Can there be a age locked zone for us, the Bad Pets to play?

Expound, please.

Hey, would it be okay if I posted my idea from the "More Sections" thread onto here? :3

We had 1-5 star ratings on the Sporums... which I always thought was annoying because ultimately the only time it was used to down rate people in flame-wars. I'm not really sure how it would work here, but honestly I think it would be pointless here because most people would only have the heart to give each other 4 or 5 ratings. It's really not needed, because people here don't seem to need positive reinforcement to act decent.

I don't know if this is possible, but it would be great if you could make the forums more "Word" friendly. I mean, make it so that it is easier to transfer from microsoft word to the site. I hated having to go through my ATKM submission and putting italics and bold lettering in again.

Okay, I have to admit that is absolutely the best possible way of implementing this.

Personally, I like the layout, though that may be a bias from using it for so long.

I always thought these forums looked downright homely, really.
(Again, my comparison is to the Sporums, which had pretty much white and bright blue everything.)

I like how the forums look, honestly. And I've been here for just over...what is it now...two months?

I'm just going to answer this question one more time, to be extremely clear, make this very clear, and make this very well known so that I never, ever, ever need to be bothered by this question again.

NO.

The comic is PG. Do not expect the rating of this site or any of the semi-official affiliates (such as the IRC channel) to go far past that. PG-13 is the MAXIMUM rating, and I suggest you don't push that, because the forum's normal rating is in between PG and PG-13. Don't test this rule or you will receive warnings and bans. This rule about the rating applies to everyone who wishes to participate in these forums.

I'm sorry if you don't like it, but that is a set rule, and it isn't arguable. I do hope that was clear enough, yeah?
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Oh, please keep your suggestions clear and concise if you can, and stay on topic. We'll probably just skip over them if it's a needless wall of text, or just ignore the thread entirely if we have to dig though it in order to find the actual suggestions, right?

Well, I would like to say that I think the mods are doing a GREAT job so far! As for suggestions.... Um, maybe for the people RP'ing, more color variations on the color wheel? That's about all I can suggest... Also, the whole, "bad pet" thing is 1. VERY inappropriate 2. Been discussed by Buck so many times that it scares me to even think about it

I am positive there are rich-text forms that do this automatically--the Wordpress blog post form can do this, but I don't think that phpBB is able to.


The current style is Hestia Blue. I can change the color scheme between blue, purple and green, but that's about it. It's already difficult enough to get modulations for the forums that don't ONLY support subsilver (the default, which looks extraordinarily ugly imo) without heavy amounts of hacking. Hestia was the best I could get in terms of attractiveness without being too 'themed'.

Frankly speaking, the currently color and layout is fine. I prefer simple color schemes so that I can read what's posted without straining my eyes to see the words or "blinded" by the forum layout color

I love the current color scheme, actually. It's very neat and clean.

Know how Facebook has their own mobile version of their website for easy access to people with phones? It's much plainer than the facebook .com itself, so it doesn't eat up plans with data limits.

Well, for anyone with Verizon, our carrier switched it now in early September to where when we type in a webpage, it gives us the FULL webpage, instead of the little mobile one we used to get. The Facebook mobile still works though...

I'm wondering: think we could do a mobile version of the Housepets forums? I don't understand the first thing about coding, but maybe some way to type in an alternative URL which would take us to the same site, but avatars and other graphics are turned off, low color, and there's no detail to the background, and etc.? Just a plain and simple way to post and answer PMs, without having to use 3 MB every time we log in through a phone?

I know the mobile version of facebook is (EDIT) So could the forums use a URL like that?

EDIT: I just checked my first link... I typed it wrong! ^_^;;; The correct URL is http://m.facebook.com

I've seen on other websites (once again I'm talking about the Sporums) some custom-made buttons with a bit of personality, for example:


(um where did my examples go)

That's what I see as what might be the most interesting (and plausible) way to spruce up the look of the forums.

I'm pretty sure they use phBB too, and I'm pretty sure that's free.
Money won't do you any good in that case.
I'm assuming you're talking about money?

I wanted to check if anybody else would bring this up, but since it hasn't I'll say it.

What thread gets posted in the most, even if by the same people ussualy over and over? The forum games thread. I admit there is already a lot of mods, but what if there was a mod for that thread alone? I don't know. Up to you guys really.

I agree. The Forum Games have always been busy, and the transference of the Chat Thread there only made it worse. It would decrease Diss' workload that way, too.

*sighs, followed by a facepalm*
This is supposed to be a FAMILY FRIENDLY COMIC.
But seeing how two mods already pointed this out, I don't think I really need to say anything more.

Short answer - Heck no.

Long answer - Are you serious? What in heaven's name made you think that you should even have a area like that? Any other attempts to push the rating or bring more frisky stuff in and I'm just going to ban outright.

"In short, no. In long, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... [for 17 seconds]"
-Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

Sleet, that kind of got old. Anyway, what about a Mod for the forum games? It would take some heat off of Diss (if he wants it that way).

I wasn't able to make a poll at that time (I haven't made a thread in a while, so it might be possible now), but Buck made the poll for me.

I think it got through because there was sufficient warning against letting the topic turn bad.