TelkEvolon

So, if you've been actively following Mournblade's latest thread (and why wouldn't you, heck I change my PS3 background to a bonfire just for that story), then you'll probably know that Mourn will step down from his Administrator role sometime in the future.

Which means, someone is gonna have to get in contact with feld0 (place your bets on his response time now folks, no 'nevers' tolerated) and he'll probably do one of two things.

The first being that he gives the role of Administrator to someone else on the forum. The second being that he gives up and closes the forum altogether.

insertdoomedjokehere

This is kind of my intuition here, but if feld0 did get a new admin, he'd probably want good reasons to go through with it. I mean, it does cost money to run this operation. When you see things like the last news update being as far back as August, people moping about chat all the time (yes, the hypocrisy) and a general lack of interest across all the boards sans the Hardware section, and the happy trigger bots, it could be enough to reconsider if it's worthwhile.

Which means no more having fun with a lot of you. (Yes, I do have fun with a lot of you. A lot of you posts things that just make me smile.)

So I'm gonna wing it here, no pun intended. Throw whatever you think would actually help this forum in this thread. I reckon if we had a really nice list of changes that could be thrown in to the mix, well this place might actually be 20% cooler.

Of course, some ground rules here:

1) Nothing super stupid like "Let's kick this member!" or "Let's ask this member to not be a stupid head!". Basically, no assaults on members. Sure, I'll admit some are obnoxious at times, but let's get real. New idiots arrive all the time. If you guys can adhere to this simple rule, I swear I will make a complete stop on sexual context. Honest. Pinky Promise. Cherry on top. With a flying ****! No, TWO FLYING ****S!

2) That was the only constructive ground rule I can think of.

I guess I go first. Only natural I guess since I made the topic.

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I said before that the Wii U News section has been more of a wasteland than the Badlands section of Digimon World 2003. It hasn't seen any new life in quite literally 3 months. Doesn't like much but it is a news section, so that's technically a bad thing.

I suggest it gets expanded. The automated news system comes from two blogs that don't get blogged anymore. Cut that system out, and expand it. First off, someone can take on the role of an "Updater". Essentially they would be the automated bot, except the human element means that they can make advantageous changes to what is posted. They would be responsible for making the news pieces (which would be donated by the members themselves) look all nice and uniform, so it actually does look a little professional.

News can take various forms as well. I'd like to stick with the aspect that these aren't threads but rather a single post, as we can leave actual discussions to the forums themselves. That said, I don't think it would be bad if we had a Game Archive, Tournament Announcements and perhaps even internal blogs (although that last one would be a streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch sorry).

I honestly meant to do this a long time ago, but without a proper place for it, I didn't continue with doing every title. This thread was a general idea of what I was trying to achieve, then using a Directory thread to find them all. I would honestly spend a chunk of my time at present to actually go finish it all if you wanted. But, I think, if we want to be a console forum, we should be able to present information on games neatly and cleanly.

I know there is a Matchmaking subforum, but I reckon it would be nice if we could say "every Friday night was a game a night and tonight's game is this game and we should all hook up and take loots." I mean, it's not like we could all go on the same time or all be in the same server. It would be a public notice that anyone on this forum can have a go playing with others. We could even have suggestion polls about what games and what systems.

When I say blogs, I kind of don't want to. I was thinking it would be more like 3-4 people discuss between each other a particular game, old or new, and try to construct a scoreless but unified review of a game. Perhaps it can be a reaction post to game news or even natural disaster. But I'd like to think that random people in the community could get chosen based on interest (both parties of course) to have a bit of a fun exercise in a different kind of co-op. So it's not really blogging so much as it is "Piloting Community Perspective" or something really, really dumbass along those lines.

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Okay I did my boring half hour essay. Feel free to be as brutal, demanding, short or long as you want. I think if, for those of us who actually care for this forum, that we pitch in and start typing stuff up.