Regarding the latest change suggestions.
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 18, 2012 11:21:02 GMT
Yes, this is good. We always needed change, and now it is time for it. If you want to stay under the name Danball, sure, just stop advertising in places who only bring us faggots. (comment boards) Instead, you can advertise in more mature places. (I have no idea what those are either, don't ask me.) Second, we need to stop being faggots ourselves, why not compress all the danball boards into one for better oranization? If you think that lessens accessibility, can't we link them on the board description? Then we'll make new boards. Some of my personal suggestions include: Hardware and Software board. Programming board. Music board. also what is this shit
|
|
|
Post by Artifact123 on Apr 18, 2012 15:06:33 GMT
Yes, this is good. We always needed change, and now it is time for it. If you want to stay under the name Danball, sure, just stop advertising in places who only bring us faggots. (comment boards) Instead, you can advertise in more mature places. (I have no idea what those are either, don't ask me.) Second, we need to stop being faggots ourselves, why not compress all the danball boards into one for better oranization? If you think that lessens accessibility, can't we link them on the board description? Then we'll make new boards. Some of my personal suggestions include: Hardware and Software board. Programming board. Music board. also what is this shit I was going to make along post here, but instead I'll just make a tl;dr: We are the Dan-Ball Forums and your ideas are dumb.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 18, 2012 15:32:02 GMT
yeah let's change prices in the shop that's a better idea. as i said before, grow up and stop being a butthurt baby. reporting my post on your thread was seriously the gayest thing i saw in the last month. your ideas seem to only be related to YOUR personal gain, while mine actually hope for activity. if you don't like my way, you can go back to spamming the comments board.
|
|
|
Post by Zrined on Apr 18, 2012 19:42:18 GMT
Well, that attitude will certainly attract new members.
Anyway, we have a hardware/software and programming board, it's called the technology board.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 18, 2012 19:53:43 GMT
yeah that isn't really active.
|
|
|
Post by D_M-01 on Apr 18, 2012 20:42:57 GMT
What are we going to call ourselves if we change to a more generalized forum?
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 18, 2012 20:57:55 GMT
DBF just that not danball forum no it's not an acronym to anything just DBF dee bee eff nice idea eh? eh? ??
|
|
|
Post by supermonkeystorm on Apr 18, 2012 21:27:20 GMT
Quote: Second, we need to stop being faggots ourselves, why not compress all the danball boards into one for better organization?
I kinda agree with this.
Quote: We always needed change, and now it is time for it. If you want to stay under the name Danball, sure, just stop advertising in places who only bring us faggots. (comment boards)
Couldn't agree with the last sentence more.
|
|
|
Post by D_M-01 on Apr 18, 2012 22:34:35 GMT
"Remove the Dan-Ball Forum. Just..... DBF."
I'd do it.
|
|
|
Post by Clockwork on Apr 18, 2012 23:32:45 GMT
Yes, this is good. We always needed change, and now it is time for it. If you want to stay under the name Danball, sure, just stop advertising in places who only bring us faggots. (comment boards) Instead, you can advertise in more mature places. (I have no idea what those are either, don't ask me.) Second, we need to stop being faggots ourselves, why not compress all the danball boards into one for better oranization? If you think that lessens accessibility, can't we link them on the board description? Then we'll make new boards. Some of my personal suggestions include: Hardware and Software board. Programming board. Music board. also what is this shit I was going to make along post here, but instead I'll just make a tl;dr: We are the Dan-Ball Forums and your ideas are dumb. Stop being an asshat and read his ideas before you shoot them down. Also, I like the DBF, Dan-Ball Forums implies we're primarily about Dan Ball and personally I wanted something else, seeing as we have to compromise with tempy, we could pull "DBF". I like the ring to it and it won't mean anything. Just Dee-Bee-Eff (Phonetic) We could also kill the boards. We could have one Dan Ball Board with PG and SR sub boards. I'll give tempy that one. Hardware and Software could be seperate boards. We could also have game dev boards like Bethesda and Valve. That would generalize a gaming catagory in which we'd put Dan-Ball in (Gee, it'll feel a bit weird having Dan-Ball in a cat with Bethesda and Valve...) I dislike the notion of a music board, maybe we could generalize music into a broader catagory. Recreational Board? (What you like to do)(inb4fap) Programming board goes hand in hand with software board. While we're at it, I recommend we move Creative Works to a main board.
