just popped into my head - some of the sponsor listings are a bit out of date.

MrMaryLou is working on a project right now, but once that's done, I will have him go thru them & get things updated (problem is that it's a 2 month task - lol)

[LB]

Originally Posted by Greenie

I think this is because some things are really obvious to some people & they have a hard time grasping that they might not be as obvious to others (I have this problem)

I know there was a thread where you got bashed a bit What was that one? Maybe I can clear it up a bit.

Yeah thats a good example of me stepping on toes without realising. Though I hear similar comments from a wide range of people who don't post here, and the word 'sensitive' or 'touchy' is usually used.

You do realize that Netpond has 40 forums & sub-forums, right?

Yeah but I can get almost a total look at np threads by checking out 3 forums ... here there are useful posts all over the place. I suppose is a really good thing, but being used to having most posts in the main forum .. sometimes it seems strange to me that the main forum here could have 1 post and a subforum may have 10 new posts. Probably not a biggie

[Mr. Blue]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Give us examples of what you think we should have tutorials on. I've had a tutorial for building free sites in my head for a long time now, but the problem is that it's really fucking long & every time I start to type it up, it seems to get longer

You gave a good example there...a good freesite tutorial would be great to help demystify it for those people that don't regularly build freesites and who may be getting funky information from another source.

Gallery building, I'd be tempted to write that one myself, lol, of course I'd get the stamp of approval from a TGP God before I'd post it just to make sure everything is copacetic.

Photoshop tutorials...granted there's tons of them online as is, but there's shortcuts that you learn that makes photoshop a little more approachable and practical for "porn" tasks...i.e. batch processing, watermarking, etc, etc.

It's just I see some amazingly stupid advice given out on forums and usually by people who claim expertise, but have a vested interest in tossing out worthless information.

[swedguy]

Originally Posted by Greenie

We will see if Bill can start to save a text copy of the chat room once he starts them back up.

I would LOVE that

Originally Posted by Greenie

I think this is because some things are really obvious to some people & they have a hard time grasping that they might not be as obvious to others (I have this problem)

When I got into mainstream, I was confused as fuck. They were talking about the same shit as in adult, but everything was named differently.
Since I have been in this for some time, I knew where to find info about what they were talking about. Search, find a sticky thread on the boards, FAQ somewhere or just poke around on the boards/resources.
But if I was fresh, I would probably have posted and would've got flamed to pieces.

So how about a sticky (and also add it to the welcome email) with the most common questions? Maybe you have it already (I admit, I haven't looked lately ).

Originally Posted by Greenie

I wonder how many people miss the part of the "welcome email" that asks them to post in the "Welcome To The Board" thread, start a thread announcing that they are a new member, it gets merged & they assume it got deleted?
(and no, I'm not going to change doing that, because it's clearly in the welcome email - lol)

Maybe send a PM to all the newbies that get their welcome thread moved to the real thread?
It's clearly in the welcome email where to post. But sometimes people miss stuff and instead of pissing them off by thinking that their thread got deleted, send them a friendly PM saying that it got moved to the proper place.