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[James]

Well, all I have to add here is:

I Heart Sal.

[The Don]

Is it time for your bi-monthly post already?

I think what were all saying is "Iain; stop bitching, nothing comes of it."

[samountain]

I guess not being able to make a reply (other than quick reply) or being able to make a thread is a vital point as to why theres a lack of posts lately. But what would I know?

[jitz]

I'm not the only one suffering from that, I just thought something was fucked on my end.

I honestly am sorry Sal, my post helped in steering this topic into...well something other than it should be. I was having a joke about the current state of the board, and I'm also the winner of many participation awards in life because I suck at everything, so I liked the connection. Sal you do rock, and you are one of the best members on the board, and if I had more time I would talk to you on MSN more. Oh and if you didn't go off to watch shitty tv shows so much.

Iain, we all understand where you're coming from. Aero and HB obviously don't have the powers they should, if I had been made admin and had those powers I would have made a public statement about Paul being a wanker and unadminned myself because it's obviously a complete waste of time. Aero and HB have tried to work within the constraints because well they obviously want to try.

So it's pretty simple, the board has three real admins. One comes semi reguarly, the other is seen once every three months, and the other with all the power hasn't been seen in what feels like a year. None of us are interested in talking about Smackdown, you're right. That was my point years ago. The wrestling video games forums restrict the board, but cater to people that sign up, grab a few CAWs then leave again. I say fuck those people. I don't know them, I don't give a shit about them.

Aero, HB, if you're still in contact with Paul can we get some explanations from the man himself? I dont care if you cut and paste an MSN convo. I am just so sick of this board in it's current state, it's gone on too long. If we don't like the answers I say we all get up and fucking leave like everyone else.

[Nemo]

SD ARENA FTW!

[Aero]

what skins are you guys using that cant make proper replies? thats where your problem is, when paul updated the board to 2.xx the old skins became incompatible.

[The Don]

I'm using ST 2008 and wasn't able to last night.

[jitz]

That wasn't the problem Aero because the problem only cropped up last night, and I don't think the board was updated last night.

[Aero]

ah, sorry didnt realise it was a 1 night thing, i hadnt noticed the problem myself, but the board itself would not work for me this morning at all. i'll try and get in touch with paul for you too.

[James]

Is it time for your bi-monthly post already?

Assuming that was directed at me:

I would come around more, but this place has seriously declined. There is nothing of interest here. I dont play the Smackdown! series, and I'm mostly reading about football (American). None of you guys here talk about that. Sal and I used to get into it on MSN about how bad our teams sucked last year. If we could just get something going here, I'd be more than happy to come back and be active here. The sad truth is, it doesnt matter how many times we try to fix this place we don't have the power to do it. Maybe if we all give Paul the ultimatum, he'll at least give us the power to make something of this place.

I hate seeing the place I met you guys come into this, but what can we do? We seriously need to expand the horizon here. Get some fresh new forums, ideas, and members.

*Sigh* This post allows me not to have to post for at least another year now..

[jitz]

SD ARENA FTW!

At the end of that I realised talking about SmackDown and suggested to the other admins to shift the focus to a sports message board. I was told the idea was stupid, something along the lines of "SMACKDOWN FOREVER!".

So for the one millionth time, if I had full control of the board I would delete nearly all the forums, there would be a lot less. General, sports, music, art and games. That's pretty much it. If you don't want that, I'd suggest to stop touting me as a possible admin. No, there would be no CAWs. There's a shitload of CAW websites out there, and they do it better than us.

[Fozy]

I'd like to point out that I wasn't actually getting pissed off at either HB and Aero, it's Paul who's the absolute cunt. We were just unlucky he was the one to make this board, instead of someone decent.

[Thom]

I suggest a hunting forum, where we can discuss hunting techniques, hunting equipment, and our favourite spots to go hunting.

[Big Bizang]

Where we hunt the deadliest game of all... Man.

[Thom]

Good to see we have another keen huntsman on the board!

[Aero]

right, guys, new idea, we can just do it here tho as any topics i make generally dive -

i want honest opinions of what you guys want, post them here or PM them to me, support any ideas you like and veto (vito? i dunno) the ones you don't, see if we cant get a bit more life in here.

i will say one thing however, saying we need improvements is one thing, but if a few more ppl just posted again and a bit more often we'd mayb be on the right tracks, im not saying this with anyone in particular in mind, just a bit of a general statement.

anyways, i'd love to see this board a good bit busier again and Hb lives for this site ( i know, sad, but its true) so we're both willing to do what we can, but we need the ideas

[Nemo]

new forums and forum structure:

- kill freebies and forum x, have one media category with wrestling an gen media subcats or whatever. fuck freebies.

- sports forum

- ban don

- toss svr with all the other wrestling games

- split gaming into ps/xbox/wii/handhelds

- serious discussion or news section

- pc discussion/help

other shit:

- forum chat room

- ban don

- board mods (ie. forum arcade)

all i can think of atm. more to come.

[Fozy]

We're currently hacking paul right now, by the way. Once we crack SysOp and get him out of the picture, it'll be fine.

[Aero]

cool good work guys

[Nemo]

making another board isnt an option, right?

[Fozy]

And lose all 1billion members? NEVER.

[Big Bizang]

I would put up Raw and Smackdown every week like I was going to but I get them from pwtorrents every time so if I kept reposting their stuff they might not look kindly on it and ban me or something. That is if they ever found out. Aside from doing that I have no idea what I personally could do to improve things and any bastard could do that.

For what it's worth I agree with pretty much everything this Slurms character says. Now if we can just get Sal's opinion...

[Thom]

Sal, where does the hunting forum fit in in your new overhaul?

[Fozy]

Bizang, hosting that shit here won't matter. They'll never find out, so don't worry. Especially when we're doing it in a private forum.

[Heart Breaker]

new forums and forum structure:

- kill freebies and forum x, have one media category with wrestling an gen media subcats or whatever. fuck freebies.

- sports forum

- ban don

- toss svr with all the other wrestling games

- split gaming into ps/xbox/wii/handhelds

- serious discussion or news section

- pc discussion/help

other shit:

- forum chat room

- ban don

- board mods (ie. forum arcade)

all i can think of atm. more to come.

Great ideas, Sal. Most of them I agree with. I have to disagree with one. I don't think we should ban Don. He hasn't done anything lately. So that's the only thing out of the quesiton. But I'll definitely get started on all these ideas tonight. But I also need everyone's opinion, ASAP, on what you want changed about ST. Also, if someone states their opinion, I need to know whether you hate some of their ideas. Love their ideas. Or have ideas of your own. The faster we get everyone's opinions, the sooner we can turn this place around.

Also, I'll need some help with the codes for certain things like Forum Chat room, Banning Don, and a possible Forum Arcade. So you better get on MSN soon, Sal.