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The legend will never die

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The last time this sort of stuff happened, I decided that I wouldn't be able to continue maintaining the site, and with university approaching, i decided to close down the forums.
Once again the forums have scaled into a very busy and active place, and i'm beginning to lose control.

However i don't plan to let the community die again, and I am fixing what I can.
The problem is, the forum database is getting overloaded, so I need to clear a lot of it to make at work (so it's not really the server's fault, its more that the database isn't as optimised as it should be).

So I'm goign to be running a purge. This means old posts that have not been posted in for a long time will be deleted. I've also deleted a lot of old accounts created with zero posts (95% spambots). So if you had an account with zero posts it might be deleted (sorry).

I realised i haven't got as much time as I liek to focus on the forums. Administrating a forum requires a lot of time to be spent on interacting with the community, and leadership skills to keep the staff working in sync as a team to keep everything running smoothly. Unfortunately this has been slipping away from me, and as you have probably seen- things have suffered.

First things first, I will be getting for forums back online hopefully in the next few days.
There will be another announcement very soon.
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Re: The legend will never die

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good for you mooncow and thanks for getting the forums back up after 17 days
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Re: The legend will never die

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Another good idea is that you could delete the post that have been locked because a rule has been broken or something later
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Re: The legend will never die

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or just switch to vBulletin or get a better computer.
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Re: The legend will never die

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If you love vbulletin so much, why dont you help Mooncow on making these forums to vbulliton
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because V bulliten sucks and has no taste <.<

well if it's help you need why don't you hire more mods? or maybe make a strictor, but not THAT strict, staff?
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The rule breaking isn't anything out of hand, I think he means he would need more people to help out with coding back the old features that were left out with the update.
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Re: The legend will never die

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I think Mooncow needs an assistant
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Re: The legend will never die

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[quote="cybersonic233"]I think Mooncow needs an assistant[/quote]
or a clone

mabey we should hire a SECOND ADMIN
ya know the best mod becomes another admin to help the site?

ps mooncow you should rearly get rid of spammer acounts; locked things and try to get rid of forums people havent posted on in more than a month.

also you have a couple of topics where you'll give us info then lock it
why not make one but keep editing the title and writing in posts to get your point across
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I want either Fusion or Drouge7 to be our other Admin. I would want the job to go to Drouge7 more than Fusion
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truesilva wrote:ps mooncow you should rearly get rid of spammer acounts; locked things
This has been done for the most part.
hawkleader3 wrote:I want either Fusion or Drouge7 to be our other Admin. I would want the job to go to Drouge7 more than Fusion
Why would you rather Drouge87 be an admin?
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Because Drouge87 gets on more than you and if we needed two more Admins, you would be the second one
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I disagree. I'm on Chao Island almost all the time.
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i would say fusion would do the better job being "best mod" he also already does alot "usergroups"
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Fusion should become admin if Mooncow ever leaves.
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Post by _Shadow_Chao_ »

[quote="hawkleader3"]I want either Fusion or Drouge7 to be our other Admin. I would want the job to go to Drouge7 more than Fusion[/quote]
[quote="hawkleader3"]Because Drouge87 gets on more than you and if we needed two more Admins, you would be the second one[/quote]

I fully Disagree, Fusion spends most every chance he gets here, and would know more of what to do with the MySQL, and PHP errors.
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I agree with Shadow. Besides, Fusion already is sort of a second Admin already, and Torro's like Half-Admin Half-Mod. We kinda already have 2 and a half Admins already.
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Yes, they don't appear to be administrators but they have some of the administrator privileges. (Fusion may have all of them.)
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well I don't know if Fusion is a moderator even though his names in a bright shiny yellow you should get one from america since there on 6 hours before England while it could be 3am here it'll be 9pm in america which would be good
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The server that mooncow has is in America.
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Post by Kagenotenshi »

Hey, any way that you could make another way to save them? I put some stuff in some of them I don't want to forget... any way to archive 'em old threads?

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Re: The legend will never die

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Well, at least the forums haven't died again... yet... (lurks around forum looking for corpses
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