Dramatic title, much?

Necessary though, I think. Activity's continuing to decline, and it's not going to get any better if we do nothing about it. So we're getting proactive here! Let's kick things into life, and the place to start this is General Discussion!

See the GD is going to be one of the first places that someone who's just signed up, or is looking to see if it's even worth signing up, is likely to check first, and what's probably going to be their first thought, hmm?

Something that's been succinctly put into words in this thread here! Omg... this site is so slow.

I want you to go and look in the GD now, right now, go on, I'll wait...

Notice anything missing? No? How about this? See where that is now?

See we're fully aware that the GD has an issue, and that issue is being bogged down by outdated and unnecessary rules. So they're gone! Whole lot, in the trash where they belong, because the vast majority of them just aren't relevant any more. That huge amount of harsh rules was needed when there were a lot of cheaters and spammy kids using avatar sites, but now those same rules are smothering activity because people are afraid to make new threads.

The GD's requirements are simple:

• No spam
• Quote it if you didn't write it yourself
• Stick to the PG-13 guidelines

There's really not must more to it than that!

The spam definition being: Spam consists of posts with no meaning or relevance to the thread they are made in.

Other than that the sky really is the limit.


Forget all the NO from the previous GD rules. Threads don't need to stay on topic. The topic itself doesn't have to be something deep and meaningful, it can be something utterly trivial, IT. DOESN'T. MATTER.

Just talk, about anything and everything. Get active, have fun. Make Mene appealing to new users before it shivels up and blows away.

The GD's rules revamp is the start of the entire site's rules getting a tidy up. We're not opening the door to spam and bumping, nope, not having any of that. But the site rules are 100 times worse than the GD rules for being needlessly excessive and overly wordy. It's a pretty daunting task to sort those out, so we're starting in the GD and seeing how that goes!

As usual, please ask absolutely any questions that you might have, they'll be collated in the second post.

AND GET CREATING THREADS IN THE GD, PLEASE!

Questions!

i has questions =3

Is the 'three words minimum' thing still in effect?

LET'S GET THIS PLACE PUMPING, PEOPLE
//fistpump

:D I think this should really get the post flow going again. It is declined a lot. ;~; I don't think anyone wants to see the site die. That would be a big coffin.

The Halloween event is just around the corner!
More activity in sight!

I can't wait :D I have never participated in the Halloween event. I bet it is fun! ^w^

goat - unlikely. As if you're only posting 3 words it's likely that you're making almost nothing from it. That being said staying relevant within the thread in 3 words sounds rather hard to do.

besides if you just go "no" I mean... you made a whole lot of like .2 gold and nobody is going to start a conversation with you.

Poet I love your outfit :D It is awesome.

Thanks owo I wanted an avi for Halloween :D

your avi makes me smile. it's so cute.

THOSE RULES BE RECYLEBUBBLE JELLY D<

Originally Posted by OnYourGoat

Is the 'three words minimum' thing still in effect?

OnYourGoat; What is this rule? We have a thing in the rules about no single word posts, but that's one that's no longer relevant.

Single word posts are fine if they're relevant to the thread, not just random spam.

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OnYourGoat:

Thank you Poet ^w^ I love foxes. They are one of my favorite animals. I wish I could have one as a pet but I doubt that would work out well lol.

jellysundaeitsafundae♥ is a borker =3

Originally Posted by jellysundae

OnYourGoat; What is this rule? We have a thing in the rules about no single word posts, but that's one that's no longer relevant.

Single word posts are fine if they're relevant to the thread, not just random spam.

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My ping borked

OnYourGoat:

Well I got yelled at for going 'how so?' when someone said a thing. *huffs* That was this year.

Lol. *huggles hummy* How are you?

Who yelled at you, OnYourGoat?

Originally Posted by OnYourGoat

Is the 'three words minimum' thing still in effect?

There is a one word minimum here.
On another site, there is a three word minimum.

Originally Posted by Nola

Lol. *huggles hummy* How are you?

*hugs nola* thanks for bolding and using larger text.
i'm hanging in there, how about you?

I would die if Mene died.

Originally Posted by p o p p e t ♥

I would die if Mene died.

me too, poppet♥
i would feel like i lost my bestest friend

Originally Posted by jellysundae

Who yelled at you, OnYourGoat?

I don't remember, it was a while ago. All I remember is they had the mod tag under their names. I just pegged it as 'oh i must have missed that rule' (I can miss a lot on forms) and tried to be good. I just thought it was a bit odd for mene.

@hummy No problem. I know you have trouble reading small text plus I felt boring using regular text xD. I agree. Mene is one of my lifelines to the internet. If I lost this I wouldn't know what to do. I met all of my friends on here. lol.

OnYourGoat. I can't say about that, as I don't know the situation :)