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#162288 The Economist says China and Japan are going to war soon.

Posted by AMAC on 23 January 2013 - 02:52 PM in The Café

I can't see these two countries going to war. There'll be some more arguing over the coming months over who should profit from the oil that surrounds these islands and then it will most likely fizzle out. If there was a war, the chances are that the big western countries would support Japan. China's economy relies on exports, so it wouldn't risk damaging its trade links with markets like the US over this conflict.



#160231 Unban Ness/Nintendo Fanboy/Geno/Big Bird thread

Posted by AMAC on 17 January 2013 - 08:16 AM in Site News and Feedback

There are a few things I'd like to point out on this issue:
1) Warnings/punishments are an issue between the users involved and the moderating team. There isn't much need for a thread about an individual user's warnings.

2) Unbanning one user because of a thread like this would be unfair on the other users here who have been banned from the chat. I'm not saying Ness won't ever have his ban lifted, but doing so because of this threat would set a bad precedent.

3) I don't want to come across as being arrogant, but I have access to the chat logs and am able to see if users have been repeat offenders, which means that us moderators are in a better position to decide what would be fair punishments when warning users.

4) At the time of this incident, I don't recall any users contacting me to defend Ness. If you think any of the moderating team have been unfair on another user, let us know at the time, rather than several months later.



#158544 We need more of those little pictures that come with each rank

Posted by AMAC on 11 January 2013 - 11:44 AM in Site News and Feedback

And make it so that we can choose the colour we want? :)


Unfortunately, I don't think that would be possible, and if it is, it would take a lot of work to implement. We'll just have blue icons, as it fits with the theme of the site.



#157606 This is just UNACCEPTABLE!

Posted by AMAC on 08 January 2013 - 01:33 PM in Wii U Hardware Help

This thread has gone off-topic and has had several insulting posts, so it's being locked now.



#157278 We need more of those little pictures that come with each rank

Posted by AMAC on 07 January 2013 - 12:37 PM in Site News and Feedback

If someone can make some more of these icons I'll be happy to add them to the ranks. I would make them, but Paint is the only image programme I know how to use, so they'd probably look rubbish. If any of you are prepared to make these, then please post some sample images, and if they're good enough, I'll add them. Please don't be offended if you make any and I don't use them though.



#157247 Student finds a 'brain' his KFC chicken

Posted by AMAC on 07 January 2013 - 11:03 AM in The Café

The article says. It was actually a kidney, rather than a brain. If it happened to me. I'd be put off KFC for a while, but it probably wouldn't have caused him any harm if he had eaten part of it.



#155344 Chatbox request: Spoilers.

Posted by AMAC on 02 January 2013 - 02:56 PM in Site News and Feedback

The problem with this suggestion I can't really ban users for discussing games. You could try asking them to go to a private chat, but if there are several users who have played the game then they should be allowed to discuss it, and there isn't an option for group private chats. I'd only give out warnings/chat bans if a user was posting spoilers for the sake of annoying others. It's not ideal, but the only real solutions I can think of would be to ask them nicely to refrain from posting spoilers or to leave the chat yourself for a while. If someone posts spoilers simply to annoy other users though, you can report them and I'll look into it.



#155271 Time to stop the spam and nonsense

Posted by AMAC on 02 January 2013 - 12:13 PM in Site News and Feedback

The pony spam is what I was referring to. The personal slander can refer to several things: one being what you mentioned, another being the onslaught of slander of several members via a personal chat on the users page, another being possible framing of other accounts, another being PM harassment. And the personal information leak refers to when the user who was involved with the personal slander posted detailed personal information they gathered via social network accounts (that the said user sought out themselves) of several users in chat.
The pony spam was met with VERY swift action and stern warnings... The latter incidents have been giving some users a headache over the lack of action from most mods.
I understand that most of the mods and admins have personal lives... but maybe they should choose a staff less busy.


I'd like to point out that when we warn members, we generally keep the warning/punishment between ourselves and the user(s) involved, so although it may not seem like we have done anything, we will have dealt with it, as long as it has been reported. The leaking of personal information case was dealt with shortly after it was reported, although some of the users here should consider being more careful about what personal information they put online. The link to the personal chat has also been removed from that users profile and we're currently looking at how best to deal with it, although we don't have much control over user's conduct on external sites.



#154727 Time to stop the spam and nonsense

Posted by AMAC on 01 January 2013 - 04:07 AM in Site News and Feedback

When ponies take quicker priority over personal slander and information leak, maybe it's time to listen to some of these complaints.


In what way are ponies taking priority over anything else?



#154605 A sub-forum request.

Posted by AMAC on 31 December 2012 - 04:29 PM in Site News and Feedback

Retro gaming is covered by the General Gaming section and I haven't seen enough posts about retro games to warrant giving it a sub-forum. Thanks for the suggestion, but unless there's a large number of users who want this, I don't think there's much benefit.



#154603 cross-platform

Posted by AMAC on 31 December 2012 - 04:27 PM in Site News and Feedback

You could just have one thread for the game in either section if all versions were the same, or if the were big differences you could have separate threads. Do that solve the problem?



#154601 Why can't we have music or youtube videos in our profiles?

Posted by AMAC on 31 December 2012 - 04:25 PM in Site News and Feedback

I may be wrong, but can't you post YouTube videos on the "About Me" section of your profiles?



#154593 Time to stop the spam and nonsense

Posted by AMAC on 31 December 2012 - 03:52 PM in Site News and Feedback

I appreciate the responses guys. On the issue of reporting however, I have reported things in the past, but there is no visual conformation that the item in question has been reported. It says "sending report" at the top of the page, then fades out. Does this mean the report has gone through?


