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Should we implement a "Joinable Groups" system? (read below)
Yes 5 (83.3%)
No 1 (16.7%)
Total Votes: 6
Ask and You Shall Receive...; 12/8/11
Topic Started: Dec 8 2011, 02:33 AM (495 Views)
AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

Hello everyone, been a little bit since the last forum update, but I'm back and I've got tons of stuff just for you:

You Asked For It...

As requested by our faithful member Klaykid and as backed by you, the HS community member, a Literature forum has been added to the Discussion category! Here you may post your best written works (or your worst, if you feel inclined to do so) for others to read and enjoy. Be it a short story, fan fiction, or even your autobiography, feel free to post it there! In fact, I might even put a few of my works in there when I get around to it! But for now, it's up to you, yes you, to fill that place up!

Also, a forum that I had originally planned to have but scrapped at the last second managed to claw its way out of the trash can. That's right, the Sprite Discussion forum is now open! In here, you may discuss any matters that pertain to the current state of sprites. Now keep in mind, this isn't a place to post sprites. It's a place to talk about them. Say, for example, when Apposauce wanted to make that topic about making a conglomerate, the Sprite Discussion forum would have been the perfect place to do so! It wasn't available at the time, but now that it is, I'll make sure to move that topic (even though it's kind of old and dead now, but at least it'll serve as an example). So anything like that, you post it in there and others will join your discussion and give their opinions and whatnot. So enjoy that forum and make sure you put it to good use!

Show Me Them Pearly Whites

So at the old HS, we had a TON of sprite related smiley faces. When I created these new forums, I stuck in the Master Chief head in there for good measure and because it was readily available, but that's it. SO, throughout the week I'm going to add in a few more heads (elite, brute, ODST, etc.), but I'm not just going to settle for that.

I'd like for you guys to go ahead and post in this topic any little smileys that you may have. Be it a crazy awesome custom sprite helmet, a regular smiley from somewhere else that you feel should be on here, anything that's small and smiley-like is acceptable. Of course, i'll judge them from there and decide if they are reasonable (as in, no random penis smileys please), but pretty much anything goes.

HOWEVER, if you could avoid posting just your personal helmet from Reach or something like that, I would appreciate it. Because let's face it, I can't be the only one who changes my armor and colors on a monthly (if not weekly) basis, and I don't want to have to update the smiley every time you do so. So by custom helmet, i mean literally the helmet is completely custom (like that one that's in OWAW and stuff) or even you just stuck a unicorn horn on a grunt or something, idk. Just something that's not personal and can be used by anyone in general.

So yeah, submit away in this topic while you discuss the rest of the news.

Spriters, ASSEMBLE!

So there's this cool "Joinable Groups" function on Zetaboards that I have yet to do anything with. They're basically exactly what they sound like: A group can be set up (only by an admin, unfortunately) and set to be "Open to all", "Require Leader Approval", or "Invite Only". The first one is, as the name implies, open for any member to join and leave as they please. Require leader approval means that you can apply to join a group, but the designated leader(s) of the group must approve your application. The last option means that the only way to join a group is to receive an invitation from anyone who is already in the group.

Now, I'm not exactly sure what we would do with this group feature, but I thought it was kind of cool. SO, I thought I'd let you guys know about it, and at the top of this post you'll see that there's a simple poll about it. Should we have joinable groups? Yes or No, it's as simple as that.

However, if you vote yes (or even if you vote no), post and tell me what kind of groups you'd like to see! An obvious example would be something like a group for OWAW team members. Another could be for a makeshift Halo clan, or if you really wanted you could even just make a group about something really specific, like "Peanut Butter Jelly Lovers Club". It really doesn't have to be about halo, sprites, or this forum, just anything you guys want to make a group about. Again, nothing too ridiculous like "National Ass Admirers Association", but just pitch me your ideas and I'll see what I can do.

