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I'm throwing my vision out there to be critiqued and to be taken into consideration while we wait to hear what can be done next.
My input on tech stuff:
PHPBB Upgrade: Yes
Domain Name transfer: Yes
Addition of homepage/site: Yes
FORUM STRUCTURE:
Community
- Foyer
- Milagre
- Battle Room
OSC Works
- EnderVerse Novels and Stories
- Other OSC Works
- Movie Discussion (Official and Speculation)
ARCHIVES
- Archives (movie, book, discussions, submissions housed within -not visable from front page of forum)
Jeebsy supplied that, with the addition of the archive idea by me. I think all the things within the parentheses should be viewable but locked. Well, honestly, I think they should be invisible archives but I don't know how well received that would be. Either way, I think activity should be encouraged elsewhere. I never understood how the mods decided one thing or another was or wasn't good enough to get it's own space like that and have its own mini-mod. Book and movie talk can take place in Milagre, new site talk can take place in here.
ADMIN:
Admin/Mods:
Jan
EL
Adam
Mini-Mods:
Rahl (EnderVerse Novels and Stories, if they have to be assigned a forum)
Steve (EnderVerse Novels and Stories, see above)
Tech Admin Access:
Noodle
Wil
W S
zero
I'm in favor of keeping Rahl and Steve in some sort of official, more than a peon position because they are originals but since they are mostly inactive, I don't think they need full admin powers. As for the tech people with admin access, I don't know how horrible an idea it is to have generic "Tech 1", "Tech 2", etc. usernames separate from regular account usernames, to only be used in situations where it is necessary to have access to the admin level stuff; I also wouldn't mind just making their regular accounts into admin. If anyone wants to walk, it would be easy enough to remove the access to their regular accounts, yes?
Everyone else, "Thanks for your services, whatever they may have been, but your job here is done." Upgraded software should take care of most spam and the rest can be taken care of by one of the tech people, I would think.
If we use Will's godaddy account, great, but I'm not sure that should equate to him needing admin access. In theory, he'd give that info to the tech people anyway and would be contactable somehow, should he be needed with regards to it. He did say to me off board he wanted to get upgraded forum software so he could stop deleting spam and then he wanted out; I'm taking him at his word there.
ACCOUNT DELETION:
After a year of carrying a post count of "0", an account gets deleted. If a user can flag all their alts *cough*syphon*cough* they can keep them, at post counts of "0," indefinitely. If they can't, they won't miss them when they're deleted and can always go back later and recreate any they later remember.
SITE ADDITION:
Chris said he'd work on that on the tech side. Not sure of his intentions (use Wil's or start from scratch) but I suspect it'll be exactly as easy to add to or update as the one Wil and I were working on. That, I would like to see help from everyone who is willing, and I know b_w wasn't thrilled that he wasn't given access to actually add info, so if it was worked in (without going to ugly or cookie cutter, non-personalized wiki style to make it happen) that many people could, that would be good. We have some of the old content from Ami, which is cool, but content can be worried about after forum software is taken care of.