|
|
|
Post by priok on Apr 18, 2012 23:34:43 GMT
Dan-Ball Forum is fine I think, but I agree that we should become more open to other topics other than Dan-Ball games. They can be an important section of it, but I don't think basing the entire forum off of it is really that good. Maybe adding some extra plugins to the forum could be cool, not really to get rid of the Badges, but something similar to them that is more fitting with general stuff. I am not really sure, but I think we should be about other stuff more than Dan-Ball games.
|
|
|
Post by Qwerty on Apr 18, 2012 23:55:04 GMT
I'm locking this thread: It's identical to the other one. You can keep discussion of one topic to one thread. Srsly.
|
|
|
Post by Qwerty on Apr 21, 2012 1:31:04 GMT
My apologies, on rechecking this is in fact totally different from Arty's thread.
|
|
|
Post by FoxtrotZero on Apr 21, 2012 1:37:21 GMT
Bad idea: Compressing the Dan Ball boards into a single board. They're under their own header, so they're organized seperately. The fact of the matter is, we ARE the Dan-Ball Forums. Until such time that our community can decide on changing that, we need to pertain to Dan-Ball in theory, even if we basically don't ever discuss it. That means keeping related boards front and center.
Good idea: Reorganizing the General category (not the board, all boards in that category). I don't know how we would do that, and frankly, I'm fine with leaving it as is (though I think the General sub-boards could use some reorganization). But it would be wise to let people come up with suggestions and put them to a vote, just to see if anyone comes up with a layout people like more than the one we currently have - which, for some reason, seems unfriendly to me, but I honestly can't think of anything better that doesn't involve us more-or-less switching away from a Dan-Ball themed forum (which I've been a supporter of, but I just don't see happening any time soon).
|
|
|
Post by Qwerty on Apr 21, 2012 1:39:32 GMT
I think more general boards may be a good idea, and expanding some. For instance, making "Non-DB Games" a board with subboards like Minecraft, 0x10c, anything we really get an interest in, then we can do the same with Creative Works with subboards (programming, visual art, stories). Something like that.
|
|
|
Post by Artifact123 on Apr 21, 2012 5:43:24 GMT
Bad idea: Compressing the Dan Ball boards into a single board. They're under their own header, so they're organized seperately. The fact of the matter is, we ARE the Dan-Ball Forums. Until such time that our community can decide on changing that, we need to pertain to Dan-Ball in theory, even if we basically don't ever discuss it. That means keeping related boards front and center. Thanks you Fox.Good idea: Reorganizing the General category (not the board, all boards in that category). I don't know how we would do that, and frankly, I'm fine with leaving it as is (though I think the General sub-boards could use some reorganization). But it would be wise to let people come up with suggestions and put them to a vote, just to see if anyone comes up with a layout people like more than the one we currently have - which, for some reason, seems unfriendly to me, but I honestly can't think of anything better that doesn't involve us more-or-less switching away from a Dan-Ball themed forum (which I've been a supporter of, but I just don't see happening any time soon). Okay. EDIT: Nmagane, why do you want a Software and Hardware Board while there is Technology. If technology is inactive it doesn't mean that adding a Software and Hardware board will make it a more interesting topic. The attention that Technology currently gets would be divided in Hardware and Software and Technology while they basically cover the same topic. I do agree that Non-Dan-Ball Games could be split into sub-boards but they'll have to be pretty large ones though. How about as of now ''Flash and Java games''(Basically, free online games) and ''Minecraft, Team Fortress and Portal''.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 21, 2012 9:22:12 GMT
