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Sad things happened to this board and this community has moved to the new place. If you lost touch with us, please find us at www.sogayshidae.com. First 10 pages of the new Forum Discussions thread should fill you in with the details of this drama. This forum was restored and frozen for archive purposes. |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 18 2013, 07:04 PM (1,502 Views) | |
| xyz | May 18 2013, 07:04 PM Post #1 |
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This topic was created to keep you updated on all important changes and events taking place on the forum without having to follow many topics at once. Things you'll find here:
We are keeping the thread locked to make sure it's clean and easy to follow but you are more than welcome to leave your comments and questions about everything posted here in the Forum Discussions thread. |
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| xyz | May 18 2013, 07:05 PM Post #2 |
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My post above probably made you wonder why was I posting something like this to start with. I guess it's time to put this topic to a good use. Hello, I'm xyz or Val, whatever 3 letters you prefer, and I'll be joining this forum's staff as a technical administrator. My real life job is related to making web sites and I'll try to use this knowledge to make this place a bit more comfortable and fun to use. Before you start wondering what happened to 'community decides the mods' rule, it's still there. My role on this forum is purely technical and I will not be involved in giving out bans and editing messages. You can pretty much ignore my special status. It will not ever be used against you. If you have concerns or questions regarding this, please feel free to post them in Forum Discussions thread. I'll do my best to answer and maybe other mods will help. |
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| xyz | May 18 2013, 07:07 PM Post #3 |
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Months ago when this forum was created, I thought it would be easier to get it up on its feet with an address that a humans can actually remember. But no one knew if this place would survive even a week, so a bit strange but free domain ending in .tk was chosen. I think it's pretty obvious now that this forum is here to stay. And to celebrate this fact, SGSD is a getting a proper commercial domain. Starting from today the main address of this forum is sogayshidae.com. There is number of reasons for why this needed to happen:
As usual, if you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to post them in Forum Discussions. You'll be heard. |
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| xyz | May 19 2013, 04:06 AM Post #4 |
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Some of you may have noticed a bunch of little changes implemented across the board. Here's a full list of what happened:
Please let me know if any of these changes have caused problems or do not work as described. Also feel free to express your opinions on the changes in the Forum DIscussions thread. |
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| xyz | May 19 2013, 05:28 PM Post #5 |
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Quite a bit have been said about making this forum more readable and clean. Not that much has been done. It's time to try something. We understand that constantly worrying about keeping things tidy is tiresome and not that fun. This is why we are making the forum itself do all the work. Having things done automatically will also hopefully prevent some of the complaints, because code knows no biases. It treats everyone equally. We just need to set it up in a way that works for most of us. This is what 'Tidy Forum' experiment is all about. For 2 weeks we are replacing current forum theme with a modified one. List of changes done to it includes:
We hope that for the next 2 weeks you can sincerely give it a try, learn thinking a bit differently and what's most important - help us to improve this setup, so it works for as many people as possible. If after 2 weeks you still absolutely hate it, you'll be given an option to change to the old theme with brighter boxes and big images. You may still face the problem of others not seeing all 100500 messages you are quoting though, so it's a good idea to contribute to discussion on the new theme even if you end up not using it. Little tip: Even if you can't get quotes within quotes at the moment, you can still reply to more than one in your post. You may have noticed little checkboxes next to the "quote" buttons under each post. They look like this: ![]() If you check few of them on the page and then press that "Post Reply" button on the bottom, you will get each of those posts put in a separate quote nicely like this:
You can also do it manually by copying things you want to react on and putting them within the "quote" tags. Quotes will not show one inside another but they can show one after another. You just need to do a bit of work for it when it actually matters. It won't happen accidentally anymore. Please try it out, try to make it work and you can post your opinions and suggestions in the Forum Discussions thread anytime, although we'd prefer you to give it at least a week before coming to conclusions. |
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| xyz | May 19 2013, 10:58 PM Post #6 |
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After a heated discussion we decided to make the old theme available without 2 week delay. You can use the switcher on the bottom left of the page if the way things were before is more to your liking. Also quoting level changes were reversed. We tried to listen to feedback and adjust things on the go, so everything should be working fine now. Still don't hesitate to leave your feedback and ideas in the Forum Discussions topic. |
