woodyloveslinkin
aka Gloomy Mushroom
- Joined
- Aug 3, 2004
- Location
- Lithgow Australia
First of all this has taken a while to write, so appreciate this letter or be damned to eternity by the likes of me not giving a **** about your selective reading. Because it is my time to bitch about the current situation. What situation woman? You ask with discontent and a frown upon your face. I reply with a simple and yet harsh smile, and I say to you “don’t you see? All those annoying threads on LPF about it going downhill are true.” Look, seriously Josh (Vash), Dave (Unhingedmouse) and Chris (ATLien) if you’re going to be the administrators of a site, I should see either one of you do something around here, proactively speaking. There are number issues that need to be face, and wither you face them or not, is up to you, but I’m making it big and clear, it may not be simple but we’re all over the age of ten on this forum. I have several resolutions to each problem which I’ll address. After much discussion in the ‘Bored’ thread up in the general thread I’ve decided to take Ravynlee’s word into play “Less talk and more action.” So here it is, my compilation of complaints merged into one big letter.
The first one.
The LPF Awards.
When was it since last had them? The last time I can correctly recall we had the LPF awards was two years ago. Correct me if I am wrong, here, by any means, go ****ing nuts, but the purpose of the awards is to encourage activity and good behaviour on the boards. I am sorry to the active members, and members who are trying to be remain active but have other things in life to attend to like work and play etc, but what about the couple of dozen (times a thousand) inactive members? We used to have such a good variety of members on here back in the old day, but I will continue this bitch in the next problem I’ll outline and argue. But LPF awards should be back on. Back in the old days, it was every eight months because it took the mods eight months to gather up information about who’ll be nominated for which category. I don’t think you understand, and I’m saying this to both moderators and administrators, but the LPF awards motivated members to get in and do good stuff for the boards. Yes I am aware, there was a ‘popularity contest’ issue last time the LPF awards were held but not having the LPF awards is not the resolution, because of the positive spirit and motivation the awards create for not only the board itself but for the members. We can resolve this ‘popularity contest’ by introducing a new voting system and new choosing system.
The second one.
Inactive members and new members.
Yes I am aware that the inactive members have always been a problem, and I know they can’t be deleted just in case they come back. But we need to do something about them, not just sit on the sideline waiting for them to come back with our fairy floss (on a lighter topic, it’s been yonks since I’ve had fairy floss). Send them emails, since you’ve got their email, don’t let already registered emails sign up again. I can easily do it. A know a couple of old members have done it and they didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for re-registering. We need tighter rules for the newbies who come onto our boards. I really hate to compare, but I want to use LPA as an example. The first fifty posts have to be accepted by the moderators first before they can be posted, this is a good way to avoid spam clogged threads that inevitably, all newbies do sometime in their newbie lives on the board. If it’s harder to get to the cookie jar, kids will get to it eventually, same goes with the newbies. If they don’t want to see a reminder so often maybe they should post stuff that the moderators approve of. Because telling them when they make only one thread in the welcome camp, that they should stay and make LPF a fun place, doesn’t mean they are going to listen to us. There are a heap of threads that newbies will love and they do, until they find out that LPF is ‘boring’ because no one’s on when they are.
And talk about the inactive elites! There are a number of inactive elites that are never going to come back to LPF, and I know this for a fact, been talking to them on MSN trying to persuade them to come back to LPF. The only elites I can think of that are currently active and I think are worth a mention, Phoenix791989, Greyfoxx, diana, Sygy, Stenners, Firehawk, Clogz and I'll give Gradon a mention.
The third one.
Mods and Admins.
Where the hell are you? To cut an argument short.
I saw one post of Dave’s last night and that was in a thread in LP Central. And…wtf? Josh said he had gone for good, and why do I see him on here? He appears to be online but he doesn’t post anything. If he’s gone for good, why didn’t another admin demote him then give the position to Azem (just as an example)? I can only think of a handful of moderators that are still active. Jeezy – I at least give you credit for being one out of three mods I can think of right now, because you originally brought up the concept of LPF being dead. I’m glad that a mod agrees with me and a handful of other members on that topic. Hahinator and Azem – both active. I haven’t seen Victim on for ages. What’s happened to our mods? By all personal opinion here, I think that Frabjorn should be promoted back to being mod, he’s the most active out of once-were-mod category.