my opinion on artifact's ideas on the above post (apologies for the attitude, i don't really know how to talk in any other manner): nope, not all of us play flash games all day and don't care about technology, if you don't care then sure, stick to kongregate. and those suboards are a bad idea, too. i don't think there could be an active thread or two about a single flash or java game, neither about portal or tf2. and @qwert why make a whole suboard about a single game? that is pointless and is a waste of space seeing there will only be 6 or so threads at most. and now, take my sexy ideas: 1.most danball boards are dead, compress them all except for PG and SR into the Other board. hall of records is a piece of shit idea, delete it. general danball can be discussed in Other. 2. delete introductions board it's useless, or put as a sub-board for the General Discussion board (See below for reference) 3.this is my reorganization of the general section: I.General Discussion [Post stuff that fits in no other section here] -Sub-boards: Forum Games [Play or make some forum games and roleplays here.] Videos And Flash Movies and That Kind Of Crap [For videos, flash movies and other dumb crap that clogs up the other forums.] II.General Games Discussion -Sub-boards: Game Servers [Advertise your server or servers you like here]
III.Technology [Discuss your hardware and software here] -Sub-boards: Programming [What are you working on today? Share your creations and request for help here] Technical Support [help guys my mac bluescreened ]
IV.Serious Debate [Become further entrenched in your own views by defending them against people entrenched in their own]
V.Creationism Corner [Post your boring short stories, ugly drawings and home made noise. Basically post creative stuff that you created.] (yes i know this is a direct copy-paste off Facepunch)
VI. Member Boards [Custom boards bought and owned from the members to the members]
VII.Spam will be a hidden board with the boardname 420, so this will be its link danballforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=420 There is absolutely no point in putting that crap in public.
VIII.Public Archives is not related to the General section, create a new section at the bottom of the forum and call it... well... "The Bottom Of The Forum" and put the Trash Can (staff-only, of course.) and the Public Archives in it.
IX.Contests will be in GGD or CC and DB related contests in their respective boards.
X.If you REALLY want to keep introductions, you can make it a subboard for About the Forum.
thats it i think this is good organization tell me if i missed anything...
|
|
|
Post by Artifact123 on Apr 21, 2012 13:04:35 GMT
my opinion on artifact's ideas on the above post (apologies for the attitude, i don't really know how to talk in any other manner): nope, not all of us play flash games all day and don't care about technology, if you don't care then sure, stick to kongregate. and those suboards are a bad idea, too. i don't think there could be an active thread or two about a single flash or java game, neither about portal or tf2. and @qwert why make a whole suboard about a single game? that is pointless and is a waste of space seeing there will only be 6 or so threads at most. and now, take my sexy ideas: 1.most danball boards are dead, compress them all except for PG and SR into the Other board. hall of records is a piece of shit idea, delete it. general danball can be discussed in Other. 2. delete introductions board it's useless, or put as a sub-board for the General Discussion board (See below for reference) 3.this is my reorganization of the general section: I.General Discussion [Post stuff that fits in no other section here] -Sub-boards: Forum Games [Play or make some forum games and roleplays here.] Videos And Flash Movies and That Kind Of Crap [For videos, flash movies and other dumb crap that clogs up the other forums.] II.General Games Discussion -Sub-boards: Game Servers [Advertise your server or servers you like here]
III.Hardware and Software [Discuss and cuss about your favorite home media player and un-zipper] -Sub-oards: Programming [What are you working on today? Share your creations and request for help here] Technical Support [help guys my mac bluescreened ]
IV.Serious Debate [Become further entrenched in your own views by defending them against people entrenched in their own]
V.Creationism Corner [Post your boring short stories, ugly drawings and home made noise. Basically post creative stuff that you created.] (yes i know this is a direct copy-paste off Facepunch)
VI. Member Boards [Custom boards bought and owned from the members to the members]
VII.Spam will be a hidden board with the boardname 420, so this will be its link danballforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=420 There is absolutely no point in putting that crap in public.
VIII.Public Archives is not related to the General section, create a new section at the bottom of the forum and call it... well... "The Bottom Of The Forum" and put the Trash Can (staff-only, of course.) and the Public Archives in it.
