[Golden Legacy]

Greetings all!

I had meant to post this sooner, only just now finally got the opportunity to. This is the first of what I hope will be a consistent series of updates to keep you all informed about the forum and the status of things.

Before I begin, I want to publicly state my appreciation for all the support I've gotten since I've become an administrator. Thank you again Max and Nick for for believing me ready for the job, and thank you all for giving me the encouragement to be an Admin.


With that said, a brief overview of the forum's status and what I want to update you all with:


- The forum layout has been streamlined, with the collapsing of the Entertainment category into a single forum (this occurred a while ago, but I wanted to make it official)

- Creation of an Anime & Manga sub-forum

- Each of up to 3 questions in polls now have 12 choices (up from 10)

- Miscellaneous other minor changes for general productivity on the forum

- the first official GSSF Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is currently being planned! We are waiting for the game's release in PAL regions (Europe/Australia), which is likely to happen in the beginning of June. Look forward to that! (in the meanwhile, if you're already a Brawler, go here to find new challenges)

I am also happy to announce a promotion - I'd like to congratulate escout on becoming the new Role Playing Moderator - he has proven to be both fairly consistent and knowledgeable in the RP forum, and I trust that he will handle matters there well.


That's all for now. Feel free always to comment or ask questions, either here or directly via PM. In the meanwhile, I hope things are going well for everyone. Cheers GSSF!

[Eugine]

Good job GL. We have a father figure around here once again ^___^

Laharl said it beautifully =)

Laharl, on Apr 13 2008, 04:56 PM, said:

the shepherd returns XD

[Kuchiyose]

Oooo awesome, I'm looking forward to the GSSF Super Smash bros tournament:) This will be interesting and congrats escout on the role playing moderator:)

[Eugine]

Oh yeah. Grats escout. He RPs rather well, yeah.
(and yeah, I don't RP, but I read them)

coz is indeed a godmodder x3.

[Moonear]

Nice job, escout! I can't wait to get my ass kicked in the Brawl tourney.

[Drizzy Drake]

:P. I never saw this coming. Great job Escout. Hope the RP forum gets alot more action.

Good enough? You know who you are. XD.

[Gio]

Looking forward to the brawl tournament.

And congrats escout on your position.

[Someone Else]

Gratz escout, you have been granted mod powers. Well, mini-mod powers. XD

I noticed the changing of the Entertainment forums, seems a bit odd to me that anime and manga gets special treatment. Why not TV & movies and Books sub forums?

[Eugine]

He did it for Laharl >.>

[Folcon]

thanks to everyone for their congrats. i'll do my best in my new job.

[Quacnar]

Damn it now I cant god- I mean congratulations escout!!!

[Folcon]

You will respect the RP demi-god.

[Quacnar]

Demi gods can't do anything. Here is a situation for you:

Random guy: "God Mod Uber ninjas destroy evryone!!! MWAHAHAHAAH!! 1337 SKILLZ1111ONEONE"

escout: "Stop doing that, you are ruining the RP."

Random guy: "No"

escout: "Okay then."

[Folcon]

I'm not having this discussion.

[Quacnar]

I hope you know that I am just kidding.

[Mallick]

I personally haven't looked in the RP forum enough for your presence there to be significant, but I certainly trust GL's judge of character.


Congratulations, Eh-scout!

[Eugine]

Wow, a well written post by PDM. Grats man. You make me proud. *cries*

I suck at RPing. I'm just good at writing essays x.x

[Folcon]

I wish more of you guys would RP. There's only four, maybe five, frequent posters.

[Mallick]

I WANT to RP, but none of you guys are starting new ones, so I don't have the opportunity.

[Toasty]

I suck. Plain and simple. :P Plus I'm not consistent. I'll start, forget about it for a while, try to get back in, forget about it, etc.

[Split Infinity]

The word 'moderator' is getting thrown around a lot lately...what exactly can escout do?

[Mallick]

Anything a global mod can do, but only inside his own forum.

[Aquamarine]

Good going escout, you deserve the spot. =D

Golden Legacy, on Apr 13 2008, 11:51 PM, said:

- the first official GSSF Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is currently being planned! We are waiting for the game's release in PAL regions (Europe/Australia), which is likely to happen in the beginning of June. Look forward to that! (in the meanwhile, if you're already a Brawler, go here to find new challenges)

I HATE YOU PEOPLE!!

