Let's try this experiment.
We... yes, we are all seeing how this forum is going.
No activity at all, except for some releases like the ones by GLB (who released nice stages) and Arachno-Man (another stage creator
I don't like his stages, they're too blurry and jpeg-like).
The regulars either are gone or log in and do nothing.
Yes, I can see you:
Total: 7 (Visible: 6, Hidden: 1)
G.o.D., axkeeper, Catastrophe, Arachno-Man, The Crow aka Colosse, rafyandino
In this board I find this topic:
http://mugenlair.freesmfhosting.com/index.php/topic,7155.0.html(Mugen Lair will return online at 100%)
but nothing happened. It remained at 0.03% if anything.
Silverflame is not active (so you shouldn't remain as an admin if I were to follow your words), supermystery doesn't log in since 2013.
If I were an administrator, I could do nothing since this is not really my mugen forum "home", Mugen Fighters Guild is.
The only thing I could do is what I do now, posting sprites, banning spambots and in the case of a release (or something) post something, but nothing else.
I haven't the power for anything, and even if I had it I wouldn't do much.
The guests who register here then quickly go away. Or PM me to leech... ahem, ask "nicely" old stuff that not even the creators enjoy or have in their computers and then go away without even saying "Goodbye!". Or
they advertise their site with a contradictory logic in hopes of receiving users.
The initial purpose of this forum was to release UB22 characters. Then, what happened? Supermystery got some feedback and he took it as an offence. So he started with the Member categories (Junior, Senior, etcetera): you could get his characters only if you belonged in one of those ranks. This was studied (???) for bringing more activity too.
As time passed by, that slowly lost efficiency.
And recently... one year ago, Supermystery released all of his UB22 characters, the same ones that gave him "offences" and feedback.
So, returning to the first period of this paragraph, this forum lost his goal of sharing creations from the people of this forum. Thus no activity.
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On another note, all the competitions (except for one) had one or two more votes than allowed. Some people (I think it was done from some moderators or admins at the time, I wasn't one when it happened) cheated and added one or two votes.
This forums accepts compilations.
I don't.
When giving feedback, remember to not give constructive criticism and only say "Nice + 1" (this is me kidding obviously), that's how this forum worked before I got here. I see rare cases when feedback was actually something that helped the creators. Most of the times it was "Nice+1" in all kinds of broken English. That helped/helps no one improving.
Sometimes I talk to myself here, in a forum where others should post/reply/contribute.
The "innovative" Badge system is stupid and some of them don't show up.
Another thing to add to this list (since I'm listing all bad things this forum had):
And forget the [character] trading thing, this is not Yu-Gi-Oh where you change your cards with a friend; we're talking about files available everywhere.
The trading of characters for characters was pretty dumb since it started, and what if you "traded" a private character for another with a leecher-warehouser? That could have caused a lot of drama for just simple .sff,.cns,.air,.cmd,.act,.def,.snd files. Things that you can't touch but you can simply view in front of a screen and hear from the speakers.
Can you imagine that? Fighting over something that doesn't really exist? But it happened. :idiot:
And what's more, this is a hobby, not a commercial job; I would understand if there was money involved.
In any case, if you want stuff to be private and/or unrequestable, first you don't release it, second you don't show it anywhere.
See? Bannings, dramas and requests wouldn't have been done, nothing would have happened.
Yes, fighting over nothing could have been avoided by just using your brain.
Now that this little rant is finished, I'm going to put a poll. It's just to see your opinion.