IX.Contests will be in GGD or CC and DB related contests in their respective boards.
X.If you REALLY want to keep introductions, you can make it a subboard for About the Forum.
thats it i think this is good organization tell me if i missed anything...Not bad. However, Member Boards should stay being a board, the Contest board should stay and so should introductions. Software and Hardware doesn't need supboards though. However, the rest is very sexy indeed.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 21, 2012 14:31:11 GMT
I didn't mention anything about removing member boards. Introductions can stay but I wouldn't really prefer it being on the main page. I don't think contests should stay, it's inactive and boring. I can't really comment on your opinion of H&S sub-boards
|
|
|
Post by Clockwork on Apr 21, 2012 15:48:36 GMT
my opinion on artifact's ideas on the above post (apologies for the attitude, i don't really know how to talk in any other manner): nope, not all of us play flash games all day and don't care about technology, if you don't care then sure, stick to kongregate. and those suboards are a bad idea, too. i don't think there could be an active thread or two about a single flash or java game, neither about portal or tf2. and @qwert why make a whole suboard about a single game? that is pointless and is a waste of space seeing there will only be 6 or so threads at most. and now, take my sexy ideas: 1.most danball boards are dead, compress them all except for PG and SR into the Other board. hall of records is a piece of shit idea, delete it. general danball can be discussed in Other. 2. delete introductions board it's useless, or put as a sub-board for the General Discussion board (See below for reference) 3.this is my reorganization of the general section: I.General Discussion [Post stuff that fits in no other section here] -Sub-boards: Forum Games [Play or make some forum games and roleplays here.] Videos And Flash Movies and That Kind Of Crap [For videos, flash movies and other dumb crap that clogs up the other forums.] II.General Games Discussion -Sub-boards: Game Servers [Advertise your server or servers you like here]
III.Hardware and Software [Discuss and cuss about your favorite home media player and un-zipper] -Sub-oards: Programming [What are you working on today? Share your creations and request for help here] Technical Support [help guys my mac bluescreened ]
IV.Serious Debate [Become further entrenched in your own views by defending them against people entrenched in their own]
V.Creationism Corner [Post your boring short stories, ugly drawings and home made noise. Basically post creative stuff that you created.] (yes i know this is a direct copy-paste off Facepunch)
VI. Member Boards [Custom boards bought and owned from the members to the members]
VII.Spam will be a hidden board with the boardname 420, so this will be its link danballforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=420 There is absolutely no point in putting that crap in public.
VIII.Public Archives is not related to the General section, create a new section at the bottom of the forum and call it... well... "The Bottom Of The Forum" and put the Trash Can (staff-only, of course.) and the Public Archives in it.
IX.Contests will be in GGD or CC and DB related contests in their respective boards.
X.If you REALLY want to keep introductions, you can make it a subboard for About the Forum.
thats it i think this is good organization tell me if i missed anything...I support this. All of it... As for compressing Dan-Ball into one board, we would do that because it all of the individual boards are so inactive, save for SR and PG, which could just become sub-boards, since they are sections in Dan-Ball specifically. That would also open up more forum space. I disagree with having individual boards for a game, instead you could have boards for gaming companies, on the main page, or sub-boards on a games board, which Dan-Ball would also fall into. Also, technology is dead as fuck, and technology covers more than just hardware and software for computers.
