hello guys

so i just wanted to give a few ideas for the site
plz make the site more graphic so it will have easy interface
the profiles should be more personalised

It has been a good wile sence the site got an update however I think there is nothing wrong with it.

on the other hand halo mods website looks better than 343 I if you ask me.

Yeah... Just the LOOKs of halomods look good. But I posted a thread there and I haven't gotten any replies... This was AGES ago. It's still the number 2 thread.

so probably there should be a section for recent forums

http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=recent

Just about all modern successful boards and forums have a temporary banning system. Then again they also have more than one moderator and aren't dieing.

I don't understand why you guys are complaining. The forum has a very clean and efficient look. I don't think we need more moderation because Dennis does an incredible job of doing so. Plus he dedicates his personal time, effort, and MONEY to keep this site going for us. I don't think anyone really has a reason to complain about anything here.

This site should take a few ques from GTA Garage. They use a cookie as an reward for people. Example you did good have a cookie (and an image of an cookie is shown).

That is how you train dogs and small children.

Really, the forum world has become so bad that we are throwing cyber cookies at people to behave and have good posts?

Something is really wrong.

Yeah that is a really dumb idea with the cookies (and INSANELY cliche), but banshee brought up one huge point that has always baffled me. Only 1 moderator which Dennis has given no good "real" reason for other than basically that he wants to handle it all himself. I just wonder why? There is no reason to do so. There are noted older members (in actual age and clear maturity shown on the site through the years) here who I am sure would be mature enough to at least help keep order, he doesn't use any of them or, at the very LEAST, give them the ability to delete posts that are offensive. I know that would leave the definition of "offensive" up to the user/moderator but then doesn't that seem a little like a "holier than thou" complex? Take for example where you live too. You cross over a post that seems acceptable and you think nothing of it. However, that post was written with a highly derogatory term to another culture unbeknownst to you simply because you have not personally encountered it. Can we say that only OUR culture's version of ethics and morality, and proper conduct should be catered to just because it's what the single moderator of the global website knows or wants how to cater to? Seems a little unfair. Now I'm not saying we should get 1 person of every culture to moderate, I am simply trying to point out age old words of wisdom. Two heads are better than one.

I'm sorry, but haven't you even agreed that its the small children that make up a majority of this forum?.. We all know around 95% of the users are 8-13 year old children here.

I'm pretty sure he can't let other people assist him because none of us are UXB Internet employees.

Personally the only people i would trust are
kirby
waffles
bourrin

BUT i don't Dennis has a god complex nor do i think if he thinks something isn't offensive i don't care what other cultures thing dennis is quite obviously mature enough to know what is and isn't appropriation AND its his forum he can do what ever he wants with it
Edited by ELVEVERX on May 1, 2013 at 07:31 AM

Site needs shoutbox but again it will be abusive.

-_- how come every time there's a suggestion thread, all the Halo CE foil-hats have to come out and bag on Dennis? For a site ran by one person, he's doing a good job. There's a steady traffic of people on a daily basis, the site upkeep is good as well (if it ain't broke, don't fix it.) The only negative thing I can say about the site is that the enforcement of the rules isn't as good as it should be and there's a prohibition on anyone other than the moderator enforcing rules. That makes it so every single complaint has to go to Dennis' doorstep, which piles him with tonnes of chore-work, removing random people from the site. As a result, people who should be getting banned aren't getting banned. A direct example of this is me. Dennis told me that he'd ban me in one of my earlier threads, two weeks ago and yet, I'm still here. He's doing a good job. Stop trying to spite him in every single post regarding site improvement.

You just answered your own question.

Dennis you should update the forum in some way or another. Not with skins, those are bad. I recall him saying he planned on adding post rating to the forum; I think he said that in late 2012. (it never happened)
Edited by Banshee64 on May 1, 2013 at 05:09 PM

Dennis the Menace.

I think he does a great job, although I also think there are some people who need banning, but as long as the site doesn't get out of control it's okay.

