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

[Oracle]

could you guys give me and answer please

The answer is because the forum is easily accessible to children. It would be bad to use swear words on a children's forum. Besides, the censors help distinguish the intelligence of the post you're responding to. Just look at how many words are astericked.

Why the **** **** **** can't ****ing swear ****ing words **** be allowed ****?

 

[Firus]

I got a question why is it not legal to swear here if the first law of usa is these

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

you see here

the freedom of speech

so why can't we just a question

There's no "legal/illegal" here. Congress is not making these laws. The government does not own SmashBoards. SmashBoards is privately owned. As such, it would technically be allowed to say that only a certain type of religion can be discussed here and any other discussion results in a perma-ban. I don't think anyone would like that, but it's perfectly within their rights to do so...

And as Azua said, it's international. People from Canada, Australia, Europe, etc. are here as well, so this isn't just the US we're talking about here.

Forums would suck if so-called "free speech" were upheld anyways. Then people would be allowed to spam all they want without the ability to be infracted, and it would create clones of 4chan.

 

[GoldShadow]

Even in the US, "free speech" doesn't mean you can say anything you want at any time. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater. Free speech means ideas, topics of discussion, petition and assembly for a cause, that kind of thing. It has nothing to do with literally being able to say any word or swear any time you want.

Not that any of that really matters on SWF for the reasons people stated above.

 

[Firus]

Even in the US, "free speech" doesn't mean you can say anything you want at any time. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded movie theater. Free speech means ideas, topics of discussion, petition and assembly for a cause, that kind of thing. It has nothing to do with literally being able to say any word or swear any time you want.

Not that any of that really matters on SWF for the reasons people stated above.

Yeah, that too.

Free speech is generally more in regards to political/religious/etc. speech than anything else. Like, you won't get hanged for saying "President *whoever* sucks!"

Who really cares if you can swear anyways? Worst case scenario you can do asterisks and it's not that hard for someone to figure out what you're saying, but it's still child-proof so younger audiences can safely visit here.

 

[Bowser King]

What are referrals?

 

[Azua]

You refer someone to the site and they sign up, filling in the "referrred by _____" part of registration.
It used to be worth points or something.

 

[Oracle]

Wasn't there a reputation system? And a stupidity infraction?

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

Can I have a stupidity Infraction? Please?

 

[Mini Mic]

Rep system is gone and you don't want a stupidity infraction unless you want to be perma-banned.

 

[Chaco]

I got a sexy infraction. ^-^

I sigged it.

But did they really give stupidity infractions? Wow.

 

[¯\_S.(ツ).L.I.D._/¯]

OK I'd rather not get a stupidity infraction then. I think they should do stupidity infractions like if someone does something that's just epic fail lol

 

[Azua]

Next person that posts in this topic and is not asking a question and not a mod answering a question is banned from the Pool Room.


Not kidding. Shut it.

 

[Takumaru]

What exactly is the smash senate? I've had no idea what it is for the past 6 years.

 

[Azua]

Senators work on rules, policy, etc along with forum disputes and whatnot.

 

[Skrah]

Will SWF change or anything now that MLG owns it?

 

[Azua]

MLG has had SWF since mid-September at least.


Afaik, the only thing different is that Friend Finder is likely never going to return**


***please note that the above is a joke

 

[flaco]

question if you guys deleted the premium members thing why can't we make polls?

 

[Mic_128]

Because only premium members can make polls, wether it's posible currently to become one or not.

However, wether it changes or not, I have no idea. There doesn't seem to have been any problems with threads and polls that haven't been quickly solved with a cheery PM to a mod for them to add one, while alternatively if polls were for all, I can see a lot of pointless "which do you like/think/whatever"threads. However that's just my opinion, but I haven't seen any major complaints about it.

 

[Eaode]

i agree, if anything is important enough to warrant a poll, a PM to a mod will do the trick.

 

[victra♥]

I was just about to ask about polls, but i'm glad it's already answered.