|
|
|
Post by D_M-01 on Apr 21, 2012 16:04:46 GMT
my opinion on artifact's ideas on the above post (apologies for the attitude, i don't really know how to talk in any other manner): nope, not all of us play flash games all day and don't care about technology, if you don't care then sure, stick to kongregate. and those suboards are a bad idea, too. i don't think there could be an active thread or two about a single flash or java game, neither about portal or tf2. and @qwert why make a whole suboard about a single game? that is pointless and is a waste of space seeing there will only be 6 or so threads at most. and now, take my sexy ideas: 1.most danball boards are dead, compress them all except for PG and SR into the Other board. hall of records is a piece of shit idea, delete it. general danball can be discussed in Other. 2. delete introductions board it's useless, or put as a sub-board for the General Discussion board (See below for reference) 3.this is my reorganization of the general section: I.General Discussion [Post stuff that fits in no other section here] -Sub-boards: Forum Games [Play or make some forum games and roleplays here.] Videos And Flash Movies and That Kind Of Crap [For videos, flash movies and other dumb crap that clogs up the other forums.] II.General Games Discussion -Sub-boards: Game Servers [Advertise your server or servers you like here]
III.Hardware and Software [Discuss and cuss about your favorite home media player and un-zipper] -Sub-oards: Programming [What are you working on today? Share your creations and request for help here] Technical Support [help guys my mac bluescreened ]
IV.Serious Debate [Become further entrenched in your own views by defending them against people entrenched in their own]
V.Creationism Corner [Post your boring short stories, ugly drawings and home made noise. Basically post creative stuff that you created.] (yes i know this is a direct copy-paste off Facepunch)
VI. Member Boards [Custom boards bought and owned from the members to the members]
VII.Spam will be a hidden board with the boardname 420, so this will be its link danballforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=420 There is absolutely no point in putting that crap in public.
VIII.Public Archives is not related to the General section, create a new section at the bottom of the forum and call it... well... "The Bottom Of The Forum" and put the Trash Can (staff-only, of course.) and the Public Archives in it.
IX.Contests will be in GGD or CC and DB related contests in their respective boards.
X.If you REALLY want to keep introductions, you can make it a subboard for About the Forum.
thats it i think this is good organization tell me if i missed anything...Might need some kinks worked out. Other than that, very sexy.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 21, 2012 16:43:23 GMT
Omnl, having a board for a certain dev isn't that good of an idea either, let's say we make a Mojang board, there would only be one or two games to discuss with like 4 threads each... boring... Disgorded, please point those out as I want to fix everything ASAP.
and an H&S board would attract some members for sure. (anon4732 and modnary, to name a few.)
|
|
|
Post by monokr0me on Apr 21, 2012 20:12:52 GMT
I agree with NM's suggestions; my only irk is that I believe the Technology board is fine as it stands, because as it is computer-irrelevant posts can be made there as well. Other than that, top-notch suggestions, we really do have a redundancy of boards, and I've long believed the spam board was a scar on our forum.
|
|
|
Post by Clockwork on Apr 22, 2012 14:29:02 GMT
I agree that the spam board is a scar on the forum. But I think technology covers more than just Hardware and Software, and those boards would get a decent amount of traffic. As it stands code goes in the creative works, not in technology. Ergo technology does not cover software. Hardware would be technology, but I don't even talk about hardware so I can't really say anything.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on Apr 22, 2012 15:56:36 GMT
III. Technology [Discuss your hardware and software here] -Sub-oards: Programming [What are you working on today? Share your creations and request for help here] Technical Support [help guys my mac bluescreened ] better? :V
|
|
|
Post by Qwerty on May 2, 2012 1:47:04 GMT
Screwit, I'm implementing Nmagane's ideas. Fox DID say he was fine with reorganization, and people seem to approve.
|
|
|
Post by Artifact123 on May 2, 2012 6:30:28 GMT
Screwit, I'm implementing Nmagane's ideas. Fox DID say he was fine with reorganization, and people seem to approve. ALL of them? Do you want to turn this into a new Thread9? If we become a general discussion forum we'll have a short burst of activity, and then die.
|
|
|
Post by nmagain on May 2, 2012 10:33:11 GMT
ka bang, this forum is becoming good again, great job guys. even thought the danball boards still DO need to be compressed.
|
|
|
Post by Clockwork on May 2, 2012 10:52:07 GMT
Maybe get rid of some general boards too, all in all it is good, and the Programming and Tech board were condensed for a good reason anyways.
|
|
|
Post by D_M-01 on May 2, 2012 20:41:28 GMT
Wow just what we need more boards.
There's too many. Get rid of some like Eltoneyes said.
|
|
|