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| xyz | May 28 2013, 10:20 AM Post #7 |
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Thanks to anon's idea, you can now browse this forum without worry of being outed. Banner-free version named 'Safe Mofo' can be chosen in the theme picker on the left bottom of the page. |
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| xyz | May 30 2013, 04:52 PM Post #8 |
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Small cosmetic changes to the forum: 1) With a help of our awesome banner designer Brity, 'Clean Mofo' theme got a little facelift. The banner should look more natural on bigger monitors now. 2) Forum-wide: 'Anonymous' was changed to 'Invisible' to better reflect what it actually means and to save our newer users some confusion. Edit: As a logical follow up to the previous change, 'Guest' was replaced with much commonly used 'Anon'. These changes may make things feel a bit strange and unfamiliar for a couple of days but they should help to prevent a lot of confusion in the future. If it still feels very uncomfortable after few days, if you have better name ideas or if you spot a bug related to this change (Anonymous->Invisible, Guest->Anon replacements happening in wrong places), please let me know through PM or Forum Discussions thread. |
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| xyz | Jun 4 2013, 10:48 PM Post #9 |
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Contact Staff form Today we'd like to show some love to our Anons here. Starting from now you can privately send a message to admin and mod team of the forum. If you had things to say before but felt uncomfortable posting them for others to see and comment on, now you can use our brand new Contact Staff form and whatever you write there will only be visible to this forum's staff. You can use the form to submit your troll reports or other complaints, you can share your ideas and suggestions, give opinions and feedback on how staff team is doing. Unfortunately PMs can't be sent to Anons since you are many and the board can't tell you apart. So mods will not have a way to directly reply you. You can be sure though that your message will be seen, given a thought and acted on if required. If you absolutely need a reply on something, you can always post in Complaints or Forum Discussions threads. Now registered users always had ability to send PMs but this one lets you deliver a message to all staff members at once, so go ahead and use the form too. We will not discriminate. The quickest way to access the form would be using main forum menu: ![]() And just as usual free to leave your comments and questions in the Forum Discussions thread. |
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| Abc | Jul 25 2013, 05:39 PM Post #10 |
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New moderator Informing the members of the forum, that Orangedaffodils was voted to be the new moderator. She will help us, the old mods, when in need. |
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| zyx | Jul 25 2013, 09:01 PM Post #11 |
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Both "Clean Mofo" themes were slightly adjusted so videos get resized when put in quotes just like pictures do. I have also made this account for myself to save everyone some confusion. xyz will lurk and post as a regular user who doesn't see your IPs and can't do any moderation. I'll be using this power account only when I need to do something on the forum or discuss things with admin team. You can still send things my way through Contact Staff form. Other admins will let me know if there's something I need to see there. |
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| Ihla | Jul 26 2013, 05:13 AM Post #12 |
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We've modified the Rules Thread a bit. Now it is named Intro, Rules & FAQ, please give it a read. We're now accepting the questions you may have, so please use the Contact Staff option to submit them. The thread is divided into four parts:
To keep this new thread clean and spam free, it'll remain closed to all non-staff users, but it'll be updated and edited regularly. |
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| zyx | Jul 27 2013, 01:45 AM Post #13 |
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You may have noticed an 'Important Announcement' box appearing on the top of the board. We've put it there, so we could nudge newer members into the direction of Intro, Rules & F.A.Q. thread in hope they spend some time getting to know the way this forum ticks. Since this area is visible on every page of the site, we'll be also using it to let you know if something really important happens, so please pay attention. Edit: the feature of collapsing the box was removed due to performance issues. As usual, if you have comments, questions or suggestions, feel free to voice them out in Forum Discussions thread. |
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| zyx | Jul 28 2013, 01:55 AM Post #14 |
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The Intro box was slightly adjusted and Collapse/Expand icon was removed due to performance issues. Ads on the forum are temporarily gone. We are asking for your opinions on number of posts per page to display on this forum, so if you have something to say about it, please do so in Forum Discussions thread. |
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| zyx | Jul 31 2013, 03:16 AM Post #15 |
