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PostPosted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:07 pm


Forums

October 13th, 2014:
Zero Omega
Indexes
Also, any plans for another forum spring cleaning anytime soon?

Yup! No idea how soon but we plan to do it!
PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:56 pm


October 20th, 2014:
[NPC] Gaia Staff
Hello and welcome! Here are the answers to a few of the questions posted in our pre-event thread! Please don't duplicate the questions listed below as the answers we have given are as complete as we can make them at this time.

Quote:
Inflation has gone up 10,000 times in the past year but older games and posting gold awards have not. I was wondering if you might update gold awards for older games such as word bump, booty grab, aquarium awards and posting to better reflect the value of gold today and restore some of the spending power of those sources?

This is something we want to do. It may require we rewrite some of those older games because they were written in ancient, no longer supported code sweatdrop


Zero Omega
Pugnacious Banana
misc (not sure what this goes under)

can we have links to art shops/requests as subforums of art discussion ? misplaced shop/request threads have been a problem there for a while.

We can take a look into doing this. No guarantees it can happen but we'll talk about it!


Zero Omega
Fayt_of_Redemption
Question Category Art/Features/Misc.

Not sure what category this would best go under but....can we PLEASE have a subforum in the Minishop Forum for those "Adoptables" They're overrunning that forum and have been for some time now. These shops are more like an auction house than anything. But I don't think people would appreciate them overrunning the Art Auction forum, either. And they also do not fit the description of Breedables, either. So please please please, their own sub-forum. >.<

We'll see what we can do!


Narumi Misuhara
Knight Yoshi
Features
So Carbonphyber was working on a BBCode parser update and unifying all the BBCode to HTML across the site, as seen here.
Is that going to be completed and if so is there a time frame or is this not even in the project queue?


Sadly no, this was a personal project on his part.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

We have a services forum, it's usually full of big bumping shops and taro card shops.
Anyway could it be possible to make a smaller forum for those looking to be hired by another Gaian? People looking to do odd jobs like bumping, trash collecting, offering to help as guild crew.
It would really help those that are looking for a Gaian job out.

We can see about this, adding new forums is always a new venture where we have to make sure the forum we're adding is going to make sense and be used.


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PostPosted: Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:10 pm


October 27th, 2014:

Zero Omega
Pirates Ballet
Misc:

Will we ever be able to delete topics we've made?

Probably not an ability we'll be adding for the forums.


Narumi Misuhara
dhampir_princess
Features

Ignore System flaw - You still receive notifications for threads you've been blocked from.


So, recently I quit one of the group roleplays I was a member of and the people that set up the rp didn't like that I called them out on a few things. They deleted my posts and ignored/blocked me.

No skin off my back, but I seem to still be receiving notifications of the two threads (in character and out of character) when they get new posts. I originally tried to go to "My Subscribed Threads" to just unsubscribe there, but obviously the threads don't show up any more.

I tried messaging several forum assistants and site moderators about the issue to see if there was anything they could do about it. I learned that I'm not the only person to have had this problem, but that there isn't really anything that can be done.

Maybe you, Gaia, could change the system so that threads are removed from subscriptions when people are placed on ignore from either side? It seems like a silly little oversight but it gets annoying quick, always seeing notifications for something I'm ready to just forget about.

Posting my question here, since I'm not sure if it was noticed in the pre-AtS thread.


Yes, we'll add this to our bug list or raise the priority if it's already there,
PostPosted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 7:40 pm


November 3rd, 2014:

Zero Omega
i hate her.
Features

Would it be possible to add subforums to the Paws forum? Something like Quest/Charities, artist stalls, roleplays and resources? The pawmunity has gotten bigger over the months and it would be nice to be some-what organized. smile

First time question, thank you!

Paws are Gaians too, and all forums are for all Gaians. As such, we'll probably not add Paw specific subforums for the Paw forum as it would get too redundant of the current forums. We wanted to add a hang out location for just Paws avatars, but there isn't really a need for things such a Paw-only charity, roleplays, etc.


Narumi Misuhara
Miraigun
Features

Will the amount of gold earned for surfing and/or posting on Gaia ever increase? It's always just 1 or 2 gold and that's hardly enough to make a difference.


