Q&A Smashboards Questions Thread. Ask site-related questions here. (Staff answers preferred)

[DtJ Jungle]

What he said

There's no list of requirements. We were all selected because Heartz and Azua felt we had the qualities to make a good committee to make members feel welcome. Infraction history is probably looked at but I had 7-8 pages of infractions by the time I was told I was gonna be part of this.

 

[arch knight]

There's no list of requirements. We were all selected because Heartz and Azua felt we had the qualities to make a good committee to make members feel welcome.

This makes me curious as to why i was chosen.

And who stole a cookie from the cookie jar?!

 

[Jonkku]

There was discussion in this thread earlier about namecolours being taken away from some groups because that's what postbits are for.

Then what about people who hide their postbits?

Now normally, that wouldn't really matter much, I guess, but like in this thread, where only the staff are allowed to answer questions, there may not be anyway to know whether or not someone is an IBWC member, because they lost their yellow names.
And then, if you think someone is just a normal member, you may ignore the answer they give, even though it might be the right one and was actually posted by the right person.

 

[ndayday]

Well I'm pretty much guessing that now we're required to wear the IBWC heart thing.

 

[Xivii]

No one in the ibwc has their post bits hidden.

I don't really see it applying else where.

 

[flaco]

They are pseudo-mods of the SIC. They can do everything but infract in this room.

could you please clarify

 

[ndayday]

We can do everything that normal mods can do in a room besides infract people.
So only in this room, we can:

delete/edit posts
merge posts
make sticky threads
make announcements

 

[DtJ Jungle]

Also our names are at the bottom of this subforum. Even before the post bits, alot of peopel didnt use their yellow names all the time.

 

[Merkuri]

Can something please be done about forum support? It doesn't actually feel like anyone is supporting us there. Whenever I make a post about a perceived wrong against me, administrators will just ignore it until I make posts in there asking them to address it. Honestly it's like I'm begging them for them to give me attention. It really simply feels like they don't care! Isn't the entire purpose of that folder to get support from administrators? Well they're not being supportive at all.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=298562

This is a great example of what I am talking about. I ask the administrator Xivi a question and he doesn't respond to me. I bump the thread and ask him to respond to my question and he still ignores me. This isn't an isolated incident, it happens all the time in forum support. Could we have the administrators be more attentive to the questions ask of them!?

 

[Z'zgashi]

May I suggest that you add a Sakurai emoticon to the forums?

 

[Sephiroths Masamune]

^lol that would be amazing.

 

[Brickbox]

I also support the idea

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

Theres already a sakurai emoticon:

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

Nevermind, figured it out.

 

[Merkuri]

Can something please be done about forum support? It doesn't actually feel like anyone is supporting us there. Whenever I make a post about a perceived wrong against me, administrators will just ignore it until I make posts in there asking them to address it. Honestly it's like I'm begging them for them to give me attention. It really simply feels like they don't care! Isn't the entire purpose of that folder to get support from administrators? Well they're not being supportive at all.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=298562

This is a great example of what I am talking about. I ask the administrator Xivi a question and he doesn't respond to me. I bump the thread and ask him to respond to my question and he still ignores me. This isn't an isolated incident, it happens all the time in forum support. Could we have the administrators be more attentive to the questions ask of them!?

And still no member of staff responds to this. There really is no accountability for the moderators on these boards. It would be really cool if the administrators actually took interest with the problems users have with this website.

 

[Lythium]

And sadly, this is not the place for that. If you have an issue with the staff, take it to Forum Support or PM a member of the staff, preferably an admin.

I understand that you must be frustrated, but keep in mind the staff are ordinary people with lives outside of the internet, and your problems may not be top priority to them. If you feel like you're being ignored, PM one of the active admins (Xiivi, Steel, Mic, etc.)

 

[Jonkku]

>Someone complains about Forum Support being ignored.
>Gets told to "take it to Forum Support"

And I was gonna joke about that when I first read his post.

 

[Lythium]

Well, to be honest, there's nothing else that I can say.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

And still no member of staff responds to this. There really is no accountability for the moderators on these boards. It would be really cool if the administrators actually took interest with the problems users have with this website.

If there's a problem with a specific administrator, you should probably take it up with that person. This is the IBWC Q+A thread, for the members of the IBWC, not the moderators.

 

[Mic_128]

And still no member of staff responds to this. There really is no accountability for the moderators on these boards. It would be really cool if the administrators actually took interest with the problems users have with this website.

I'll ask Xiivi to take a look, he's probably been busy with work, haven't seen him around much lately.

 

[Fuelbi]

What does the partners bar at the bottom of the page even do anyways? The links are all broken and I don't think we actually get any money from them

 

[Kupo Rose]

What's the point of this?

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[DtJ Jungle]

updates a thread without having to refresh.

 

[Kupo Rose]

Oh? Doesn't seem to work for me.

 

[DtJ Jungle]

Only works if theres a post made within the last five minutes of the last post, or something of those lines.

 

[Kupo Rose]

Alrighty then, thanks.

Nope still don't work lol. http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=229341&page=398

3 minutes. Maybe I'm doin it wrong.

 

[BluePSI]

Has anyone suggested a Mr. Saturn emoticon and Mr. Saturn font yet? that would be so awesome

 

[DtJ Jungle]

what does a mr saturn font mean? and no one has suggested either.

 

[BluePSI]

It's the font in Earthbound that is used when a Mr Saturn talks.

 

[DtJ Jungle]

That hasn't ever been suggested no. I don't know how administrators go about adding fonts, if they can at all. i assume they can though, would have to get one in here.

 

[BluePSI]

I see, thanks

 

[Jonkku]

That font is missing so many characters though, I doubt it'd work here.

 

[BluePSI]

I suppose still worth a shot, right?

 

[ndayday]

Definitely. I'm actually kind of disappointed in Jungle.
I can see it being added in a kind of Unown way. Like, well...

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

the fonts have to be installed on each local computer, anyways. If they were installed on the server without the users having them, their browsers would automatically convert it to a default font (probably times new roman)

 

[Mic_128]

What does the partners bar at the bottom of the page even do anyways? The links are all broken and I don't think we actually get any money from them

It was something that SWF had aaages ago like most fansites did. Yuo'd contact a site with similar interests and ask to become partners having a link to each other on their respective sites. Most of the ones we had were part of the Smash World Network anyway (ie was a part of smashboards)

 

[BluePSI]

Oh I see... oh well, I tried..

 

[Brickbox]

Can we at leaste get a mr. Saturn emoticon? :o

 

[Dragoon Fighter]

Just curious, I know when there is a rule here that it is not on other forums it is because most likely someone has found a way to abuse the privilege causing the staff to take action. So my question is, what happened to get animated avatars banned?

 

[Mic_128]

Nothing, they've never been implemented. Back in the day the additional server load would have crashed the site.