Yes, it would have gone through. After that, all mods/admins will receive an email/notification about it and we will then take whatever action we feel is appropriate. Only mods will see comments that have been made on a report, so after you've sent it you won't see anything more.

Some of you have been mentioning that older members seem to get special treatment, but I try not to differentiate between newer and older members when dealing with reports. However, with minor offences, I will be more lenient with a user who has been here for a year without causing any trouble, than I would be with a new member who instantly starts causing trouble.



#154333 Time to stop the spam and nonsense

Posted by AMAC on 31 December 2012 - 03:20 AM in Site News and Feedback

I'm sorry about the recent number of spammy posts. I've to been online much over christmas and I now have prelims coming up in a few weeks. I don't have time to read every thread that is posted on this forum, so it's inevitable that we'll miss some things. If. You see anything that breaks the rules, you should report it and it will be dealt with - it only takes thirty seconds to do.

The reason why we call this the "largest Wii U community in the world", is because it's a fact that we are the biggest Wii U forum at the moment and it's impossible to prove that we are the best forum. It doesn't mean that we don't care about quality.

As for warnings, we do give them out fairly regularly and there are quite a lot of users who have been warned at some point. However, I don't tend to give out a warning whenever someone breaks a minor rule, otherwise pretty much everyone here would have had one. For example, with the pony images posted in the atheism thread, I didn't give put any warnings, as I didn't feel that warning every user who spammed updates achieve anything. However, if you guys think we are too lenient at times, I'm happy too start being more harsh on users who break rules.



#153916 Atheism.

Posted by AMAC on 30 December 2012 - 07:54 AM in The Café

Seriously? 19 posts of cats/ponies/general spam? I've hidden all of the spam posts and will give formal warnings to any users who continue derailing threads by posting unrelated images.



#153359 Christmas Presents 2012

Posted by AMAC on 29 December 2012 - 12:18 AM in The Café

My main present this year was a compact system camera, with a few accessories. I also got the usual gifts like socks, chocolate, books and money/giftcards.



#150991 Good news about slow loading times

Posted by AMAC on 23 December 2012 - 02:17 AM in Wii U Hardware

Locking this thread as a lot of the recent posts simply consist of. Users insulting each other.



#149569 Secret Santa 2011 Sign Ups

Posted by AMAC on 19 December 2012 - 09:01 AM in The Café

Locking this thread, as there was no reason to revive it.



#148931 The Hobbit

Posted by AMAC on 17 December 2012 - 01:11 PM in The Café

I saw it today and I really enjoyed it. I had doubts about whether making a trilogy out of just one book would work, but it was nice that none of the scenes felt rushed. I haven't actually read the full book, so I can't comment on whether it was true to the original story.



#147544 Do we need a specs/technical discussions subforum?

Posted by AMAC on 13 December 2012 - 09:20 AM in Site News and Feedback

I don't think a separate sub-forum for technical discussion is necessary. I've added quite a few sub-forums recently, and I don't want to have too many of them. Having official that's for this sort of discussion is fine though.



#147537 Arcade- WE NEED THIS :3

Posted by AMAC on 13 December 2012 - 09:03 AM in Site News and Feedback

I'd be happy for the forum to have some arcade games, although as I normally access the forum through my iPad, I wouldn't get much use out of it. The main issues with this idea is that I would struggle to add any games to the forum; Feld0 would probably have to do it and that doing so would probably take up a lot of time. As he would be doing the bulk of the work for this, it would largely be up to Feld0 whether he wants to implement this.



#145820 When will Nintendo add compressed 5.1 audio support?

Posted by AMAC on 09 December 2012 - 05:32 AM in Wii U Hardware

Locking this thread now, as it's gone off-topic and before there are any more offensive comments.



#145804 Wii U News

Posted by AMAC on 09 December 2012 - 03:07 AM in Site News and Feedback

I can see where you're coming from here, but allowing users to post in that section would discourage them from visiting and commenting on Wii U Go/Blog, which is not something that either Feld0 or David would want, so it's unlikely that either of them would want to allow users to post in the Wii U News forum. If you want to discuss articles, the best thing to do is follow the links and comment on the external sites, or create a thread here for the story.



#145576 Changes to the Forum Layout

Posted by AMAC on 08 December 2012 - 01:41 PM in Site News and Feedback

a new area for new owners of Wii U to ask questions in & ask for advice, maybe some current threads can be moved there or even pinned if they relate to audio or connection issues.
i currently mod & admin a few sites so if you are after anyone else to help out, i can lend a hand :),


I've moved some of the current threads to these sections, although there are quite a lot, so I'm mainly just moving threads that are on the first few pages of the forum. As for pinning threads, I'm happy to have pinned threads for any problems that affect a lot of users.



#145471 Changes to the Forum Layout

Posted by AMAC on 08 December 2012 - 09:47 AM in Site News and Feedback

A few of you guys have been requesting this since the Wii U was launched last month, so I've now added two new sub forums:
Wii U Hardware Help
Wii U Games and Software Help

Hopefully, this will help to unclutter the rest of the forum from threads about minor issues with the Wii U. I've moved some threads into this section already, although if you see others, please let the moderating team know so they can be used.

I've also changed the name of the Wii U Games section, to Wii U Games and Software, to make it clear that both can be discussed in that section. I considered adding a separate section, but I didn't feel it would get enough use to make it worthwhile.




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