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Subject: Suggestions for the forums.
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Now that I've finally figure out what this forum is for I have a two suggestions about the forums.

1) Cheater Thread- I know a lot of people would like it back and it would keep some forums (especially Zanzibar) from people just posting about cheaters. Also that way we can actually see if the cheaters get banned or if we have played a cheater. I leave feedback but how do I know that something is done to that person? Right now I have no clue. Also in a cheating thread we can tell you exactly what happened in the game and why we believe they cheated. That way you can prioritize who is serious need of being banned.

2) A Post Finder- In the forums there are anywhere from 10 to 200 posts a day and it's very had to find a post you made that you wanted feedback on. Also if you are trying to discuss something with some one in an intellegent conversation you want to find out there response to your thread. It's not that hard to make a search engine in which you can search names at least and it doesn't take that much space on your server to do so. If I could find the html code that I have to make such a search engine I'd give it to you but I can't seem to find it.
I'm sure that anyone who works on the website there already knows how to do such a search engine. It's something that is really easy to add and could greatly improve the site.

Thanks you for listening to my ideas. I hope you take them into consideration and maybe inact one or both of them.


[Edited on 5/20/2005]

  • 05.20.2005 10:40 AM PDT
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Well, I have a complete authority level of a grunt, but I think why they removed the cheater thread was because people misused it and it just devolved into a massive flame fest.

And the post finder is something I would like too. I remember that Achronos said something about it, but I can't remember whether it was about them getting around to it, about them not going to do it, or if it was just inconclusive.

  • 05.20.2005 1:26 PM PDT
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That would make sense why they removed the cheater thread. Maybe they could post a list of banned people somewhere so we could see that our feedback is actually being taken care of or something.

The post finder is something they should inact. It's honestly not that hard, I have the code for it somewhere in my computer and I'm just now in the process of learning html and other computer programming languages. So I'm sure they know how to do it, it's just taking the time to putting it into the forums. Heck they have them for groups and the stats, why not in the forums? It wouldn't be that hard to adjust the stats one to make it to find a post.

Thought of another thing that would be good to add:

3) For groups put them into categories and have it be search able. Some categories they could use are clans, glitching, bungie, strategies, movie, and songs about halo. Just make it so that it's easy for someone to find a type of group they are interested in. I know when I started looking at groups it was hard to find the ones I wanted. Like I glitch, so I looked for a glitching group but find any becuase they had different names. I know that's what the classified forum is for but if the type of group you want doesn't post on the classified it's hard to find that group. It also might make all the groups that are about the same thing merge so there are less groups which take up space on the server and also allows more ideas to be merged into the one group.

  • 05.20.2005 6:48 PM PDT
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They are inacting the search thing in the forums. I just read it under the post "These forums suck". Good glad they are going to do that.

  • 05.20.2005 6:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: TKE Super Dave
They are inacting the search thing in the forums. I just read it under the post "These forums suck". Good glad they are going to do that.


Hmm, I've known about that for a week now. I also know what it looks like. Yeah. Well, I just felt like saying that. No real reason. It will have an "advanced" button for more detailed searches.

[Edited on 5/21/2005]

  • 05.21.2005 5:43 PM PDT