There are a chunk full of threads (and I admit I’ve done some spamming lately) clogged of spam like arteries clogged with fat. The only thread that I’ve seen recently that has had posts deleted was when Darkness Lover and Stenners had that big face off in the music part and where Victim deleted a whole bunch of posts in the Member’s Pets thread.
I said it before in another part of my argument, why hasn’t Josh been demoted if he’s not going to be on here anymore? I’m not going out my way to make sure he gets demoted (I know we have our differences) but seriously, it happened with Jess (linkinparkbabe87) and Vero (4ever_LPShinoda). They weren’t active mods so they got demoted back to elite membership and they gave clear warning that they weren’t going to be active as mods as I recall.
The fourth point.
Revamping LPF.
I’m going to give you some direct quotes from the discussion taking place in Jeezy’s thread.
Me –
“LPF needs an upgrade in not only the way it’s presented to the members and the public but it needs an upgrade in its attitude and spirit.”
Ravynlee –
“This site needs a visual overhaul. Yes that includes banners for those that want more variety. That gives those in the art department reason to get involved.”
I personally agree with Ravyn’s idea. If I am wrong here, or anywhere, go nuts and correct me, but wasn’t the person who designed the new banner for this version of LPF was crazy robster (Jojo)? I instinctively remember now, that I think about it, she told me in an email when I was inactive for a while last year, that there was a competition for the new banner and she had won the competition (now I remember it lol). The art department gets so many people involved with the competition, I have to say, it does attract more attention and more threads then the writer’s corner does.
In the writer’s corner alone is pretty dead at the moment. I don’t mean to self-indulgent by this comment, but seriously there are only two stories being updated daily and that’s Ravyn’s story and mine. And I don’t mean to cause offence to Mel and Foxx either, because I know they are trying to get their story up and going. But you know what I mean.
We could probably upgrade LPF to another version, because if there are competitions in anything, concerning the site, you know a buzz full of excitement will occur wither it be the new LPF sessions CD or designing a new banner for the art people.
Thus in conclusion, we don’t have enough motivation and that lack of spirit has worn off. LPF is going to be dead as a doorknob soon. Just, it needs mouth-to-mouth. And oh yeah, be free to add/rebuke any of my ideas. I always love a conversation.
Btw. You guys suck at enforcing sig sizes! Sorry I had to add that.
:yes:
Check the dimensions on my old sig^^
The first one.
The LPF Awards.
When was it since last had them? The last time I can correctly recall we had the LPF awards was two years ago. Correct me if I am wrong, here, by any means, go ****ing nuts, but the purpose of the awards is to encourage activity and good behaviour on the boards. I am sorry to the active members, and members who are trying to be remain active but have other things in life to attend to like work and play etc, but what about the couple of dozen (times a thousand) inactive members? We used to have such a good variety of members on here back in the old day, but I will continue this bitch in the next problem I’ll outline and argue. But LPF awards should be back on. Back in the old days, it was every eight months because it took the mods eight months to gather up information about who’ll be nominated for which category. I don’t think you understand, and I’m saying this to both moderators and administrators, but the LPF awards motivated members to get in and do good stuff for the boards. Yes I am aware, there was a ‘popularity contest’ issue last time the LPF awards were held but not having the LPF awards is not the resolution, because of the positive spirit and motivation the awards create for not only the board itself but for the members. We can resolve this ‘popularity contest’ by introducing a new voting system and new choosing system.
The second one.
Inactive members and new members.