Oh God yes.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 6:01 pm


November 10th, 2014:

Narumi Misuhara
Knight Yoshi
Features: (bugs & fixes)
So sometimes when following certain links, such as http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.94469113_9/?_gaia_t_=4896&mygntcid=544877 the gaia-modal has set an absurd position top value, such as 5317.53px for no reason. When changing pages in a thread where there are even less and/or shorter posts than the previous page, it causes the page to scroll seemingly endlessly. Also multiple modals are added to the page (all receive the same CSS top value).

Steps to recreate:
  1. http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/t.94469113_9/?_gaia_t_=4896&mygntcid=544877
  2. Go to page 2
  3. scroll and scroll and scroll

Please fix your JavaScript, a simple if-statement to check if the top value is larger than the height of the post_container when the PJAX event is finished would solve it. neutral
Here’s a simple pure JS solution I came up with in just a few minutes
var postContainer = document.querySelector('#post_container')
var modals = document.querySelectorAll('.gaia-modal-modul')
Array.prototype.forEach.call(modals, function (modal) {
var modalTop = parseFloat(modal.style.top.replace('px', ''))
if (modalTop > postContainer.clientHeight) {
modal.style.top = ((postContainer.clientHeight / 2) - (modal.clientHeight)).toString() + 'px'
}
})

Of course you can use whatever calculation you want to set the height, that's just what I used for this purpose.


Indeed, thanks for bringing this to our attention.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features/Forums

If you would take a look at the Gaia Guild Network there are people trying to make for sale ads for guilds they don't want anymore, and people posting ads for needing guild affiliations.
Now all of the guild recruiting ads are burying these threads.
It's a cluttered disorganized mess.
It makes it hard to find these affiliations and for sale ads, and that isn't really fair to these people.

Can you please make sub-forums in the GGN for people to post guild for sale ads and affiliation ads?

Having designated areas for these threads would make it so much more easier on all involved.

We'll take a look at the forum and check out the need for this subforum.


Narumi Misuhara
PlumaDeTerror
Narumi Misuhara
faerie graveyard
Features

Can we get an addition to the drop down menu below people's avatars?
Specifically, a link to the user's marketplace shop?

Here is a thread in support of this idea.


It wouldn't be difficult, but isn't that drop-down getting kinda long?

get rid of the txt and IM


...true dat'

We can swap it out.


Narumi Misuhara
Tsuki_Kirkland
Features

When will the forums be getting and update?


Non planned at the moment but open to suggestions for improvements.


Zero Omega
Astra Green
Features: Forums: More organized art shops?

In the past there was this member known as Djubre that had a really sarcastic guide written about how to set up an art shop but it was something that a lot of people in the Art Shops followed in order to make their shops more organized. Nowadays the shops layout if there is such a thing is a...cluster. Is there a way we can make a standard for art shops so that it looks more organized and slightly professional? (Maybe stick one of his old guides to the Art shops and Requests subforums in the Mini Shops forum?)

I only ask because that's been something I want to offer and I like getting avi art. I just get turned off when I see the threads are so...disorganized.

We can look into having a guide created that outlines what's a good way to host an art shop. However, even if we did this we wouldn't make it a policy that threads must abide by this standard and leave users the option to create a thread however they would like.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:35 pm


November 17th, 2014:

Zero Omega
gataka
Features

What can we expect to happen to the zOMG! forum?

Nothing! We currently have no plans to do anything with the forum.


Zero Omega
ElegantlyLuminous
Features

Many users are outraged by the recent increase in the tip amount. And, frankly, 10k is a ridiculous jump from 25g, even considering the rampant inflation. Why? Well, because most of us aren’t using tipping as a way to pay someone for their opinion– it’s a token of appreciation, a nod to someone’s post, a way to say “Great idea!” or anything similar without actually having to post such a thing in the forums (especially when it might just wind up being pointless filler). So to raise the amount from 25g (which is practically nothing no matter the era) to 10k? That’s a big deal for people.