I do have another question though. Seeing the new global rules, i've noticed that under "spam/advertising", advertising for a tournament in other threads wouldn't result in a infraction right? Now that expired points actually accumulate into permanent points, I would not want any unnecessary infractions. I've gone through that problem before, and i've got mixed answers from mods.

As well, is it really that appropriate to have signature infractions? Again with the expired points leading to permanent points issue, it seems silly that we would provoke a permaban with something as pity as signature infractions (which is almost 100% accidental). It's not even worth having a signature any more, especially when you frequently post quick reply, or reply to single quotes because of the risk of getting a signature infraction.

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

I had a discussion about that very thing. The "advertising" refers to stores and/or money-making ventures ("go here and sign up so I can win an XBox 360!!!"). Linking to some blog, forum, or Deviant Art page is fine.

 

[Mic_128]

Linking to some blog, forum, or Deviant Art page is fine.

Within reason, of course.

 

[Chaco]

Is there a limit to a number of notifications one can receive?

Cause I got on and answered to 39, and was wondering if there is indeed a limit.

 

[Mic_128]

I don't think there's a notification limit, but there is a PM limit.

 

[Veng]

Does anyone know if there is a thread explaining about Smash Researchers group?

 

[Mic_128]

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=205203

 

[Veng]

Whoa typo, I meant Smash Director

 

[CT Chia]

Why do posts no longer count towards your post count (that sounds quite redundant...) when posting in the social rooms for the Regional Zones? The social areas aren't just for spam and have serious topics in them like all the main crew threads for that region.

What is an effective way to become a mod for a certain area if you feel that the forum needs one? Is there an application at certain times like there was for the SBR? Or is it normally just by other mods recommending you (but then what if that isn't an option...)?

 

[TheBuzzSaw]

Why do posts no longer count towards your post count (that sounds quite redundant...) when posting in the social rooms for the Regional Zones? The social areas aren't just for spam and have serious topics in them like all the main crew threads for that region.

This is half the reason those rooms were created. We are not going to enable post count simply because people sometimes have serious discussion there.

What is an effective way to become a mod for a certain area if you feel that the forum needs one? Is there an application at certain times like there was for the SBR? Or is it normally just by other mods recommending you (but then what if that isn't an option...)?

If you feel that a certain room needs more moderation, you can send a PM to an Administrator or Senator. You can also make a thread in Forum Disputes. As for becoming a moderator, there is no application process. The staff meets in private and nominates candidates to be voted upon internally.

 

[Veng]

So is there a thread about info on Smash Directors and what they do, how they became one, etc?

 

[Kirby King]

I don't believe there is. The process is pretty self-explanatory; apply through your user CP (under group memberships) and provide a link to a tournament you've hosting/are hosting, per the instructions.

 

[Veng]

Ah so Smash Directors is a Tournament Director.

Thanks for answering my question!

 

[Patinator]

Is there a limit to the amount of posts in a thread?

FFN, the other site I mainly go to, has pretty cheap user-made forums. Threads can only have 5000 posts. Does SWF have a limit? Obviously not 5000, but...

 

[Deleted member]

What happened to the RPG and the rep system?

 

[Mic_128]

The RPG, I'm not sure. I think there was a big forum software update came and it was disabled and it was never reworked to the new software.

The rep system was removed after people abused it to both increase their rep (and heavily neg rep people) and the ability to leave anonymous messages (Specifically mattrep)

 

[Frown]

How is it possible for your post count to go down?

This happened to Ange. http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=6909073#post6909073

 

[Chis]

What are Senators and what do they do?

 

[Azua]

How is it possible for your post count to go down?

This happened to Ange. http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?p=6909073#post6909073

We recently moved a lot of regional social threads into the regional room subforums that have post count disabled.
This resulted in a lot of people losing some posts.



Senators write policy and rules, do forum disputes, etc.
Currently I think I'm the only senator that isn't also an admin yet.

 

[Deleted member]

Why do people make fun of McFox's Internet browser?

 

[Chaco]

Since Dekuu didn't post it here..

Since they are now kicking inactive mods, why aren't they doing the same to inactive BRoomers? I stumbled upon some who last were on in '06.