Sorry. I should've been a little clearer on that. By the thread view bug, I meant next to the number of posts in a thread, there's a little counter for how many times it has been viewed. It doesn't seem to work properly. Half the time the count just doesn't seem to go up, and the other half, it seems to jump by a few numbers. For example: http://zelaron.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35577 I made that thread for this puropse. I clicked on it six times, yet under views, it says it's only had one view. Now I don't know if this is on purpose, since I'm one member clicking on it multiple times, or if it's a bug, but I don't think it was like that in VB2. I liked it better when it counted every time it was clicked, personally.

But it's not really even all that much. I'm sure I've had 20 or so posts today. I mean, I can understand you wanting to keep out spam and all, but he's one of the last few members still active. Seriously, the number of active members at the moment may not even be in double digits. Spam isn't so bad that it needs control, and in my opinion, Slaynish wasn't even spamming that bad. But that's not my call; it's yours. Either way, I'd much rather stick to conventional rules, and get maybe a one-day ban or a warning on the basis that I spammed rather than have my post count removed. As I said above, the post count feature adds another dimension to posting, and it's not all bad. If anything, it bring out a little competition, which may lead to a little bit of spam. If it gets excessive, then it should be the mods job to keep it under control, and warn the spammers. That's what should keep spam out, not the threat of us having our post count removed. But really, I see any activity, even spam, as good activity; especially in the general chat thread.

Well, I don't know what to say. I guess this is more addressed to Chruser than you, WW, since he has the final say-so in this matter, but isn't their a few changes here and their to bring a little more activity to the staff? I honestly believe it would lighten up the forum a lot if that were ever to happen, plus if you ever used my idea, we could get more members that way.

But the 7-letter rule is seriously a huge nuissance. I use some little phrase at the bottom of a lot of my posts to bypass it. It just doesn't make sense half the time. If you're manually deleting posts anyway, why not remove the rule altogether, seeing as at the very least, one of your members has such a huge issue with it? I mean, it doesn't make sense when you're in the chat section, and you just want to say "lol," or in the test section, and would just like to say "test," or doing a one-word story or a word association game or something. Hell, I can't even think of a seven-letter preposition, so in some cases the little bullshit phrases at the end are required.

Well then, I have directed everything about advertising in my original post in this thread at Chruser.

Rude as it may be, sometimes it's just easier to post in all caps, not because caps-lock is on, but because it adds a little more voice to your post.

I don't have anything against you personally, WW. On the technical side, aside from that one thing I mentioned above, I think you've done a splendid job. Zelaron looks pretty, and I haven't noticed any obvious bugs or anything. It's just that I think you could be a little more laxed on the rules, and perhaps take some of our ideas into consideration. I don't know whether or not you have, but it doesn't seem like it to me.

Well, Zelaron had gotten incredibly active during the gap where you were gone. I mean incredibly active. I could go take a piss, and I would have 8 new posts waiting to be replied to. And by the time I got done replying to those, I would have 10 more. And the problem is, if it doesn't expand it will die. Soon the less dedicated members will get bored and start leaving. The more dedicated members will have less and less to talk about, and even they will eventually lose their patience and start checking Zelaron less and less. Eventually, it'll just be here, with hardly any posts, unless we do get some new members. If newer members arrive, then the old members will have reason to constantly visit here.

But Slaynish does contribute, though. Perhaps he spams, but 98% of my posts are spam as well. Whether you like him or not, he brings a unique personality to the forum which adds flavor.

Yea, but unfortunately being nice isn't going to keep us going necessarily.