So I was wondering: would you consider removing the tipping option entirely and replacing it with something similar to the “<3” option we already have on threads (minus the “
Just a thought. Perhaps a crazy one, at that.

We felt that 10k was a reasonable amount that would be easy enough to earn through Daily Chance alone. However, based on some of the feedback we have seen from the community we would be happy to reconsider the amount. What would you say is an appropriate amount?


bluealaris
Xashowd
Misc.

Could you guys please make Cat versions of various Emoticons in the Emotions section? I'd love to have a Cat Kirakira, Cat DoWant, stuff like that since the Cat Emoticons are my favorite.


I don't think we have any plans to update our current basic emoticons but we may have more elaborate ones coming in the future!


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

Question deals with the Monster Galaxy Forum.

Monster Galaxy is not on Gaia anymore.
People don't really use this forum for the correct reasons anymore.

There is a lot of bot spam in this forum that I have reported and it is still up.
Even after I was told that mods will look into it and take it down a few weeks ago by a staff member.

Just to prove my point look at these spamy threads found in this forum.
Some are misplaced threads, some are made by actual spam bots.
its saturday and im babysitting
Consumers read and trust online reviews for shopping!
Game
GO GAME
weight loss new way
What's some good money making tips?
I need of people who role play
this site is my stress reliever
And those are just the ones on the first page.

My question is...

Could you start moderating your less popular forums and get rid of possible dead forums such as the Monster Galaxy Forum?

We definitely will be looking into getting rid of some of our older/dead forums.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:34 pm


November 24th, 2014:

Zero Omega
Beary Kisses
Forums

Question:
Since the tip amount in forums has gone up to 10,000 Gaia gold per tip,
will the amount for posting on threads go up as well?

Yup, this is something we will be planning on doing.


Zero Omega
Ricey-san
Feature

Can we please have an lgbt forum?

We currently do not have any plans for this forum, but it's something that we can consider.


Narumi Misuhara
One Rainy Night
Features

I don't personally have an issue with the new tip amount, I think it's great, but I've noticed that a lot of users were concerned about it.

How feasible would it be for you guys to give us options for the tipping amount? Such as 1k, 10k, and 100k.


Also, I think it would help if you would update the post grants and game grants before you go raising the prices of tips and shops and other features on this website. I feel like this would make more sense.


It's not overly difficult but not something we currently have planned. In regards to raising the payouts of games, recently we increased the payout of Booty Grab by 500x. In one game it's fairly easy to get 50,000 gold, you would only need to collect 100g in a single game. Over time we will also be updating the payouts to other games and of course forum posting/surfing.


Zero Omega
Diamond Wales
Features

Okay, I have a question since it has been bugging me for a while now. Is there any way to make it so that you can actually see the size of the images/gifs that you are going to use in a signature? I mean, I have been flagged twice for it and I had no idea that I had a large image size until then, and couldn't figure out a way for me to tell how big the file size was until I literally had to go to another site and use the same image to find out. It wasn't like the images were offensive or anything, just the image sizes were too big. I think this would help to cut down on the number of people having large gif/image sizes if we could actually see that they are too big or if a warning popped up when we were previewing the signature in question.

You can check the size of an image by right-clicking on an image and clicking "View Image Info" or "Properties" (depending on your browser). This will tell you how large the file size is and what the dimensions are.


Zero Omega
Konani_NTH
Forums/features

So i have noticed this sub-forum on the site,
it's named "In the Queue"
and is located in the "Bug Report & Technical Support" forum,
and "In the Queue"- has the description;
"This forum contains verified bugs in the bugbase that we are tracking. You can subscribe, up vote, and down vote to help us prioritize."

-so my question is;
could you please utilize this forum?
i think it would be very appreciated by many users,

or- alternaly since it's not being used,
could you please remove it?
so that the few who stumbles upon it,
won't feel unnecessary hopeful?

We'll be removing this forum.


Zero Omega
Zero the hunter
Events

Any word when we could have another mini forum event like the "There be dragons" or "Sentai vs Mahou shojo", how about one related to the Black and White kingdom?

I like the idea. ninja
PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2014 5:31 pm


December 1st, 2014:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
Hello everyone and welcome!!!

