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#1 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 3:17am


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Generally, the Forum Rules help to keep the Forums a friendly, safe and organized environment. However, there are very few existing guidelines on each of the individual Forums. Whilst this is not usually a problem, there are the occasional issues of users posting in the wrong thread, or posting content that is not entirely suitable for the Forums.

All users have great common sense, and are able to exercise the correct decisions in most cases; however, propper guidelines are required to make sure that everything goes smoothly 100% of the time. Therefore, I believe that it would be a good idea for MMOHub to create 'Forum Specific Rules'.

What are 'Forum Specific Rules'?

Forum Specific Rules are a brief guide to each individual Forum; they tell you what the purpose of that Forum is, give you some examples of what are and are not appropriate for that Forum, and answer Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ's) about that Forum. Jagex use Forum Specific Rules in their Forums, and this ensures that players maximise Forum organisation, and keep the Community running smoothly.

Here is the basic layout that Jagex use:

X Forum Guide

A 1 sentence overview of the Forum, and a warm welcome.

What is the X Forum For?

The purpose of the Forum is outlined here; anything that is not suitable for the Forum, but may be commonly mistaken for suitable content, should be outlined here.

FAQ

Common/likley questions regarding the Forum are listed here. This is to clear up any common confusion.

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That is all there is to it! Forum Specific Rules can make a big difference to the functionality of a Forum Community, and I believe that they would contribute positively to MMOHub.

All users are free to post their feedback; I hope you enjoyed the thread!


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#2 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 3:17am


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This post shall list constructive feedback posted by Admins and other Users, which I feel adds positively to my idea. If you make a constructive idea, your comments may be listed here!

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princessdoll30:
Anyway nice suggestion.. This is the basic of all basic as all of the main game sites I have roam into have these kind of section..


darkmagic76:
I think this is a great idea! It works well on other forums I have used. It also helps with FAQs for sure!


Serpentius:
I like this idea, it is very similar to what we did at Gaiaonline, as their forums vary greatly in the rules they allow. Some of their forums were so busy, they had to assign teams of mods just for those forums.

Anyhow, we're not at that point yet, but this is still a valid idea and feature to continue to streamline and improve our forums for future visitors and therefore I welcome any assistance to make this happen.

While I don't have the bandwidth right now to spend doing this, if you feel this is a valuable effort to undertake immediately and you have the extra time to put together a sample of the first few, I'd be happy to have the admins all look at them and see about implementing them when we can.

Thanks for your thoughts and interest in helping make MMOHub as good as it can be!


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#3 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 3:56am


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I shall now depart for bed; be sure to leave some feedback while I am gone!


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#4 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 1:30pm

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Didnt we already have one of these, or did serp make you become his man-servante for the day and post this
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#5 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 2:24pm


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Lol . Serpentius doesn't have servants.

As of now, we only have the Official Forum Rules; while these are great in general, they do not always cover specific things about certain Forums. That is, of course, why I made this suggestion.
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#6 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 6:25pm


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Lol the words and lines are going off the page template... :P

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#7 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 7:05pm


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Are they? The text seems to be in perfect order to me.

But, more importantly, what do you think of this suggestion?


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#8 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 7:11pm


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Well it would be nice, but not especially needed at the moment, :D We would need someone to write them up also ^^

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#9 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 7:17pm


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It would not really take up much time to do, as they all follow a basic template, and are supposed to be pretty brief.
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#10 | Nov. 13th, 2009, 11:01pm


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I look forward to hearing some more feedback.
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#11 | Nov. 14th, 2009, 6:26pm


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Why is the sentence have gone off the template?? O:

Anyway nice suggestion.. This is the basic of all basic as all of the main game sites I have roam into have these kind of section..

Anyway.. congrats to me I have reached 3 stars lol!

(made a star stamp at the hand)

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#12 | Nov. 14th, 2009, 6:33pm


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Yay Bell~ ^^

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#13 | Nov. 14th, 2009, 10:30pm


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Congratulations on your Gold Stars, Princessdoll30! And thank you for your feedback.
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#14 | Nov. 15th, 2009, 12:39am


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Nice Suggestions, although right now I dont think they are needed, I believe the rules we have now our good enough for our population, but can certainly see something improvised in the future when more traffic is driven here. Good job none the less

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#15 | Nov. 15th, 2009, 1:06am
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 I like this idea, it is very similar to what we did at Gaiaonline, as their forums vary greatly in the rules they allow. Some of their forums were so busy, they had to assign teams of mods just for those forums.

Anyhow, we're not at that point yet, but this is still a valid idea and feature to continue to streamline and improve our forums for future visitors and therefore I welcome any assistance to make this happen.

While I don't have the bandwidth right now to spend doing this, if you feel this is a valuable effort to undertake immediately and you have the extra time to put together a sample of the first few, I'd be happy to have the admins all look at them and see about implementing them when we can.

Thanks for your thoughts and interest in helping make MMOHub as good as it can be!

#16 | Nov. 15th, 2009, 1:44am


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Still... I would like to know why the sentences made are off the template.. D:

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#17 | Nov. 15th, 2009, 1:50am

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princess just take a screen shot of what it looks like to you and post it
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#18 | Nov. 15th, 2009, 1:58am


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I can see what she means, the original post by Halo, his text goes way over the right side of the page, outside of the box we are typing in. ---->

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#19 | Nov. 15th, 2009, 2:20am


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Thank you for all the great feedback, everyone!

I do agree that as the MMOHub Community is not that large at the moment, more ridged guidelines are not really neccessary, for the time being. However, it is something to think about, especially if MMOHub becomes a lot larger in the near future. =)
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#20 | Nov. 16th, 2009, 7:25pm


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I think this is a great idea! It works well on other forums I have used. It also helps with FAQs for sure!


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