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Girls, as you know, pagecatching on this forum is hell. We would like to try and make it more of community effort, so each of you doesn't have to suffer through all of it on your own. This is why we are thinking about opening a pagecatching thread that would only contain re-posts of most important news, pictures, links to fancams or mentions of funny and interesting discussions happening on the forum. We can't do it on our own. Mods and admins have a lot of work to do as it is. So we are looking for volunteers who'd become our official editors. You'd get a title of Editor, ability to post in closed threads and a hidden forum for your organizational purposes and discussions with Staff. To make this work you obviously need a registered account. You can register it only for this purpose though and remain posting as anon otherwise. If you are a regular user of the forum (registered or not), if you always keep an eye on what's going on and wouldn't mind helping to make it easier for people who can't come here as often, please consider applying through Contact Staff form (pick Other). The more people we have, the less work it will actually be for everyone. And as it's always scary to be first, just know that that's something you won't be, that spot was already taken If you have questions, ideas, opinions or concerns, feel free to voice them out in Forum Discussions thread. Discussion in this matter can be found starting from Page 27. |
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| Ihla | Aug 12 2013, 05:31 AM Post #16 |
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Our SGSD Feed Thread is now live! So as you probably already noticed, we now have a new thread made for people who can't or simply do not want to pagecatch. It's really easy to navigate as it includes subjects and a link to the pages of the events mentioned. Since Mods can't take care of this in addition to looking after the Forum, we enlisted three new people who have now the title of Editors: 125, Jyhu and Macro Anon. They will be in charge of posting and editing the news as we get them. As usual, your opinions, ideas, suggestions etc are more than welcome in the Forum Discussions thread. |
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| Ihla | Aug 21 2013, 04:31 PM Post #17 |
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We've added a new rule (7. Privacy) to the Intro, Rules & FAQ Thread regarding the privacy of the girls' family and friends' SNS accounts, as well as adding a link to Zetaboard's TOS and the section of prohibited content. Please give it a read. |
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| zyx | Aug 30 2013, 01:27 AM Post #18 |
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SGSD Feed has been updated with a version that has a bit more pages but is less of a hell to load. Once again thanks to out awesome Editors for making things happen. |
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| Ihla | Sep 5 2013, 06:57 AM Post #19 |
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Don't forget to join our new banner competition! A nice prize will be given to the winner. Check out how to enter here! |
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| Ihla | Sep 9 2013, 01:53 AM Post #20 |
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We have three new threads up and running! |
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| orangedaffodils | Sep 11 2013, 12:50 AM Post #21 |
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Hey all! It's been 24 hrs, so the voting thread is now closed. Many thanks to all y'all for taking the time to vote! We really appreciate the feedback and the results will be out shortly, so stay tuned! ![]()
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| Ihla | Sep 11 2013, 06:56 AM Post #22 |
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We now have a new group of users: The Trollbusters. They, along with our existing group of Editors (who will act as their backup), will now act as spam cleaners to help out the Mods. Be sure to show them some love. For more info on them, please check out the user groups section of our Intro, Rules & F.A.Q. Thread. |
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| zyx | Sep 12 2013, 07:06 PM Post #23 |
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Banner contest update: Originally posted by Abc in Forum Discussions Hai gays, we have received a couple entries regarding the banner contest, however they are not gonna work as a banner because of the technical requirements we did not make clear enough, we sincerely apologize for that. Since our main goal here is to get us all a banner that works, we would like to give this contest more time so you guys can adjust your entries or submit completely new ones if you wish. Everyone who hasn't met our previous deadline is also welcome to give it a try. You have 2 more weeks starting now! So the new deadline is due to September 26!
Important: In order for the banner to work on bigger screens, it needs to have sides that do not end abruptly. You can achieve it in one of the following ways:
Take this new deadline to make new adjustments to your work, or you could give it a fresh start, whatever you feel like! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us and we will answer as fast as we can. Please try your best and keep it up bishes! |
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| Ihla | Oct 25 2013, 11:25 PM Post #24 |
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Updates: Banner contest: The winner of the banner contest is Taetum, congratulations! Note: There is a problem with the sizing of the new banner, so we've left the original Mofo's theme as it is until the problem is fixed. If you want to see how the new banner looks, just click on the Gay Supernova Theme at the bottom of the page. The F.A.Q. section has a new question answered regarding:
Please check it out. |
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