Quote:
It would be cool if Gaia changed the tipping option and made it possible for users to tip however much or little they wanted. That way the person getting tipped would know how much the tipper liked their post.

I'm on the fence about whether or not a minimum or maximum tip cut off should be set, but that could be a possibility if there needed to be limits.


We would like to add this in as well but have no plans to do so at this time.


Zero Omega
Sakura Latte
Misc

Okay not really sure which category this would belong in so I put it in under miscellaneous, but is there any possibility of you adding an Adoptables subforum to the Mini Shops forum? I was happy seeing you implement the Roleplay Recruit subforum to Barton Town, so I was wondering if you could do the same for Mini Shops since the Adoptables threads are cluttering up the Mini Shops forum. Thanks!

Something we can consider!


bluealaris
Castiel Lover
Forums

There are WAY too many FAQ stickies in the Project Custom forum. Can they all be consolidated into one stickied thread and updated when a new ticket type comes out? They take up HALF the front page.


We plan to do a clean up of the Project Custom Forum very, very soon.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:02 pm


December 8th, 2014:

Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

Why is the zOMG Bugs Forum still up even though you removed the game from the site?
This forum has no purpose anymore.
Instead people are starting to spam about bringing the game back in here.

Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.

We'll be archiving that particular forum soon!


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

Fanboy/Fangirl, Prommie, and the Really, Gaia? Really? achievements were removed because people couldn't follow the forum rules.
I understand that they were taken away because people were being obnoxious by not following the rules and guidelines of the selected forums.
Is there any way that these achievements could be modified and be brought back?
I get that spam is an issue, but that is why we have moderators and banhammers for repeat offenders...

Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.

Even though we have moderators the spam just became too much to deal with and we decided to axe them. It's possible we may return these achievements in the future with different qualifications though.


Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features

Are there any plans to increase the gold earned from posting in the forums and voting in polls?
That used to be my main way of making gold since flash areas make my computer lag.
The amounts earned are so tiny it doesn't even make a difference anymore.

Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.


Yes actually, we plan to have increases to surfing and posting out later this week.


Zero Omega
Ceeshnia
Question Category Art / Forums

Question: Can we have a separate subforum for art
raffles? Currently we can only put them into CB, and
they get drowned in there. We have one for auctions,
so why not raffles?

We'll see what we can do!


bluealaris
Nazolene
Features

Are there any plans to increase the payout from voting in polls?


Yes, there are plans to increase payouts for a number of things.
PostPosted: Mon Dec 15, 2014 7:03 pm


December 15th, 2014:

Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

This Achievement

Thread Killer
100 Points
User Image
"Be the last person to reply to an active thread with over 100 posts for at least 24 hours."
'Kill' a thread of 100 posts or more by being the last person to reply for 24 hours.

I don't really get why this achievement was removed, it certainly wasn't hurting things.

Is there any way to bring it back or at least give us a reason why it was removed?

Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.

We actually don't remember why we removed this achievement but it did go away with a lot of the achievements that encouraged spam. We could consider it bringing it back with some tweaks though.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

What is the point of having a Reporting Bugs Sub-Forum if you don't even keep it updated?
The last thread made for reporting bugs was the week of Jul 22nd - Jul 28th 2014.
It is now December, and only a couple of weeks away from the new year.
We have people reporting bugs in the latest thread but the dates don't even match.
People posting all the way into November shouldn't have to post in an outdated thread from the summertime.
Having your Bug Report Forum being so outdated and unmaintained gives off the impression that you're lazy and don't care about existing glitches and issues, it does not send out a good message to the newer members at all.
Please get on this.

Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.

You're right, this is an old forum from an outdated channels we had to report bugs. We've gone ahead and archived the forum though as it no longer serves its original purpose.


Zero Omega
Ceeshnia
Question Category Art / Features

Question: Can we please get a subforum for art raffles?
Currently we can only place them in CB, where
they drown a terrible death and those looking
for art do not see them.
We have a subforum for auctions already.
Another possibility is for those two to be put together.

It's already something that we're considering!