[Split Infinity]

Golden Legacy, on Apr 14 2008, 07:51 AM, said:

- the first official GSSF Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is currently being planned! We are waiting for the game's release in PAL regions (Europe/Australia), which is likely to happen in the beginning of June. Look forward to that! (in the meanwhile, if you're already a Brawler, go here to find new challenges)

You need to control that temper of yours.

[Aquamarine]

Who, me? Maybe, but I'm pissed because I'm not going to be getting the game right when it's released, but a couple of months later. I was joking though, I'm not really angry. It's my choice not to get the game right away, so it's not your fault... Sniff...

[Split Infinity]

If the release date holds up, I can pick up a copy the day before my birthday. :P

That is, if I've managed to save for a Wii by then...

[Golden Legacy]

Wind Dude, on Apr 13 2008, 07:12 PM, said:

I noticed the changing of the Entertainment forums, seems a bit odd to me that anime and manga gets special treatment. Why not TV & movies and Books sub forums?

Eugine, on Apr 13 2008, 07:15 PM, said:

He did it for Laharl >.>

I want to make it clear, first of all, that any and all changes to the forum structure always go through the entire staff before being implemented. This was no different - the decision to condense the Entertainment category into a single forum was something that all the admins and moderators agreed on.

That said, the actual reason for it was that the sub-forums were simply not active enough. That's something no one can deny, there just wasn't enough participation in them to warrant keeping them around. All it was doing was preventing the forum structure from being streamlined.

I do like the idea of having those sub-forums though, and ideally if this forum were huge with many, many more active members, they'd probably still be around.

[Someone Else]

Actually with some thought that does seem the best way to go. I don't frequent the Entertainment forum, anyway.

[Caael]

Wind Dude, on Apr 14 2008, 12:12 AM, said:

I noticed the changing of the Entertainment forums, seems a bit odd to me that anime and manga gets special treatment. Why not TV & movies and Books sub forums?

This.

[Golden Legacy]

Golden Legacy, on Apr 15 2008, 06:46 PM, said:

I want to make it clear, first of all, that any and all changes to the forum structure always go through the entire staff before being implemented. This was no different - the decision to condense the Entertainment category into a single forum was something that all the admins and moderators agreed on.

That said, the actual reason for it was that the sub-forums were simply not active enough. That's something no one can deny, there just wasn't enough participation in them to warrant keeping them around. All it was doing was preventing the forum structure from being streamlined.

I do like the idea of having those sub-forums though, and ideally if this forum were huge with many, many more active members, they'd probably still be around.

And you somehow missed this?

[Caael]

Yeah I did actually. We cant really make the forum have more members though, unless A) Toasty finishes the AW site, but I think he's long given up on that, :P GS3 is announced or C) Loads of vet's come back.

[Folcon]

Or GSW is ready for us to play.

[Ironsight]

Or the site switches to a more recent/popular game.

[Toasty]

....like Advanced Wars. <.<

It's just that now there's a FOURTH game too. And it'd be incredibly stupid of me to design it as a whole bunch of static HTML pages. If I'm going to do it, I need to basically create a template where all the information can be placed into when directed to do so. Kind of like the way the second version of GSS will work.

Learning the programming language(s) required to do that takes an attention span that I just don't have right now. :P

[Ironsight]

I wish I coulld help you Toasty, but all I know how to do is get the computer to say hi to me on flash.

[Split Infinity]

I can make a green circle bounce up and down at 60 frames per second. XD

[Ironsight]

Oh, and I can make buttons too. They just don't do anything...

[Toasty]

I can already make buttons. :P

I have some awesome designs, but they're hard as hell to integrate.

[Split Infinity]

Ever considered Dreamweaver?

~ 3997 ~

[LittleMrJimmyJr]

Toasty, on Apr 28 2008, 02:45 AM, said:

I can already make buttons. :P

I have some awesome designs, but they're hard as hell to integrate.

yes. I have actually.

[Toasty]

Yes you have what?

Used dreamweaver?

[Caael]

Yeah, he clicked the quote button at the top hoping to quote split but it's the bottom button that quotes.