Again, I'm not too familiar with this feature quite yet so I don't know what all can be done with these groups. I just made a test group for myself and right now I don't see any features whatsoever. However, there could be something cool like a group message board or something. If not then it just kind of serves as an identifier i guess. More testing shall be done though, fear not.

TL;DR

I made two new forums:
Literature
Sprite Discussion

I'm going to add more sprite heads to the list of smileys (elite, grunt, ODST, etc).

Post smiley faces for me to add to the list (nothing personal like your Reach helmet, just something general like a custom helmet or a unicorn grunt or something) in this topic.

There's a cool "Joinable Groups" feature that i'd like to implement. You might wanna read that section (Spriters, ASSEMBLE!) to find out all the information, but either way vote in this topic whether you would like me to start it up or not. If so (or if not), post your ideas for joinable groups in this thread.

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That's all I've got right now. I'm off to go write up the quick rules for the two new forums so that they'll be up and available by the time you read this. I doubt you'll read the rules, but at least they will be there.

MAKE SURE YOU VOTE AND SUBMIT SMILEYS AND GROUP IDEAS PLEASE!!!

EDIT: And before anyone asks, YES, there will eventually be a Halo Sprites banner. Just be patient, young padawan.

Love,
Rillycakes
Edited by AUREL1EN, Dec 8 2011, 02:55 AM.
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A51
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There should be Groups like
Veterans Group
Halo: OWaW Dev Team Group
Active Members Group
Spriters Group
Gamers Group

And I'll send some emoticons later.
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

A51
Dec 8 2011, 10:13 AM
There should be Groups like
Veterans Group
Halo: OWaW Dev Team Group
Active Members Group
Spriters Group
Gamers Group

And I'll send some emoticons later.
Those all sound pretty good to me. And so far the poll results show that you guys do want these groups.

It's just kind of weird that I couldn't find anything to actually DO with the groups. I'm gonna check the ZB support forum and see if they list off any features.
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Ha, I'm not sure if you did it before, but I found the TL;DR section funny. Anyway, I'm going get some works posted in the Literature section soon.
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

Lol no, I've never done it before but I noticed that I was putting some important information in rather large paragraphs so I wanted to have a summary. Plus since I have my sneaking suspicions that you guys don't really read everything I write, decided it would help me get more feedback from you guys :P

And cool, i'll do that too sometime soon.
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I read everything you post, however only one then I just skip to new posts. It makes my posts relevant and allows me to contribute. As long as the information is useful and not just a wall of text of redundancies I read it. My reading level is like 15.9+ the highest it goes in my school's reading tests.
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

Hey guys, you've probably noticed that i've added a few new images. First of all, our forum markers have a nice little HS logo on them. Forums with no new posts have a faded, low opacity marker whereas forums with new posts just show the logo with nothing special.

Secondly, and i'm sure you've definitely noticed, we finally have a banner up! I'm probably gonna add some random sprites hanging around on it within the next few days, so don't worry it won't be this plain for long.

Now, don't think i haven't been listening to you guys. These logos and banners are just temporary placeholders that i'm using so we don't have to stare at the stupid stock stuff anymore. I'm still considering having a banner contest and this isn't the final logo or anything (unless you guys fall in love with it for some reason). These are just going to be there for now until all of that is set up and figured out.

So enjoy them for now, sorry it took so long for this to happen!

Also for those of you who are planning on making any banners or icons, this is the color scheme and something close to what i'm looking for. Obviously anything is welcome, just thought i'd show you guys.

Oh, and an update will be posted for all of this stuff soon, and much much more. Tomorrow, in fact, i'm gonna go crazy.
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Is this why the site was down? Or not loading?
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AUREL1EN
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"Your life defines you, but you define your legacy."

No, i think the site was down because of some ZB maintenance. I had nothing to do with it, for some reason the actual server wouldn't connect. Not sure why though.
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Well it says w11 now instead of s11 so might be something with that.
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