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

The In The Queue forum only has two topics in it, they date back to 2011.
There are no threads about current glitches that are being/will be worked on.
What is the point of this forum if you aren't going to use it?

Question is originally by ( Nenanah ) I am using Nenanah's Ask the Staff Question Posting Service.

Should be gone now!


Narumi Misuhara
Alphabetic
Features

Can we come up with some more Post Style options in the future?


Yes actually, sounds like a good contest!


bluealaris
Jean Noh
reposted from the AtS pre-thread

Features - Forums

Concerning the sudden appearance of the NPCs Rina and Rordon Gamsey: once I'd read a few different threads I realized these were bots, but at first I thought these were staffers replying using NPCs! Several threads in Site Feedback have discussed the bots not only being spammy, but even rude and downright offensive depending on what gets replied to. Since using NPC bots for a confusing and empty attempt at interaction advertising a LQI was questionable at best, how will Gaia make changes to this in the future to avoid misunderstandings and potentially offensive situations? I think bots should be confined to GCD, CB, and appropriate event forums, personally.

Here's an example of NPC posting being totally inappropriate - this was concerning the hostage situation in Sydney where a user was trying to help a roommate find out if a family member was involved. The NPC responded because of a trigger word (it's pretty obvious what word it was). This continued several times in the thread including replies to discussion of causalities. I understand it's virtually impossible to know how every quote-and-reply pairing will end up looking but that's exactly why botting an NPC across the entire forums is a poor idea.

Some more examples that are far less problematic but I think still worth providing under the cut:

Here's another inappropriate example. Although users in that thread didn't have an issue because the reply came off like a random misfire, several users have expressed they feel this sort of randomness doesn't belong in sensitive topics at In The News.

Here's an example where an individual user may have been upset by the reply. In this case a couple users were unhappy with an ad concerning weight loss and the NPC replies they're no longer having fun cooking. Oops, that looks kinda bad in context.

Here's an example of the bot coming off as snarky - I interpreted the response as a way of calling the original poster's complaint a "flame" concerning whitelisting ads (I still thought it was a person behind the NPC, not a bot). Way less important than the first example but if people think actual staffers are being cheeky it comes off unprofessional.


I know we can report NPC posts for being spam as I've successfully done so, but users should not be expected to police NPCs this way.


Thank you for letting us know about our naughty NPCs. We have been tracking them and trying to limit them to specific forums, however it doesn't keep them from occasionally posting somewhere a bit awkward. We're working on ways to keep them a bit more reigned in for future events.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 4:19 pm


January 5th, 2015:

Narumi Misuhara
princessxdreamz

Features

The Ignore System
I feel like it could use some adjustments.

In forums:
1)Blocked Topics- Do we really need to see that one of the topics is not showing because myself or them blocked the other? Oh ,and by the way, in subscriptions if a user has blocked you from their thread not only do we have to see the the blocked topic notice but we can't remove it from subscriptions. Who wants to see that? Subscriptions are suppose to be enjoyable.
2) I don't like seeing the person on my ignore list showing up if they are the last person to post in a topic.

These are just some suggestions I hope you'll consider ^.^

Thanks, some of these look like things that slipped through the cracks or just weren't properly supported to begin with.


Zero Omega
Fayt_of_Redemption
Question Category Possibly Misc, features

I asked several months ago about getting a subforum for those Adoptables threads that are overrunning the minishop forum and was told it'd be looked into. Has this been or was it forgotten?

No update at the moment but it is currently being discussed.


Zero Omega
Jisen Meizuki
Features

Can you please stop the NPC quoting spams and get some real interaction?

It doesn't help the community when receiving spams that has nothing relate to the conversations.

From time to time we'll be mixing in NPC interaction between NPC quotes and live interaction. We'll also make sure we do a better job of keeping the NPCs out of more serious/discussion forums and keep them in more relevant forums.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

In the Religion & Morality forum I read this under the posting guidelines...

Magic, Witchcraft, and Paranormal Threads
These topics do not belong in the forum unless they are directly related to a religious or moral debate. If you want to discuss generic magic/paranormal topics, please use the appropriate forum (in most cases the General Discussion or Chatterbox forums).

