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Due to my vast amount of free time online for 9hrs a day I figured I would offer a zillion suggestions to clean up the forum. Emotionally it doesn't matter if you use, take, fix, or do nothing with these suggestions.

The main thing I have difficulties with within this forum is posting itself. There is a lot of interesting spots but a lot of clutter messes with my head. Here is a slew of suggestions. Enjoy the read.

Dead, old, pointless pinned topics.
When you have 6 pinned topics that well....are pointless it really messes with me. Why have them here. To piss me off and make me want to give you a kidney shot?(haha).
removing pinned topics:

-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/37434-new-skins-as-of-041110/ Out of the 8zillion update topics you have made for some odd reason you pinned this one. Why? who knows. It has not been posted in two years.
-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/64753-confirm-your-email-and-win-250k-shards/ this is the confirm your email & get Shards. I'm not sure if this is needed. I'm not sure if anyone cares about shards either. I never did look up where to use them. You may or may want to get rid of this.
-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/23279-gf-gamer-hangout-forum-info/ right below this pinned topic there is a pinned topic that basically explains the same thing.
-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/22816-general-gf-chat/ I don't get it. Isn't that what the whole forum is? Why a pinned topic for general talk in a general talk forum? (say wha??)
-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/12628-who-vs-who/ I don't think this one is needed anymore.
-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/65000-technology-of-tomorrow/ if this site owner didn't pay you to put the link there, I would unpin it. The internet is full of tech sites. No need to pubish up front one random one.

the whole artistist talk forum.
You need to base forum but the sub-forum is not popular enough. I would knock out the sub-forum and just make the main forum about everything to do with designing.

SPAM Forum
This whole forum is pointless. I couldn't enter it, but basically its a trash pin. I know admins like post count stats to be high but if its a cellphone bot you should erase the topic anyway. If its a flame war then you should delete unacceptable stuff and lock the topic(keeping it where it happened).
http://forum.gamingf...4-gf-spam-zone/



Admins NEWS topics.
It's noted that the admin loves to grab news and share it with the users. I find that some of the news it interesting but sometimes I like to talk to for real. Not news crap. I'll enter a forum and the thing is slashed with NEWS NEWS NEWS. This opinion/suggestion I have most likely will not be taken which is fine, but I'll say it anyway.

THE PSN forum And DS handhelds And NIN Online And LIVE And TOO Many to list.
Admin is slashing maintenance and update news in the PSN forum. There is only one real topic for every 7 news things. I think there should be a pinned topic for maintenance and updates and the admin should put all of the updates in there by just replying to the topic each time. Its less messy.

For the other ones I have no clue but to me I thought they were discussion forums, but after looking at them it looks like a giant feed.
Here's what I would do. I would create a forum JUST for NEWS and then use Attribute topic titles such as WII: Blah guy stole WII's from a truck and the next topic PS3: A local threw a ps3 at his wife for saying Xbox was better.
This way is gets all of the news stuff all located in the same place and not scattered everywhere.

OR wait. You already HAVE A NEWS SPOT. Game updates, news, and Rumors....well this is Awkward for you! lol

Stats counter on the side panel.
This should be only for the admin to see. Not the public. Its back end recording of UV traffic.



Alirght, I'm done. Enjoy! :)
 
-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/37434-new-skins-as-of-041110/ Out of the 8zillion update topics you have made for some odd reason you pinned this one. Why? who knows. It has not been posted in two years.

Use to be used for skin updates, but haven't done much with that. It will be depinned.


-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/64753-confirm-your-email-and-win-250k-shards/ this is the confirm your email & get Shards. I'm not sure if this is needed. I'm not sure if anyone cares about shards either. I never did look up where to use them. You may or may want to get rid of this.

The topic can stay for those who come here for the store things.

-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/23279-gf-gamer-hangout-forum-info/ right below this pinned topic there is a pinned topic that basically explains the same thing.

Good point, I will merge them.

-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/22816-general-gf-chat/ I don't get it. Isn't that what the whole forum is? Why a pinned topic for general talk in a general talk forum? (say wha??)

You see this kind of topic on every forum, kind of a like a post version of a shoutbox. On some forums there are like 1000 pages to this kind of thing.

-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/12628-who-vs-who/ I don't think this one is needed anymore.

noted.

-http://forum.gamingforce.us/index.php/topic/65000-technology-of-tomorrow/ if this site owner didn't pay you to put the link there, I would unpin it. The internet is full of tech sites. No need to pubish up front one random one.

I figured it was a good place to visit really. but I will depin it.


the whole artistist talk forum.
You need to base forum but the sub-forum is not popular enough. I would knock out the sub-forum and just make the main forum about everything to do with designing.

Can you explain to me why I should make a dead subboard into a main board?



SPAM Forum
This whole forum is pointless. I couldn't enter it, but basically its a trash pin. I know admins like post count stats to be high but if its a cellphone bot you should erase the topic anyway. If its a flame war then you should delete unacceptable stuff and lock the topic(keeping it where it happened).
http://forum.gamingf...4-gf-spam-zone/

If you want in simply read the board description for that board. Post count does not raise in that board and no one views it but any member who enters the password.





Admins NEWS topics.
It's noted that the admin loves to grab news and share it with the users. I find that some of the news it interesting but sometimes I like to talk to for real. Not news crap. I'll enter a forum and the thing is slashed with NEWS NEWS NEWS. This opinion/suggestion I have most likely will not be taken which is fine, but I'll say it anyway.

THE PSN forum And DS handhelds And NIN Online And LIVE And TOO Many to list.
Admin is slashing maintenance and update news in the PSN forum. There is only one real topic for every 7 news things. I think there should be a pinned topic for maintenance and updates and the admin should put all of the updates in there by just replying to the topic each time. Its less messy.

For the other ones I have no clue but to me I thought they were discussion forums, but after looking at them it looks like a giant feed.
Here's what I would do. I would create a forum JUST for NEWS and then use Attribute topic titles such as WII: Blah guy stole WII's from a truck and the next topic PS3: A local threw a ps3 at his wife for saying Xbox was better.
This way is gets all of the news stuff all located in the same place and not scattered everywhere.

OR wait. You already HAVE A NEWS SPOT. Game updates, news, and Rumors....well this is Awkward for you! lol

I can't deny this, I've pretty much have split news up to different places Though major news does go into the news boards while less uninteresting stuff goes into the other areas.


Stats counter on the side panel.
This should be only for the admin to see. Not the public. Its back end recording of UV traffic.

noted.



Alirght, I'm done. Enjoy! :)

You sure? You don't seem to have posted enough :p

But thank you for the feed back, I will make the changes soon.

-DS
 
Wow great topic, I noticed the excessive pinning myself but it never occurred to me to actually mention it. Thank you, AidsorHIV, for demonstrating what vast free time can really accomplish.
 
My little suggestion would be to allow users to switch theme, current one looks odd for me (no offense)
 
My little suggestion would be to allow users to switch theme, current one looks odd for me (no offense)

There should be a option at the bottom of the page that says "Change Theme".

Look down there and tell me if it helps. :happy:
 
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