Yes I am aware that the inactive members have always been a problem, and I know they can’t be deleted just in case they come back. But we need to do something about them, not just sit on the sideline waiting for them to come back with our fairy floss (on a lighter topic, it’s been yonks since I’ve had fairy floss). Send them emails, since you’ve got their email, don’t let already registered emails sign up again. I can easily do it. A know a couple of old members have done it and they didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for re-registering. We need tighter rules for the newbies who come onto our boards. I really hate to compare, but I want to use LPA as an example. The first fifty posts have to be accepted by the moderators first before they can be posted, this is a good way to avoid spam clogged threads that inevitably, all newbies do sometime in their newbie lives on the board. If it’s harder to get to the cookie jar, kids will get to it eventually, same goes with the newbies. If they don’t want to see a reminder so often maybe they should post stuff that the moderators approve of. Because telling them when they make only one thread in the welcome camp, that they should stay and make LPF a fun place, doesn’t mean they are going to listen to us. There are a heap of threads that newbies will love and they do, until they find out that LPF is ‘boring’ because no one’s on when they are.
And talk about the inactive elites! There are a number of inactive elites that are never going to come back to LPF, and I know this for a fact, been talking to them on MSN trying to persuade them to come back to LPF. The only elites I can think of that are currently active and I think are worth a mention, Phoenix791989, Greyfoxx, diana, Sygy, Stenners, Firehawk, Clogz and I'll give Gradon a mention.
The third one.
Mods and Admins.
Where the hell are you? To cut an argument short.
I saw one post of Dave’s last night and that was in a thread in LP Central. And…wtf? Josh said he had gone for good, and why do I see him on here? He appears to be online but he doesn’t post anything. If he’s gone for good, why didn’t another admin demote him then give the position to Azem (just as an example)? I can only think of a handful of moderators that are still active. Jeezy – I at least give you credit for being one out of three mods I can think of right now, because you originally brought up the concept of LPF being dead. I’m glad that a mod agrees with me and a handful of other members on that topic. Hahinator and Azem – both active. I haven’t seen Victim on for ages. What’s happened to our mods? By all personal opinion here, I think that Frabjorn should be promoted back to being mod, he’s the most active out of once-were-mod category.
There are a chunk full of threads (and I admit I’ve done some spamming lately) clogged of spam like arteries clogged with fat. The only thread that I’ve seen recently that has had posts deleted was when Darkness Lover and Stenners had that big face off in the music part and where Victim deleted a whole bunch of posts in the Member’s Pets thread.
I said it before in another part of my argument, why hasn’t Josh been demoted if he’s not going to be on here anymore? I’m not going out my way to make sure he gets demoted (I know we have our differences) but seriously, it happened with Jess (linkinparkbabe87) and Vero (4ever_LPShinoda). They weren’t active mods so they got demoted back to elite membership and they gave clear warning that they weren’t going to be active as mods as I recall.
The fourth point.
Revamping LPF.
I’m going to give you some direct quotes from the discussion taking place in Jeezy’s thread.
Me –
“LPF needs an upgrade in not only the way it’s presented to the members and the public but it needs an upgrade in its attitude and spirit.”
Ravynlee –
“This site needs a visual overhaul. Yes that includes banners for those that want more variety. That gives those in the art department reason to get involved.”
I personally agree with Ravyn’s idea. If I am wrong here, or anywhere, go nuts and correct me, but wasn’t the person who designed the new banner for this version of LPF was crazy robster (Jojo)? I instinctively remember now, that I think about it, she told me in an email when I was inactive for a while last year, that there was a competition for the new banner and she had won the competition (now I remember it lol). The art department gets so many people involved with the competition, I have to say, it does attract more attention and more threads then the writer’s corner does.
In the writer’s corner alone is pretty dead at the moment. I don’t mean to self-indulgent by this comment, but seriously there are only two stories being updated daily and that’s Ravyn’s story and mine. And I don’t mean to cause offence to Mel and Foxx either, because I know they are trying to get their story up and going. But you know what I mean.
We could probably upgrade LPF to another version, because if there are competitions in anything, concerning the site, you know a buzz full of excitement will occur wither it be the new LPF sessions CD or designing a new banner for the art people.
Thus in conclusion, we don’t have enough motivation and that lack of spirit has worn off. LPF is going to be dead as a doorknob soon. Just, it needs mouth-to-mouth. And oh yeah, be free to add/rebuke any of my ideas. I always love a conversation.
Btw. You guys suck at enforcing sig sizes! Sorry I had to add that.
:yes:
Check the dimensions on my old sig^^
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