I bolded the confusing part.

Wouldn't topics like that go into the Supernatural forum instead of the CB or GD?

Question is originally by ( Nenanah )

Correct, if I remember the Supernatural's forum rules correct, that would be the place. Sticky is outdated and created before we created the Supernatural forum.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

Dealing with an issue that I have been noticing for awhile in the Religion and Morality forum.

I get that this is the place where everyone comes together to discuss religions, beliefs, whatever...
However people can not make any threads without having someone from a different religion come in and try to convert everyone.
These converting posts create an uneasy and somewhat hostile environment for other people.
It is also almost impossible to make a thread trying to see if there are other out there with the same or similar beliefs as yourself without having someone come in and telling you that you're wrong, or whoever/whatever you believe in doesn't exist. And posts like that also turn things into an uneasy and hostile environment.
Negative posts like that are a big turn off to other people, a lot of people wont bother making threads or post in there because people can be very insensitive and rude.

If people specify that they are looking for like-minded people in the first post then they shouldn't have to have the fear of facing other people from different religions constantly trying to challenge what they believe.
If anything people trying to convert others when it's clear that they aren't interested in it and people coming in and ruining a peaceful discussion among like minded people by telling them that they are wrong, hypocrites, or what they believe in doesn't exist it comes off as a form of bullying.

I'm not asking for you to ban people from posting in religion threads that are different from what they believe, I actually like asking questions and learning about other religions but I feel that there should be some rules to prevent others from trying to convert people when it isn't wanted, and rules to prevent others from challenging other peoples beliefs when it's stated in the first post that they aren't wanting to make a debate over things, just a peaceful discussion with like-minded people.

Could you please look over this forum and possibly revise the rules to make it more peaceful?
Right now there is a lot of bickering and rudeness going on, it's pretty sad to see.


Question is originally by ( Nenanah )

I agree, M&R's forum guidelines could probably stand to be reviewed and revised.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

So back when I first joined Gaia in 2008, I made a thread, subscribed to it, and it promptly got banned, because I had no idea that the image I had used was pornographic (I was a child back then >_> )

To this day, I am still subscribed to a thread that got banned almost six years ago. Will you eventually create an auto-unsubscribe for whenever a thread gets blocks? It really should not count in my current thread subscriptions.

Question is originally by ( Hug the Pug )

We'll take a look into seeing if this is possible!
PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:52 pm


January 12th, 2015:

Zero Omega
Nenanah
Misc

Last week I raised some issues regarding the Religion and Morality forum. I just wanted to know if you have had a chance to look over the rules yet and if so are you going to make changes to make it harder for others to bully people with opposing beliefs.

We haven't had a chance yet, but it's definitely something that we will be addressing!


Narumi Misuhara
BlackFireKitsune
Features (Random Number Generator) (I think this counts as a feature; my apologies if it's not!)

Recently, my friends had cause to use Gaia's RNG to roll for a raffle, which is a common enough occurrence, especially in the BC forums. However, there were so many tickets that Gaia's RNG couldn't handle them - it caps at 1,000,000,000 (1 billion) and gives an error if you try to put a higher number there. Needless to say, as the number of tickets exceeded the RNG's capabilities, it took some time to figure out an alternative and rolling was delayed quite a bit, and the whole thing was just one big headache for everyone involved.

TL;DR Would it be possible to increase the cap for Gaia's RNG to something higher than 1 billion?


I would assume so, we'll take a look.


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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 8:29 pm


January 19th, 2015:

Zero Omega
Ceeshnia
Question Category Art / Features

Question: Are there any updates on whether or not we
can get a forum for art raffles?

Not at this time! We actually have a lot of ideas for forums in 2015 that we're going to be spec'ing out, so keep an eye out for that!


Zero Omega
Snow Danger
Features/Misc

Can we please see more and/or better moderation in the GCD? Especially considering how much of a resource this forum is becoming - i.e. being used for ask the staff and etc.

Daily about half the topics in the GCD are spam or misplaced, and we're seeing a huge influx of off-site advertising threads as well. The only ones that are ever taken care of are the off-site advertising threads, despite people reporting the spam and misplaced threads repeatedly.