I haven't seen any porn threads come up lately, where's the fun in that?

I disagree. I'd rather have order and peace thank you very much.
I'm not trying to sound like a granny here but those days were too hectic.

I will admit though that the forum has been a bit too quiet lately.

Numerous times I have explained that I run this forum and the other sites on my business network and that I am contractually bound for security reasons to only allow clients or employees access to administrative tools on my network. None of the employees want anything to do with the forum. None of the forum member are my clients.

Okay, if they can't have direct control, then perhaps something like Youtube has. Something like a "flag as spam" button would go very well with this site. Too many flags and the comment is viewed as "spam post" only to be shown if requested to show.

The client notion is new... I'm pretty sure you've always merely stated that its only employees. Anyways, with that out in the open, your companies website doesn't list rates for becoming clients; How are people (trolls) to buy a website with a moderator account on the side?

Limit how many flags a poster can make a day. Hiding flagged postd might cause confusion though...

Wellp... only to retards who don't read the "how this forum works" thread.




lol

I'll work for you dentist i'm good at websites here's one I made: link

Everything has the ability to be exploited if one doesn't put countermeasures into place. Well, Jesse just named a great countermeasure. To make an excuse not to do something just because it can be taken advantage of is not a plausible reason to dismiss the idea. It just means you want easy and with trolls and "flaggots" as you say, NOTHING is ever easy. You have to foil them somehow and that takes probably more mental effort than physical.

to add to that, a feature that disables new members from using the flag system would also prevent spamming new member profiles to flag something. another method would be to track IPs and allow only 1 account per user IP. yes, proxies will get around and blah blah blah, but if anyone actually uses proxies and sets up multiple accounts then they really need to seek counselling concerning their free time.

Dennis has killed many of the IP's used by known proxies anyway. That may be why in the past few years there have been fewer and fewer "topic takedowns" of the site.
TBH, Let's get on the topic of a global scale. Why don't these types of places share known IP lists with each-other? If they did that, there would be next to no issue with proxies on any forum or any abused site ever. It may make many proxy hosts decide to say screw it it's not worth it! Am I wrong?

Not new just more clearly stated all in one paragraph.
We are a boutique design firm and quote by the job. We mostly host what we design and do not take generic hosting clients or general roll your own hosting. We control all the code running on our servers. Clients update their sites with web based tools we provide for them. They can not modify the underlying code. We also do a lot of intranets and extranets where the public does not have access and we can not display them as samples on our website.

Now that i think about it, its a horrible idea.

I have a suggestion.
I demand that lame or game is ridden from Halomaps.

I second that. Half of them aren't even complete. I literally just saw one that said "Haha see this picture looks funny"

The site would instantly be 90% better w/o it.

it would be cool if there were links to the files you have uploaded in your profile. like a button at the top by home search profile member list buttons

Actually it would be about 50% slower to download files without it. The Lame or Game people contribute to your access to the game files. I am not made of money so the site and the cost of the literally Millions of terabytes of bandwidth you people have consumed depends on not only my very considerable financial contribution but from others, like the Lame or Game people, generous enough and willing to donate to your Halo CE fun.

If you are so damn upset by the quality of the captions the Lame or Game site produces then look in the mirror for the reason because it is user generated captions and if you think you can do better then go over there and do so. Stop complaining about it and do better if you can.

You people consume other peoples money getting all these files for free and think you have the right to dictate how the website should be run or what should be on it. Even in my youth I was never so ungrateful and self adsorbed to troll and criticize and complain when someone was doing me a favor and paying for my game time.

I am open to suggestions, listen to them and consider them and even have plans to implement some of them but I cut it off when the people giving them do so while starting intently into freely given equine teeth.
Edited by Dennis on May 2, 2013 at 10:08 PM

I like the captions its not like they hurt and most of them are funny

also is the minecraft section still going to be a thing or did you cancel it