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Posts to be aware of:
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT THREAD (Revised)
- The Self-Introduction Thread

We've refined our forum rules in light of recent events and have taken steps to ensure that posts made add to the forum and are not used as an attempt to spam the forum to raise post counts. In addition to revised rules, we have also removed the ability to see what your post count is. Ranks are still in place, but post count numbers are not.

If you have any questions about the rules, you may post them in this thread. Thanks for understanding and enjoy your stay. ^_^

I was thinking of removing the need for all new users to verify their accounts via the e-mail they supplied, but after the trouble KillJoy caused today, I'm rethinking that move. Thoughts?

It's usually a good idea to have a verifiable email system in place, but if someone is intent on causing trouble, it's not going to stop them.

I wouldn't think it'd matter either way here. Times are quiet enough to not be troublesome

Well, the problem with the e-mail verification is I get a lot of bounces where people sign up and can't verify because they gave a bad e-mail address.

I think it's a nice safety net to prevent someone from having the auto-signups computers can do nowadays, but at the same time if people are careless in filling out the form and miswrite their e-mail address they might get mad that the e-mail never comes or that they can't log-on.

I am torn on this one, but I think the e-mail address verification is a nice way to prevent anyone from signing up very easily under three names, at least by making it one step harder for them to do three or more signup names by having to keep going back to their or another e-mail address.

I personally had trouble with this.

It actually delayed my signing up due to the fact that I made a typo.

I basically had to make another account to get Adam's AIM s/n.

Maybe a "Re-Type E-Mail" e-mail box.

It might be a good rule to have some sort of suggestion againt "chat speak" unless English is not your main language. It just gets annoying to some of us how people type out messages like this: "Wel i think hes mad at me cuz I siad sumthin mean." Even worse is when they use numbers....Spelling Mistakes are okay, since not everyone can spell like gods (not saying I can either) but purposefully being lazy and writing like its an AIM conversation is annoying.

Refering to L33T? =P

I tend to agree with chat speak, it is hard to follow what people are saying using that at times. I also think though, if they are posting, regardless of spelling, they have to be careful to leave spaces between words. I have seen a few posting as follows recently "Ireally liketaht won bcause itscool" . Or something along those lines. It does make such messages hard to read.

Well, yes. But also when they substituted words for numbers like "This is 4 u" or "Lets go 2 the park".

Indeed...it is especially annoying when they type like that during Role-Playing....it just takes from the feel of the character in my opinion...but hey...Adam-sama's the boss...it's up to him...

I'll go with what ya'll are saying.

Oh my...this is a good day for Role-Players...unless he just meant you guys...thanks anyways Adam-sama...

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THis one doesn't seem ot be enforced. I think pretty muc heveryone breaks the hight regulation, and a few the width. Mehaps you should edit this rule, as to not scare people?

Frankly, I don't mind either way, but some things (IE: The "1337" and post count) have beened edited in the past, and I thought I'd mention it.

The signature size listed is something I like to shoot for as it's an ideal that DDRfreak's forums have that's good to follow. The only time that we enforce the size is when the width breaks the forum layout, but the smaller the better as far as forum signature images are concerned.

(remembers pre-GSM when there were 2 - 3 people with wallpaper-sized signatures)
Oh the horror...

O_O....I remember.... Also, remember hat time there was a quoti9ng thread that caused so much quoting that it broke the forum page?

Side Question: Does #8 apply to PMs? As I think it is broken on a regular basis, including by myself, in PMs, and I kinda was wonderinf ig you guys might in is trouble for that.