It sounds like GCD could probably stand to have more Forum Assistants rather than moderators, as FAs stand to be more proactive about removing the spam and misplaced threads, whereas moderators would be more focused on removing the actual TOS violations that hit GCD such as off-site advertising. Regardless, we'll see what we can do to get some more support for the forum!


Zero Omega
Pankake Star
Features:

hello, i was wondering if there could be anyway to delete one's forum topic? would be easier to manage multiple topics that are the same.

Not at this time! We don't know if this is something we will actually implement in the future, at this time though the best way to get your own thread removed is to edit the first post to something along the lines of "CLOSED."


Narumi Misuhara
Ceeshnia
Question Category Features

Question: Can the "First post bonus" be updated,
as it is still stuck at 125g?


sweatdrop ...Totally


Narumi Misuhara
Project DT88
Question Category: Features

Hello, Could we have a customization color box when posting?

Please bare with me because I need to explain my question. There are over 16 million color possibilities with the text coloring. However we only have 13 spots in the bar. a row of 12, then white on a second row.

User Image

Now I would never suggest or ask for all 16 million colors be up there but I know everyone has their own favorite colors, so I was wondering if it would be possible to make the color selection have 11 blank colors that could be altered per person in settings. So instead of constantly having to type out ['color=goldenrod]"message"['/color] they could have a button in color that places ['color=goldenrod]['/color] around "message"

It may not be necessary, and it wouldn't kill us if we didn't have it, but it would be a nice quality of life update for people who don't use the 12 other colors we are all presented with.


We can keep this in mind in any future updates to the editor.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:29 pm


January 26th, 2015:

[NPC] Gaia Staff
Hello and welcome!

Quote:
Features
Could we get a spoiler button added to the BBCode menu? :0

Yes! It is not a priority right now though.


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

Could you give us a sub-forum for posting quizzes? We have one for posting games, it would be nice to have one for those long posting quizzes. There are still a lot of people who do them for earning gold and getting the elocutionist achievement. It would be nice to have them in the forums again, now quizzes are mainly done in guilds where they can have forums dedicated to them so no one has to worry about them being buried by other non quiz threads.

Question is originally by ( Nenanah )

Interesting idea... We'll think about it!


codemonkey37179
Zero the hunter
Events

Are we ever going to get another mini quote event war like in the past? I mean like the sentai vs magical girl, Star Wars vs Avengers or the Town Mascots. I would like to see one related to the Black and White kingdoms from Checkmate.


Nothing planned right now, but we are long overdue for one. hmm...
meemsalman
That sounds like a cool idea! You never know what the future holds... heart


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

I've brought it up plenty of times before but the Monster Galaxy fourm is being overrun with bot spam. The whole first page is covered with it. It's been reported, but none of the spam threads have been taken down. Why don't you maintain this fourm?

Question is originally by ( Nenanah )

We actually have some plans for this forum this year, so keep an eye out!


Zero Omega
Nenanah
Features

The zOMG Bugs forum is still up, but you got rid of the game ages ago. Shouldn't the zOMG! forums be taken down too?

Question is originally by ( Nenanah )

Thought we had already/ o_O Welp, it will be going down!


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:20 pm


February 2nd, 2015:

Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features

Would you consider increasing the number of characters allowed in our signatures? I'd like to be able to display banners for all my BG guilds I am in, and even with tinyurl it's not possible.

Question is originally by Furbish Lousewort


Sadly no, the limit is in place to help keep forum loading to a minimum. To get an idea of just how much signatures affect forum loading, try forums lite from Gaia Labs...the difference is like a car vs the Millennium Falcon ... or the Starship Enterprise.


Narumi Misuhara
Nenanah
Features

I have been voting in polls and the most gold that I have earned from one is 100 gold. Can you increase the gold earned from polling? The current earnings do not match the current state of the economy at all.

Question is originally asked by Nenanah


Yes.


Narumi Misuhara
MultimediaPanda
Features

Can we get the ability to @ tag people in the forums?


Possibly, I'll pass this along to the team to take a look.
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