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Banshee

Welcome to PPM Discussion Zone. Use this place to talk about the PPM websites and forums. Post your suggestions, plans, ideas and the problems that you face it. Use this forum to talk about other community sites and state of the community as well if you wish.

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- PPM's finances (except if it is about donations to the site).
- Moderation problems and behavior of forum members.
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Enjoy the forums!

Vladimir · Grenadier **Joined**: 19 Dec 2004 **Location**: England

Banshee I'd really like it if you applied the post count feature. I like to know where I am up to at times Smile

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CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

It was removed because people spammed the ztype out of everything just to get it above Banshee's...

m7 · Commander **Joined**: 17 Apr 2009

If you do a search of posts you've made, you'll find your postcount.

Vladimir · Grenadier **Joined**: 19 Dec 2004 **Location**: England

CCHyper wrote:

It was removed because people spammed the ztype out of everything just to get it above Banshee's...

The forum isn't active enough for this to occur again I don't think. I'd really like to see them return.

Orac · Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 1:00 am Post subject:

Name changes were disabled due to similar fun. Team Black did something funny and then for a few days PPM was a giant name changing party.
I don't see either postcounts or the ability to change one's own name coming back any time ever.

Banshee · Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 2:02 am Post subject:

The good old days are gone for good. Regardless of the forum activity, there is no more visible post count and name change. It's not interesting to promote spam here.

Vladimir · Grenadier **Joined**: 19 Dec 2004 **Location**: England

Banshee wrote:

The good old days are gone for good. Regardless of the forum activity, there is no more visible post count and name change. It's not interesting to promote spam here.

So no post counts ever ever ever again? Sad

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Banshee wrote:

The good old days are gone for good. Regardless of the forum activity, there is no more visible post count and name change. It's not interesting to promote spam here.

Forum Ranks written underneath the User's Name...

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Vladimir · Grenadier **Joined**: 19 Dec 2004 **Location**: England

I don't see how bringing post count back will create spam. The community is dying a slow death due to inactivity, things need to be implemented to encourage posting.

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 10:15 pm Post subject:

When people start posting just for the sake of posting (as in for the sake of raising their postcount) it's not helping anybody however; all it does is creating the illusion that this site is more active than it actually is.

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Vladimir · Grenadier **Joined**: 19 Dec 2004 **Location**: England

All very well Bittah but moderators exist to counter such behaviour and it's not like the moderators are going to have their hands full with all the "spam" because the site doesn't have that many people active and posting.

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Ixith · Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 4:37 pm Post subject:

The best way to encourage posting is to create new public asset contents and mod updates. That kind of encouragement would increase, mostly, on topic productive posts. Where as re-enabling the post count doesn't really create the productive posts but rather gives more of a rise towards the spam posts.
And while yes there are moderators and part of that job is to counter bad behavior such as spam, the idea of a moderator is so that WHEN that behavior arises they counter it and it's the job of the forum rules/set up to prevent such behaviors altogether.
Finally banshee said they aren't going to come back and his word is law here. So not much point in debating it.

oh and nice changes to the site Banshee. Had me a bit confused the other day when I came to check on the forums and wanted to check the news but it's all good.

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Newcomer · Guest

Hey guys, I don't know what I've done, but I can't register.

It keeps saying:
General Error
Error! You cannot register in the forum. Please, contact the administrators to get help.
Debug Mode:
Line : 124
File : usercp_register.php

Banshee · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 2:46 pm Post subject:

Did you had any account here before... or are you trying to register in this forum from a public place?

Zaaz · Disk Thrower **Joined**: 21 Apr 2013 **Location**: Canada

oh thanks I'm good now